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Packing a Tune
You'd never know he's an aspiring pop star, a massage therapist, and an accused arms dealer
By Penn Bullock
Published: September 25, 2008
“Change” by David Packouz: David Packouz talks about nanotech the way 12-year-old girls talk about Zac Efron. In a great, fawning gush of words, he explains it...
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Tailpipe
Beach Chic
Eau de Jaune
As told to Edmund Newton
Published: September 25, 2008
When the Gallery at Beach Place opened ten years ago on A1A, it epitomized the "New Fort Lauderdale": big chain stores and restaurants teaming up with expensive boutiques and...
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Bob Norman
The People Person
State Rep. Ellen Bogdanoff puts you ahead of politics — if you're the right kind of person
By Bob Norman
Published: September 25, 2008
Shortly after John McCain chose his running mate, state Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff enlisted in the "Sarah Palin Truth Squad." Don't let the name fool you — it's not about...
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Feature
Cash for Trash
In Broward County, trash haulers and politicians care about only one kind of green
By Thomas Francis
Published: September 25, 2008
The view from the top stinks. That sweet, sulphuric stench that can come only from a 225-foot-high, mile-wide mound of garbage. At Sample and Powerline roads in Pompano Beach,...
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Web Exclusive
'Michael the Black Man' Trashes Barack Obama
The former cult member crashed a recent South Florida rally by the presidential candidate.
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Published: September 25, 2008
Michael the Black Man, as he calls himself, steps from a brand-new pearl-white Mercedes, ponytail neatly crimped and big black pupils lazily regarding the world after a Sunday...
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Music
Rollins Brand
Rock 'n' roll maverick Henry Rollins talks politics and the upcoming election
By John Hood
Published: September 25, 2008
It's something of an understatement to say that Henry Rollins is one of the hardest-working men in show business. For the past quarter century, he's averaged more than 100...
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Dred Scott!
Langerado Moves to Miami
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: September 25, 2008
For the second time in as many years, the Langerado Music Festival is on the move. In a news release sent out last week, the festival organizers announced that the...
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Outtakes
Kicks and Sweat
Rahsaan focuses on good rhymes and fresh apparel
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: September 25, 2008
Within local hip-hop circles, there seems to be a resurgence lately of quality MC-ing, both in the live setting and on new album releases. South Florida has never been known...
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Outtakes
Blessed and Highly Favored
Blues siren Shemekia Copeland gets soulful
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: September 25, 2008
Shemekia Copeland is a woman who knows the blues. She grew up listening to it every night as a child in Harlem at a time when most of her friends were stuck on hip-hop. "I used...
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Outtakes
Subterranean Finds
Digging below the surface to discover some exceptional new sounds
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: September 25, 2008
Patrick Bloom Moses Memorable melodies, haunting refrains, and breathtaking performances find Moses echoing the influences of earlier pop prophets. No matter that Bloom hails...
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Night Watch
Booze for the Cause
Sometimes the best way to show respect is with shots and beers
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Published: September 25, 2008
I was sitting at the kitchen table eating a bowl of cinnamon oatmeal. Nothing special, but that's what I was doing the morning of September 11, 2001. That day of infamy is one...
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Pub Stalker
La Barraca
By Bryan Falla
Published: September 25, 2008
The posing bull, the spotlights — I would have missed it all if not for the flamenco sneaking out through a crack in the door. It probably happens a lot, since La Barraca...
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Live Wire
Hep Cat Boo Daddies
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: September 25, 2008
There used to be a time when South Florida was a haven for good, ol'-fashioned rock 'n' roll, not just old-timey stuff that was stuck in a time warp. Rootsy Americana bands...
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Subtropical
Blowfly
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: September 25, 2008
It's a sure sign that an album is nasty when it takes a strong stomach just to review it. Miami-bred rapper Blowfly's latest release, Live at the Platypussery, is just that...
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Short Cuts
Metallica
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: September 25, 2008
Metallica didn't commit its biggest sin when it exposed its dirty laundry in gory, self-indulgent detail in the 2003 film Some Kind of Monster. No, Metallica disgraced itself...
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Live Wire
Nelly
By Ben Westhoff
Published: September 25, 2008
Few musicians were as popular as Nelly at the beginning of the decade. His debut, Country Grammar, came out of nowhere in 2000 to sell more than 9 million copies, popularizing...
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Short Cuts
Lee "Scratch" Perry
By Phil Freeman
Published: September 25, 2008
Onstage and in interviews, Lee "Scratch" Perry's persona is a mix of giddy surrealism, folk wisdom, apocalyptic theology, and simple crudity (fart jokes, raw sex talk, etc.)....
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Live Wire
The Sword
By Jason Ferguson
Published: September 25, 2008
The buzz surrounding the release of Metallica's new album has centered on one — and only one — argument: Does Death Magnetic succeed in its attempt to recapture...
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Short Cuts
NOMO
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: September 25, 2008
Ann Arbor's futuristic Afrobeat group NOMO sure knows how to fling out expectations and stereotypes. Just two years ago, critics and anyone in ear range were justifiably...
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Live Wire
Jahfe
By Lady English
Published: September 25, 2008
If you're in the West Palm Beach area this Thursday and looking for a dose of culture, the seven-piece band known as Jahfe (which means "creation" in Creole) is bringing its...
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