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Feature
Spring Break Is Still Decadent and Depraved — and Awesome, Dude!
Try as it might, Fort Lauderdale can't shake some diehard seasonal partiers
By Michael J. Mooney
Published: April 3, 2008
Kacey was blue. Not because someone had just awakened him. Not because it was 4 in the afternoon, and he was naked and confused. No, he was literally the color blue. His...
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News
Take Your Rubber Ducks And Vamoose
Merchants fight for a toehold in gentrifying downtown
By Amy Guthrie
Published: April 3, 2008
The life-sized cow figurine is coming home for the evening. Watching it roll indoors from the sidewalk on East Broward Boulevard reminds proprietor Jerry Miles of all the other...
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Letters
Letters for April 3-9, 2008
Published: April 3, 2008
Rage Against the Dispenser I read with interest your story on the new wine bar, Vino, on Harrison Street in Hollywood ("Wine Bar Wine Bar," Tailpipe, March 20). I was intrigued...
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Tailpipe
Mama's Boy
As told to Edmund Newton
Published: April 3, 2008
Antoine, You're Grounded Blondy McColister Williams, age 48, is a familiar figure around Deerfield Beach High School, where she's done everything from work as an on-site...
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¡Ask a Mexican!
Hung Up on Jotos
Is It Something I Said?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 3, 2008
Dear Mexican: I'm a gay man in his mid-30s that has always loved Mexican men. And this question is not only from my experience, but also that of friends: Why is it that Mexican...
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Music
Mikey Dread Remembered
Friends look back at the life and legacy of Mikey Dread
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: April 3, 2008
Like most tales of triumph and tragedy, the life, career, and untimely passing of reggae pioneer Mikey Dread at age 53 will live on long beyond his time on earth. There aren't...
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Short Cuts
Dengue Fever
Singer Chhom Nimol makes Dengue Fever worthwhile.
By Jason Ferguson
Published: April 3, 2008
Dengue Fever call themselves a "Cambodian pop band," but as astute observers have likely noticed, the only obviously Asian member of the L.A.-based band is singer Chhom Nimol....
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Subtropical
Jacob Jeffries
Pembroke Pines' finest singer/songwriter is a star, not an extra.
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: April 3, 2008
Listening to the music of local singer Jacob Jeffries has a way of putting life in perspective. Whether you're catching him live or listening to his newest EP, Life as an...
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Live Wire
Caribou
By Jason Ferguson
Published: April 3, 2008
For a guy with a PhD in Math, Dan Snaith sure knows how to find the human warmth inside a machine. Over the course of four albums — his latest, Andorra, was released last...
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Outtakes
New Age Klezmer
Longtime klezmer enthusiast Al Matos takes his beloved music to the masses
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: April 3, 2008
It's turning into a week full of klezmer at the New Times office. The folks at Rough Guide sent over their latest disc, The Rough Guide to Klezmer Revival, for review, with 18...
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Dred Scott!
American Idol Goes Geriatric
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: April 3, 2008
On a recent Tuesday evening, local talk radio couldn't seem to talk about anything except the American Idol viewing parties going on around South Florida. Folks had gathered to...
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Night Watch
Still Dead and Lovin' It
G's Place elevates unpretentiousness to the freakin' Golden Road
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Published: April 3, 2008
The club life isn't all sex and glam. It's also expensive drinks, sleazy swinger dudes, uncomfortable clothes, self-doubt, and unpredictable music. Of course, I love the...
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Dish
Chopsticks Say: Ka-ching!
China Grill brings the show to Lauderdale
By Gail Shepherd
Published: April 3, 2008
Here's a restaurant with volume set to "max," 14,000 square feet of surround-sound at the Fort Lauderdale Grande's new China Grill. From design to dames it's all spilling over...
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Film
Some Country for Old Men
Seniors Scorsese and the Stones together again
By Camille Dodero
Published: April 3, 2008
Mick Jagger's most essential physical feature, according to Martin Scorsese: his bellystache. On the poster for Shine a Light, the big-shot director's Rolling Stones concert...
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Night & Day
Cairo Rose
By John Linn
Published: April 3, 2008
In November of 2006, Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosny sparked a heap of controversy when he publicly commented about the resurgence of the Islamic veil among Egyptian...
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Night & Day
Pop Goes the Art
By Penn Bullock
Published: April 3, 2008
On Easter Sunday, President Bush presided over the Egg Roll on the White House lawn, which “commemorates our Savior's triumph over sin” (his words). At his side was a...
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Night & Day
Life Lessons from New Times
By John Linn
Published: April 3, 2008
Some people find Mitch Albom’s heartwarming-as-apple-pie novel Tuesdays with Morrie a tad trite. Haters. They’re either jealous writers who think that Albom’s...
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Night & Day
Pop Goes the Art
By Penn Bullock
Published: April 3, 2008
On Easter Sunday, President Bush presided over the Egg Roll on the White House lawn, which “commemorates our Savior's triumph over sin” (his words). At his side was a...
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Night & Day
This Ain’t Gilliam’s Brazil
By John Linn
Published: April 3, 2008
In 2003, the Brazilian film City of God sent tremors throughout the international film community, pulling down four Academy Awards, becoming the highest grossing foreign film...
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Night & Day
Ben Franklin: He Did Stuff
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: April 3, 2008
In current times we lavish fame on the least deserving. Socialites, pop stars, and basically any child of privilege who can scribble her name on a perfume bottle fill our...
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