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1. Feature

   My Girlfriend Flicka

   Giddyup games are more than childish fun for pony play fetishists

   By Ashley Harrell

   Published: June 28, 2007

   On a recent Saturday afternoon in a chilly Sheraton Suites conference room in Fort Lauderdale, Carolina Lainez is about to become a new pony. She has never met the cowboy at...

2. Music

   Groove Junkies

   South Florida´s Heavy Pets have a real knack for getting themselves into a jam

   By Lee Zimmerman

   Published: June 28, 2007

   It´s Saturday night at Tobacco Road in Miami, and the Heavy Pets are holding court upstairs. Funky environs and even funkier music have always converged at the Road, and...

3. Dish

   Enough With the Mee Krob Already

   Sapa´s Thai menu defines the familiarity that breeds contempt

   By Gail Shepherd

   Published: June 28, 2007

   Fish balls. Fried crickets. Salted scorpions soaked in whiskey. Smoked catfish soup. Deep-fried beef gums. Snail curry. Hog plums. Bamboo grubs with green onions. Slivered...

4. Film

   Dr. Feelgood

   Michael Moore´s pill goes down easy, but his diagnosis of U.S. health care still devastates

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: June 28, 2007

   We´re Americans. We go into other countries when we need to. It´s tricky, but it works.¨ So declares Michael Moore in the midst of his new documentary, Sicko....

5. Night & Day

   Much Like the Chiffons and Such

   By Terra Sullivan

   Published: June 28, 2007

   People who nostalgically pine for a time before events like the civil rights and women’s movements have some explaining to do. Sure, the 1950’s had a couple of things going for...

6. Night & Day

   It’s a Ruff, Ruff World

   By John Letsch

   Published: June 28, 2007

   We humans can be an annoyingly fickle bunch -- rarely satisfied, usually wanting more -- and often discarding whatever or whoever we no longer need. So the fact that dogs have...

7. Night & Day

   Is That a Pole in Your Bar, Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

   By John Linn

   Published: June 28, 2007

   Listen up, gents, and listen good: Women are taking the pole back. As in stripper pole. That’s right; those buffed, metal pillars are no longer phallusized representations...

8. Night & Day

   The Dirty Sea

   By Lewis Goldberg

   Published: June 28, 2007

   Etienne Courcelle says his greatest passions are the ocean and women. While he certainly would not be the first artist (or even the thousandth) to cite those particular sources...

9. Art

   Divine Underwear

   Forget about the cut of the kimono. The art is in the kimono´s lining.

   By Michael Mills

   Published: June 28, 2007

   Imagine a work of art so intimate that for anyone to see it -- to see it yourself, for that matter -- you had to remove your clothes. No, I´m not talking tattoos here....

10. DVDish

    Crackers & Cheese

    Black Snake Moan Darwin's Nightmare Cult Camp Classics: Volumes 1-4 Shooter

    Published: June 28, 2007

    Black Snake Moan (Paramount) The best place to see Craig Brewer's mash-up of blood-boiling exploitation elements would be a Mississippi drive-in circa 1972. His tale of a...

11. Tailpipe

    Maniac on the Floor

    As told to Edmund Newton

    Published: June 28, 2007

    Dancing really is the best therapy. That goes even for an embattled politician like Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti, who, Tailpipe discovered recently, can unleash her hips to...

12. Music

    Disco Diaries

    A look at the inner workings of the Disco Biscuits

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: June 28, 2007

    As pioneers of ¨trance fusion,¨ as they like to call it, electro-jam rockers the Disco Biscuits have made a name for themselves as innovators of the perpetual groove....

13. Film

    Past Action Hero

    Even with the Mac kid at his side, John McClane is just... old

    By Rob Nelson

    Published: June 28, 2007

    Still an all-American bloodhound after all these years, Bruce Willis´ Det. John McClane begins Live Free or Die Hard sniffing around a Rutgers-Camden parking lot and...

14. Artbeat

    "Bodyprints"

    Published: June 28, 2007

    Terre Rybovich really takes the saying ¨Put yourself into your work¨ literally. ¨Bodyprints¨ are exactly that: drawings made with the artist´s naked...

15. Game On

    Bored Games

    All the beer in the world can't save Mario Party 8.

    Published: June 28, 2007

    Everyone's got a different sense of what makes a killer party. For kids, maybe it's whacking a piñata and overdosing on cake. For adults, it could be sticking a beer...

16. News

    God Hates You

    The Westboro Baptists have a message for South Florida

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: June 28, 2007

    New Birth Baptist Church members are noticeably excited when they get their first look at the sign resting on Marge Phelps´ right shoulder: ¨YOUR PASTOR IS A...

17. Dred Scott!

    Disco Inferno

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: June 28, 2007

    It was only two weeks ago that I wrote a column about how local indie/underground hangout Roxanne´s on Main was in a state of flux. The Oakland Park-based bar and popular...

18. Film

    Back in the Fight

    At 52, Bruce Willis resurrects a die-hard character.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: June 28, 2007

    It takes Bruce Willis awhile to get warmed up. He's always just a bit below room temperature — a cool brother, dig, dating back to his Moonlighting days as a private dick...

19. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks for the week of June 26:

    Published: June 28, 2007

    The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: The Complete Series (Shout!) Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Anchor Bay) Dead Silence (Universal) Echo & the Bunnymen:...

20. Night Rider

    Disaster-Nots

    Getting freaky with tiki at the Hukilau

    By Marya Summers

    Published: June 28, 2007

    Tiki, I was told, is good times. Simple but permissively excessive, from the exotic rum drinks to the fun Polynesian prints. So Hukilau just seemed right for a reunion with my...