Archive Search Results

1. Feature

   Accidental Hit Man

   Sure, Paul Brandreth talks like a wiseguy. But is he a cold-blooded killer?

   By Tamara Lush

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Tom Lehmann and a few buddies had been partying for nearly a week without sleep. They had started the binge long before the new year — a lot of meth, a bit of coke, some...

2. News

   Restaurant Flambé

   Michael's Kitchen has moved on, leaving the charred remains of a lot of goodwill in Hollywood

   By Amy Guthrie

   Published: February 28, 2008

   This guy will razzle-dazzle them. That's what Hollywood officials thought when they offered a young chef named Michael Blum a $150,000 grant in 2004 to open a trendy restaurant...

3. Letters

   Letters for February 28-March 5, 2008

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Phantom Votes Can you run that by me again? Phantom voting in Florida again ("Incredible Turnout," Tailpipe, February 21)! Once again, the magical, secret vote-counting...

4. Bob Norman

   The Talk of the Green Iguana

   Will American voters elect the first gay vice president in November?

   By Bob Norman

   Published: February 28, 2008

   The rumors about Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and the Green Iguana just wouldn't go away. The story goes that the Florida governor frequented the Green Iguana, a bar in Tampa,...

5. Tailpipe

   Butts in Seats

   As told to Edmund Newton

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Marlin Munchies Oy, the resonant crack of wooden bat on ball, the pop of fastball into catcher's mitt, the soft murmur of Big Leaguers comparing hedge funds. Spring training...

6. ¡Ask a Mexican!

   It Ain't About Skin Color

   How many times?

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Why won't Mexicans vote for a black man? — Hillary Hater Dear Readers: Dozens of ustedes have sent the above question since the Iowa caucuses, forwarded mainstream media...

7. Music

   Not Your Father's N Word

   Eight months after its "burial," the world's most dangerous epithet is more popular than ever in hip-hop

   By Ben Westhoff

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Last July, thousands of folks, including the mayor of Detroit and the governor of Michigan, gathered in Motown at the NAACP's annual convention for a symbolic funeral for the n...

8. Short Cuts

   Steve Reid Ensemble

   Daxaar (Domino)

   By Mark Keresman

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Jazz drummer Steve Reid (not to be confused with same-named New Age percussionist/composer) has a résumé that would make most musicians wince with envy. How many...

9. Subtropical

   Kreamy 'Lectric Santa

   1980 to 2007 6 Song Retrospective of Unreleased Material II (Digestive Systems)

   By Abel Folgar

   Published: February 28, 2008

   If you've never owned a vinyl album, I feel very sorry for you. Plainly put, you've never actually enjoyed music in your life — you just think you have. In truth, your...

10. Live Wire

    Paul Potts

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: February 28, 2008

    For starters, you gotta love anyone who can bring that sharp-tongued Simon Cowell close to tears. That's exactly what transpired when Paul Potts auditioned for Britain's Got...

11. Pub Stalker

    Roxy's Pub

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Roxy's Pub 309 Clematis St. West Palm Beach 561-296-7699 The coaster under my Rogue Dead Guy Ale reads "Roxy's, licensed in 1933." That's the year Prohibition ended. Clematis...

12. Dred Scott!

    Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Everyone's had that embarrassing moment, right? You're belting out the lyrics to your favorite song standing there like Freddie Mercury at Wembley Stadium, acting the ham. The...

13. Night Watch

    On the Booty Prowl

    Where are the lesbian break dancers?

    By Tara Nieuwesteeg

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Rolling, writhing lesbians aren't exactly a dime a dozen where I come from. My mama raised me deep in the heart of Texas (that red, cattle-ropin', lethal-injection-givin'...

14. Dish

    Havana Is Open

    And you don't need a boat to get there

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Castro resigns! I'm not old enough to remember a Cuba without El Caballo in the presidential compound, but in solidarity with those who are, we hied ourselves over to Little...

15. Film

    Sister Act

    Sibling rivalry in all its royal glory in Boleyn Girl

    By Chuck Wilson

    Published: February 28, 2008

    When you sleep with the king, it ceases to be a private matter." And so it comes to pass that young Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) must stand before her father, Sir Thomas...

16. Night & Day

    Snakes In My Spam

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Strictly speaking, SPAM is a cooked-meat product containing bits of many long-dead animals — pigs, chickens, turkeys, clumsy factory workers — jammed together and...

17. Night & Day

    Coppola: From Wine to Haterade

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Francis Ford Coppola’s new opus Youth Without Youth has been getting panned unanimously by critics – the only thing they can’t seem to agree on is what...

18. Night & Day

    If You Don’t Attend, She’ll Know

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: February 28, 2008

    When Michelle Whitedove went on Lifetime’s reality competition America’s #1 Psychic, she swayed even the naysayers. Her accuracy in assessing situations –...

19. Night & Day

    Prostitution in Opera

    By Penn Bullock

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Courtesans, as opposed to prostitutes of today, commanded respect in European society centuries ago. They sold themselves for sex, but they also mastered upper-class decorum...

20. Night & Day

    Sole Survivors

    By John Linn

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Rick Derringer is rock ΄n’ roll’s cockroach: Dude has been everywhere, produced everything, played in all your favorite hit songs, and probably will outlast all...