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1. News

   Show Us Some Green

   America's most colorful third party could use some attention — and some cash.

   By Deirdra Funcheon

   Published: May 15, 2008

   You might not know it from watching TV or listening to the radio, but a local landowner recently bulldozed a community garden, a power plant is set to be constructed between...

2. Letters

   Letters for May 15-21, 2008

   Published: May 15, 2008

   Air Fizzle And that attitude is why I no longer fly on American Airlines ("Ride "Em, Cowboy," Tailpipe, May 8). I've paid more on my last five trips and put up with the...

3. Tailpipe

   Happy Landings, Punk

   New Age Kiss-Off

   As told to Edmund Newton

   Published: May 15, 2008

   On Jonathan Lederman's MySpace page, he cites as heroes Nelson Mandela and Golda Meir. He describes serving in the Peace Corps in the Philippines, and he estimates that he's...

4. Music

   The Roots Will Not Apologize

   Will their edgy new album Rising Down help the masses rise up?

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: May 15, 2008

   At all times, legendary hip-hop drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson is a man pulled in many directions. The 37-year-old musician, producer, blogger, and hip-hop tastemaker...

5. Short Cuts

   Portishead

   By Jason Ferguson

   Published: May 15, 2008

   The weepy white girls who relentlessly spun Portishead's two '90s studio albums may find little on Third that recalls the existential meltdowns they had during their collegiate...

6. Subtropical

   Down Home Southernaires

   By Abel Folgar

   Published: May 15, 2008

   Down Home Southernaires were at one point known as Pygmy, and as Pygmy, they were great. As the DHS, they are even better. Imagine some country-fried soul R&B in the vein of...

7. Live Wire

   Paul Rodgers of Bad Company

   By Nicholas L. Hall

   Published: May 15, 2008

   Ahh, to be an aging rock star. What better possible way could there be to live out one's golden years than trying vainly to relive one's golden youth? Leather pants, screaming...

8. Outtakes

   Katt on the Prowl

   Katt Williams shows why hip-hop and comedy can both leave you in stitches

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: May 15, 2008

   You may think of Katt Williams only as a comedian — and a hilarious one at that — but there's more to the 34-year-old than jokes. For starters, most of us saw him...

9. Night Watch

   Walla Walla Bing Bang

   I told the witch doc-tor, scare me up a barstool at Pangaea

   By Tara Nieuwesteeg

   Published: May 15, 2008

   Animal heads and mounted skulls give me chills. Nothing strikes fear in my heart like a room that celebrates Bambi's untimely demise by having his decapitated head bolted to...

10. Dish

    Jump Cut

    Not your granddaddy's steak house

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Hip, sexy, and sophisticated is how I would describe local restaurateurs Brandon Belluscio and Brian Albe... er, no, actually, I wouldn't. I haven't a clue how hip and sexy...

11. Film

    Prince (Less) Charming

    Facing Indy at the box office, Narnia sequel ups the action and loses some magic

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: May 15, 2008

    "Things never happen the same way twice." Thus boometh Aslan the lion (Liam Neeson), alias the Son of God, popping his computer-generated shaggy head briefly into The...

12. Night & Day

    ’Backs in Black

    By Sam Eifling

    Published: May 15, 2008

    After winning the World Series in 2001, then wandering the desert for a few years, the Arizona Diamondbacks have gradually rebuilt themselves into perhaps the best team in...

13. Night & Day

    London’s Funniest Home Videos

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Growing up in a highly religious family blows: you have to spend your weekends at wacky revivals, you can’t even unwrap a Fruit Roll-up without getting that sticky feeling...

14. Night & Day

    The Art of Party-Throwing

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Supporting the arts doesn’t have to be stuffy, at least not if you choose BAM events. The onomatopoeic organization is loaded with young movers and shakers, all of whom...

15. Night & Day

    First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Power,

    Then you get ze Jews!

    By Phillip Valys

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Here’s a lesser-known story about those tyrannical, no-good Nazis: In the late 1930s, they planned to bankrupt the English economy by flooding the market with counterfeit...

16. Night & Day

    Keepin’ the Low End Down

    By John Linn

    Published: May 15, 2008

    You’ve got to hand it to the folks behind the Art of Moving Butts: The hip-hop party lasted a helluva long time at the Poorhouse, of all places, and it brought some...

17. Night & Day

    Rise From the Ashes!

    By Penn Bullock

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Sinbad, fresh from a virtual death on Wikipedia, performs today at the Parker Playhouse (707 NE 8th St., Fort Lauderdale). Perhaps you heard: The actor/comedian was in the news...

18. Night & Day

    Hogs and Dogs

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Motorcycle fellas are hulking, intimidating dudes. When you see them pass by in herds — leather tassels whipping, bandanas flapping, mischievous eyes gleaming —...

19. Night & Day

    Play Ball

    By John Linn

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Back in the time of George Frideric Handel — the great, German composer of the opera Julius Caesar — vocalists were superstars. Much in the same way that today’s...

20. Night & Day

    Show Us the Munny

    By John Linn

    Published: May 15, 2008

    That do-it-yourself acrylic art doll Munny is back in action, this time landing at toy shop/gallery space Pink Ghost (21 W. Las Olas Blvd., Ste. B, Fort Lauderdale)....