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1. Feature

   Guitar Zero

   Maybe the next generation won't even play instruments. Clapton and Hendrix? So passé.

   By Ashley Harrell

   Published: February 14, 2008

   It was around 9 p.m. on a recent Tuesday when the kid strolled into Java D'Lites, a Coral Springs Coffee Shop. With the shop buzzing over the night's event — South...

2. News

   Bitter Pill

   Families say Hollywood doc is out of control

   By Amy Guthrie

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Linda McCalister is a nurse at an elementary school in Coconut Creek. Most mornings, the 57-year-old throws on a school-issued navy polo shirt before leaving home to care for...

3. Letters

   Letters for February 14-20, 2008

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Junk the Machine People can count better: Great article ("Tally Against the Machine," Tailpipe, February 7)! We used the sort-and-stack method for counting our paper...

4. Bob Norman

   Citizen Zell

   The gruff new Sun-Sentinel owner came to town, but you won't read about it in our local daily

   By Bob Norman

   Published: February 14, 2008

   When newly minted media baron Sam Zell met with his Sun-Sentinel staff for the first time, there wasn't a word about it in the newspaper the next day. Turns out, they missed a...

5. Tailpipe

   There Go Da Judge

   Driving Blind

   As told to Edmund Newton

   Published: February 14, 2008

   It was just before halftime on Super Bowl Sunday when a passing car apparently decided to try to climb up the back of My Warhaftig's new Mercedes E350. Warhaftig and her...

6. ¡Ask a Mexican!

   Droppin' the Dime

   There are Tío Tacos of all nationalities

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Dear Mexican: My parents were Greeks who legally immigrated to the United States in 1920. When it became harder for Greeks to immigrate, they began to jump ship in New York. My...

7. Music

   Migrant Song

   Los Tigres del Norte sing the tales of those who can't tell them

   By Julienne Gage

   Published: February 14, 2008

   A group of Central American and Mexican men waits anxiously outside the Medrano Express courier offices in Homestead for a five-dollar snapshot. They're posing next to local...

8. Short Cuts

   Lenny Kravitz

   It Is Time for a Love Revolution (Virgin)

   By Ben Westhoff

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Lenny Kravitz hates it when critics call him retro, contending that love, revolution, and smooching should belong to every generation. But the problem with Kravitz's new album,...

9. Subtropical

   Rachel Brown

   Love, Life & Relationships (Urban Music Group)

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Contemporary R&B quite often seems like a genre that's become a victim of its own name. There hasn't been a lot of progress out of the genre in the past 15 years, and the best...

10. Live Wire

    Victor Wooten

    By Jonathan Zwickel

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Known primarily for his role as bassist in Bela Fleck's Grammy-winning New Grass Revival band the Flecktones, Victor Wooten is a phenomenal composer and bandleader in his own...

11. Pub Stalker

    Sauer Apple Saloon

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Sauer Apple Saloon 814 Harrison St. Hollywood 954-929-0755 This isn't your father's downtown Hollywood, buddy boy. The streets are spiffy. The boutiques and eateries have...

12. Dish

    Mas Tequila

    Drink up; it's more of the same at Rocco's Tacos

    By John Linn

    Published: February 14, 2008

    It's Friday night on Clematis Street, and the line for drinks at Rocco's Tacos and Tequila Bar is four deep. I'm checking the wall of patrons for chinks so my buddies and I can...

13. Film

    More Adventures in Gangsterland

    In Bruges, Martin McDonagh's sightseeing hit-men flick, isn't much of a trip

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: February 14, 2008

    No celebrity hairdresser should ever be allowed near Colin Farrell's eyebrows with a tweezer. Black, fluffy, and gloriously unilateral, they still aren't the prettiest things...

14. Night & Day

    Black-Green History-Art Month-Month

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: February 14, 2008

    The last time somebody went to war with February, it was a disaster. That was when Elisabeth Achelis, of Brooklyn, spent 25 years lobbying various international authorities to...

15. Night & Day

    Coral Springs Time for Hitler

    By John Linn

    Published: February 14, 2008

    With the Writers’ Guild strike still going strong, the concept of Mel Brook’s famous musical, The Producers seems more plausible than ever. In it, egotistical,...

16. Night & Day

    “I’m Goin’a Break You, Boss”

    By John Linn

    Published: February 14, 2008

    It doesn’t matter if you can bench press fallen tree trunks or if you eat iron screws for breakfast. It’s totally futile, even if you’ve got a nickname like...

17. Night & Day

    “Everyone’s Been Mutated”

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Mark Mothersbraugh is a compulsive art creator. He’s talking to me from his LA studio where he’s also working on a soundtrack – the former Devo frontman is...

18. Night & Day

    Under the Sea

    By John Linn

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Ever wonder what lies in the murky waters, deep off the coast of South Florida? Captain Ahab’s fallen vessel? Missing votes from the 2000 election? Britney Spears’...

19. Night & Day

    Keeping Punk Dead for Pop Purposes

    By Mike Sauer

    Published: February 14, 2008

    You may have heard the term “Punk’s not dead” before. It’s sort of an old cliché that rebellion and angst will continue to thrive -- as long as...

20. Night & Day

    Less Stumping, More Stomping

    By Terra Sullivan

    Published: February 14, 2008

    By communicating South Africa’s complex political history through dance, African Footprint has extended its message of immense hope and peace across continents. It began...