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1. Feature

   The Muscle Men

   Inside the "Rejuvenation Centers" at the heart of the nation's largest illegal steroid and HGH operation

   By Mooney, Michael J.

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Grass doesn't get any greener than on major-league baseball's spring training fields. It's the annual dawn of each season, when vivacious young hopefuls play catch with...

2. Letters

   Letters for March 13-19, 2008

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Stars Align You can't keep a good reggae-pop performer down: Incredible... the coincidence is just unbelievable ("Man-Child in the Promised Land," Jonathan Cunningham, March...

3. Bob Norman

   They Can't Be Beat

   Customers claim AutoNation lured them into bad loans

   By Bob Norman

   Published: March 13, 2008

   The loan application for a Honda minivan showed that Jeannette Dorestin pulled in a salary of $2,600 a month from a company called Interealty. The problem was, there was no...

4. Tailpipe

   Personal Business

   As told to Edmund Newton

   Published: March 13, 2008

   How They Help Investors in Hollywood This was so 2003. The South Florida real estate market still churned like a deep-sea fish mosh, with investors snatching up worthwhile...

5. ¡Ask a Mexican!

   He Got the Frijoles

   Spare Us Your Mangled Clichés

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Dear Mexican: Mexicans are angry that the United States might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country, and, once here, to stay indefinitely....

6. Music

   Impact Beyond the Stage

   R&B singer KEM has spent the past year recording a promising new album but finding even greater joy offstage

   By Khary Kimani Turner

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Life is good when an artist experiences a few career highlights during a slow period. Such is the life of Detroit-based Motown recording artist KEM, who brings his brand of...

7. Short Cuts

   British Sea Power

   Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)

   By Henderson, Chris

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Do You Like Rock Music? charts another step in the evolution that took British Sea Power from post-punk-flavored debut The Decline of British Sea Power to slicker sophomore...

8. Subtropical

   Albert Castiglia

   These Are the Days (Blues Leaf)

   By Lee Zimmerman

   Published: March 13, 2008

   The Bonzo Dog Band, an eccentric '60s British band with a penchant for silliness and satire, once released a song whose title begged the theoretical question: "Can blue men...

9. Live Wire

   James Cotton

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Longtime blues man James Cotton cut his teeth playing mouth harp with Sonny Boy Williamson at the tender age of 9 in the Mississippi Delta. His blues harmonica has influenced...

10. Outtakes

    Radio-Active Records Gives Back

    Benefit show raises money for the mentally ill

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: March 13, 2008

    If there's one thing you can count on from the good folks at Radio-Active Records, it's their unwavering ability to provide a sense of community. Every time you walk in the...

11. Pub Stalker

    Geronimo's

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Geronimo's 3528 S. University Dr. Davie 954-474-9998 It's not uncommon to find Geronimo's packed at the end of the workweek. You'll find the same crowd during happy hour as...

12. Night Watch

    Smokin' Salon

    The Funky Buddha gets people, ugh, sharing spit and liking it

    By Tara Nieuwesteeg

    Published: March 13, 2008

    When it comes to what goes into my mouth, I'm pretty discriminating. (I'm a vegetarian; what did you think I was talking about?) I also staunchly oppose the "five second" rule,...

13. Dish

    Not Your Average Jo

    City Diner cuts the mustard

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: March 13, 2008

    I don't want to go all maudlin here, but what the hell happened to diners? Maybe they do exist still, like endangered pachyderms retreating ever farther into inaccessible...

14. Film

    The Games People Play

    Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you — again

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: March 13, 2008

    For the crime of obliterating high culture, for the crime of getting off on vicarious degradation — and, above all, for the crime of sitting through any movie that...

15. Night & Day

    Pony Up the Dough

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: March 13, 2008

    You’ve never been to a polo match – but you have spent a lot of time at the racetrack. Well, the two are pretty similar. At the manicured polo grounds, the upper...

16. Night & Day

    Short Doses

    By John Linn

    Published: March 13, 2008

    The thing about Martin Short is that he’s at his best when he’s teetered on the edge of uncomfortably annoying. Take his role in Clifford: Short did his absolute...

17. Night & Day

    The Sodom & Gomorrah to Thelma & Louise

    By Penn Bullock

    Published: March 13, 2008

    A pulpy, pornographic film from the ´90s is surfacing at the Gateway Theatre (1820 East Sunrise Boulevard) today. The Living End, directed by Gregg Araki, is about a pair...

18. Night & Day

    Choose Your Own Adventure

    By Brett Gillin

    Published: March 13, 2008

    By the time this article hits the newsstands, the Cats playoff picture will probably be crystal clear, therefore it’s time to grab your pen or pencil and get with the...

19. Night & Day

    The Cure For What Ails Ya

    By John Linn

    Published: March 13, 2008

    What’s the struggling artist to do? You’re full of passion for their work but you can’t seem to get anyone in the art world to take notice. Street-corner...

20. Night & Day

    Wax On, Wax Off

    The cure for unsightly leg hair

    By Phillip Valys

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Try thinking of director Nadine Labaki’s Caramel as a Steel Magnolias for Middle Eastern sensibilities, only also set amid an ultraconservative, male-dominant Arab...