1. Art

Sewing for Glory

A group of Alabama seamstresses elevates the art of quilt-making to Matisse and Klee territory

By Michael Mills

Published: September 20, 2007

When the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale shut down at the beginning of the summer, there was more than a little skepticism, in these pages and elsewhere. What could they be thinking?...

2. Dish

Jaws Eats Claws

Blacktip Reef spawns a feeding frenzy

By Gail Shepherd

Published: September 20, 2007

To hear our waiter tell it, there's no fish shortage in South Florida. You just drop your baited line or your net full of little pylon oysters off the nearest bridge, and before you...

3. Dred Scott!

Seasons Change

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: September 20, 2007

Pop stars are always putting on a show. They've got their down moments, sure, but if lights are flashing, cameras are rolling, or a reporter is in the room, then a diva will always...

4. DVDish

Feeling Feverish?

Published: September 20, 2007

Saturday Night Fever: 30th Anniversary Special Collector's Edition (Paramount) For all its camp-classic status as the ultimate disco-fever dream, John Badham's movie truly is remarkable...

5. Feature

Rx for Plunder

Looting the Treasury was never so easy

By Deirdra Funcheon

Published: September 20, 2007

On a crisp February morning in 2003, Dr. Evan Zimmer, dressed in jeans and a Hawaiian shirt, rolled up to work at the Oakland Community Health Center in Fort Lauderdale. "I see this...

6. Film

Snow Job

Someone stop Amanda Bynes from updating another classic

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: September 20, 2007

Just a guess here, but the majority of Amanda Bynes fans probably didn't get most of the Shakespeare references in her As You Like It-inspired She's the Man, so, behold: This time...

7. Game On

'Roid Rage Returns

Metroid Prime 3 is the best you can get for the Wii

By Chris Ward

Published: September 20, 2007

In space, no one can hear you scream "Jumpin' Jesus, this is one of the greatest games ever!" But that doesn't mean you won't try during Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Hardcore gamers...

8. Live Wire

Dashboard Confessional

By Arielle Castillo

Published: September 20, 2007

Listening to Dashboard Confessional can sometimes be like picking at a scab or poking at a cavity — vaguely painful and enjoyable at the same time, weirdly compelling and hard...

9. Live Wire

Dropkick Murphys

By Cole Haddon

Published: September 20, 2007

James Joyce is best-known as an Irishman, despite being one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century. Everything he wrote was infused with his heritage and the struggles that came...

10. Live Wire

Duncan Sheik

By Lee Zimmerman

Published: September 20, 2007

The fact that he brought home an armful of honors at the recent Tony Awards — thanks to his sensational smash-hit musical Spring Awakening — may have led some unaware observers...

11. Live Wire

The Everybodyfields

By Lee Zimmerman

Published: September 20, 2007

Call it down-home or downcast; the Everybodyfields' restless recasting of neo-Appalachian folk tradition is nothing if not emotive. The title of their third album, Nothing Is Okay,...

12. ¡Ask a Mexican!

All Mixed Up

A Little Side of Everything

By Gustavo Arellano

Published: September 20, 2007

Dear Readers: I asked half-breeds a couple of weeks ago to write in with nicknames that describe their mixed Mexican heritage. Many, muchos responses continue to trickle in —...

13. Music

Junior High

John Lee Hooker Jr. cuts his own path through the blues

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: September 20, 2007

The blues isn't the type of music a performer can just jump into, but if you've ever been kicked around and left for dead, it could be your thing. Spend a little time with John Lee...

14. Music

In Praise of Assholes

A critique of Kanye, 50, and the whole hip-hop circus

By Greg Tate

Published: September 20, 2007

Kanye West and 50 Cent are the two biggest drama queens to hit pop music since Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop, and that's not a bad thing. Hip-hop, still the voice of young black America,...

15. News

Dumpster Diving

A trash company gets a dead mayor to do its dirty work in Pembroke Park

By Thomas Francis

Published: September 20, 2007

Pembroke Park seems too small for scandal. A south Broward County town with fewer than 6,000 inhabitants and a median income around $25,000, it has few things worth stealing. This...

16. Night Rider

Where It's Always Ladies Night

Two beans are better than one

By Marya Summers

Published: September 20, 2007

There's been a Sapphic convergence in Palm Beach County. Two new, hip spots there now cater to ladies who love ladies. On a Thursday night, I hit both Les Beans, a coffee shop, and...

17. Outtakes

Deadbeats, Unite

A scumbag Broward hip-hop crew readies for its debut

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: September 20, 2007

Broward County hip-hop acts are often looked at as second-class citizens next to rappers from Miami-Dade. Fair or not, MCs on both sides of the county line know it's a fact. Although...

18. Outtakes

Grab Your Jerseys

By Dominic Sirianni

Published: September 20, 2007

If you're reading this article it's because (1) you actually have no idea who Murphy's Law or 25 ta Life are, (2) you're shocked that any mainstream press is going to a show like this...

19. Outtakes

Trey Day

R&B crooner Trey Songz gives us his Fab 5

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: September 20, 2007

If you somehow don't remember Trey Songz from his 2005 debut album, I Gotta Make It, you'll know his name two weeks from now when his follow-up, Trey Day, hits the streets and solidifies...

20. Pub Stalker

Café del Mar

By Bryan Falla

Published: September 20, 2007

Café del Mar 213 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd. Fort Lauderdale 954-767-8233 As summer goes, so go summer's flings. No more one-night stands and drunken debauchery for yours...