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Feature
The Lost Season
By Bob Norman
Published: November 27, 2008
It looked bad. The 13-year-old QB clutched his right wrist, the one connected to his throwing hand. He seemed to be in more than great pain; he looked terrified. The...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of November 27, 2008
Published: November 27, 2008
Old Yeller Thank you for the article about the water in Palma Nova, the trailer park formerly known as Silver Oaks ("Drink Up," Amy Guthrie, November 20). I grew up...
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Tailpipe
Banana Republic
America downscales
As told to Edmund Newton
Published: November 27, 2008
So it's official. Ellen Brodsky, Broward County's most uncompromising voting rights activist and independent candidate for the county's top elections post, has stepped on...
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Music
Covers à Go-Go
The Postmarks leave their stamp with a new album and prove they're more than one-hit wonders
By Lee Zimmerman
Published: November 27, 2008
A covers album from a South Florida combo is hardly breaking news, considering that this a locale where well-crafted original music is a rare commodity. But when you're talking...
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Short Cuts
Waylon Jennings and the .357s
By Martin Cizmar
Published: November 27, 2008
With his final works, the American Recordings series, Johnny Cash had some of his biggest commercial and critical success, setting the bar ridiculously high for departed...
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Live Wire
Homegrown
By Arielle Castillo
Published: November 27, 2008
While seemingly the whole highbrow world descends on Miami Beach on this night for the official opening of Art Basel, across the causeway, the Vagabond kicks off the artsy...
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Outtakes
Punky Reggae
H.R. of the Bad Brains is finally merging his two inner voices properly
By Tom Bowker
Published: November 27, 2008
If reggae/hardcore legends Bad Brains are an enigma wrapped in a mystery, then their 52-year-old lead singer, Paul "H.R." Hudson, is the Sphinx's riddle. In the late '70s and...
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Dred Scott!
Ace Hood: From Broward County to the World
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: November 27, 2008
On the cover of the December issue of popular hip-hop tome XXL magazine is a feature on the top ten MCs of 2009. They're being billed as "The 10 Freshmen" who are poised to...
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Dish
Conspicuous Consumption
All u can eat 4 all u can pay at Zed451
By Gail Shepherd
Published: November 27, 2008
You know me. I'm not a girl to go all giddy over splashy restaurant P.R. Those artfully composed packages, bearing their painstakingly designed logos, arrive in my mailbox...
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Film
Somewhere Over the Date Line
Welcome to Baz Luhrmann's not-quite-marvelous land of Oz
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 27, 2008
You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit lit, classic melodramas, Westerns, war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the likely outcome of Baz Luhrmann's...
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Night & Day
Express Yourself
Madonna steps into Guy Ritchie’s territory with a directorial debut
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: November 27, 2008
Nobody does over the top, envelope-pushing pop music better than Madonna. But when it comes to her other creative pursuits, let’s just say that Madge has often heard the...
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Night & Day
We’re So Poor We Don’t Even Have a Language!
Just this stupid accent!
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: November 27, 2008
Mel Brooks has always stood out as a true comic’s comic. He has a knack for bringing the most showbizzy of all showbiz elements to the most unlikely topics. Who else could...
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Night & Day
Here, There, and Nowhere
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: November 27, 2008
Scranton, Pa., certain parts of Davie, and basically any red state from the last election could fit the description “The Middle of Nowhere.” But for artist Raul...
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Night & Day
Soak it In, Fellas
The Fins have a winning record — it's time to party
By John Linn
Published: November 27, 2008
Who would've thunk that the Miami Dolphins would still be in legitimate playoff contention at this point in the season? With the scrappy Fins performing above all expectations,...
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Night & Day
A Well Respected Man
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: November 27, 2008
Our country was invaded in the early sixties, not by gun-toting militiamen, but by axe-wielding Brits. Such a well-received war on the U.S. status quo hasn't been repeated to...
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Night & Day
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Breeze through your Christmas list and support great local art to boot
By John Linn
Published: November 27, 2008
Every year you make a promise to yourself to get your Christmas shopping done early. You swear you won't procrastinate like you did last Christmas, when you ended up giving out...
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Night & Day
I’ll be Your Puppet If You’ll Ride Shotgun
Quintron and Miss Pussycat’s beautiful experiment
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: November 27, 2008
New Orleans has its own force of gravity -- it's stronger and more targeted than the scientific law governing the rest of nature. At feeding time, the city attracts those it...
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Night & Day
Sax Appeal
By Terra Sullivan
Published: November 27, 2008
With the exception of your love of Lisa Simpson's collaboration with Bleeding Gums Murphy, an attentive ear at the beginning and ending credits of Woody Allen films, and a...
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Night & Day
More Than the Sum
By Brett Gillin
Published: November 27, 2008
There's good news and bad news for the Panthers. The bad news has to do with their stats: the Cats have been at or near the bottom of the league in points for most of the year....
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Night & Day
Hide and Go Seek, Art
By Jamie Laughlin
Published: November 27, 2008
You don't usually find hand-painted, wooden dildos peeking out of the shrubbery in downtown Fort Lauderdale. While you might wish that you could, there are simply none to be...
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