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1. Feature

   Raw Power

   Just released from prison, Miami hip-hop icon DJ Raw is ready for the takeover

   By Esther Park

   Published: August 9, 2007

   The Marlin Hotel's dimly lit lobby is quieter than usual. A tall, bearded man wearing a checkered paperboy cap points to a raggedy basketball jersey hung on an easel; its...

2. Letters

   Letters for August 9-15, 2007

   The Sameness of It All

   Published: August 9, 2007

   The Sameness of It All Where do you find the real Internet deal? What a great article ("Outgrowing Tom," John Elmwood, August 2). I do love MySpace, and it has gotten a lot...

3. Bob Norman

   Family Ties

   Broward Commission, lobbyists ooze coziness

   By Bob Norman

   Published: August 9, 2007

   It isn't so much a how-to on influencing the Broward County Commission as it is a who-to. As in, who do you have to pay to sway the commissioners' votes? Anybody who keeps up...

4. Tailpipe

   Elvis Lives! And More!

   What Now, Truth Seeker?

   As told to Edmund Newton

   Published: August 9, 2007

   Those mourners at Graceland sure looked dumb for crying over Elvis Presley's death. Elvis lived! Weekly World News had pictures to prove it. For 28 years now, WWN has set us...

5. Night Rider

   Night of the Bazooms

   A badass blues babe reconsiders her down-and-dirty ways

   By Marya Summers

   Published: August 9, 2007

   "Well-behaved women seldom make history," Harvard history professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said. And that's why I say, "Get down with your cross-dressing, military self, Joan...

6. ¡Ask a Mexican!

   Surnames on Parade

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: August 9, 2007

   Dear Mexican: I've run into a problem with my wife. I'd like to proudly display our last name on the back window of the family car, but she won't allow it. How can I convince...

7. Music

   So Long, Saudade

   Brazilian composer Antonio Adolfo teaches the sounds of his homeland

   By Julienne Gage

   Published: August 9, 2007

   Picture this: You're enjoying a nice vacation in Rio, lounging with friends at a jazz club, when the bandleader calls out to you in the audience: ___________ (fill your name in...

8. Short Cuts

   Jah Cure

   True Reflections... A New Beginning (VP)

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: August 9, 2007

   First off, this isn't exactly a new project by the fresh-out-of-prison Jamaican singer Jah Cure. The recently released True Reflections is more of a greatest-hits compilation...

9. Subtropical

   Word Perfect

   A Major Motion Mixtape (Dope)

   By Bryan Falla

   Published: August 9, 2007

   In a genre in which artists are shot and killed because some take themselves too seriously, self-deprecation by independent thinkers is a welcome sound. Word Perfect, a duo...

10. Live Wire

    Brand New Heavies

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: August 9, 2007

    So it's Tuesday night, and you're hungry for some British soul. MTV doesn't have you covered, BET wouldn't even know where to start, and the new Mark Ronson album just isn't...

11. Outtakes

    Waiting for Lavoe

    The elusive Héctor

    By Edmund Newton

    Published: August 9, 2007

    When you make a biographical film about a public figure who's well-known to much of the audience, you start out in a deep hole. From the moment the guy appears onscreen, people...

12. Pub Stalker

    Taverna Eros

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: August 9, 2007

    Taverna Eros 8 E. Atlantic Ave.Delray Beach 561-272-8220 For partygoers, the tiny strip between Swinton and NE First Avenue on Atlantic Avenue is an oasis in an otherwise...

13. Dred Scott!

    Wait: Local Indie Music Stores Actually Grow

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: August 9, 2007

    If one-hit wonders the Buggles were to recut their 1979 song "Video Killed the Radio Star" today, it would need a new title — say, "Internet Killed the Music...

14. Dish

    Animal Dreams

    The Armadillo retires to the beach

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: August 9, 2007

    Kevin McCarthy is sautéing chocolate-coated scallops. It sounds as if one of our favorite chefs has wandered into some gustatory la-la land, a Ferran Adrià/Wylie...

15. Film

    Dream Cleaver

    Matthew Vaughn hacks at Neil Gaiman's fantasy wonderland

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: August 9, 2007

    Stardust is less an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 1999 novel than of its dust-jacket synopsis. That will come as disconcerting news to fans of the author, who thus far has...

16. Night & Day

    Old Youth

    Spiritual Decay at the Dawn of the Reagan Era

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: August 9, 2007

    The 1980’s were a decade of death. John Lennon died right there at the beginning. Flared pants died too, though they’d make a comeback a few years later. The Eagles died, and...

17. Night & Day

    When This Boats a-Rockin’

    Break out the topical ointment.

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: August 9, 2007

    The problem with hitting on women in bars is that they can throw a drink in your face and leave. One surefire way to eliminate that barrier is by reducing the chances of...

18. Night & Day

    Strange Brew!

    Where do I sign up?

    By John Linn

    Published: August 9, 2007

    Got a craving for beer that goes beyond the ordinary, mass-produced labels that line supermarket’s shelves? Look no further than BX Beer Depot (2964 Second Ave. N., Lake...

19. Night & Day

    On the Pulpit and Below the Belt

    By Terra Sullivan

    Published: August 9, 2007

    Matthew, Mark, Luke and… Rev. Billy C. Wirtz? Not quite the same ring to it as John admittedly, but if the slapstick boogie-woogie bluesman had his way, we’d all be waving arms...

20. Night & Day

    Naughty Girls Need Love Too

    By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

    Published: August 9, 2007

    Ladies know that some days are just girlier than others. On Monday, you might crave a cigar, a beer, and a hamburger. By Friday, maybe you feel like nibbling on Dibs and...