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1. Feature

   Kill My Wife. Please!

   Glenn Sandler had trouble with Betty -- but the real trouble began when he tried to have her whacked

   By Deirdra Funcheon

   Published: July 5, 2007

   It was such an innocent statement, with such a sinister meaning. "The weather's good here," Fred said. "I'm telling you, the weather's very good...

2. Music

   The Tastemaker

   Local radio celeb DJ Entice is fresher than you think

   By Andre Uter

   Published: July 5, 2007

   You wouldn´t think ¨Invest in our children´s future¨ would mean buying a dusty set of turntables and a Gemini mixer, but in the case of WEDR-FM (99.1 Jamz)...

3. Dish

   By Hook and Crook

   Through a quarter-century, Fin & Claw never says die

   By Gail Shepherd

   Published: July 5, 2007

   Cast your mind back to the dim recesses of, oh, I don´t know, the mid-1970s in South Florida. What did you do when you were hungry? You opened your mouth and screamed...

4. Film

   Auto-Chaotic

   As giant robots transform all around us (!), it´s good to know Michael Bay won´t ever change

   By Nathan Lee

   Published: July 5, 2007

   Transformers twiddles its big, fat, stupid robotic thumbs for the better part of two hours before jabbing them into your eye socket and finger-fucking your brain in the last 20...

5. Night & Day

   I’m Board – Wax Me Down?

   By John Linn

   Published: July 5, 2007

   Surfing has a barrier to entry that’s a lot more difficult to surmount than other sports. First, there’s the equipment – are you really going to buy a board if...

6. Stage

   Scared of the Dark

   On looking into the mirror and being terrified at what you see

   By Brandon K. Thorp

   Published: July 5, 2007

   Hello. I´m Brandon, and I am a scared little animal. So are you. Our sales department tells the advertisers otherwise -- that you are all Hip, Sophisticated, and Upwardly...

7. Artbeat

   ¨For the Love of Dogs¨

   Published: July 5, 2007

   With a giant Dalmatian puppy over its entry and silhouettes of a different breed in each of its windows, ¨For the Love of Dogs¨ begs for attention before visitors...

8. Tailpipe

   R.I.P. Jocks

   As told to Edmund Newton

   Published: July 5, 2007

   R.I.P. Jocks Check ´em again, doc Dimly lit hotel room. Overturned furniture. Four corpses on the floor, covered with sheets. Who´re the stiffs? Tailpipe asks. ...

9. Dred Scott!

   Blacks and the Blues

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: July 5, 2007

   One of the more disappointing components of urban culture as it relates to music today is that quite often, black audiences only care about what´s hot right now. Before...

10. Film

    Incredible, Edible

    Brad Bird does it again; health inspectors everywhere shaken to their core

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: July 5, 2007

    Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.¨ So goes the personal mantra of the late celebrity chef Auguste Gusteau, whose disembodied spirit materializes --...

11. News

    Pod Shots

    A Deerfield pod-novelist may be close to striking literary gold

    By Amy Guthrie

    Published: July 5, 2007

    The office door in Chris Hutchins´ modest Deerfield Beach apartment is closed to keep out Chester, a fat 11-year-old black tabby who´s inclined to meow unpredictably....

12. Outtakes

    Raised by the People

    Ex-Born Jamerican frontman Notch is back with a new disc and a new genre

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: July 5, 2007

    On his debut solo album, Raised by the People, New York-based crooner/rapper Notch is a sonero, by definition a well-trained songsmith in the prime of his career. He´s...

13. Night Rider

    Looking for Mr. Goodtime

    Can we change the world one pole dance at a time?

    By Marya Summers

    Published: July 5, 2007

    Last weekend, dance fever was in the air. I didn´t know it until the thing had run its course, and only then did I suspect that I might have been the Typhoid Mary of this...

14. Outtakes

    Sweat Hotel

    Forget about R. Kelly. Keith Sweat shows us who´s the real don of R&B.

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: July 5, 2007

    There was a time in the history of black music when R&B still meant something. Plenty of people would argue that the genre was at its peak when popular crooners of the...

15. Letters

    Letters for July 5-11, 2007

    Published: July 5, 2007

    Two-Way Corruption Is briber cleaner than bribee?: When is this lawyer Chris Roberts being brought up on federal charges (¨In the Bag,¨ Bob Norman, June 28)? Bribing...

16. Outtakes

    Fell Out of Love With a Band

    Why half-assed prog rock sinks the Stripes´ newest album

    By Nate Cavalieri

    Published: July 5, 2007

    While absorbing the Blueshammer ersatz and pheromone-scented metallurgy of Icky Thump, the White Stripes´ sixth record, it´s hard not to long for the candy-striped...

17. Short Cuts

    Ben Weaver

    Paper Sky (Fugawee Bird)

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: July 5, 2007

    Judging by the brightly colored artwork on the cover of Paper Sky, singer/songwriter Ben Weaver´s fifth album, you can tell it´s a considerably less dour ride than...

18. Short Cuts

    Paul McCartney

    Memory Full (Hear Music)

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: July 5, 2007

    In a roller-coaster career that´s nearing the 40-year mark, Paul McCartney has tallied his share of both successes (McCartney, Band on the Run, Flowers in the Dirt, and,...

19. Short Cuts

    Various artists

    Motown Remixed 2 (Universal)

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: July 5, 2007

    When drawn from an oeuvre as iconic as Motown, the remodels included on this new disc, Motown Remixed 2, are to be unavoidably compared/contrasted with the original source...

20. Short Cuts

    Smashing Pumpkins

    Zeitgeist (Virgin)

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: July 5, 2007

    Those of you hoping that the Smashing Pumpkins´ comeback record is an unmitigated disaster will be disappointed: It´s not. Those of you afraid that lead Pumpkin Billy...