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Feature
A New Times Staffer Takes a Safari Into Scam Baiting on 419Eater.com
By Gail Shepherd
Published: November 5, 2009
I was in the Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport, getting ready to board a flight to Lome, Togo, when my heart stopped beating. Or maybe it didn't stop entirely. It...
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News
Lauderhill Man's Rubber Band Ball Bounces Him Into the Guinness Book
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Published: November 5, 2009
A ratty blue tarp is wrapped tightly around a huge sphere in a Lauderhill driveway. It takes up a full parking space and is nearly as tall as the simple white house behind it....
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Crossfade
Electro Provocateur Peaches Gets Even Spicier With New Album I Feel Cream
By John Hood
Published: November 5, 2009
When an artist is utterly outspoken about herself, it's hard to resist trying to goad her into saying a little bit more. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Or sometimes...
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Live Wire
The Radiators
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: November 5, 2009
New Orleans has always been a bit of a melting pot. From language to food to culture, it's a place where combination and commingling are the rule rather than the exception....
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Music
Almost 20 Years On, Massachusetts Hardcore Grads Converge Still Shock and Awe
By Arielle Castillo
Published: November 5, 2009
To the uninitiated, the Massachusetts quartet Converge can be downright terrifying. And it's not because they appear clad in face paint or leather and chains — this...
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Dish
Callaro's Prime in Manalapan Serves Up Old-Fashioned, Beefy Indulgence
By John Linn
Published: November 5, 2009
My friend and New Times theater critic Brandon K. Thorp recently planned a pre-play dinner at Sushi Bon in Lantana. Soon after he arrived, his date called to say he wasn't...
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Dish
Chef Tommy Valdes at Trattoria Bella Cibo in Margate Makes His Pitch
By John Linn
Published: November 5, 2009
Executive chef Tommy Valdes sure knows how to shill — the Culinary Institute of America grad and author is making a bid to be on the Next Food Network Star, a fact you'll...
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Film
The Men Who Stare at Goats Proves That Aliens Abducted George Clooney's Sense of Humor
By J. Hoberman
Published: November 5, 2009
Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany's loss in World War I, the JFK assassination, and 9/11 are all naturally understood as the stuff of unimaginable...
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Film
Audience With the Queens Fails to Capture Key West's Drag Culture
By Brandon K. Thorp
Published: November 5, 2009
To call Audience With the Queens a documentary would insult the word documentary and burden this little trifle with expectations it can never match. Purporting to be a look at...
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Night & Day
Laugh Me a River
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: November 5, 2009
Few people can boast the success Joan Rivers has achieved during her half-century on the stage. Since reaching stardom on The Tonight Show in the Sixties, the raspy-voiced...
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Night & Day
C’mon, Just a Taste?
By Terra Sullivan
Published: November 5, 2009
If you grew up in a family of eaters whose concept of sharing samples was snagging all the best bites right off your plate while they polished off their own food (without even...
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Night & Day
Road to Redemption
By Brett Gillin
Published: November 5, 2009
Tonight marks the official final night of the 2009 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival at Cinema Paradiso. Technically, November 8 was the closing night and wrap party,...
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Night & Day
Night of the Living Word
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: November 5, 2009
You have two choices this Monday. Stay home and listen to Ron Jaworski vocally fellate mediocre Denver Broncos QB Kyle Orton and his horrendous neck-beard, or brave the...
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Night & Day
Off to See the Wizards
By RICHARD BIEBRICH
Published: November 5, 2009
Dwyane Wade and Co. need to send the guy who came up with the 2009-10 NBA schedule a Christmas card as the Heat play eight of its first 10 games at home. Tuesday, November 10,...
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Night & Day
Perky in Pink
By Riki Altman
Published: November 5, 2009
Enjoy being serenaded by sorority sisters and surrounded by bubblegum-colored accoutrements without getting entirely sick to your stomach at Legally Blonde, The Musical. Becky...
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Night & Day
Ultimutt Love
By Erica K. Landau
Published: November 5, 2009
In a hilarious New Yorker cartoon sent out via newsletter earlier this month, a woman and her dog sit across from one another enjoying dinner at an upscale restaurant. Both sip...
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Night & Day
More Money, More Drama
By Erica K. Landau
Published: November 5, 2009
In what may have been the most prescient theatrical adaptation in years, playwright David Mamet revived the 1905 work The Voysey Inheritance in 2005, four years before Bernie...
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Night & Day
Groove Is in the Park
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: November 5, 2009
Summer is tough on Floridians. Months of sprinting from one pocket of air conditioning to another can crush your soul. Fortunately, one festival is set to revive it:...
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Night & Day
Five Points
By Erica K. Landau
Published: November 5, 2009
South African contemporary artist William Kentridge made Time’s list of “100 Most Influential People” this year. However, being listed among such heavy hitters...
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Night & Day
Swell Films
By Raina McLeod
Published: November 5, 2009
You adore the feeling of having your feet planted firmly on the wax, riding a surfboard, and allowing a wave to cradle you as you slide toward the shore. It’s a feeling...
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