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Feature
'Til Death
Why did this gay-rights activist stab her wife with a screwdriver 222 times?
By Michael J. Mooney
Published: July 16, 2009
When Carol Anne Burger called Boynton Beach police just before 1 p.m. October 23, 2008, she sounded panicked. "I... I don't know if this is an emergency, but it could be," she...
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Live Wire
John Digweed
By Arielle Castillo
Published: July 16, 2009
It's impossible to hyperbolize here: Brit DJ titan John Digweed — along with longtime partner Sasha — is progressive house. Digweed started DJing as a young teen in...
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Music
Prodigal Offspring
Past all the novelty hits, the SoCal quartet returns with its original fierce punk bite.
By John Hood
Published: July 16, 2009
It's been nearly 25 years since the Offspring first kicked sand in the face of pop music. Some folks called the Southern California kids punks; others said they weren't hard...
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Night Watch
Quick, Where's the Best Pub Quiz?
Smarty-pantses gather at the Kingshead Pub in Sunrise.
By Tara Nieuwesteeg
Published: July 16, 2009
Q: Where's the best place in town to get drunk while trying to think of the name of Michael Jackson's pet chimp? The name of a nine-sided polygon? The fruit associated with...
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Outtakes
Brotherly Love
Folk-bluegrass duo the Avett Brothers finds sweet music in sibling harmony.
By Wade Tatangelo
Published: July 16, 2009
Success has fractured many brotherly relationships. Just ask Oasis, the Kinks, or the Black Crowes. But acoustic rockers the Avett Brothers are not stressing over their recent...
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Dish
Truluck's brings its fresh-yet-simply-favored seafood to the Galleria Mall
By Eric Barton
Published: July 16, 2009
Here in South Florida, we've accepted the idea that good food can be found in a strip mall. People wait three hours for meatballs at Café Martorano, stand in line at...
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Dish
The White Apron
By Gail Shepherd
Published: July 16, 2009
Twenty-year-old White Apron Catering has accumulated a pretty impressive list of clients: Chanel, Cartier, the Harvard Alumnae Club, Hermes, J.P. Morgan, and Yours Truly. And...
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Film
Prince of Darkness
That old black Potter magic continues to beguile.
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 16, 2009
Don't let the PG rating fool you: The dark arts are back with a vengeance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the generally grim, occasionally startling, and altogether...
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Night & Day
The Posters of Our Lives
By Mickie Centrone
Published: July 16, 2009
Replacing the childish Peter Pan poster on your bedroom wall for the one of Slash in his notorious top hat signified a time of growth. Jon Bon Jovi’s close-up put puberty...
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Night & Day
Love for the Locals
By Erica K. Landau
Published: July 16, 2009
In a town where original music is the exception, Chrystal Hartigan’s Songwriter’s Showcase, held the third Tuesday of every month, is a respite from the endless...
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Night & Day
The Truth Is Out There
By John Linn
Published: July 16, 2009
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is a stunningly beautiful movie with an equally engrossing premise: if intelligence governs the relationship between man and...
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Night & Day
When Misty Eyez Are Smiling
By John Linn
Published: July 16, 2009
The Sunday night drag revue Trannie Palace at Bill's Filling Station has been going strong for a year now, making it the premier destination to see six-foot-tall women with...
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Night & Day
Don’t Go, Green Space!
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: July 16, 2009
In the United States’ master timeline, South Florida hasn’t been settled for long. Any long-term resident will tell you about how it used to be: back before massive...
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Night & Day
Still a Shiny Happy Jihad
By Brett Gillin
Published: July 16, 2009
Joe Rogan has had his hands all up in pop culture. He started off on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio, hosted Fear Factor for six seasons, did a quick stint on The Man Show, and is...
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Night & Day
The King of Cartoons
By Terra Sullivan
Published: July 16, 2009
With art school grads ready to give their right arm — or at least a sweaty summer as a costumed “cast member” of the Disney team — for future job contacts,...
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Night & Day
Meeting People Is Easy
By John Linn
Published: July 16, 2009
You’re intelligent, attractive, and relatively well-adjusted — still, you have trouble meeting someone who is also at least two of those three. Craig’s List is a...
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Night & Day
Love Rectangle
By Penn Bullock
Published: July 16, 2009
Noel Coward’s Private Lives premiered in the UK in 1930. Panned by major British critics, it was reprised in New York to American acclaim. Through six runs on Broadway,...
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Night & Day
Living in the Clay, Glass, Metal, Stone Age
By Erica K. Landau
Published: July 16, 2009
Affordable studio space is always a problem for artists: they’re bound by popular idioms to starve. Couple that with the South Florida real estate market, and it seems...
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Night & Day
Reconcilable Differences
By Mike Sauer
Published: July 16, 2009
When it comes to fans of different genres of music, no two could be more opposite than eye-liner sporting goth-punks and line-dancing, country rednecks. Throwing both groups in...
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Night & Day
Citizen on Patrol
By John Linn
Published: July 16, 2009
If Hollywood ever decided to revive the bloated corpse that is the Police Academy franchise and opted to cast Michael Winslow's sound-effect spewing Officer Jones as a white...
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