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What's Next for the Collide Factory Space in FAT Village?

By Stefan Kamph Wed., Apr. 27 2011 at 12:36 PM
Categories: Business, The Arts
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​Another dispatch from the defunct Collide Factory creative-incubator space in FAT Village comes from Andrew Martineau, who collaborated with Collide owner Travis Webster to try to get the space off the ground.

Martineau is a past president of the Fort Lauderdale branch of the American Advertising Federation. "I wasn't a business partner [in the Collide Factory] on paper, but I was helping with getting the place going," he says. As for Webster's idea of a space where marketing and creative professionals would share resources and clients, Martineau says, "Travis had a Field of Dreams concept. He hoped people would come."

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Sports

Chad Pennington Featured in Tom Brady ESPN Documentary

By Michael J. Mooney Wed., Apr. 13 2011 at 1:52 PM
Categories: Sports, The Arts
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Chad is the only QB taken in 2000 that came close to hanging with Brady
​This week ESPN is airing a documentary about Tom Brady, or more specifically, about the six quarterbacks who were taken before him in the 2000 draft. The movie, "The Brady 6," chronicles the careers (or lack thereof) of the men scouts thought at the time would be better than Brady, who, aside from his three Super Bowl rings, two MVPs, millions of dollars, models on his arm, and piling passing records, has been a complete failure.

The most successful of the other guys taken is probably Chad Pennington, who may or may not be a former Dolphin.

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The Arts

First Episode of LeBron James' Cartoon "The LeBrons" Premieres

By Michael J. Mooney Mon., Apr. 4 2011 at 9:20 AM
Categories: Sports, The Arts


This is it, the most anticipated athlete-based Saturday morning-style cartoon since "Pro Stars." What started as an entertaining shoe commercial is now a regular short web cartoon based on the many personalities of LeBron James. This is the first episode of "The LeBrons."

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The Arts

Square Grouper Reviews Are In

By Michael J. Mooney Mon., Mar. 21 2011 at 2:30 PM
Categories: Getting High, The Arts
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​Well, the reviews are in. Square Grouper, the new documentary about South Florida's wild pot-smuggling history -- the movie features Robert Platshorn, the man who served the longest pot-related prison term in U.S. history for his part in a the Black Tuna gang -- premiered last week in Austin at SXSW, and created quite a buzz. (See that drug joke there?) One critic said of the movie, the latest from Billy Corben and the minds who brought you Cocaine Cowboys and The U, this is "Corben's most impressive effort to date."

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Dwyane Wade Credits Custody Decision for Recent Heat Success

By Michael J. Mooney Wed., Mar. 16 2011 at 1:48 PM
Categories: Sports, The Arts
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​Dwyane Wade's long, public divorce and custody battle finally came to a conclusion at the end of last week, with a Chicago judge awarding the father custody of his two young sons. The next day, the Heat avenged a 30-point loss to the San Antonio Spurs with a 30-point stomping of their own.

While discussing the topic with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon on yesterday afternoon's episode of Pardon the Interruption, Wade credited the end of the custody battle with for his recent on-court success.

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The Arts

How did FAT Village Get Its Name?

By Stefan Kamph Sun., Feb. 20 2011 at 4:03 PM
Categories: The Arts
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The Project exhibition space in FAT Village
​For a growing arts district near Fort Lauderdale, there's a lot riding on a name. Unfortunately, there's some confusion about it.

FAT Village is the stretch of NW First Avenue between Fifth Street and Sistrunk. It's home to a monthly art walk (last Saturday nights from 7-11) and special events like a Day of the Dead parade in October. While the neighborhood was gathering steam over the past year, New Times articles routinely spelled out what it stands for: Flagler Arts and Technology Village. 

Which only leads to more confusion, seeing as the larger official neighborhood containing FAT Village -- from Broward and Federal to the FEC tracks -- is called 
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Ignite FTL at the Collide Factory Brings Worldwide Conference to Fort Lauderdale

By Stefan Kamph Sun., Feb. 13 2011 at 8:50 PM
Categories: Million Dollar Ideas, The Arts
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Setting the stage. In the background, a 40-foot mural-covered container, which will become a recording studio.
​It was nine o'clock on a Thursday night in Fort Lauderdale, where the railroad tracks cross Sistrunk Boulevard and warehouses sit dark and empty, surrounded by chain-link fences, at the north end of FAT Village. But one of the warehouses was filled with light, garage doors open to passing freight trains, with a food cart cooking up tacos by the tracks. Plaid-shirted hipsters chatted up suit-wearing government workers. This was the first night of Ignite FTL at the Collide Factory.

Creative types in Fort Lauderdale like to talk about the problem of "silos" -- the idea that, while there's a small world of like-minded artists, entrepreneurs and thinkers in this town, many of them are isolated from each other, standing alone instead of intermingling.

The partners in charge of the Collide Factory intend to change that. 

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The LeBrons: Can LeBron James' New Cartoon Change His Karma?

By Michael J. Mooney Thu., Jan. 20 2011 at 8:25 AM
Categories: Sports, The Arts
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​After dominating the NBA for all of December, the Miami Heat has fallen back to Earth. Since LeBron James' now-ironic "Karma" tweet -- and subsequent injury -- the team has lost four straight games -- and 13 for the year. (That means 70 wins is now out of the question.)

Yes, LeBron's popularity is still slipping. Yes, Heat fans should begin to worry (position in the East, how the team responds to injuries, etc.) And yes, this is the moment LeBron (or his people) have chosen to announce that he will have a new web-cartoon series all about... yep, LeBron.

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The LeBrons: Can LeBron James' New Cartoon Change His Karma?

By Michael J. Mooney Thu., Jan. 20 2011 at 8:25 AM
Categories: Sports, The Arts
The LeBrons screengrab.jpg
​After dominating the NBA for all of December, the Miami Heat has fallen back to Earth. Since LeBron James' now-ironic "Karma" tweet -- and subsequent injury -- the team has lost four straight games -- and 13 for the year. (That means 70 wins is now out of the question.)

Yes, LeBron's popularity is still slipping. Yes, Heat fans should begin to worry (position in the East, how the team responds to injuries, etc.) And yes, this is the moment LeBron (or his people) have chosen to announce that he will have a new web-cartoon series all about... yep, LeBron.

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South Florida Pot Smuggling Documentary, Square Grouper, To Premeire At SXSW

By Michael J. Mooney Fri., Jan. 14 2011 at 6:29 AM
Categories: The Arts, The Ports, Vice Beat
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​From director Billy Corben and the minds that brought you Cocaine Cowboys and The U, comes Square Grouper, a new documentary about the heyday of South Florida pot smuggling. The movie has been described as: "a colorful portrait of Miami's pot smuggling scene of the 1970s, populated with redneck pirates, a ganja-smoking church, and the longest serving marijuana prisoner in American history."

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