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Night & Day
Nikka Costa
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: October 9, 2008
Thirty-somethings who remember Nikka Costa as the child singer of tunes like "First Love" and "Candy Man" back in the early '80s probably wouldn't recognize the soul-infected,...
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Night & Day
Making Noise on Both Sides of the Board
By Mike Sauer
Published: October 9, 2008
Picture a typical movie producer: You may think of someone behind the scenes in a stuffy business suit. In the music industry, it’s the exact opposite. In the past few...
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Tailpipe
Tsunami Ahead
Nervous About Voting
As told to Edmund Newton
Published: October 9, 2008
Less than a month away, the presidential election looms off the coast of South Florida like a seasonal storm, one of those buzz-saw conflagrations that television weathermen...
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Web Exclusive
Schlepping for the Vote: Comedian Sarah Silverman Sends Jewish Grandchildren Descending on Florida
By Amy Guthrie
Published: October 9, 2008
Across the country, young Jews are heeding comedian Sarah Silverman’s call to have a political pep-talk with their grandparents in Florida. The message is: Don’t let...
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Bob Norman
Dueling Detectives: Private dick Dan Riemer says he solved the murder of Broward County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Chris Reyka — no thanks to the Sheriff's Department detectives
By Bob Norman
Published: October 9, 2008
Homicide detectives are close to solving the murder of Sgt. Chris Reyka, one of their own. Broward Sheriff's Office investigators have suspects in the highly publicized case:...
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Letters
Letters for October 9-15, 2008
Published: October 9, 2008
No Room at the Inn Good, thought-provoking article ("The $50 Million Solution," Bob Norman, October 2), though I need to question one item you included. You correctly state...
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Feature
Roller Jam: Every night is '80s night at South Florida roller rinks
By Amy Guthrie
Published: October 9, 2008
“Spring Love” by Stevie B: Miguel Carver looks devilishly happy as he rounds the corner of the roller rink. He skates close to the inside of the oval, bent...
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Music
Carnival Weekend Roundup
A guide to all the biggest Caribbean fetes
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: October 9, 2008
“Roll It Gal” by Alison Hinds: For lovers of Caribbean music, Carnival Weekend 2008 is easily the best four-day weekend of the year. Folks representing the entire...
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Outtakes
Natural Mystics
Bajofondo dredges wide and deep
By Julienne Gage
Published: October 9, 2008
World-renowned Argentine electro-fusion outfit Bajofondo has always dug deep into its cultural roots to create a modern mystical ambiance. Although the group retains much of...
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Outtakes
Beyond the Hood
DJ Khaled drops We Global
By Ben Westhoff
Published: October 9, 2008
"Turn your TVs on/Bet ya all you see is me!" DJ Khaled raps/sings on "Standing on the Mountain Top," his only tangible musical contribution to his third album, We Global (We...
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Outtakes
Cash Is King
At Folsom Prison revisited
By Mark Keresman
Published: October 9, 2008
The Beatles had the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Miles Davis had Bitches Brew, the Band had Music From Big Pink, on so on — these were seminal studio...
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Pub Stalker
JD's Bar & Lounge
By Bryan Falla
Published: October 9, 2008
In the sleepy and slightly depressing streets of Coral Springs – even on a Saturday night – relief is hard to come by for insomniacs in need of a fix for, well,...
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Live Wire
A New Way to Live Forever
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: October 9, 2008
When local musicians Russ Rogers of Kill Miss Pretty and his partner Todd Evans put together their latest band, A New Way to Live Forever, the idea was simply to make good...
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Short Cuts
Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko
By Mark Keresman
Published: October 9, 2008
Africa to Appalachia is one of those recordings that demonstrates — and celebrates — the fact that music from disparate cultures has more aspects in common than...
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Short Cuts
Kasai Allstars
By Jason Ferguson
Published: October 9, 2008
The third installment in Crammed Discs' awesome series of "Congotronics" releases continues in the praiseworthy path of its predecessors, delivering yet another defiantly...
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Live Wire
Robin Thicke
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: October 9, 2008
Robin Thicke is working hard to move out of his father's shadow. As the son of Canadian actor Alan Thicke from the hit '80s sitcom Growing Pains, people initially wondered if...
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Short Cuts
Blitzen Trapper
By Michael Roberts
Published: October 9, 2008
For a buzz band, Blitzen Trapper is extremely modest. Instead of trying to overwhelm listeners with their awesomeness, singer/songwriter Eric Earley and crew create casually...
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Live Wire
Phantom Planet
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: October 9, 2008
If you were just judging a book by its cover, you would have every reason to think Phantom Planet was a pretty-boy vehicle spewed out of the shallows of Hollywood. You might...
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Short Cuts
Round Black Ghosts
By Dominic Umile
Published: October 9, 2008
In ten distinctive but complementary entries, Berlin's ~scape label explores an increasingly obvious link between dub techno and the U.K.-born attributes of dubstep on Round...
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Live Wire
Nikka Costa
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: October 9, 2008
Thirty-somethings who remember Nikka Costa as the child singer of tunes like "First Love" and "Candy Man" back in the early '80s probably wouldn't recognize the soul-inflected,...
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