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1. Feature

   Playing With Fire

   Only one man is set to stand trial for a grisly murder seven years ago – but if he's guilty, did he really act alone?

   By Kelly Cramer

   Published: July 19, 2007

   On a sunny, 70-degree Saturday morning, on April 5, 2000, Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue Lt. Ray Cicero pulled into an alley behind Bond Paint Co. and smelled something...

2. News

   Father and Law

   A retired Hollywood cop would do almost anything to help his son — maybe a little too much

   By Thomas Francis

   Published: July 19, 2007

   Bryan Hoisington always wanted to work in law enforcement, and he knew the people who could make that happen in Hollywood — starting with his father. Larry Hoisington...

3. Letters

   Letter from July 19-25, 2007

   Published: July 19, 2007

   Proto Can Step Up Time to skip the Slim Shady connection: I read the article ("Boy to Man," Esther Park, July 12). Fantastic. Protoman is real humble and sometimes doesn't...

4. Tailpipe

   Last Amend­ment

   You Vill Conform!

   As told to Ed Newton

   Published: July 19, 2007

   Fort Lauderdale City Manager George Gretsas' latest jihad seems to Tailpipe a little more serious and disturbing than his past push to remove chewing gum from the sidewalks....

5. Night Rider

   A Loungy Kind of Love

   A date with romance has us turning Far Eastward

   By Marya Summers

   Published: July 19, 2007

   Long before 07/07/07 sent legions to Las Vegas in search of an Elvis wedding, the Japanese knew it was the ideal date for getting lucky. For them, the seventh day of the...

6. ¡Ask a Mexican!

   Inglés Just Got Here

   Spanish roots go deep

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: July 19, 2007

   Dear Mexican: Why don't Mexicans ever drop their Spanish? Even third- and fourth-generation Mexican-Americans still speak the language to some degree or another. I speak...

7. Music

   Reloaded

   Old-school screamo outfit takes one more shot

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: July 19, 2007

   It's 11 on a hot and sticky Friday night, and I'm sweating inside Hollywood's Club M waiting on a miracle. The once-popular, always-dysfunctional, heavily loved hardcore band...

8. Short Cuts

   Pharoahe Monch

   Desire (SRC)

   By Braden Ruddy

   Published: July 19, 2007

   Coming off an eight-year recording hiatus with a thing or two to prove, Queens, New York, MC and early '90s underground hip-hop phenom Pharoahe Monch delivers a poetically...

9. Subtropical

   Inner Circle

   Blazzin' Fire (Dubshot)

   By Andre Uter

   Published: July 19, 2007

   EPs, while thoroughly forgotten, have always been the best litmus test within music. Not only are artists able to feel out their fans but listeners can get a small taste of an...

10. Live Wire

    Ladybug Transistor

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: July 19, 2007

    What's so bad about feeling macabre? Nothing, if the works of Nick Drake, Camera Obscura, and Ladybug Transistor are around to dispel your bittersweet nostalgia or pensive...

11. Outtakes

    Same Old Beyoncé

    Another desperate letter from a disgruntled fan

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: July 19, 2007

    Dear Beyoncé, I know you're busy being a multi­media superstar, but did you get a chance to check out Knocked Up when it dropped a month back? I'm sure you had...

12. Pub Stalker

    Spice Resto-Lounge

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: July 19, 2007

    Spice Resto-Lounge954-923-3888 1934 Hollywood Blvd., HollywoodThe blue, red, yellow, and pink lights bounce off the walls. Patrons sweat as their appendages move to a conga...

13. Dred Scott!

    Freestyle and Beyond

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: July 19, 2007

    Latin hip-hop is a strange animal these days. What was once perceived as a laughingstock or at best a lackluster subgenre of rap is now a multimillion-dollar commodity. Venture...

14. Dish

    The Undersea World of Toby Joseph

    A Cero-sum game where the diner always wins

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: July 19, 2007

    I'm not the kind of customer — being half-blind and chronically underdressed — that the St. Regis Resort would cultivate if it had a choice. The new Starwood Hotels...

15. Film

    Friends With Benefits

    Two straight guys pretend to be gay and turn out to be humanists in Chuck & Larry

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: July 19, 2007

    I wanted to hate I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, truly I did. Two straight guys pretending to be gay (insert fiscal excuse here); been there, done that (insert all known...

16. Night & Day

    Metal on Metal

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: July 19, 2007

    It takes balls of steel to schedule a local metal showcase on the same night that Slayer is playing; it takes a set made of titanium to house it in a place called the Hookah...

17. Night & Day

    The Dr. Nick School of Medical Advice

    By John Linn

    Published: July 19, 2007

    To prevent heat stroke, medical experts recommend that you get indoors and drink plenty of fluids. Non-medical experts (that’s us, by the way) don’t recommend drinking anything...

18. Night & Day

    The Sun Sets on Jupiter

    By John Linn

    Published: July 19, 2007

    Even if summer in South Florida is a mix of sub volcanic days and sadistic levels of afternoon rainfall, we still have our sunsets as respite. In those moments, just before...

19. Night & Day

    Fishing Down Under

    Aussie drama Jindabyne reels in a stunning character study

    By Phillip Vallys

    Published: July 19, 2007

    There’s a passé adage that’s swapped among the most fervid fishermen: angling is always cheaper than a psychiatrist. But when some dead lass washes up against the lakebed while...

20. Night & Day

    The Biggest Fish is Still Out There

    By John Letsch

    Published: July 19, 2007

    Remember back in the mid-90's, it’s OK – we’ll wait. Right – it’s all coming back to you now. T hat’s when a bunch of underutilized classic styles of music were resurrected and...