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To Hug a Porcupine Three little boys set out to destroy the parents who loved them. This isn't how adoption is supposed to work.
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Cookie Monsters It's the old diet doc versus the marketing gun in the great war of the tasty appetite suppressors
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Sexual Healing Sad stories and otherwise freaky tales from Florida's last sexual surrogate
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Smoked Tuna in the Can He was the first big bust of the War on Drugs. That and two bits won't get you a cup of coffee.
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Shark Huggers Tourists can't wait to get next to them – even if they are eating machines
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Sexual Healing
For Florida's sole remaining sex surrogate, love is a many splintered thing.
By Michael J. Mooney
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Your Friendly Neighborhood War Profiteer
It's not just giant companies cashing in on America's defense industry.
By Jeff Severns Guntzel
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Supersizing Sonic
How a throwaway idea at the Barkley ad agency became the "Sonic Guys."
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Temples of Tex-Mex
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Decisions, Decisions
By Mike Sauer
Published on April 17, 2008
Besides sounding retro, naming your band after the Great Format War of the 1980s has got to have some relevance. As Americans, we feel the need to make definitive choices everyday. The winner of these decisions will become absolute, while the loser will become completely forgotten in a few years.
VHS or BETA have made a few decisions of their own. The Louisville, Kentucky, band started with noise punk, then shifted to French inspired dance rock, and it has now once again changed its style again. On the band’s new record Bring on the Comets, Zeke Buck (vocals, guitar) and the band have their heart set on Duran
Duran-influenced indie pop. It’s nice to see a band evolve so much, but how many more changes can they go through? More importantly, how many changes are the existing fans willing to withstand before VHS or BETA become just as obsolete as the formats they’re titled after? Find out what music genre wins when they play the Culture Room (3045 N Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale) this Friday at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $12. Visit www.cultureroom.net.
Fri., April 18, 2008
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