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• Cocaine Cowboys 2 Miami premiere Wednesday July 23rd #
• Cocaine Cowboys 2 will be avail @ Best Buy, Target, Borders, Barnes/Noble, Amazon, Blockbuster, Netflix, Hwood Video and Movie Gallery #

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• UM reverses decision; logo to adorn field (Miami Herald)
  On rare occasions, if enough fans complain about something, they can make a difference. That happened at UM this week, and Canes fans should give themselves (and the athletic department) a hand.
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My man Bol and other hip hop bloggers have been covering the ongoing beef between Ice-T and Soulja Boy.

I haven’t been following the feud but, in digging through the rakontur archives, we found this interview we shot with Ice-T while shooting a music video with him, FILTHEE and Grandmaster Caz last October:

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• Bella Rose for Billy’s 30th #
• Michael Corleone, Griselda Blanco’s son, at Bella Rose for Billy’s birthday #
• Another BBM outage. Headed to iPhone. #

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• A rare bird all but vanishes from Everglades (Miami Herald)
  It’s never a good sign when an animal disappears from the place that gave it its name.
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• Issac Starkman: Famous deli was his pride and joy (Miami Herald)
  At 70, Isaac ”Ike” Starkman could be found every morning at his special table with his signature mug eating breakfast at his ”baby:” Jerry’s Famous Deli on South Beach.

  Starkman, a well-known entrepreneur in the Miami community for his Jerry’s crea

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• MIAMI HERALD: Spotted at Bella Rose’s sizzling hot Black Sunday party, Laguna Beach, uh, star, Kristin Cavallari. http://tinyurl.com/6jqean #

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• The Bare Facts: Did Miami Beach Extort the Strip Club Owner? (South Beach USA)
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• Murder charge for cabbie (Miami Herald)
  A Miami Beach cab driver was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of another cab driver.
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• Miami Sun Post calls Bella Rose “Best New Beach Hangout” http://tinyurl.com/5u82d8 #
• watched the final webisode of Clubland today - announcement about premiere VERY soon - like next week… #
• Working out details for the Cocaine Cowboys 2 Miami premiere. Looking at Thur 7/24…. #
• At Smith and Wolensky with James D #

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• @ photo shoot for Businessweek feature on rakontur. Got rained out of the Marine Stadium location. @Bella Rose #

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• 2 deaths raise 2008 homicides to 136 (Miami Herald)
  Two suspected drug dealers, one just 15, were killed in what has been a spike in homicides across Miami-Dade County in 2008.
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• Marine Stadium closer to historic status (Miami Herald)
  Proponents of saving the iconic but neglected Miami Marine Stadium easily cleared a significant hurdle Tuesday when they persuaded the city’s historic preservation board to consider designating the modern structure as a protected landmark.
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