The business behind the artist: Miami’s art gallery scene still evolving

This week, thousands of art collectors, museum trustees, artists, journalists and hipsters from around the globe will arrive for the phenomenon known as Art Basel Miami Beach. The centerpiece of the week: works shown at the convention center by more than 260 of the world’s top galleries.Only two of those are from Miami.While Art Basel has helped transform the city’s reputation...

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Son of slain Miami Gardens car wash owner: ‘He put his own life before someone else’

When Dameion Peart got the phone call from his uncle, he didn’t believe it. He drove to his father’s Miami Gardens car wash to see for himself. He hoped the news wouldn’t be too bad, or maybe the shooting happened someplace else.He pulled up, saw flashing lights and police tape, and knew it was true.His father, Errold Peart, had been trying to protect a customer Sunday afternoon...

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‘The Daily’ doomed by dull content and isolation

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was too expensive. It lacked editorial focus. And for a digital publication, it was strangely cut off from the Internet. That’s the obituary being written in real time through posts, tweets and online chats about The Daily, the first-of-its-kind iPad newspaper that is being shut down this month.Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corp. said Monday that The Daily will publish its final issue...

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Kristen Chenoweth Dating a Former Bachelor Star Jake Pavelka

Kristin Chenoweth has a surprising new beau!Video: Jake Pavelka Dishes on his Chippendales Gig The singer/actress, 44, confirmed to People Magazine that she is indeed dating a somewhat infamous alum of the Bachelor franchise, Jake Pavelka."We have been spending a little time together," confessed Chenoweth of her budding courtship with Pavelka, 34.Related: Kristin Chenoweth Talks On-Set Injury People...

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Spreading the wealth — and choking US growth

The Issue: The battle in Washington over taxes and spending, and their impending economic impact.***It’s interesting that many people continue to think that President Obama wants a settlement to avoid the fiscal cliff. He doesn’t (“Growth Is All That Matters,” Editorial, Dec. 1). He wants to go over it and then use the resulting complaints to reduce taxes...

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The business behind the artist: Miami’s art gallery scene still evolving

This week, thousands of art collectors, museum trustees, artists, journalists and hipsters from around the globe will arrive for the phenomenon known as Art Basel Miami Beach. The centerpiece of the week: works shown at the convention center by more than 260 of the world’s top galleries.Only two of those are from Miami.While Art Basel has helped transform the city’s reputation...

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Miami-Dade proposes spending $1.5 billion over 15 years to cure sewer system woes

Six months into negotiations with federal regulators over Miami-Dade’s aging sewer system, the county has come up with a $1.5 billion, 15-year plan to rebuild pipes, pumps and sewage treatment plants that in some cases are almost 100 years old. County leaders devised the proposal in an attempt to fend off a federal lawsuit, and potentially millions of dollars in fines, for...

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Nintendo president apologizes for bulky day-one Wii U firmware update

As we noted in our first impressions, Nintendo’s (NTDOY) Wii U is charting new ground with its wireless GamePad and touchscreen controls that engage gamers in the living room like never before. But before you can even set up the Wii U, a mandatory firmware update is required upon power up. Gamers everywhere were frustrated to learn that the firmware update, which is pegged anywhere...

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Dennis Quaid Officially Files for Divorce From Wife Kimberly

Despite an attempt to salvage their rocky marriage in April, actor Dennis Quaid has officially filed for divorce from his wife of eight years, Kimberly Quaid. Related: Dennis Quaid's Wife Files for Divorce In court filings obtained by ET dated November 30, Quaid blames "irreconcilable differences" for the pair's split, listing their date of separation as October 1, 2012. Joint legal and physical...

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NY’s future: a tale of two towns

The news that the state Department of Environmental Conservation is taking another three-month extension on issuing rules to allow “fracking” in New York means more folks in my town will be losing their homes — and more still may lose hope.In recent years, the town of Conklin has been hit by more than a few blows. The first was a major flood in 2006; the...

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