1. Feature

Court Jesters

Dale Ross steps down as Broward County´s chief judge, but will anything really change?

By Kelly Cramer

Published: June 7, 2007

Brown is the color of choice for R.O. Dale Ross. The spines of his law books are leathery tan, the vinyl on his chairs is cardboard-box brown, and his wooden table is the hue of watery...

2. Tailpipe

Plantation 9-1-1

Taser the Baby With the Bath Water

By Ed Newton

Published: June 7, 2007

The Plantation Police Department thought Wesley Christopher was a neglectful dad. So they Tasered his 2-year-old daughter. That´s not a misprint or something from an episode of...

3. Night Rider

Partial Eclipse

Some memories even spiked punch can´t erase

By Marya Summers

Published: June 7, 2007

When I heard that Respectable Street was holding a Super Cheesy '80s Prom on Memorial Day weekend, my hair bristled with psychic energy. Such an event was clearly foretold in a recent...

4. Bob Norman

How´s Your Slime IQ?

Take the Broward Corruption Quiz

By Bob Norman

Published: June 7, 2007

If you live in Broward County, you have reason to rejoice. Your little spot in the world is a place of distinction. It´s the best at something, a superlative locale. Broward...

5. Letters

Letters for June 7 to 13, 2007

Published: June 7, 2007

Bullish on Bulldogs It should be about altruism: I am the mother of a special-needs son. The Bulldogs organization allowed my son to make friends who were nonjudgmental, accepting,...

6. ¡Ask a Mexican!

Wussy Men, Defiant Women

By Gustavo Arellano

Published: June 7, 2007

Dear Mexican: I was sitting around with my daughter and her Mexican husband the other day talking about her past. Jokingly, I mentioned that when she was a teenager (30 years ago),...

7. Music

Back in Black

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club returns to form with definitive, trend-nullifying fourth album, Baby 81

By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

Published: June 7, 2007

It was like, Aw, what are we gonna do?´¨ says Black Rebel Motorcycle Club frontman Peter Hayes, referring to the 2005 departure of drummer Nick Jago. ¨I had been in...

8. Music

Anti Hip-Pop Consortium

Broward indie hip-hoppers Brokensound Blvd defy expectations

By Esther Park

Published: June 7, 2007

As if the name ¨Boca Raton¨ (variously translated as ¨Mouse´s Mouth¨ and ¨Thieves' Cove¨) isn´t awkward enough, just imagine being a hip-hop...

9. Dred Scott!

Zambian Grooves

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: June 7, 2007

A band can put weeks into rehearsing and getting its sound just right only to have it all fall apart on stage. There´s either feedback coming from the monitors, instruments are...

10. Short Cuts

Dir En Grey

The Marrow of a Bone (Warco)

By Niki D'Andrea

Published: June 7, 2007

Japanese rock band Dir En Grey is huge in its home country, and it´s starting to make waves here in the States yes, they´re the same psyched out rockers who kicked ass at...

11. Short Cuts

Jesse Malin

Glitter in the Gutter (Adeline)

By Lee Zimmerman

Published: June 7, 2007

Tough and tenacious, Jesse Malin adopts the guise of street punk turned rebellious rocker and unapologetic outcast with a raised fist and an elevated middle finger. Malin´s third...

12. Short Cuts

Swati

Small Gods (Bluhammock)

By J. Poet

Published: June 7, 2007

Folky New York rocker Swati was a classically trained trombonist before she picked up the guitar and started writing songs in her late teens. Her first demo was produced by Steve Lillywhite...

13. Short Cuts

Various artists

Si Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba (Waxing Deep)

By Ernest Barteldes

Published: June 7, 2007

During the '70s, a slew of Cuban songwriters and musicians who had their ears tuned to illegal radio from the States started blending Afro-Cuban music with the sounds of American...

14. Subtropical

PHIsonica

Starseed Journey (Self-released)

By Makkada B. Selah

Published: June 7, 2007

There aren´t many composers who take the time to encode their music with overtones that activate your cosmic inner being, even among the assortment of ambient opuses found at...

15. Live Wire

No Need to Panic

By Courtney White

Published: June 7, 2007

Texas is known for its great beer, BBQ, and twangy country music. Indie music, though, is not something most people would associate with the Lone Star state. Aside from Austin City...

16. Live Wire

She Still Survives

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: June 7, 2007

So attendance at Florida Marlins games is rather low. The bleachers look empty every time somebody hits a home run, and folks at the P.R. office are out to change that. Insert a raucous...

17. Live Wire

Atomic Dog

By Vernal Coleman

Published: June 7, 2007

Atomic Dog One might expect a band championed by My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James to be a bit self-indulgent, but the latest disc from Philadelphia-based quintet Dr. Dog is, surprisingly,...

18. Live Wire

Straight Outta Cashville

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: June 7, 2007

Straight Outta Cashville When rappers 50 Cent and Tony Yayo started piecing together their G-Unit family, they knew they´d need a Southern rapper to stay relevant in the streets....

19. Film

The House Always Wins

Ocean´s Thirteen is a washed-up threequel. How much you wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

By J. Hoberman

Published: June 7, 2007

Lowest Common Denominatorism writ large and engraved in stone like the Ten Commandments according to Cecil B. DeMille, the Hollywood blockbuster is often an allegory for itself. Walt...

20. Stage

Be to Not or Be To

Coming at the Bard from the butt end really cuts the crap

By Brandon K. Thorp

Published: June 7, 2007

That there is a professional theater company in Wellington is weird. That it´s good is even weirder. I´d never been to Wellington before. It´s so northwesterly. If...