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21. Night & Day

    Sweet Georgia on My Mind

    By John Linn

    Published: February 28, 2008

    It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, if you were a kid in the 1970s or ΄80s, you remember watching the Harlem Globetrotters on TV. Each week on their...

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    Don’t Loaf at Home, the Bread’s in Town

    By John Letsch

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Every so often, a band comes along that refuses to be easily categorized. Jacksonville's Whole Wheat Bread is a great example. Listening to their music you’ll hear a brand...

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    Where the Girls Are

    By Terra Sullivan

    Published: February 28, 2008

    If you’re a sentient twenty-something-year-old woman, chances are you remember your first trip to J’s Bar (2780 Davie Blvd., Fort Lauderdale). For the last nine...

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    Take the Gun, Leave the Castle

    By Phillip Valys

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Sometimes, safeguarding historical monuments from enemy hostiles is a lot like watching paint dry. For the poor soldier doomed to such tedium, those moments in between...

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    The Original Hot Mess

    By Bill Frogameni

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Amy Winehouse may be righteous, but the biggest name among Dionysian divas will always be Janis Joplin. When it came to living life as a spectacular public meltdown, nobody...

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    Leap Up, Leap Up, and Get Down

    By John Linn

    Published: February 28, 2008

    We’re of the belief that any excuse to party is a good one: On November 19 each year, we pack up the coolers and give praise to the porcelain gods; that would be World...

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    Just a Couple of Mixed-up Kids? Maybe…

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Sado-masochist couples, dark satire, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: these things are hardly ever discussed in the same room. And if you were to find a foyer where all three...

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    Shaky Ground

    By John Linn

    Published: February 28, 2008

    They say blood is thicker than water, that the family bond is the tightest one can share with another human being. Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean you don’t want to...

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    Pistol-Toting Mammas, Unite!

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Your week is stressful. Aside from your professional daytime gig, you spend your evenings taking care of everyone in your life (translation: Those cats don’t feed...

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    Boys, Boys, Boys!

    By Brett Gillin

    Published: February 28, 2008

    What do you get when you take six unemployed steel workers, add in a dash of suicidal depression and a chunk of unpaid child support? Well, you get exposed male genitals, of...

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    Never Leave a (Furry) Man Behind

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: February 28, 2008

    You hate the way she looks at you when you leave: muzzle quivering, eyes begging, ears popped up like little camping tents. But what can you do? You’re hungry and your...

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    In Bloom

    By John Linn

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Is it possible for you to honor your history while simultaneously blowing it into oblivion? Can you give tribute to the conventions that helped form your identity and, at the...

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    Tonight’s a Good Time for Bad Timing

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: February 28, 2008

    When Nicolas Roeg’s film Bad Timing was first released in 1980, its distributor Rank Films disowned it. Now, you don’t typically think of movies as orphans,...

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    Indie-pendence Day

    By Tara Nieuwesteeg

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Owen Ashworth, AKA Chicago-based Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, is inspired by collecting used shoes and strange Florida wildlife. We would tell you more about him, but we...

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    Dom Irrera is Always Courting Favor

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: February 28, 2008

    It’s tough being comedian Dom Irrera; people always want stuff from him. “I’ve been doing interviews all day,” he says over the phone from his California...

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    Pop Music’s Father Time

    By Bill Frogameni

    Published: February 28, 2008

    With his long white hair and beard, Leon Russell looks like ZZ Top’s albino brother. Or maybe an American cousin to that cranky kung fu master who taught Uma Thurman to...

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    Jim Naugle’s Worst Nightmare

    By Penn Bullock

    Published: February 28, 2008

    There are two Gay Mafias. The one is a criminal syndicate that lords over Hollywood and, through that, the nation. Its membership includes Calvin Klein, Tom Cruise, Anderson...

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    Drag queens up, down, slanted, and totally sideways

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: February 28, 2008

    I once went to a Bingo game in Cranston, Rhode Island. I was 13, and I was not only the youngest person in the room, I was the youngest person in the room by something like...

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    The Matrix Reloaded

    By Sam Eifling

    Published: February 28, 2008

    You know what was awesome about Shaquille O’Neal? When the Heat rode him to the title. You know what else? When they FedExed him to Phoenix in exchange for Shawn...

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    Gettin’ ΄Wicky Wit It

    By Riki Altman

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Crawl over to the IMAX Theater at the Museum of Discovery and Science (401 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale) to experience The Spiderwick Chronicles. Based on the series of...