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1. Feature

   Nova to Workers: Drop Dead

   Janitors go jobless for months, and students don't give a damn

   By Amy Guthrie

   Published: June 14, 2007

   In the brochures, everything is copacetic at Nova Southeastern University´s main campus in Davie. Under periwinkle skies sprinkled with fluffy clouds, students stroll past...

2. Music

   Hialeah Hardcore

   Local punk group Güajiro has a slick sound and a heap of momentum. Nobody is more surprised than they are.

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: June 14, 2007

   Developing a strong identity as a band is a challenge. Often, groups try so hard to be unique that they all end up sounding the same, or they don´t have the experience to...

3. Dish

   Chow Mine!

   Christina Wan in Lauderdale, and other bulletins from China

   By Gail Shepherd

   Published: June 14, 2007

   Well, it´s all China all the time in the news these days, isn´t it? Between filthy tea, carcinogenic dried apples, and bacteria-laden swordfish imports turned back...

4. Film

   Unbunch Panties, Please

   Hostel sequel is lame, tame, and totally not worth moralizing

   By Nathan Lee

   Published: June 14, 2007

   Eli Roth is obviously a poseur, but on the evidence of Hostel: Part II, he´s also kind of a pussy. Anyone can string a naked woman up by the ankles and slit her throat,...

5. Art

   I´m Your Puppet

   In castoffs, Pablo Cano strikes gold

   By Michael Mills

   Published: June 14, 2007

   Objets trouvés. Found objects. In the right hands, so to speak, few words are as charged with artistic possibilities. And when the hands are those of someone as ingenious...

6. DVDish

   Beat the Crowd

   Glastonbury, The Hustler: Collector's Edition, Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built, The Bridge

   Published: June 14, 2007

   Glastonbury (THINKFilm) Only a Julien Temple concert doc would get the R rating -- for nudity (male, mostly, and not terribly flattering at that), drug use (weed, mostly -- ...

7. News

   Jack and Diana

   Swimmer Diana Nyad says coach Jack Nelson molested her 40 years ago. Now Nelson´s returning fire.

   By Ashley Harrell

   Published: June 14, 2007

   Jack Nelson´s swimmers have called him a second father. South Florida newspapers call him an icon. His lawyer says he´s ¨a national treasure.¨ And Diana...

8. Music

   Emo on the Skids

   Fall Out Boy tries to outgrow its own genre

   By Cole Haddon

   Published: June 14, 2007

   There is no better way to dismissively sum up a rock band than by labeling it ¨emo.¨ This has worked almost universally for the past six or seven years, with few...

9. Film

   Busker Love

   Once upon a time in Ireland, a girl met a guy and they made sweet music

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: June 14, 2007

   Once, written and directed by John Carney, is a deceptively simple movie -- a narrative strung together by pop songs but without the sheen (or arrogance) of most cinematic...

10. Artbeat

    Matt Godwin: Spring Paintings.

    Published: June 14, 2007

    ¨His work is so mature for an artist his age,¨ gallery owner and director Donna Tribby effused at the recent opening of ¨Matt Godwin: Spring Paintings.¨...

11. Game On

    Car Lust

    Take a ride with Forza 2, the greatest car sim ever.

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: June 14, 2007

    I was driving home from work the other day when it occurred to me that, despite being college-educated and reasonably intelligent, I have no idea how my car works. I know the...

12. Night Rider

    Wet Dreams

    It´s wedding month -- let´s get blown

    By Marya Summers

    Published: June 14, 2007

    Tropical Storm Barry kicked off hurricane season by pissing all over my Friday-night plans. When the forecasters promised more weekend water works, this Night Rider decided the...

13. Music

    Like a Rolling Stone

    British savant Joss Stone grows up and reintroduces herself

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: June 14, 2007

    Twenty-year-old British soul phenom Joss Stone sings with a quiet but powerful strength that epitomizes what the French meant when they came up with the word chanteuse. With...

14. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks for the week of June 12:

    Published: June 14, 2007

    Blood & Chocolate (Sony) Breach (Universal) The Cecil B. DeMille Classics Collection (Passport) Deadwood: The Complete Third Season (HBO) 52 Pick-Up (MGM) Ghost Rider...

15. Bob Norman

    Blood Work

    If you´re a medically uninsured North Broward resident, stay healthy -- or else

    By Bob Norman

    Published: June 14, 2007

    His heart didn´t sound good. There was a murmur. And the carotid artery, which supplies blood to the brain, didn´t seem to be functioning well. The doctor ordered...

16. Dred Scott!

    Hip-hop Hiatus

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: June 14, 2007

    It´s a sad era for Broward County hip-hop once again. As of two weeks ago, the county´s only consistent hip-hop night, the Breaks, was forced to shut down and...

17. Letters

    Letters for June 14 to 20, 2007

    Published: June 14, 2007

    Taser No Babies When cops taser indiscriminately: Thanks for covering this case. I think Natalie and Wesley Christopher´s story needed to be told, and you did a fine job...

18. Subtropical

    Further Seems Forever

    The Final Curtain (567 Records)

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: June 14, 2007

    Less than a decade ago, it seemed that Broward County was known for its emo-pop heroes. John Ralston was getting started, Recess Theory was making waves, and New Found Glory...

19. ¡Ask a Mexican!

    Onstage Culeros

    It´s about the haughtiness of the band

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: June 14, 2007

    Dear Mexican: So often when we see Mexican bands perform in the U.S. and Mexico, the crowd at some point starts chanting ¨¡Cu-le-ro (Ass-hole!)!¨ Why does the...

20. Short Cuts

    Roberto Fonseca

    Zamazu (Justin Time/Enja)

    By Jason Ferguson

    Published: June 14, 2007

    Although a member of Buena Vista Social Club (in 2001, at the tender age of 26, he replaced Rubén Gonzalez) right up until the group´s final recordings, Cuban pianist...