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1. Feature

   President Obama Fails to Go After Those Responsible for Financial Meltdown

   By James Lieber

   Published: October 29, 2009

   When Barack Obama donned the crusader's mantle during the 2008 presidential campaign, his web-savvy team created KeatingEconomics.com. The main video showed Charles Keating...

2. News

   Justice Junkies Offers to Right Wrongs

   By Natalie O'Neill

   Published: October 29, 2009

   Just before midnight, the Pollo Tropical is empty except for a couple of teenagers pointing toward the window and smirking. They've spotted a peculiar-looking 38-year-old who's...

3. Crossfade

   Happy Birthday, Revolution!

   Fort Lauderdale's live music powerhouse celebrates its fifth.

   By John Hood

   Published: October 29, 2009

   Of the many memorable nights at Revolution over the past five years, the best was arguably Peter Murphy. Really. Although the nod too could go to the Spoon/Walkmen/White...

4. Live Wire

   A Wilhelm Scream

   By Chris Parker

   Published: October 29, 2009

   A cross between the melodic punk of Lawrence Arms and the churning hardcore of Rise Against, AWS combines a high quotient of heft and hooks. Original drummer Nicholas Pasquale...

5. Music

   After a Near Breakup, New Orleans Rockers Mute Math Reach New Sonic Heights

   By Christopher Lopez

   Published: October 29, 2009

   Trying to describe the sound of the New Orleans quartet Mute Math can bring to mind that music-writing adage — it's like dancing about architecture, i.e., inaccurate and...

6. Night Watch

   Stumbling Toward Ecstasy

   Or at least the next bar.

   By Tara Nieuwesteeg

   Published: October 29, 2009

   You've got to love Fort Lauderdale, where stilletoed women drink directly from the beer tap, where "happy hours" last eight hours, and where the geriatrics can put 'em away...

7. Dish

   Carousel Can Can in CityPlace Is All Sexed-Up With Nowhere to Go

   By John Linn

   Published: October 29, 2009

   The enthusiasm was infectious on a recent Friday night at Carousel Can Can in CityPlace. Surveying the half-empty dining room of mostly couples and well-coifed gals out on the...

8. Dish

   Shula's on the Beach

   By Eric Barton

   Published: October 29, 2009

   As we were finishing our entrées, the woman with the Karen Carpenter voice had an announcement to make. She paused before a rendition of "Son of a Son of a Sailor" to...

9. Film

   This Is It Review: The King of Pop Goes out with a Wimper

   By Zach Baron

   Published: October 29, 2009

   Less documentary than closely and manipulatively edited homage to the new-agey “genius” of frequent Michael Jackson collaborator and High School Musical auteur Kenny...

10. Night & Day

    Screw Your Idol

    By Vadim Rizov

    Published: October 29, 2009

    It takes considerable effort to make Darren Aronofsky seem like a model of restraint, but Robert Siegel pulls it off in Big Fan. Siegel's screenplay for The Wrestler insisted...

11. Night & Day

    The Dream Before Christmas

    By Mickie Centrone

    Published: October 29, 2009

    Say adieu to the candy-corn nightmare before Christmas because Halloween’s over. Now, the season of magical trees, potential eggnog overdoses, and whimsical dreams of...

12. Night & Day

    Three-Feat

    By Chris Joseph

    Published: October 29, 2009

    During an off-season that the Cavaliers added Shaq and Vince Carter was traded to Orlando, the Miami Heat stood pat, thinking it could build on last year’s 43-win season...

13. Night & Day

    Epic Foods

    By Penn Bullock

    Published: October 29, 2009

    A little park in Wilton Manors is hosting a feast fit for a king — maybe several or dozens of kings. For the 4th annual “Taste of the Island” event, 48...

14. Night & Day

    Dear Mr. Broderick,

    By Brett Gillin

    Published: October 29, 2009

    I’m writing this letter on behalf of humankind to thank you for defining our lives. You showed us all, via the greatest movie of all time, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,...

15. Night & Day

    Hair Up to There

    By Raina McLeod

    Published: October 29, 2009

    If you think that your hair’s jaunty curl is avant garde, the creations you’ll witness at Glynn Jackson’s Hairtopia will make you reconsider. Because unless...

16. Night & Day

    A Better Fantasy Than the Football Kind

    By P. Scott Cunningham

    Published: October 29, 2009

    Yes, this Saturday’s Captain Morgan’s Fantasy Fest Parade on Duval Street in Key West is a healthy distance from Broward or Palm Beach, but is a few hours really so...

17. Night & Day

    Pick Up Styx

    By Erica K. Landau

    Published: October 29, 2009

    If you were born in the late ’80s, your exposure to Styx may only consist of a snippet of “Mr. Roboto” on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of the ’80s....

18. Night & Day

    Ghost Watch

    By Mickie Centrone

    Published: October 29, 2009

    Here’s a spooky, tragic story. In 1940, on the way to a fire, firefighter Robert Leeland Knight jumped off the fire truck and landed in a charged puddle of water. A power...

19. Night & Day

    Witchful Thinking

    By Mickie Centrone

    Published: October 29, 2009

    Pagans, you live by the cycles of the moon. You celebrate the sun. And while most folks participate only in trick-or-treat matters, you know today is Samhain, the greatest sun...

20. Night & Day

    Fetishland

    By Mickie Centrone

    Published: October 29, 2009

    On Halloween, female Willy Wonkas are sexy. So are women dressed up as clownfish, and hell, even female Ghostbusters are provocative. Guys can dress up as a smoldering pirate,...