Miguel Carver looks devilishly happy as he rounds the corner of the roller rink...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/roller-jam-every-night-is-80s-night-at-south-florida-roller-rinks http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/joe-badran-is-supposed-to-help-keep-broward-county-schools-diverse-but-americans-against-hate-says-he-supports-hamas-and-terrorism Footage is grainy and the voices are difficult to hear over the yelling in the background. The picture shakes as the camera gets closer to Joe Badran, who shouts about the Palestinian organization Hamas. The video, shot in March, shows Badran, a mustached man wearing a gray suit, saying "Hamas is...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/joe-badran-is-supposed-to-help-keep-broward-county-schools-diverse-but-americans-against-hate-says-he-supports-hamas-and-terrorism http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/letters-for-october-9-15-2008 No Room at the Inn

Good, thought-provoking article ("The $50 Million Solution," Bob Norman, October 2), though I need to question one item you included. You correctly state that Broward County Auditor Evan Lukic investigated Broward Addiction Recovery Center and found it "underused...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/letters-for-october-9-15-2008 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/dueling-detectives-private-dick-dan-riemer-says-he-solved-the-murder-of-broward-county-sheriff-s-office-sgt-chris-reyka-mdash-no-thanks-to-the-sheriff-s-department-detectives Homicide detectives are close to solving the murder of Sgt. Chris Reyka, one of their own.

Broward Sheriff's Office investigators have suspects in the highly publicized case: a gang of armed robbers with a terrifying penchant to hit 24-hour drugstores in the middle of the night.

T...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/dueling-detectives-private-dick-dan-riemer-says-he-solved-the-murder-of-broward-county-sheriff-s-office-sgt-chris-reyka-mdash-no-thanks-to-the-sheriff-s-department-detectives http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/tsunami-ahead Less than a month away, the presidential election looms off the coast of South Florida like a seasonal storm, one of those buzz-saw conflagrations that television weathermen track on their display maps. Yes, it's a red, flaming buzz saw coming this way.

Broward Supervisor of Elections ...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/tsunami-ahead http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/schlepping-for-the-vote-comedian-sarah-silverman-sends-jewish-grandchildren-descending-on-florida comedian Sarah Silverman’s call to have a political pep-talk with their grandparents in Florida. The message is: Don’t let bubbe and zaideh vote McCain.

Silverman’s video, below, ur...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/news/schlepping-for-the-vote-comedian-sarah-silverman-sends-jewish-grandchildren-descending-on-florida http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/carnival-weekend-roundup “Roll It Gal” by Alison Hinds:

For lovers of Caribbean music, Carnival Weekend 2008 is easily the best four-day...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/carnival-weekend-roundup http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/various-artists Round Black Ghosts. Label co-owner and celebrated electronic artist Pole helped assemble the compilation, which includes work...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/various-artists http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/jayme-stone-amp-mansa-sissoko frica to Appalachia is one of those recordings that demonstrates — and celebrates — the fact that music from disparate cultures has more aspects in common than "separating" them. But Africa to Appalachia isn't a dry, piously reverent lecture — it's a meeting of open-...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/jayme-stone-amp-mansa-sissoko http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/kasai-allstars Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/kasai-allstars http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/blitzen-trapper Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/blitzen-trapper http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/a-new-way-to-live-forever When local musicians Russ Rogers of Kill Miss Pretty and his partner Todd Evans put together their latest band, A New Way to Live Forever, the idea was simply to make good indie rock and not worry too much about specifics. Building off their core influences such as U2, Nirvana, and Kings of Leon,...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/a-new-way-to-live-forever http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/robin-thicke Robin Thicke is working hard to move out of his father's shadow. As the son of Canadian actor Alan Thicke from the hit '80s sitcom Growing Pains, people initially wondered if his rising success in the music world was due to the fact that his father is famous. But the younger Thicke is a wh...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/robin-thicke http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/phantom-planet If you were just judging a book by its cover, you would have every reason to think Phantom Planet was a pretty-boy vehicle spewed out of the shallows of Hollywood. You might misinterpret frontman Alex Greenwald's demeanor as snide and empty. You might also point to the fact that hip actor Jason S...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/phantom-planet http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/nikka-costa Thirty-somethings who remember Nikka Costa as the child singer of tunes like "First Love" and "Candy Man" back in the early '80s probably wouldn't recognize the soul-inflected, bluesy sound that's the base of Pebble to a Pearl, her latest CD released on the legendary Stax label. As the dau...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/nikka-costa http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/natural-mystics World-renowned Argentine electro-fusion outfit Bajofondo has always dug deep into its cultural roots to create a modern mystical ambiance. Although the group retains much of its original electro-dub-tango essence, its latest album, Mar Dulce, dredges deeper. The new sound traverses a sea o...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/natural-mystics http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/beyond-the-hood "Turn your TVs on/Bet ya all you see is me!" DJ Khaled raps/sings on "Standing on the Mountain Top," his only tangible musical contribution to his third album, We Global (We the Best/Koch/Terror Squad). This boast is not exactly true — when I turn on the TV, I see mostly S...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/beyond-the-hood http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/cash-is-king Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Miles Davis had Bitches Brew, the Band had Music From Big Pink, on so on — these were seminal studio albums that impacted the lives of millions. Johnny Cash's magnum opus from 1968, however, was record...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/cash-is-king http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/jd-s-bar-amp-lounge In the sleepy and slightly depressing streets of Coral Springs – even on a Saturday night – relief is hard to come by for insomniacs in need of a fix for, well, something – anything – to do. But alas, I have found a cure – a hope for Coral Springs' night owls....]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/music/jd-s-bar-amp-lounge http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/dining/carolina-s-on-my-mind I take no pleasure in seeing a restaurant fail, especially one that had as much going for it as Cuban café Brisa Atlantica in Delray Beach. But it does allay the fierceness of the sting when the joint that moves in to replace it has as much to offer as Carolina's Coal Fired Pizza & Pasta. ...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/dining/carolina-s-on-my-mind http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/film/lies-we-can-believe-in A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most of all in cyberspace. Directed with terrific verve by Ridley Scott (coming after the listless American Gangster) from a smart screenplay by...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/film/lies-we-can-believe-in http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/pandora-events-turns-ten Pandora Events has become the top women’s event producers on the East Coast. The hundreds of events they produce every year attract over 20,000 women annually. From South Beach to Atlanta, Orlando to New York and cities in between; their “estrogen only” pa...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/pandora-events-turns-ten http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/tastier-than-titian Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/tastier-than-titian http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/catch-of-the-day Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/catch-of-the-day http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/cleveland-rocks Harvey Pekar is perhaps best known for American Splendor, non sequitur tales from his workaday Cleveland life that were adapted in 2003 into an Oscar-nominated film starring Paul Giamatti. Though never mundane, Pekar’s work is a slice of life. His delivery is blu...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/cleveland-rocks http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/be-crafty Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/be-crafty http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/women-of-war Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/women-of-war http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/eve-was-framed alleged offender (Eve was framed), to current headlines (Hillary’s pantsuits, anyone?). It seems that when two X chromosomes get together and try to move things ahead, th...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/eve-was-framed http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/freedom-pop Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/freedom-pop http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/sinastresque Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/sinastresque http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/david-sedaris-from-elf-to-poo-slayer David Sedaris.

