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The Paul and Young Ron Experience
How to sit around cracking jokes with your drinking buddies – and get paid handsomely
By Michael J. Mooney
Published: July 31, 2008
A smiling, stubbled man known simply as "Toast" lines up styrofoam cups, uncorks the Patron tequila, and begins dishing out shots. One for the executive producer, Steve...
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Insanity Increases with Latitude
By Penn Bullock
Published: July 31, 2008
Nobody knows insanity like the Scandinavians. Edvard Munch, the Norwegian artist, could only have painted The Scream under the delirium of Arctic days and nights. And Ingmar...
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Have a Karaoke Fetish?
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: July 31, 2008
“I wanted to do a karaoke night where I could sing what I wanted and not have people glare at me,” explains Joseph Bonilla, as he gestures around Fuci-Fino...
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Man on Wire at Cinema Paradiso
Living on the Edge
By Heather Burdick
Published: July 31, 2008
On August 7, 1974, a crew of men covertly entered the Twin Towers, disguised and heavily laden with supplies. Phillipe Petit readied himself as progressively heavier lines were...
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I — 69? Repeat, I — 69?
Bingo: I Got That.
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: July 31, 2008
Smoke-filled seniors centers. Q-tip-topped retirees. Crazy Cat Ladies schlepping around specialized blotters, and “lucky charms.” Take everything you associate with...
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Boozin’ for Bunnies
By Riki Altman
Published: July 31, 2008
Suck a few down at the new 101 Ocean Restaurant (101 E Commercial Blvd., Lauderdale-by-the-Sea) Tuesday at 7 p.m. as celebrity bartenders mix drinks for wild animals. Well,...
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Never Say Die
The Marlins keep beating each other up, and they like it that way.
By Chris Joseph
Published: July 31, 2008
The Florida Marlins are among the major league leaders in game-ending hits this season with nine. They’re also among the best at celebrating these kinds of victories,...
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Chappelle’s Show Marathon
It's Rick James, Bitch.
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: July 31, 2008
The popularity of Chappelle’s Show has been attributed to how Dave Chappelle used humor to dismantle racial boundaries and stereotypes — but that’s not why the...
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Geeking Out
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: July 31, 2008
So you’ve seen The Dark Knight four times in the regular theater and twice in IMAX. You’ve started your official Watchmen and Terminator: Salvation calendars for...
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It Takes a Village
To Throw a Baby Shower
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: July 31, 2008
All moms want their children to have access to life’s greatest stuff: good schools, loving relationships, and long, healthy lives. Accomplishing those goals, as any mother...
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Rock the Bells Festival
They’re Big on Myspace
By Mike Sauer
Published: July 31, 2008
In the younger days of hip-hop, unknown artists tried to spread their music with nothing more then a trunk full of cassette tapes and mix CDs, hoping that in time, fortune and...
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Kevin Pollack Is Someone Else
By Brandon K. Thorp
Published: July 31, 2008
Apart from being talented, famous, and rich, it probably kind of sucks to be Kevin Pollack. Pollack clawed around the far edges of showbiz from the age of 10 ‘til the age...
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Skot Olsen Solo Show at Bear and Bird
Edgar Winter’s Got Nothing on Him
By John Linn
Published: July 31, 2008
Skot Olsen is one of those painters for whom everything he does looks like a window in a magical world — one where bizarre creatures roam the land and humanity holds dark...
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Gussying up the 'Cue
Barbequelooza returns to Johnny V’s
By John Linn
Published: July 31, 2008
Seems like people just can’t get enough BBQ this summer — at least, that’s the case over at Johnny V’s (625 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale)....
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Madame Butterfly at the Colony Theatre
Knocking Up a Geisha
By Penn Bullock
Published: July 31, 2008
Japanese-American relations are the theme of Giacomo Puccini's masterpiece opera Madame Butterfly, which is being performed tonight, 8 p.m. at the Colony Theater (1040 Lincoln...
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Doubt Returns to Caldwell Theatre
Beyond the Shadow of Doubt
By John Linn
Published: July 31, 2008
One of the basic tenets of our legal system is that you are innocent until proven guilty. If there is a single, reasonable doubt in the mind of the judge or jury that the...
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Feature
Awfully Wedded Wife
Bigamy charges and dozens of busts for sham marriages.It must be South Florida.
By Natalie O'Neill
Published: July 31, 2008
Ivan sits in the passenger seat of a dusty white SUV, fidgeting nervously. The trim Uruguayan shakes a Marlboro loose from the pack and stares out the window as if he's...
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Bob Norman
Stop Charlie
Sell one of our most traveled freeways to some foreigners? Might as well just give 'em a Budweiser.
By Bob Norman
Published: July 31, 2008
Somebody stop Charlie Crist. Stop the Florida governor from hawking Alligator Alley to foreign companies. Stop him from leasing the 78 miles of fenced and flat highway...
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Letters
Letters for July 31-August 6, 2008
Published: July 31, 2008
Alligator Tears I almost shed a tear ("Shark Huggers," Amy Guthrie, July 12). Those poor sharks and everybody hating them. They are so misunderstood. So what if they kill ten...
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Tailpipe
Heartwarming Story
How Papa 'Pipe Raises Kids
By Edmund Newton
Published: July 31, 2008
So Tailpipe gets married, and his new wife brings along a 6-year-old son. This is, oh, better than three decades ago. Eugene is a sunny kid with a kind of inner quiet....
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