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1. Feature

   Dark Passage

   Six set sail on the Joe Cool hoping for better luck. Only two saw land again.

   By Tamara Lush

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Two hours before sunset this past September 23, sailors aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter spotted the Joe Cool. The 47-foot fishing yacht bobbed atop the waves, the white hull...

2. News

   Hush, Money

   Nobody's talking about the Hollywood Beach Resort, but campaign contributions scream Next Big Thing

   By Thomas Francis

   Published: January 24, 2008

   With just days remaining before Floridians vote on January 29, beachfront development is the hottest issue in South Florida's fiercest political race — that is, if the...

3. Letters

   Letters for January 24-30, 2008

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Bad Jammer Man Don't block the doc: Hooray for Jammer Man, until he jams a doctor's pager in a movie theater or absent-mindedly jams an important phone call, to enjoy his...

4. Bob Norman

   For Love of God

   On her radio show and in her personal life, Beverly Kennedy spreads her gospel across Broward

   By Bob Norman

   Published: January 24, 2008

   I'd been told that Beverly Kennedy has a photographic memory, found the fountain of youth, and never told a lie. What I didn't know until she rested her hand on the small of my...

5. Night Rider

   A Dose of Feelgood

   Vince Neil and friends bring back that old feeling to West Palm

   By Deirdra Funcheon

   Published: January 24, 2008

   You knew these words were coming. "West Palm Beach, are you ready to roooooock?" How else would the warm-up band kick off the opening-night party for a bar owned by Vince...

6. ¡Ask a Mexican!

   Is This the Las Puertas Concert?

   Mexican music lovers aren't biased

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Dear Mexican: At a weekly Doors tribute band gig, I've noticed the majority of the crowd is Mexican. I swear, sometimes it seems like the crowd missed the exit to the Lupillo...

7. Music

   The Wu Pulls Through

   ODB's gone, the RZA is absent, yet Wu-Tang Clan still soldiers on

   By Jason Handelsman

   Published: January 24, 2008

   On November 13, 2004, a jolt of anguish ran through the hip-hop nation: Russell Jones was dead. The rapper known as Ol' Dirty Bastard (but also Ason Unique, Dirt McGirt, Big...

8. Short Cuts

   Too $hort

   Get Off the Stage (Jive)

   By Eric K. Arnold

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Get Off the Stage marks Too $hort's 17th album — not counting compilations and reissues — but it's also the end of an era. It's his last for Jive, the label he's...

9. Subtropical

   Jim Wurster

   Hallelujah (Black Janet Music)

   By Lee Zimmerman

   Published: January 24, 2008

   In the dozen or so years since the breakup of his band Black Janet, Jim Wurster has produced a steady stream of exemplary albums, both solo and at the helm of his Americana...

10. Live Wire

    Rick Springfield

    By Maggie-Margret

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Generally speaking, '80s icons haven't fared well over the years in the looks department. The combination of cocaine, groupies, and incidents that may or may not have involved...

11. Outtakes

    The Keytar Lives!

    Mute Math breathes life into a city and a forgotten instrument

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Chances are, if you're familiar with New Orleans rockers Mute Math, it's for one of two reasons. You've either seen their shot-entirely-in-reverse video for "Typical," an...

12. Pub Stalker

    All Stars Sports Bar

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: January 24, 2008

    All Stars Sports Bar 2440 State Rd. 84 Fort Lauderdale 954-734-2424 The doors opened and CBS commentators Rich Gannon and Kevin Harlan's voices washed over the left side of my...

13. Dred Scott!

    Munga Honorable Talks Dancehall and Violence

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: January 24, 2008

    September 15, 2007, was a bad night for local dancehall. After weeks of solid concert promotion and buildup for one of the liveliest dancehall shows of the year, a great...

14. Dish

    Omakase Me

    Dare to let the Takeyama chef choose

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: January 24, 2008

    They say we eventually come to look like what we truly are. Our inner selves transform the outer ones little by little, nudging our whole being into alignment, until we make a...

15. Film

    You Kill Me

    Following Untraceable's lame-brained argument, we're all to blame for this massively dumb movie

    By Nathan Lee

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Regarding the irrelevance of Untraceable: First of all, torture is so 2007, and just because this drab little thriller with a flashy love of pain imagines itself a "critique of...

16. Night & Day

    Use It or Lose It, Buddy

    By John Linn

    Published: January 24, 2008

    There’s an old axiom that governs just about any artistic career: You’re only as good as your last work. For musicians, you could have a prolific rise, but a shitty...

17. Night & Day

    Get Up to Get, Get, Get Down

    By John Linn

    Published: January 24, 2008

    When dance club Roxanne’s on Main in Oakland Park closed shop last year after a mysterious electrical fire, Broward’s only hip-hop weekly went with it. Yep, the...

18. Night & Day

    Mashing Up Before Mash-ups Even Existed

    By Terra Sullivan

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Dipping into 1950’s-1960’s era nostalgia for artistic reasons can be a tricky business. If referenced poorly, you come off looking like a puffy Elvis impersonator at...

19. Night & Day

    Jonny Rotten

    By John Linn

    Published: January 24, 2008

    We’ve all done it once before: Dreading the term paper due today that you haven’t even started, you call up your professor and sob, “It’s my grandmother!...

20. Night & Day

    There’s a Whore in All of Us

    Try and keep her happy

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: January 24, 2008

    You work a straight-laced day job. You also go to the gym regularly, eat three squares a day, and never date more than one man at a time. Your personal hygiene habits are...