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Feature
Mi Casa Is Not Tu Casa
Protesters say illegals take our jobs, bring in leprosy, and, grrr, sell ice cream from bicycles
By Deirdra Funcheon
Published: May 8, 2008
Let's get one thing straight: The protesters who gather outside the El Sol Day Labor Center in Jupiter every Saturday morning don't hate immigrants. They hate illegal...
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News
Look at That Pig in Lipstick
As the housing market collapses, desperate sellers get creative
By Michael J. Mooney
Published: May 8, 2008
A woman is giving away her $1.25 million mansion in Ocala. The house, replete with two 50-foot porches, three crystal chandeliers, and a jacuzzi, sits on two acres lush with...
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Bob Norman
Bleeding Dollars
A former Broward hospital CEO's trail of dubious expenses is just a drip in the bucket
By Bob Norman
Published: May 8, 2008
When Alan Levine left his post in late 2006 in then-Gov. Jeb Bush's administration to take the top job at the North Broward Hospital District, he made sure to get paid. Not...
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Tailpipe
Ride 'Em, Cowboy
Hell for Leather on Flight 48
As told to Edmund Newton
Published: May 8, 2008
Here's the question: Is it safe to fly during times when commercial airlines are under grinding economic stress? American Airlines Flight 48 had just taken off from...
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Music
Jimmy Urine's All Pissed
Mindless Self Indulgence's lead singer noodles on and keeps it real
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: May 8, 2008
Honestly," laughs Mindless Self Indulgence frontman Little Jimmy Urine, "I'd rather fuckin' be drawing a comic strip like Garfield and have it be syndicated. I'd just draw one...
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Live Wire
Black Finger
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: May 8, 2008
When it comes to blending straight-ahead rock with Americana and bluegrass twang, there's no other group locally that does it better than Black Finger. These guys have the feel...
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Outtakes
Politically Incorrect
Not every rapper is sold on Sen. Barack Obama
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: May 8, 2008
Within hip-hop circles, it's well-known that M1 and his partner Stic.Man of Dead Prez veer way left of center when it comes to politics. The highly Afrocentric...
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Pub Stalker
The Stained Glass Pub
By Bryan Falla
Published: May 8, 2008
The Stained Glass Pub has been cooking up a calypso-inspired groove since 1972. The Dutch-style bungalow now sports green, red, and blue side panels -- symbols of the...
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Dred Scott!
SunFest Shows Fantasma's Still Alive
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: May 8, 2008
Anyone who just made it through all five days of SunFest can attest that this was the long-time festival's best lineup in years. There was enough talent on all three stages...
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Night Watch
Take It Almost Off!
At Kevro's, it's about the tease, not the sleaze
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Published: May 8, 2008
Sometime in the naive years before puberty, I told my mom that it wasn't fair how I had to wear a shirt when my dad and brothers didn't. She absolutely did not see how...
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Dish
Cool Blue
Dive into summer at Turquoise
By Gail Shepherd
Published: May 8, 2008
Ask an American what he thinks of the Turkish people or Turkish food and, if all goes well, you'll get a blank stare. What we don't know about Turkey would fill the dome of the...
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Film
Warrior King
David Mamet and his hero fight the power, and succumb to it, in Redbelt
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 8, 2008
David Mamet's Redbelt is a tricky bar brawl — call it the Roundhouse of Games. The writer/director has scarcely abandoned his sense of the movies as an innately...
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Night & Day
Best of the Worst
By Sam Eifling
Published: May 8, 2008
Woe unto the Marlins fan! A recent issue of ESPN The Magazine determined, in its periodic wisdom, that among the 122 major sports teams in the United States and Canada, the...
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Night & Day
Where the Girls Are
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: May 8, 2008
Had Aquaman been born a woman, his comic book would have been much cooler. Aqua Girl’s enemies wouldn’t be pirates or other traditional foes, no! She would shake down...
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Night & Day
A Really Bad Hair Day
By Mike Sauer
Published: May 8, 2008
Though the fictional character of Sweeney Todd was created in 1846, it’s understandable why people would still be sympathetic to the story of the killer hairstylist....
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Night & Day
Plan 9 from Delray Beach!
By Phillip Valys
Published: May 8, 2008
Something happened on the way to the Delray Beach Film Festival: a meddling, sci-fi spoof of B-movie camp somehow slinked in! Yup, Elixir boasts garishly-garbed, over-rouged...
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Night & Day
Treat Your Special Lady Nice
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: May 8, 2008
She’s always bailed you out of jams. From when you wet your Smurf overalls in kindergarten to the time your car broke down while you were fake running away (Screw curfews,...
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Night & Day
I’m Madden as Hell,
And I'm not going to take it anymore!
By John Linn
Published: May 8, 2008
It was announced in April that Brett Favre would be the cover boy (er, cover codger?) for Madden NFL ΄09 — an interesting choice, considering the Green Bay Packer...
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Night & Day
Sex, Lies, and Video Rentals
By Terra Sullivan
Published: May 8, 2008
If the neutered, PG-rated re-runs of Sex & the City leave you longing for more liberated singles who know how to offer up their raunchy affections like complimentary...
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Night & Day
New Wave Phenomenology
By D. Sirianni
Published: May 8, 2008
What might an intrepid trekkie or oddball music fan — the type that yearns for the reactivation of Man… or Astroman? — do on a hot Saturday night? What else but...
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