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Feature
Simmer Down, Kids!
Sex-ed teachers want to know: How do you get hormones to listen to reason?
By Deirdra Funcheon
Published: January 31, 2008
Public Enemy Number One tiptoes up to the hot tub. She reaches behind her neck to untie her halter. Her dress drops to the ground. Her name: Tila Tequila. Her claim to fame:...
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News
Falling Behind
Broward foreclosures hit condos hard
By Amy Guthrie
Published: January 31, 2008
A soccer ball with a Mexican team logo is buried in the weeds, next to a barbecue grill. Inside the two-bedroom condominium, the living room is empty but for discarded wrapping...
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Letters
Letters for January 31-February 6, 2008
Published: January 31, 2008
They Love Him Truth be told, he's light in the nuance department: Excellent review of Suite Surrender ("Surrender, But Save Your Cash," Brandon K. Thorp, January 24). You...
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Bob Norman
The Holocaust Card
Mara Giulianti's allies don't know when to stop
Published: January 31, 2008
Mayor Mara Giulianti had had enough of the haters, so she put out a campaign mailer. "Put a stop to anti-Semitism and hate," Giulianti pleaded. "The radical right is already...
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Tailpipe
Big Wind in Boca
The Party Was Over Before It Began
As told to Edmund Newton
Published: January 31, 2008
The Big Republican Schmoozefest has moved on, but for a few hours last week, Palm Beach County was electrified with political discourse — electrified like, say, your...
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¡Ask a Mexican!
Cojones Come in Small Packages
Fernando Was a Chihuahua Lion
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: January 31, 2008
Dear Readers: Mucho feedback from ustedes regarding recent questions about archetypical Mexican dogs and the propensity of wabs to DUI. Let's empezar with the doggies: You're...
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Music
Still Here
After 40 years as folk's Everyman, Richie Havens is still going strong
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: January 31, 2008
If you can think back to a time in the mid- to late 1960s when folk music was king, there are a few faces and names automatically associated with its rise to dominance....
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Short Cuts
Various artists
Juno: Music From the Motion Picture (Rhino)
By Michael Roberts
Published: January 31, 2008
Too many movie tie-in collections put profits before cohesion. Tunes by widely disparate performers, most of whom just happen to record for companies affiliated with the film...
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Subtropical
Diogo Brown
Daqui Pro Mundo (Golden Dome)
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: January 31, 2008
South Florida isn't exactly a hub for jazz right now. Despite the fact that a few solid jazz musicians have retired here and that some damned fine players were raised here, the...
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Live Wire
Rod Stewart
By Nicholas Hall
Published: January 31, 2008
What the hell happened to Rod Stewart? In the late '60s and early '70s, Stewart showed such youthful promise; it's hard to believe how he's ended up. It's one of the deep,...
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Outtakes
Super Groups
Our fantasy draft for the Super Bowl halftime show
By Cole Haddon
Published: January 31, 2008
With Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers headlining Super Bowl XLII's halftime show, we couldn't help but wonder which other acts would deserve the chance to play to one of the...
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Pub Stalker
The Lion & Eagle English Pub
By Bryan Falla
Published: January 31, 2008
The Lion & Eagle English Pub 2401 N. Federal Hwy. Boca Raton 561-447-7707 Irish pubs, British pubs, German brew houses — many places bill themselves as heirs to some...
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Dred Scott!
Local Rap's Last Stand
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: January 31, 2008
These days, Broward County isn't the haven for hip-hop that it once was. OK, maybe it never really was a haven to begin with, but things have gotten much worse for the genre...
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Dish
Love to Love Ya, Baby
Oh Christine, will you be my Valentine?
By Gail Shepherd
Published: January 31, 2008
The last time I'd stepped through the door at 2671 E. Oakland Park Blvd., I'd skirted under a neon martini glass and around an ashen-haired biker hobbling gamely on metal...
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Film
Universal Soldier
20 years later, our one-man military machine's still going Rambo
By Jim Ridley
Published: January 31, 2008
A fourth Rambo? The question isn't why; it's what took him so long. Was America's avenging angel of meat just planning to sit out Fallujah and what we're cooking up for Iran...
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Night & Day
Capitol Crime
By Penn Bullock
Published: January 31, 2008
In 1981, Representative John Wilson Jenrette, Jr. (D-SC) fucked his wife behind a pillar on the steps of the Capitol Building. Later in his career, Jenrette was indicted for...
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Night & Day
Monster Jam Rules!
Big trucks go loud smelly boom pow crunch!
By Sam Eifling
Published: January 31, 2008
Trucks grow big. Big trucks run. Run at Monster Jam! Trucks run loud! Vroom, vroom, boom! Kids scream loud. Dad joins in! Mom covers ears. Waits in car. Fireworks hiss colors....
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Night & Day
Pray to the Football Gods
And hunker down for the big game.
By John Linn
Published: January 31, 2008
Yes, folks, it’s here! Our most coveted national holiday, the Super Bowl, is that time of year when we congregate in the glow of crystalline high definition displays, open...
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Night & Day
Three Conversations About Three Things
By Brandon K. Thorp
Published: January 31, 2008
A year ago, Inside Out Theatre produced a play called Manuscript, which was about, among other things, how secrets tend to destroy people. Then came Brian Friel’s profound...
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Night & Day
Let Them Eat Punk!
By Terra Sullivan
Published: January 31, 2008
Like other seminal punk bands of the late 1970’s, Miami’s The Eat used their bizarre and seedy cityscape to pen brilliantly satirical song lyrics. So, if the Ramones...
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