1. Art

Many Sundays Spent Interpreting Pictures

Painter Craig Kucia has a thing for head-scratching juxtapositions

By Michael Mills

Published: October 4, 2007

If ever an exhibition needed a map of some sort, "Craig Kucia: many sundays were spent talking of rockets," the small one-man show now at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, is...

2. Artbeat

2007 Biennial FAU Art Faculty Exhibit

By Marya Summers

Published: October 4, 2007

An FAU parking cop told me he'd save me the trip to "2007 Biennial Art Faculty Exhibit" with his own review: "It's a good reason not to send your kids to study art here." He harrumphed...

3. Dish

Enlightened Eating

Frenching the Buddha at Ricky Gopeesingh's Nirvana

By Gail Shepherd

Published: October 4, 2007

You'd have to have steel cojones, or some mixture of naiveté and optimism, to name your first restaurant Nirvana. You'd be setting the bar in the stratosphere and opening yourself...

4. Dred Scott!

Carnivals and Clusterfucks

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: October 4, 2007

After weeks of uncertainty and bad press, Caribbean Carnival weekend is finally here. The fetes have begun, and they'll continue for the next four to five days as partiers pour into...

5. DVDish

Fist Things First

Published: October 4, 2007

Caligula: Imperial Edition (Penthouse) (Spoiler alert: fisting!) One day back in the swingin' '70s, somebody mentioned how "absolute power corrupts absolutely," and then Bob Guccione,...

6. Feature

Curse of the Dead

Anna Nicole's ghost could go home at last — if some trial hotshots get their way

By Thomas Francis

Published: October 4, 2007

The body of Anna Nicole Smith lies beneath ten feet of Bahamian dirt. But eight months after her death, her ghost still stalks South Florida, thanks to a case filed last April in Fort...

7. Film

Wide-Open Spaces

Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie that doesn't go all hippie-dippy

By Scott Foundas

Published: October 4, 2007

To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, a 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness in the spring of 1992, will never be anything...

8. Film

Clients of Industry

Brazil's kidnapping epidemic spawns its own supply-and-demand economy

By Michelle Orange

Published: October 4, 2007

Killer timing! Manda Bala ("Send a Bullet"), Jason Kohn's vivid, lean-and-hungry documentary about São Paulo's fatalistic food chain of extreme poverty, violence, unmitigated...

9. Game On

Party Pooper

The Wii's latest pool game is a cue stick in the mud

By Chris Ward

Published: October 4, 2007

Billiards is one of the few sports that's as taxing on a computer screen as it is in real life. It's played in pubs, after all, and its legendary star was named "Fats." Unfortunately,...

10. Letters

Letters for October 4-10, 2007

Published: October 4, 2007

The Chub Chase You mean you just want me for my body? Amy Guthrie's cover article ("Fat Chance," September 27) really hit home with me. When I moved here from Maine in 2003, I weighed...

11. Live Wire

Rob Base

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: October 4, 2007

The year was 1988. The "golden era" of hip-hop was in full effect, and practically every rap record to hit the radio left a lasting impression. Almost two decades later, not all of...

12. Live Wire

The Octopus Project

By Jason Ferguson

Published: October 4, 2007

This Austin group is far from catholic in its approach to indie rock. Though pegged as "experimentalists," the Octopus Project is more than capable of delivering the pop goods. And...

13. Live Wire

Battlefield Band

By Lee Zimmerman

Published: October 4, 2007

Scotland may be best-known for kilts, bagpipes, the Loch Ness monster, and Scotch whiskey, but that doesn't take into account the country's rich artistic heritage. Broward does its...

14. Live Wire

Devon Allman's Honeytribe

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: October 4, 2007

When it comes to music, hearing the last name Allman automatically makes one think of Southern-rock royalty. The Allman Brothers Band of old were quintessential rock gods below the...

15. ¡Ask a Mexican!

Mencia Menstealia

Ugly, maybe. But Ugly Betty? No.

By Gustavo Arellano

Published: October 4, 2007

Dear Mexican: I'm a minority, and I know we can be overly sensitive sometimes, but I just can't stand Carlos Mencia. Not only are his jokes asinine but I feel they are actually racist....

16. Music

Rockstar Approved

How Jason Tyler got his groove back

By Arielle Castillo

Published: October 4, 2007

About two years ago, Jason Tyler lost everything in a Chicago house fire that was started accidentally by a superstar DJ and good friend. Then he spent a couple of semihomeless weeks...

17. News

Merman

Faster than a speeding dolphin, this Cuban rafter aims to be world champ

By Tamara Lush

Published: October 4, 2007

Joel Armas is a strapping guy, solid as a block of concrete, barrel-chested, and handsome except for his feet, which are long, flat, and bumpy. His eyes are big and brown, and his...

18. Night Rider

Fessin' Up

Dashboard Confessional takes community spirit to the Limits

By Marya Summers

Published: October 4, 2007

I have a confession. I've never followed Dashboard Confessional. Mea culpa. I recently attended the first gig in the national tour to support Dashboard's fifth album, at City Limits,...

19. Bob Norman

Terrible Trio

The Wasserstrom conviction should have at least a few pols shaking in fear — but, hey, this is Broward

By Bob Norman

Published: October 4, 2007

The Broward State Attorney's Office railroaded Hollywood Commissioner Keith Wasserstrom. Not because the recently convicted politician was innocent of official misconduct (the jury...

20. Outtakes

Velvet Revolver Seeks Libertad

Slash touts his new band as others celebrate the old one

By Michael Roberts

Published: October 4, 2007

The good news: Slash's photo appeared on the August 9 cover of Rolling Stone just as his current band, Velvet Revolver, was releasing a new CD, Libertad. The bad news: The image pictured...