Whether he’s spotting Judge Judy at a flea market in France, attempting to slay a dragon-sized poo in a public toilet, or teaching college creative writ...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/david-sedaris-from-elf-to-poo-slayer http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/cheers-to-you-wino Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/cheers-to-you-wino http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/fancy-free Law and Order reruns. Instead, try tasty tapas and creative cocktails while dancing under the stars — for free. That’s what you’ll find at Soirée Thu...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/fancy-free http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/god-save-me-from-sodomy Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/god-save-me-from-sodomy http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/50-rubdowns Spa Week, you can get various professionals to do it for only $50. And they’ll squeeze your nose zits and remove your toe cheese, too, if you throw a few ...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/50-rubdowns http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/vampire-party-in-purgatory Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/vampire-party-in-purgatory http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/hell-on-heels Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/hell-on-heels http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/a-new-look-rivalry Panthers traded him for two young defensemen (Keith Ballard and Nick Boynton). The Cats also welcome another stud D-man in Bryan McCabe, acquired from Toronto for Mike Van Ryn. No one is happier about these moves than goalie Tomas Vo...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/a-new-look-rivalry http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/yes-it-s-amazing Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/yes-it-s-amazing http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/fan-service Glenn Danzig, but the guy knows how to treat his fans. He’s a 30-year veteran of hard rock outfits the Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig. While he can be stand offish at times with the press (especially the mainstream), he’s remained dedicated to fan service throu...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/fan-service http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/nikka-costa Thirty-somethings who remember Nikka Costa as the child singer of tunes like "First Love" and "Candy Man" back in the early '80s probably wouldn't recognize the soul-infected, bluesy sound that is the base of Pebble To a Pearl, her latest CD released on the legendary Stax label. As ...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/calendar/nikka-costa http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/culture/critic-undergoes-sex-change Theater "by women, about women, for everyone." This is the slogan of the Women's Theatre Project, and it is as harmless (in a nü-school, inclusive, P.C. kind of way) as it is brainless (would women ever go to a theater that was "by men, about men, for everyone"?). It is also, I suspec...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/culture/critic-undergoes-sex-change http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/culture/hitting-inside-the-heart If you're unfamiliar with Ecuadorian artist Oswaldo Guayasamín, there's a good reason: His work has not been extensively shown in the United States for more than half a century. "Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín," now at Florida Atlantic University's Schm...]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/culture/hitting-inside-the-heart http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/culture/inside-out Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/culture/inside-out http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-10-09/home-entertainment/a-matter-of-trust Two Thursdays ago, I described the links between one of gaming's biggest P.R. companies, TriplePoint PR, and a small gaming news and review site founded by TriplePoint's general manager and founder, Richard Kain ("A Slave of Two Masters,"