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Feature
South Florida Cigarette Smuggling Funds Terrorism
By Tim Elfrink
Published: July 2, 2009
Their bags were packed. Their farewells had been said. Like the rest of the British 38th Regiment Royal Engineers, Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar had shed their jeans and...
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Letters
Letters From the Issue of July 2, 2009
Published: July 2, 2009
From Inside the Villa I am writing regarding the article "High-Rise Stakes" (Lisa Rab, June 18). My concern is with the last section, "Crime and Punishment: Villa Medici, Fort...
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News
Six-Digit Discount
Wilton Manors is strapped for cash, but the city gives a developer a $160,000 discount on fees.
By Penn Bullock
Published: July 2, 2009
On June 10, 2004, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the "planned community" called Wilton Station, city officials from Wilton Manors and real estate developers from the...
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Live Wire
Nonpoint
By Arielle Castillo
Published: July 2, 2009
The Fort Lauderdale-birthed four-piece Nonpoint came up in the late 1990s, a particularly fertile time in South Florida for experimental heavy rock. At clubs like Cheers,...
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Music
Cold Front
Local act Opus Finis is heading a national revival of dark, minimal electronic music.
By Jonathan Garrett
Published: July 2, 2009
"It's not full of sunshine." Fixing his gaze out of the window, Carlos Oni could well be referring to the weather — the streets outside the Gables Diner in Coral Gables...
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Night Watch
Hit the Highway
Adventures in nightlife can be found at Exit 66.
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Published: July 2, 2009
It was Friday, just before midnight, and I was standing on the third floor of Exit 66, a new club that overlooks the water on Fort Lauderdale Beach and is decorated around a...
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Outtakes
Head Spins: DJ J Felix
An omnipresent club fixture from Fort Lauderdale to South Beach.
By John Hood
Published: July 2, 2009
One would think that a DJ who boasts a residency every night of the week would have neither the time nor the inclination to add to that roster. But if you were thinking about...
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Dish
Learning to Crawl
Three local pizza joints serve a mean slice of pie.
By John Linn
Published: July 2, 2009
Pizza expert Craig "Lapp" Agranoff sits across from me at La Fontana Pizzeria in Coral Springs, inspecting a warm cheese-only slice. He lifts the thin triangle by its crunchy...
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Film
Mann on the Run
The life and crimes of John Dillinger in the fast and furious Public Enemies.
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 2, 2009
As Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger surveys the clientele of a chic Chicago eatery in a key scene from Michael Mann's Public Enemies, he declares:...
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Night & Day
BIOW
By Brett Gillin
Published: July 2, 2009
It’s easy to blame your shitty life on all sorts of things: having overbearing or unresponsive parents, slacking off in school, spending too much money on the ponies, or...
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Night & Day
Fought Under the Collar
By Erica K. Landau
Published: July 2, 2009
What is a collar? It’s a part of the figurative work shirt, a socio-economic idiom used to show class status: blue or white. It works as a device to control your pet,...
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Night & Day
Ill-Advised Kidnapping
By Penn Bullock
Published: July 2, 2009
Indie film buffs may want to check out Julia, a 2008 flick in town for the week. Directed by French filmmaker Ericka Zonca, it stars Tilda Swinton, the Oscar-winning redhead...
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Night & Day
Everybody Into the Pool
By Terra Sullivan
Published: July 2, 2009
With mercury rising to record-breaking temps lately, clubs pushing cramped and sweaty parties may have met their match in a mass of tired, weary, and downright dehydrated club...
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Night & Day
Mucho Camacho
By Erica K. Landau
Published: July 2, 2009
Before the straw-haired singer-songwriter Jim Camacho was one of South Florida’s acoustic darlings, he fronted one of the most exciting South Florida bands, the Goods,...
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Night & Day
A Much-Needed Manicure
By Mike Sauer
Published: July 2, 2009
When you’re applying to become a member of a group as exclusive as industrial-metal act Nine Inch Nails, there has to be a “No Showboating” disclaimer somewhere...
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Night & Day
Get Crunk
By John Linn
Published: July 2, 2009
You know what sounds better than a whole string of Black Cats popping off? The nearly epileptic frequency at which hip-hop superstar Lil’ Jon repeats his infamous catch...
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Night & Day
Bats Go Boom
By John Linn
Published: July 2, 2009
The snap-crackle-pop of fireworks jibes great with another American pastime, the crack-a-lackin’ of bats, at Roger Dean Stadium, where the Palm Beach Cardinals take on the...
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Night & Day
Final Fourth
By John Linn
Published: July 2, 2009
Sooner or later, the impracticality of the Fourth of July is going to come crashing down, and America is going to lose one of its most revered pastimes: the ignition of...
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Night & Day
Maximize Your Fun Quadrant
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: July 2, 2009
Friday, 5 p.m. — You and your most stylish girlfriends embark on a glorious mission to enjoy complimentary Ladies’ Night Belvedere vodka drinks while club hopping at...
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Night & Day
Party Like It’s 1959
By Jason Budjinski
Published: July 2, 2009
You think times are tough now? If the Lake Worth Playhouse could talk, it’d teach you a thing or three about survival. In the 85 years since it was first built (originally...
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