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January 2010 Biscayne Times • www.BiscayneTimes.com 3 Contents COVER STORY 1 Lady’s Man COMMENTARY 6 Feedback: Letters 10 Miami’s King: Jack King 12 Word on the Street 28 OUR SPONSORS 8 BizBuzz NEIGHBORHOOD CORRESPONDENTS PO Box 370566, Miami, FL 33137 www.biscaynetimes.com 20 Kathy Glasgow: A Community Betrayed from Within PUBLISHER & EDITOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE and Without Jim Mullin Marc Ruehle 22 Jen Karetnick: Take a Good Look in the Mirror, [email protected] [email protected] Village Beautiful 24 Frank Rollason: Two-Legged Creatures in a INTERNS BUSINESS MANAGER Four-Wheeled World Mandy Baca Ileana Cohen 26 Wendy Doscher-Smith: A Time to Thaw [email protected] [email protected] COMMUNITY NEWS Matthew Ruckman ART DIRECTOR 28 Follow That Story: Updates on Subjects of Interest [email protected] Marcy Mock 29 The Last Meal: Restaurants that Closed in 2009 [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS POLICE REPORTS ADVERTISING DESIGN Victor Barrenchea, Erik Bojnansky, 34 Biscayne Crime Beat 36 DP Designs Pamela Robin Brandt, Terence Cantarella, ART & CULTURE [email protected] 36 Bill Citara, Wendy Doscher-Smith, Kathy Anne Tschida: Street Art Has Arrived CIRCULATION 38 Glasgow, Margaret Griffis, Jim W. 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