Jerry Curl

Haydée Scull, half of the colorful Cuban twin-sister act who created fanciful mixed-media artwork and spiced up the Miami Beach party scene in over-the-top matching outfits, died suddenly Tuesday at her Collins Avenue apartment, probably of a heart attack, said her daughter, Elizabeth Blandino. Haydée and her sister, Sahara, are of deliberately indeterminate age, born in Havana on Dec. 5 ''in the 1930s,'' Blandino said. Haydée once told The Miami Herald that she did the backgrounds and faces, Michael did the bodies and Sahara did streetlights and other details. ''It's like an orchestra,'' Haydée said. "Always we have the same inspiration, always the same idea. Always we work together and always smile when working because we love our art.'' --> It's rather easy to sit here and acknowledge the Scull sisters undisputed influence on the South Florida art world. It's easy to be filled with pride that these two Cuban exile ladies, c...

Rapidly rising Internet star Facebook Inc. has sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google Inc. The deal announced Wednesday after several weeks of negotiation values Palo Alto-based Facebook at $15 billion - less than four years after Mark Zuckerberg started the online social networking site in his Harvard University dorm room. Microsoft also will sell Internet ads for Facebook as the site expands outside the United States, broadening an existing marketing relationship that began last year. (Via NBC6 )

--> The poor guy. He had to come out of the closet to be somewhat interesting. You can purchase his novel, Out of Sync , here .

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There was a research screening last night of the “Sweeney Todd” movie, in Los Angeles. According to this report , the film plays more as a period horror flick than a full-out musical. Still, it looks pretty damn spectacular. Check out the second trailer here .

Her new album, Blackout , comes out October 30th. Thanks AP.

Cartoon by Daryl Cagle .