1. Art

Once More With Feeling

New Art Expressions Offers Some Gems in Mixed Show

By Michael Mills

Published: August 23, 2007

It really was like déjà vu all over again. Stepping into Art Expressions Gallery, I mean. The gallery, once crammed into a cramped space in a tiny strip mall on NE Fourth...

2. Artbeat

Second Look

By Marya Summers

Published: August 23, 2007

You might wonder how seriously you should take a gallery that got started on Craigslist. But that's sort of the point: Gallery owner Peter Meyerhoefer thinks art should be as accessible...

3. Dish

All Greek to Me

Can Three New Tavernas Give Old Opa a Run for It?

By Gail Shepherd

Published: August 23, 2007

Most of us will put up with a lot so long as we're well entertained. And reasonably fed. Just give us our bread and circuses — and "Mitt Romney" could be the name of an exotic...

4. Dred Scott!

Can't Stop, Won't Stop

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: August 23, 2007

It was a hot Friday night in Fort Lauderdale and Dred Scott had hip-hop on the brain. It'd been a while since I'd found a comfortable place to enjoy beats, rhymes, and life in Broward...

5. DVDish

The Sympathetic Spy

Published: August 23, 2007

The Lives of Others (Sony) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's film, easily the best of last year, exists on many levels: as tragedy, dark comedy, and love story — not between...

6. Feature

C'mon, Get Happy

Does Mayor Jim Naugle still know Fort Lauderdale?

By Deirdra Funcheon

Published: August 23, 2007

Long after Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle made the comments that ignited the latest and strongest backlash against his mayoralty and long after he'd had time to reconsider, apologize,...

7. Film

Cheat the Rich

Life as a Hot, Young, White Educated Nanny Is a Drag

By Scott Foundas

Published: August 23, 2007

Shortly after graduating from film school, I took a part-time job as the assistant to a successful movie and television director who told me I'd be handling a mix of personal and professional...

8. Film

Sources Say, Who Cares?

Resurrecting the Champ gets journalism right, and that's a grind

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: August 23, 2007

Resurrecting the Champ is a great movie about journalism — maybe the best there ever was — because Resurrecting the Champ is mind-erasingly boring. It’s a solid story about the newspaper...

9. Game On

Bend It Like Bowser

Soccer gets a surreal twist in Mario Strikers Charged.

By Chris Ward

Published: August 23, 2007

The first worthwhile online-compatible game for the Wii has finally arrived. And in at least one way, Mario Strikers Charged is just like real soccer: Sometimes it scores, and sometimes...

10. Letters

Letters for August 23-29, 2007

Published: August 23, 2007

It's Not a Freak Show The right to bare our arms: The rhetorical fireworks in Jamie Laughlin's piece about the Gun and Knife Show at the Fort Lauderdale War Memorial ("A Quick Lesson...

11. Live Wire

Funky Blu Roots

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: August 23, 2007

The Funky Blu Roots are a Fort Lauderdale-based quartet that is part Sly and the Family Stone, part B.B. King, and part Eric Clapton. They sound as crispy-clean on their live recordings...

12. Live Wire

The Black Crowes

By Lee Zimmerman

Published: August 23, 2007

It's a fine line between retro and rehash, but the Black Crowes always manage to tread that precipitous divide with swagger and finesse. In the 17 years since they made their debut,...

13. Live Wire

Inner Circle

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: August 23, 2007

Any group that's been together for three-plus decades is bound to go through some sonic shifts. The legendary reggae band Inner Circle isn't exempt from these laws of music physics,...

14. Live Wire

Baby Anne

By Arielle Castillo

Published: August 23, 2007

Give Orlando-based DJ/producer Baby Anne a gold star on two counts. One, for still carrying a torch for Florida breaks, our state's woozy, psyched-out spin on electro that had its...

15. Music

Word Up

WP Fights the Hip-ocracy One Rhyme at a Time

By Bryan Falla

Published: August 23, 2007

They represent two different parts of Florida, but the MCs of Word Perfect stand in line together as they wait to enter the big show. Dirty Dem of Fort Lauderdale and Wiseguy of Orlando...

16. Music

Lonesome Thugs

UGK: The most anticipated Southern rap album of the year was worth the wait

By John Nova Lomax

Published: August 23, 2007

Finally, it's here in all its two-disc, 29-track, guest-star-studded, double-album glory: Underground Kingz, the most anticipated album out of the South this year and the most eagerly...

17. Night Rider

Wise Blood

Drawing on the right side of the hip

By Marya Summers

Published: August 23, 2007

You don't have to have a tattoo to enjoy the South Florida Tattoo Expo, but it probably helps. To the question "Got ink?" the Night Rider raises her ballpoint. But to the tattooed,...

18. Bob Norman

Storming the Castle

Hallandale Beach and a Broward judge are trying to drive a man from his home

By Bob Norman

Published: August 23, 2007

In Florida, the old adage about a man's home being his castle isn't just talk. It's the law. It's almost Holy Writ. The state's homestead exemption is so absolute that a Florida homestead...

19. Outtakes

The Most Fascinating Read Ever

Particularly if you're into blow, hookers, and all things Crüe

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: August 23, 2007

From Christmas Day 1986 through January 17, 1988, Mötley Crüe founder and songwriter Nikki Sixx kept a daily diary that chronicled his exploits as an unraveling drug addict....

20. Outtakes

Idol Worship

Pembroke Pines native tours the U.S. with Taylor Hicks

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: August 23, 2007

Guitarist Josh Smith isn't a celebrity in his native Pembroke Pines, but the longer he keeps playing in Taylor Hicks' band, the more it's inevitable that he'll reach stardom. The 27-year-old,...