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News
Save Me
One newly illegal substance, two short trips, and a different approach to the war on drugs
By Ida Nolikit
Published: August 28, 2008
Deep in Hialeah, among body shops, crisscrossing highway ramps, and tall, scattered palm trees, is a porn shop. You can find the same old skankiness here — whips, midget...
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Feature
Blood Diamonds
Violent South American thieves are stealing millions in precious gems ... and getting away with it
By Brantley Hargrove
Published: August 28, 2008
It's a creepy feeling, knowing these masked men have cased you for weeks, studying your every move. Leon Rozio had crossed paths with their kind before — highly organized...
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Tailpipe
Weekend at Sammy's
Deepest of Sleeps
As told to Edmund Newton
Published: August 28, 2008
So what does it take to get people's attention in Broward County nowadays? Apparently, a lot more than dumping a corpse in your backyard. The Broward Sheriff's Office says...
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Bob Norman
The Rielle Deal
How local scandal begets national scandal in the charged world of Fort Lauderdale politics and business
By Bob Norman
Published: August 28, 2008
Rielle Hunter, who was born in Fort Lauderdale 44 years ago, has had an alarmingly eventful life. As a teenager, she was an accomplished equestrienne who rode a champion...
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¡Ask a Mexican!
How the Zebra Got His Spots
... And the pachucos got their zoot
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: August 28, 2008
Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans paint stripes on their donkeys in Tijuana? Avenida Revolución Reveller Dear Gabacho: Same reason we put worms in tequila bottles,...
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Music
Fire in the Bloodlines
Exploratory jazz band the Bendy Pastorius Group finds a deeper groove
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: August 28, 2008
Fusion. Within music, it's practically a dirty word. Though the term is intended to suggest the magic of endless possibilities, it has an unmistakably loaded ring to it. And...
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Dred Scott!
Kill Miss Pretty Returns to the Stage
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: August 28, 2008
The past 15 months have been a bit turbulent for the band Kill Miss Pretty. In 2007, the group was enjoying plenty of attention within local music circles, and its lead singer,...
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Outtakes
White-Collar Blues
Put a Pabst in the air this weekend for rock's high-class proletariat
By Cole Haddon
Published: August 28, 2008
In honor of Labor Day, we pay tribute here to America's working-class heroes by recognizing the worst jobs in rock 'n' roll, the grinding gigs that often go overlooked. They...
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Outtakes
Carnival King
Trinidadian soca star Iwer George thrives fête after fête
By Lady English
Published: August 28, 2008
With names like, "The Bum Bum Master," "Mr. Hand, Hand, Hand," "The Boss," and plenty of others, it probably seems like soca star Neil "Iwer" George is a man with an extreme...
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Outtakes
Subterranean Finds
Exceptional sounds that reside well below the surface...
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: August 28, 2008
Although it begins with an affable embrace, Gulf Coast Blues ambles toward darker terrain as it winds on, with songs that spin a sinewy, seductive tapestry of blues, folk,...
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Pub Stalker
Circus Bar
By Bryan Falla
Published: August 28, 2008
With a name like Circus Bar, you'd expect all sorts of shenanigans — wild animals sipping Jäger, drunken jugglers chucking daggers across the room, a trapeze, maybe....
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Live Wire
Toots and the Maytals
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: August 28, 2008
Reggae owes a lot to Toots Hibbert. The ageless frontman of the classic Jamaican band Toots and the Maytals claims he's the first person to mention the word reggae on wax. His...
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Live Wire
Kate Voegele
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: August 28, 2008
Even though she has barely reached legal drinking age, the cute and spry Kate Voegele has already accomplished much more than most other troubadours of her generation. In...
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Live Wire
Anthony Green
By Monica Cady
Published: August 28, 2008
Singer/songwriter Anthony Green is best-known as the emotive lead singer for Philadelphia-based prog-rock band Circa Survive. Powered by a combination of...
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Live Wire
Black Tide
By Arielle Castillo
Published: August 28, 2008
Within a span of months, the kiddies of Black Tide have shot from totally unheard-of to total buzz band for lovers of heavy music, appearing in the likes of Spin and Revolver....
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Dish
Vintage Jackson's
Ye olde steak house could use an update
By Gail Shepherd
Published: August 28, 2008
Men really had it made in the '50s. You totally get the point of feminism after watching a few episodes of AMC's Mad Men, a drama following the travails of a group of Madison...
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Film
Spy Versus Why
Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor
By Chuck Wilson
Published: August 28, 2008
Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures — a Hollywood intellectual — new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads... prepare yourself... thrillers and...
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Film
Beyond Gonzo
Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will — a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance
By Jim Ridley
Published: August 28, 2008
In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome." So wrote Hunter S. Thompson of the...
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Art
Portraits of the Artists
Five pop masters pop up again in photographs at the Boca Museum
By Michael Mills
Published: August 28, 2008
Visiting "I Shot Warhol Wesselmann Lichtenstein Rosenquist and Indiana" is sort of like flipping through a friend's personal photo albums — if your friend has also been...
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Game On
Game-changer
Not settling for clever play, Braid reinvents how to tell a story too
By Gary Hodges
Published: August 28, 2008
In the 25 years or so I've been playing games, never once have I encountered an earnest conversation about what a game means. You see every other sort of discussion —...
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