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Is hip hop violence back on track after the 2Pac and Biggie tragedies? Run-DMC member Jam Master Jay was murdered on Oct. 30 while working in a New York studio. Police are still investigating the crim...

Watch JFK, there definitely is a Kennedy conspiracy

So I have to begin by saying that I've always had the utmost confidence in the American government, aside from the meandering eyes of our nearly honest politicians and the x-rated antics of the occasi...

Strange Fruit

Following the explosive launch of the Electroclash festival in October of 2001, thousands of New York hipsters-post-punk wannabes wearing skinny ties and blue hair dye or bisexual fashionistas that ma...

U.S. immigration policy needs to be re-defined

Last week's arrival off the shores of Miami of over 200 Haitian refugees highlights an immigration policy that is inherently unfair. While I do not believe that the policy of detaining them while thei...

Fat Joe: Sucking on potatoes in his underwear

An interview with hungry rapper Fat Joe once again took Life & Art into the swank Loews Miami Beach Hotel, and this time I was frisked in a dark suite by four men. After they checked my notebook f...

Global warming a concern, not penis enlargements

The majority of man-made global warming is produced by hot air from the mouths of humans. Special interest groups and capitalists are the players in this game of selling out environmental issues in t...

Payton happy for friend and mentor Emmitt Smith

Who can blame Jarrett Payton if he felt a little bittersweet about Emmitt Smith breaking his father's record for career rushing yards in the NFL? When he watched his father, the great Walter Payton, ...

theatre review

Giving yourself over to absolute pleasure is pretty easy to do with the latest version of Richard O. Brien's "Rocky Horror Show," playing now at the Jewish Hillel Center at UM. QuantUM Productions has...

Lewullis part of freshman invasion

The Miami volleyball team has a solid foundation laid out for the next few years, and at the center of their future plans is freshman middle blocker/outside hitter Robin Lewullis. Lewullis has alread...

album reviews: Rock’s NOT back, you just forgot it in your record cra...

Beck Sea Change ***1/2 The latest release by California collage-rocker Beck Hansen is available with four different covers. Each cover is the same photo of Beck, along with a few small computer gener...

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