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November 19-25, 2009 Volume 1 Issue 3 Aurorapublication.Com Free NOVEMBER 19-25, 2009 VOLUME 1 ISSUE 3 AURORAPUBLICATION.COM FREE 1 EDITORIAL Editor Katerina Fonte NOV Managing Editor Timothy Gallagher aurora publication.com Music Editor Stephanie Fonte 2 0 0 9 Web Editor Katerina Fonte Staff Writers Ted B. Kissel, P. Scott Cunningham, Ella Taylor, Phil Freeman, Logan Hill Editorial Operations Manager Jack Sparrow Contents Calendar Editor Rosa Fonte Assistant Calendar Editor P. Scott Cunningham Club Listings Editor P. Arty Times Coffin Classics Blogger Katerina Fonte page 8 Proofreader K. E. Fonte CONTENTS Contributors Monica Mendez, Claudia Santana, Raina McLeod, Jose D. Duran, Dan Renzi, Ginger Harris, Brian, Miller, J. Hoberman, Robert Wilonsky, S. Pajot Editorial Administrator Katerina Fonte LETTERS ART Art Director Katerina Fonte Assistant Art Director K. E. 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Scott Cunningham CRAFT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Chief Information Officer Katerina Fonte 08 Coffin 16 Goth Box FAM Business Systems Director Timothy Gallagher Infrastructure Directors Rosa Fonte, Kat Fonte Wicked Wonderland Sex Intranet Manager Theresa Gallagher Classics Clubs . 17 Network Support Manager Ivan Yanez The subculture that would not (un) die lusts for Concerts . 17 Project Manager Donny Donowitz new blood. BY TED B. KISSEL Audit Bureau AURORA EMO of Circulations 18 Film Noir Dear Diary, I Love Edward For retail advertising: 305.458.9876 AURORA Dade-Broward info: 305.458.9879 NST For national advertising: 305.458.9877 04 Letters DISTRIBUTION 19 Craft AURORA is available free of charge, limited to one copy per reader. Additional copies of the current issue of AURORA may be purchased for The Lurid Beauty of Monsters $1.00, payable at the AURORA office in advance. 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Box 12059, Miami, FL 33184-2417 electronic retrieval systems, without the express written permission of the November 19 - November 25,2009 November - 19 November NOW Street Address: 12059 SW 10th St, Miami, FL 33184-2417 15 Cafe Publisher, Aurora Publications, 12059 SW 10th St., Miami, FL 33184. Please call LADYGAGA.COM the Aurora Publications office for back issue information. 2 For general information: 305.458.9879 Whisk Whips Up a Crowd 3 aurora publication.com CONTENTS LETTERS EXPOSES DARK OCCASIONS CAFE GOTH BOX FILM NOIR CRAFT AURORA November 19 - November 25,2009 3 . d n a l r e d n o W o t k c a b o g o t e m i t s I ' t Imagine greater SyFy syfy.com/alice aurora publication.com Letters Hack Job No license to steal: Regarding "Hackintosh" (Tim “HOW CAN ANYONE WITH Elfrink, November 12): It would be interesting to see what INFORMATION ABOUT INTENDED CONTENTS would happen if someone tried to open a McDonald's outlet BAD ACTIONS BE LET FREE? THESE without a franchise license. It's really the same; one licenses the use of the work built into the McDonald's name, logo, PEOPLE ARE GIVING OUR ISLAMIC etc., just as one licenses the work in the Apple software. RELIGION A BAD NAME.” It's been the same for centuries: paying for the right to use LETTERS something you did not create. Just because something is in front of you does not give you license to use it. Barrack Talk Trevor C. The prez did it: "No Justice" (James Lieber, October 29): MIAMI The Wall Street crooks that President Obama has supposedly 4 failed to go after didn't just come to power January 20, 2009. EXPOSES Riding Apple's coattails: It's amazing how you have They have been doing this for years. Why didn't the Bush painted these two as "victims" trying to foster sympathy. administration do something about it? Or even the Clinton But their own comment says it all: "'These guys are riding administration? If the smarty-pants conservative know-it- our coattails and we're shouldering all the court costs,' Rudy alls don't like the way the current president is handling the huffs." Isn't that what they are doing to Apple? country's problems, they have only themselves to blame. You Tom F. can't just wave a magic wand and make everything OK just to OCALA please conservatives. Caroline K. DARK OCCASIONS Bros get 15 minutes of fame: The two brothers are HOLLYWOOD class-A morons, and the author of this article is a clueless turd seeking attention. What a waste of newsprint and bandwidth. Talkin' Terrorism Psystar and the two clowns behind it will die a slow, painful CAFE You bet we're a beacon: "Holy War" (Trevor Aaronson, death, and 30 minutes later, no one will care to remember. October 8) is yet another tragic example of how this country Jarod made the decision many years ago to forego the collection of VIA WEB COMMENTARY real intelligence and instead use racial profiling, torture, and fear tactics to wage its war on terror. The United States is the Stealing for profit: These individuals are stealing Apple's man's country just as much as it is anyone else's. Let him stay! GOTH BOX intellectual property and selling it to make a profit. And Reform the corrupt and backward immigration system, and you paint them as innocent victims and underdogs? Good block the holes through when asylum seekers like him are Lord, what happened to journalistic integrity? You should be sent to persecution. Ronald Reagan (ironically) said it best: ashamed of yourselves. America is (and should be) a beacon of freedom in the world Brian Kimble for refugees. FILM NOIR atsuko kudo GAINESVILLE Couture Latex Rubber and Fetish Clothing Trevor C. atsukokudo.com MIAMI Byte into an Apple: The Pedraza brothers are great examples of American ingenuity. Apple should be proud of Ira's da man: Ira Kurzban is an exceptional individual. CRAFT them, because they are following the company's advertised Without men like him allowed to practice law, U.S. salute: "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The jurisprudence and the Constitution would be just as big as FOREVER XXI troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones COLLECTION a sham as that of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, or who see things differently." Apple makes a fine product, but any other banana republic. Kurzban is truly one in a million let's not let the company fool us into siding with it to set a (unfortunately). If he were only interested in making a buck, precedent for copyright law that squelches innovation. Keep the government would have to hire someone to do the kind fighting, Pedrazas! of work he does, and the world would be justified in calling AURORA Matt the American court system a sham. CORAL GABLES Jeffrey PLANTATION Druggie dad no excuse: This article is typical hack reporting. Let's make these two hometown boys look great and Apple look like a big meanie. In fact, Apple has been ruled as not abusing anything by tying its hardware and Letters Policy software. And the company is the legal copyright holder of the We welcome letters to the editor via mail, fax, or e-mail. GUI. Plus the tools to bypass the checks within Mac OS are Letters must refer to material published in AURORA and illegal, and the lack of receipts to prove the Pedraza brothers might be edited for length and clarity. Please include your adress, daytime phone number (for confirmation only), and bought and didn't steal the copies of OS doesn't help. Having complete name. a tough life and a druggie daddy doesn't change these facts or Mail: Letters, AURORA the fact that the brothers are not heroes. P.O. Box 12059 Miami, FL 33184-2417 November 19 - November 25,2009 November - 19 November Luc B. www.forever21.com MIAMI Fax: 305.458.9879 4 Email: [email protected] 5 aurora publication.com CONTENTS LETTERS EXPOSES DARK OCCASIONS CAFE GOTH BOX FILM NOIR CRAFT AURORA November 19 - November 25,2009 5 deviantart.com be you.
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