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1. Feature

   Mi Casa Is Not Tu Casa

   Protesters say illegals take our jobs, bring in leprosy, and, grrr, sell ice cream from bicycles

   By Deirdra Funcheon

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Let's get one thing straight: The protesters who gather outside the El Sol Day Labor Center in Jupiter every Saturday morning don't hate immigrants. They hate illegal...

2. News

   Look at That Pig in Lipstick

   As the housing market collapses, desperate sellers get creative

   By Michael J. Mooney

   Published: May 8, 2008

   A woman is giving away her $1.25 million mansion in Ocala. The house, replete with two 50-foot porches, three crystal chandeliers, and a jacuzzi, sits on two acres lush with...

3. Bob Norman

   Bleeding Dollars

   A former Broward hospital CEO's trail of dubious expenses is just a drip in the bucket

   By Bob Norman

   Published: May 8, 2008

   When Alan Levine left his post in late 2006 in then-Gov. Jeb Bush's administration to take the top job at the North Broward Hospital District, he made sure to get paid. Not...

4. Tailpipe

   Ride 'Em, Cowboy

   Hell for Leather on Flight 48

   As told to Edmund Newton

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Here's the question: Is it safe to fly during times when commercial airlines are under grinding economic stress? American Airlines Flight 48 had just taken off from...

5. Music

   Jimmy Urine's All Pissed

   Mindless Self Indulgence's lead singer noodles on and keeps it real

   By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Honestly," laughs Mindless Self Indulgence frontman Little Jimmy Urine, "I'd rather fuckin' be drawing a comic strip like Garfield and have it be syndicated. I'd just draw one...

6. Live Wire

   Black Finger

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: May 8, 2008

   When it comes to blending straight-ahead rock with Americana and bluegrass twang, there's no other group locally that does it better than Black Finger. These guys have the feel...

7. Outtakes

   Politically Incorrect

   Not every rapper is sold on Sen. Barack Obama

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Within hip-hop circles, it's well-known that M1 and his partner Stic.Man of Dead Prez veer way left of center when it comes to politics. The highly Afrocentric...

8. Pub Stalker

   The Stained Glass Pub

   By Bryan Falla

   Published: May 8, 2008

   The Stained Glass Pub has been cooking up a calypso-inspired groove since 1972. The Dutch-style bungalow now sports green, red, and blue side panels -- symbols of the...

9. Dred Scott!

   SunFest Shows Fantasma's Still Alive

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: May 8, 2008

   Anyone who just made it through all five days of SunFest can attest that this was the long-time festival's best lineup in years. There was enough talent on all three stages...

10. Night Watch

    Take It Almost Off!

    At Kevro's, it's about the tease, not the sleaze

    By Tara Nieuwesteeg

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Sometime in the naive years before puberty, I told my mom that it wasn't fair how I had to wear a shirt when my dad and brothers didn't. She absolutely did not see how...

11. Dish

    Cool Blue

    Dive into summer at Turquoise

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Ask an American what he thinks of the Turkish people or Turkish food and, if all goes well, you'll get a blank stare. What we don't know about Turkey would fill the dome of the...

12. Film

    Warrior King

    David Mamet and his hero fight the power, and succumb to it, in Redbelt

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 8, 2008

    David Mamet's Redbelt is a tricky bar brawl — call it the Roundhouse of Games. The writer/director has scarcely abandoned his sense of the movies as an innately...

13. Night & Day

    Best of the Worst

    By Sam Eifling

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Woe unto the Marlins fan! A recent issue of ESPN The Magazine determined, in its periodic wisdom, that among the 122 major sports teams in the United States and Canada, the...

14. Night & Day

    Where the Girls Are

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Had Aquaman been born a woman, his comic book would have been much cooler. Aqua Girl’s enemies wouldn’t be pirates or other traditional foes, no! She would shake down...

15. Night & Day

    A Really Bad Hair Day

    By Mike Sauer

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Though the fictional character of Sweeney Todd was created in 1846, it’s understandable why people would still be sympathetic to the story of the killer hairstylist....

16. Night & Day

    Plan 9 from Delray Beach!

    By Phillip Valys

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Something happened on the way to the Delray Beach Film Festival: a meddling, sci-fi spoof of B-movie camp somehow slinked in! Yup, Elixir boasts garishly-garbed, over-rouged...

17. Night & Day

    Treat Your Special Lady Nice

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: May 8, 2008

    She’s always bailed you out of jams. From when you wet your Smurf overalls in kindergarten to the time your car broke down while you were fake running away (Screw curfews,...

18. Night & Day

    I’m Madden as Hell,

    And I'm not going to take it anymore!

    By John Linn

    Published: May 8, 2008

    It was announced in April that Brett Favre would be the cover boy (er, cover codger?) for Madden NFL ΄09 — an interesting choice, considering the Green Bay Packer...

19. Night & Day

    Sex, Lies, and Video Rentals

    By Terra Sullivan

    Published: May 8, 2008

    If the neutered, PG-rated re-runs of Sex & the City leave you longing for more liberated singles who know how to offer up their raunchy affections like complimentary...

20. Night & Day

    New Wave Phenomenology

    By D. Sirianni

    Published: May 8, 2008

    What might an intrepid trekkie or oddball music fan — the type that yearns for the reactivation of Man… or Astroman? — do on a hot Saturday night? What else but...