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1. Feature

   Shark Huggers

   Tourists can't wait to get next to them – even if they are eating machines

   By Amy Guthrie

   Published: June 12, 2008

   Markus Groh felt uneasy aboard the M/V Shear Water. A buddy had talked him into booking a six-night trip on the charter boat with nine other Austrians to scuba-dive with sharks...

2. News

   Speak No Evil

   When a Margate priest misbehaved, the archdiocese punished his secretary

   By Thomas Francis

   Published: June 12, 2008

   Theresa Gerstner can recall how suspicion crept slowly into her mind. It was peculiar to see boys climbing into Rev. Neil Doherty's car for a trip to the movies. Then she...

3. Letters

   Letters for June 12-18, 2008

   Published: June 12, 2008

   Lay Off Capitalism, Dude Nice work ("Man a Mano Against Poverty," Tailpipe, June 5), but can we stop attacking the '80s and Reagan? The decade wasn't about greed, as is...

4. Bob Norman

   The Jewish Problem

   Rev up your Swift Boats, boys. The Obama campaign is coming to town.

   By Bob Norman

   Published: June 12, 2008

   The document, titled "Obama and the Jews — Truth Checklist," contains what Palm Beach County Republican Party Chairman Sid Dinerstein believes is the key that will unlock...

5. Music

   Shaken, Not Rocked

   Rachel Goodrich shakes, rattles, and rolls on down her own road

   By Deirdra Funcheon

   Published: June 12, 2008

   It's hard to say which is more awesome: Rachel Goodrich's catchy song "The Black Hole" or its lo-fi video. In it, she sings while kneeling on her friend's unmade bed; she's...

6. Subtropical

   The Tim Version

   By Abel Folgar

   Published: June 12, 2008

   Tampa Bay's the Tim Version comes with a pretty good punk rock pedigree, seeing as how these Panhandle ne'er-do-wells have managed to take their wares across most of the U.S....

7. Live Wire

   The Cure

   By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

   Published: June 12, 2008

   Much like a lover who keeps threatening to pack up and leave but never pulls the trigger, the Cure's Robert Smith has suggested that the band's albums/tours would be its last...

8. Pub Stalker

   Kalahari Bar

   By Bryan Falla

   Published: June 12, 2008

   In the northwest corner of South Africa, the Kalahari is a small patch of dry rock and red sand where meerkats roam and thirst is part of the landscape. On the corner of 20th...

9. Night Watch

   Tryin' to Get Lonesome

   In Davie, the coyotes seldom howl, and Hank Williams? — shoot, he ain't even a rumor

   By Tara Nieuwesteeg

   Published: June 12, 2008

   I haven't been away from my home state of Texas that long, and occasionally I like to remind myself what it means to be a Texan. Yeah, we execute the mentally challenged, we...

10. Dish

    In With the Old, Out With the New

    Café Chardonnay holds steady in boom and bust

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Back in the late '80s, if you were looking to impress a date over a sophisticated dinner, there was only a handful of restaurants in Palm Beach County that could pretty much...

11. Film

    Supermarket Sweep

    Male fulfillment, and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America — how we define it, the price we pay for it, and what it looks like depending on...

12. Night & Day

    From France with Love

    By Phillip Valys

    Published: June 12, 2008

    The name Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath doesn’t quite ring so harmonically as the much brawnier-sounding James Bond. That and his even clunkier French secret agent code name...

13. Night & Day

    The Religion of the Number Two Pencil

    By Penn Bullock

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Guerra de la Paz is a two-man artistic team in Miami’s Design District. Their specialty is fashioning dolls out of masses of old, colorful clothing and posing them in...

14. Night & Day

    Oh, Christ!

    By Riki Altman

    Published: June 12, 2008

    It’s a resurrection of sorts: Actor Ted Neeley, who played the title role in the original motion picture Jesus Christ Superstar, will once again resurrect the role...

15. Night & Day

    The International Language of Lunch

    By John Linn

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Usually, when you’re sniffing out cheap lunch deals you tend to be a little less discriminating than you ordinarily would. You’ll ignore the sticky film on the tables...

16. Night & Day

    Taxi Driver’s Light is On,

    Hop in and take a seat.

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Some cinematic works just need to be dissected — and their appeal crosses every social divide. Take Taxi Driver, for instance. Nobody makes it through Film Appreciation...

17. Night & Day

    Stem Cells and Death Metal

    By Brett Gillin

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Death metal bands and their fans are universally known for their political correctness and sensitivity toward humanity in general. As if to prove this point, the Slaughtered...

18. Night & Day

    Primp, Pucker, and Pose

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: June 12, 2008

    There’s a part of you, and not a small part, that demands you lay provocatively across the hood of a ’57 Chevy. It’s the same inner pinup girl whose puckered...

19. Night & Day

    Va-Va-VOOM

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Avant theater icon Roger Wilson has raised the curtain on the future of portraiture in his skull-staving series of works at the Bass Museum of Art (2121 Park Ave., Miami...

20. Night & Day

    Puttin’ Him on a Pedestal

    By John Linn

    Published: June 12, 2008

    If it were up to Dad, he’d do nothing on Father’s Day but play golf, watch golf on TV, drink Coronas, and, if he can find the time, squeeze in a nap by the pool. And...