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Feature
The Muscle Men
Inside the "Rejuvenation Centers" at the heart of the nation's largest illegal steroid and HGH operation
By Michael J. Mooney
Published: March 13, 2008
Grass doesn't get any greener than on major-league baseball's spring training fields. It's the annual dawn of each season, when vivacious young hopefuls play catch with...
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Letters
Letters for March 13-19, 2008
Published: March 13, 2008
Stars Align You can't keep a good reggae-pop performer down: Incredible... the coincidence is just unbelievable ("Man-Child in the Promised Land," Jonathan Cunningham, March...
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Bob Norman
They Can't Be Beat
Customers claim AutoNation lured them into bad loans
By Bob Norman
Published: March 13, 2008
The loan application for a Honda minivan showed that Jeannette Dorestin pulled in a salary of $2,600 a month from a company called Interealty. The problem was, there was no...
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Tailpipe
Personal Business
As told to Edmund Newton
Published: March 13, 2008
How They Help Investors in Hollywood This was so 2003. The South Florida real estate market still churned like a deep-sea fish mosh, with investors snatching up worthwhile...
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¡Ask a Mexican!
He Got the Frijoles
Spare Us Your Mangled Clichés
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: March 13, 2008
Dear Mexican: Mexicans are angry that the United States might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country, and, once here, to stay indefinitely....
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Music
Impact Beyond the Stage
R&B singer KEM has spent the past year recording a promising new album but finding even greater joy offstage
By Khary Kimani Turner
Published: March 13, 2008
Life is good when an artist experiences a few career highlights during a slow period. Such is the life of Detroit-based Motown recording artist KEM, who brings his brand of...
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Short Cuts
British Sea Power
Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)
By Henderson, Chris
Published: March 13, 2008
Do You Like Rock Music? charts another step in the evolution that took British Sea Power from post-punk-flavored debut The Decline of British Sea Power to slicker sophomore...
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Subtropical
Albert Castiglia
These Are the Days (Blues Leaf)
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: March 13, 2008
The Bonzo Dog Band, an eccentric '60s British band with a penchant for silliness and satire, once released a song whose title begged the theoretical question: "Can blue men...
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Live Wire
James Cotton
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: March 13, 2008
Longtime blues man James Cotton cut his teeth playing mouth harp with Sonny Boy Williamson at the tender age of 9 in the Mississippi Delta. His blues harmonica has influenced...
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Outtakes
Radio-Active Records Gives Back
Benefit show raises money for the mentally ill
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: March 13, 2008
If there's one thing you can count on from the good folks at Radio-Active Records, it's their unwavering ability to provide a sense of community. Every time you walk in the...
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Pub Stalker
Geronimo's
By Bryan Falla
Published: March 13, 2008
Geronimo's 3528 S. University Dr. Davie 954-474-9998 It's not uncommon to find Geronimo's packed at the end of the workweek. You'll find the same crowd during happy hour as...
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Night Watch
Smokin' Salon
The Funky Buddha gets people, ugh, sharing spit and liking it
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Published: March 13, 2008
When it comes to what goes into my mouth, I'm pretty discriminating. (I'm a vegetarian; what did you think I was talking about?) I also staunchly oppose the "five second" rule,...
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Dish
Not Your Average Jo
City Diner cuts the mustard
By Gail Shepherd
Published: March 13, 2008
I don't want to go all maudlin here, but what the hell happened to diners? Maybe they do exist still, like endangered pachyderms retreating ever farther into inaccessible...
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Film
The Games People Play
Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you — again
By Jim Ridley
Published: March 13, 2008
For the crime of obliterating high culture, for the crime of getting off on vicarious degradation — and, above all, for the crime of sitting through any movie that...
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Night & Day
Pony Up the Dough
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: March 13, 2008
You’ve never been to a polo match – but you have spent a lot of time at the racetrack. Well, the two are pretty similar. At the manicured polo grounds, the upper...
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Night & Day
Short Doses
By John Linn
Published: March 13, 2008
The thing about Martin Short is that he’s at his best when he’s teetered on the edge of uncomfortably annoying. Take his role in Clifford: Short did his absolute...
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Night & Day
The Sodom & Gomorrah to Thelma & Louise
By Penn Bullock
Published: March 13, 2008
A pulpy, pornographic film from the ´90s is surfacing at the Gateway Theatre (1820 East Sunrise Boulevard) today. The Living End, directed by Gregg Araki, is about a pair...
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Night & Day
Choose Your Own Adventure
By Brett Gillin
Published: March 13, 2008
By the time this article hits the newsstands, the Cats playoff picture will probably be crystal clear, therefore it’s time to grab your pen or pencil and get with the...
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Night & Day
The Cure For What Ails Ya
By John Linn
Published: March 13, 2008
What’s the struggling artist to do? You’re full of passion for their work but you can’t seem to get anyone in the art world to take notice. Street-corner...
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Night & Day
Wax On, Wax Off
The cure for unsightly leg hair
By Phillip Valys
Published: March 13, 2008
Try thinking of director Nadine Labaki’s Caramel as a Steel Magnolias for Middle Eastern sensibilities, only also set amid an ultraconservative, male-dominant Arab...
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