Pop Quiz

We Questioned Eight Miami-Dade County School Board Candidates on the Toughest Issues They Will Face. Here's How They Answered

 

Bloc the Vote

Getting into fights, telling on each other and throwing spitballs at the superintendent. No, that's not the students, but a few of the candidates for Miami-Dade County School Board.

 

NEWS

 

Miami-Dade County

Democracy in Action

If you care about kids, cultural programming or Miami Beach green space, you might want to show up at the polls Tuesday to cast your vote on several county and city ballot questions.

 

COLUMNS

 

Bound

The protagonist’s habit of imagining stories to cover the misery and darkness of his memory gets out of control in Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark.

 

Make Me The President

McCain and Obama hit the pulpit to pander to people who believe in talking snakes, talking bushes and talking smack about the pro-choicers.

 

Music

G. Love & Special Sauce got no play out of their last lemon of a CD. But they made Lemonade, and they’re back with a Superhero of an album.

 

Film

When loser and former drummer “Fish” Fishman reluctantly agrees to join his nephew’s garage band in The Rocker, shenanigans abound.

 

Film Capsules

Reviews for Fly Me to the Moon, Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express and more.

 

Calendar

Lounge-zilla! and Do I Make You Horny are two raunchy comedy improv events taking place on Friday and Saturday.

 

 

Special Sections 2007

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Wakefield Archive

Make Me The President Archive

 

 

 

Employment Opportunities

Posted 10.1.06

The SunPost, Miami's largest independently owned news weekly, is looking for a versatile, well-rounded full-time staff writer. We are looking for someone who is a good writer AND reporter who is capable of surviving in this city on a writer's wages.

Send a cover letter, resume and up to five clips by e-mail to robin@miamisunpost.com (or, if necessary, fax 305-538-6077)

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Design Notes

Rugs, child labor

and a local event

Murmurs

A South Beach traffic workshop hosted by FDOT is set for today, making Frank Del Vecchio see something awfully familiar coming down the road. Plus: a candidate and his educational credentials, a hold-up spree on the billion-dollar sandbar.

 

 

Wakefield

There are two sides to every issue. The folks at Mercy Hospital and the Related Group give Rebecca Wakefield theirs. She listens. The Vizcayans will not.

 

Elite Realtors

The power brokers of the real estate industry presented in a special SunPost advertorial section. Get ready to sell that house, or buy that house, or maybe it’s a condo. Ah, whatever.

 

Film

There are common elements between the Miami Gay & Lesbian and the Israel film festivals. Dan Hudak explains. Plus: a new method of dealing with death row inmates is rated R.

Letters

 

Dance

 

Art Review

 

Chow

 

Restaurant Listings

Film Capsules

Musical Archive

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Employment

 

 

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