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Feature
Sobriety in a Bottle
Is Prometa the greatest innovation in addiction treatment history or 21st-century snake oil?
By Michael J. Mooney
Published: May 22, 2008
This is the old Mike Briggs. Curled up on the bathroom floor — convulsing, sweating, heart racing. Retching into the toilet. The whites of his eyes shot with red. Every...
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News
It's Not About the Hair
Don't hate Peter Mendia because he's purty. Hate him because you want his job!
By Deirdra Funcheon
Published: May 22, 2008
The ritzy oceanfront town of Palm Beach usually hums quietly with the sounds of Rolls-Royces passing by and big fat wallets snapping open and shut. On days that the waves crank...
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Letters
Letters for May 22-28, 2008
Published: May 22, 2008
Singin' the Greens "Show Us Some Green" (Deirdra Funcheon, May 15) is an excellent accounting of the Green Party's views and activities. Green Party aspirants would be highly...
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Bob Norman
Riviera Beach Sweetheart
A popular waterfront tiki bar rocks and rolls on municipal largess
By Bob Norman
Published: May 22, 2008
Tiki bar owner Bob Gregory and Riviera Beach city officials have had it made in the shade for five years running. It's taxpayers who are getting burned. Gregory has run the...
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Tailpipe
Feelin' the Freak
That Redline Frame of Mind
As told to Edmund Newton
Published: May 22, 2008
Never let it be said that Tailpipe doesn't occasionally jump-start the motor and floor the accelerator to get moving at top speed. The "high-octane" approach goes with living...
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Music
The Strong One
No more shucking and jiving for reggae's newest starlet
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: May 22, 2008
There is a point early on in every artist's career when their morals are put to the test. The music industry and personal ideals often clash, and the pathway to success...
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Live Wire
Trick Daddy
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: May 22, 2008
In case you didn't know, the mayor of Miami is not always Manny Diaz. Although Diaz is a nice fellow and knows a lot about politics, he can handle only so much authority and...
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Outtakes
Leader of the New School
Popular lover's-rock crooner Tarrus Riley comes home for Best of the Best
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: May 22, 2008
There's plenty of fuss made at times by journalists (like myself) about the negative direction reggae music seems to have gone in the past ten years. But for all our...
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Pub Stalker
Bull Bar
By Bryan Falla
Published: May 22, 2008
School's out, but this college crowd is going nowhere. It could be the gas prices, but from the looks of it, it's the need to consort with schoolmates that keeps these...
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Dred Scott!
Cricket Music
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: May 22, 2008
South Florida is one of the most fickle sports markets in the country. Why anybody would want to start a new sport in this region is beyond me. Professional teams can win a...
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Night Watch
Foxes in Boxes
My old flame; I can't remember its name
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Published: May 22, 2008
Some teenaged girls develop obsessions with hot celebrities like Johnny Depp or Justin Timberlake. Some go gaga over the blue-eyed high school quarterback. Some fall for their...
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Dish
They Might Be Giants
Count blessings, not calories, at Del Vecchio's
By Gail Shepherd
Published: May 22, 2008
Del Vecchio's Italian Fishery appears to be run by a mythic race of men who are just, well, larger than the rest of us. They're the guys whose ancestors clambered up and down...
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Film
The Fortress of Sad Decline
Its very own temple of doom, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull digs Indy into a deep hole
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 22, 2008
Here's your hat, Indy, but, really, what's your hurry? Because 19 years after the Last Crusade that clearly wasn't and 15 years after the old man joined Young Indiana Jones on...
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Film Feature
Shots in the Dark
Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 22, 2008
CANNES, France—No need for dreaming here. Each Cannes Film Festival generates its own metaphors for a 10-day regimen of visions in the dark. It's impossible to forget,...
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Night & Day
Reptiles and Soothsayers
By Penn Bullock
Published: May 22, 2008
Question: What do a breakdancing gecko, a football coach, and a band of fortune tellers have in common? Answer: Today, they’ll all gather at Gigi’s Tavern in Mizner...
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Night & Day
Joke with the J.A.P.s
By Riki Altman
Published: May 22, 2008
If the thought of partying with Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler, and Sandra Bernhard makes you swoon like your Bubbie during a sale at Loehmann’s, check out “The...
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Night & Day
Go Granny, Go Granny, Go Granny, Go!
By Phillip Valys
Published: May 22, 2008
You’ve probably seen Mimi Weddell before. She’s a spry, Energizer Bunny-like nonagenarian who graces countless print ads as well as cameoing handfuls of TV and film...
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Night & Day
Evolution of Art
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: May 22, 2008
He’s an elusive creature. Rarely studied and often mistaken for fiction, Ze Verm has managed to evade researchers throughout the course of man’s existence. Until now,...
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Night & Day
Have You Ever Been Mello?
Witness the rebirth of an urban hang suite.
By Raina McLeod
Published: May 22, 2008
For the past couple of months, your Mondays have been moody, miserable, and muddled. And more than once, you’ve wondered, “Where have my sexy vibes and happy feelings...
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Night & Day
A Fish Called Charity
By Terra Sullivan
Published: May 22, 2008
You’re well acquainted with the selfish reasons to drop slivers of raw fish down your maw. The high-protein, Omega-3 fatty acid rich diet not only allows you to slip into...
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