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1. Feature

   The Dying Light

   A neo-hippie art collective slams into the 21st Century

   By Mooney, Michael J.

   Published: January 17, 2008

   This is a story about failure. It's about a particular kind of failure — an American kind. It's about the failure of art measured in dollars and the failure it...

2. News

   Jammer Man to the Rescue

   An anonymous superhero steps in to clear the air of blah-blah-blah

   By Mooney, Michael J.

   Published: January 17, 2008

   He came into the bookstore huffing loudly into his cellphone, ignoring turned heads and annoyed glares. His voice shot across the room, a harsh, grating sound, like broken...

3. Letters

   Letters for January 17-23, 2008

   Published: January 17, 2008

   Tow Me Not Who ya callin' predatory? Little or no thought went into this report ("Tow Job," Ashley Harrell and John Linn, January 3). I was never told prior to my brief...

4. Bob Norman

   Are We Really in Good Hands?

   The outlook for the North Broward Hospital District without Alan Levine is cloudy

   By Bob Norman

   Published: January 17, 2008

   Alan Levine remembers the morning in 2004 when Jeb Bush got serious about turning around the North Broward Hospital District. At the time, Levine was Bush's deputy chief of...

5. Tailpipe

   Sporty Delight

   As told to Edmund Newton

   Published: January 17, 2008

   Actual Horses You won't hear many complaints from the crowd at Gulfstream Park on a balmy weekday afternoon. The clientele at the track, which opened its 89-day season this...

6. ¡Ask a Mexican!

   One for the Camino

   Herradura Goes Down Too Easy

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: January 17, 2008

   Dear Mexican: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that Mexican-Americans have the highest proportion of D.U.I's and alcohol-related traffic fatalities of...

7. Music

   A Man and His Horn

   Hugh Masekela talks about the highs and lows of a journey through music

   By Julienne Gage

   Published: January 17, 2008

   Just because South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela is generous enough to give more than an hour of his time for a phone interview from Johannesburg doesn't mean he makes it...

8. Short Cuts

   Jonny Greenwood

   There Will Be Blood (Soundtrack) (Wea/Atlantic/Nonesuch)

   By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

   Published: January 17, 2008

   How unfortunate would it be if all the furor surrounding the latest Radiohead album eclipsed this new orchestral film score composed by the band's lead guitarist, Jonny...

9. Subtropical

   Social Klash

   Plastic Love (Klash Corp)

   By Abel Folgar

   Published: January 17, 2008

   Well, we're at a point now where indie rock comes in many guises and with a lot of unexpected musical influences. Nothing wrong with a little diversity, right? Local Miami...

10. Live Wire

    Tokyo String Quartet

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: January 17, 2008

    In today's cyber-surfing era, the concept of "total isolation" is difficult for some people to grasp. Yet as little as 140 years ago, Japan had virtually no association with...

11. Outtakes

    Reggae Scrapbook

    A look back at Jamaica's hottest export

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: January 17, 2008

    As visceral an art form as reggae music is, it seems obvious that the genre would lend itself to stellar photography. There are enough characters, stories, and hairstyles (to...

12. Pub Stalker

    Beer Barn Lounge

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Beer Barn Lounge 4223 SW 64th Ave. Davie 954-583-7151 The building, which looks like the architectural love child of a tool shed and a barn house, stands barely upright on a...

13. Dred Scott!

    Who Will Save Your Soul?

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: January 17, 2008

    When Public Enemy released its album How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul in August, the music world didn't have a clue how to respond. It deserves some...

14. Dish

    Steaking a Claim

    Can Amazonia survive the glut?

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: January 17, 2008

    I met Mark Ortell, owner of Amazonia Brazilian Churrascaria, over a Cuban sandwich last year. We were sitting at the bar at Crazy Cuban in Boynton Beach drinking beer when...

15. Film

    Life Stinks, Blah, Blah, Blah

    It's more of the same in Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: January 17, 2008

    I do think the writing is pessimistic — all that stuff about life being a tragic experience," says Angela Stark (played by newcomer Hayley Atwell) early in Woody Allen's...

16. Night & Day

    Chick-Chicky-Boom

    By John Linn

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Remember the scene from Jim Carrey’s The Mask where Carrey escapes the police by donning a frilled shirt and singing, “They call me Cuban Pete / I’m the King of...

17. Night & Day

    Coming to a Chapel Near You

    By Penn Bullock

    Published: January 17, 2008

    You can find anything on the Internet these days. If you’re looking to throw an Italian-American wedding, Ehow.com can guide the process. It has nine pointers for wedding...

18. Night & Day

    Breakfast on the Farm

    By John Linn

    Published: January 17, 2008

    “Farmin’ life ain’t easy, folks – it takes mountains of energy to corral livestock and maintain barns and whatnots. An’ big energy means a big...

19. Night & Day

    Party With Your Crüe

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Rock stars like opening nightclubs. It’s a natural fit -- after all, they’ve spent their best head-of-hair years partying professionally. So really, when it comes...

20. Night & Day

    He’s Got Jokes and Jokes and Jokes and Jokes

    By John Linn

    Published: January 17, 2008

    So many comedians get tagged with the “hardest-working” trope; but if it ever applied to anyone, then you have to include Bill Bellamy in there. The dude has been...