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1. Feature

   Rx for Plunder

   Looting the Treasury was never so easy

   By Deirdra Funcheon

   Published: September 20, 2007

   On a crisp February morning in 2003, Dr. Evan Zimmer, dressed in jeans and a Hawaiian shirt, rolled up to work at the Oakland Community Health Center in Fort Lauderdale. "I...

2. News

   Dumpster Diving

   A trash company gets a dead mayor to do its dirty work in Pembroke Park

   By Thomas Francis

   Published: September 20, 2007

   Pembroke Park seems too small for scandal. A south Broward County town with fewer than 6,000 inhabitants and a median income around $25,000, it has few things worth stealing....

3. Tailpipe

   Video Lies

   As told to Edmund Newton

   Published: September 20, 2007

   The Truth Can Set You Free On dark nights, when your own mortality seems to feed on you like the rust on Tailpipe's flank, think of Donald Baker and know that things could be...

4. Night Rider

   Where It's Always Ladies Night

   Two beans are better than one

   By Marya Summers

   Published: September 20, 2007

   There's been a Sapphic convergence in Palm Beach County. Two new, hip spots there now cater to ladies who love ladies. On a Thursday night, I hit both Les Beans, a coffee shop,...

5. ¡Ask a Mexican!

   All Mixed Up

   A Little Side of Everything

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: September 20, 2007

   Dear Readers: I asked half-breeds a couple of weeks ago to write in with nicknames that describe their mixed Mexican heritage. Many, muchos responses continue to trickle in...

6. Music

   Junior High

   John Lee Hooker Jr. cuts his own path through the blues

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: September 20, 2007

   The blues isn't the type of music a performer can just jump into, but if you've ever been kicked around and left for dead, it could be your thing. Spend a little time with John...

7. Subtropical

   Catalonia

   An Island Is Land (Self-released)

   By Abel Folgar

   Published: September 20, 2007

   Catalonia falls into that deliciously saccharine category of local acts that includes, among others, Secret P.E. Club, Humbert, and Map of the Universe. Its base is solidly...

8. Live Wire

   Dashboard Confessional

   By Arielle Castillo

   Published: September 20, 2007

   Listening to Dashboard Confessional can sometimes be like picking at a scab or poking at a cavity — vaguely painful and enjoyable at the same time, weirdly compelling and...

9. Outtakes

   Deadbeats, Unite

   A scumbag Broward hip-hop crew readies for its debut

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: September 20, 2007

   Broward County hip-hop acts are often looked at as second-class citizens next to rappers from Miami-Dade. Fair or not, MCs on both sides of the county line know it's a fact....

10. Pub Stalker

    Café del Mar

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: September 20, 2007

    Café del Mar 213 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd. Fort Lauderdale 954-767-8233 As summer goes, so go summer's flings. No more one-night stands and drunken debauchery for...

11. Dred Scott!

    Seasons Change

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: September 20, 2007

    Pop stars are always putting on a show. They've got their down moments, sure, but if lights are flashing, cameras are rolling, or a reporter is in the room, then a diva will...

12. Dish

    Jaws Eats Claws

    Blacktip Reef spawns a feeding frenzy

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: September 20, 2007

    To hear our waiter tell it, there's no fish shortage in South Florida. You just drop your baited line or your net full of little pylon oysters off the nearest bridge, and...

13. Film

    Still Cronenberg

    An accessible narrative belies something much darker and stranger in Eastern Promises

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: September 20, 2007

    I've said it before and hope to again: David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. From Videodrome...

14. Night & Day

    My Power Animal is a Kitten

    (and He’s Sleepy)

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: September 20, 2007

    Libraries are relaxing places. If they branched out to serve tropical drinks and hooked some hammocks between the stacks – well, shoot, you might never go home. Weston Library...

15. Night & Day

    Get in the Van

    And go to West Palm

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: September 20, 2007

    Our punk rock icons are aging. Mike Watt now looks more like a retiring shop teacher than a rocking member of the double bass group Dos, and the recent surprise guest on NPR’s...

16. Night & Day

    What Is in a Name

    By Sam Eifling

    Published: September 20, 2007

    Just when you want to break up with the Panthers altogether, the team goes out and picks a player with a Dickensian name like Keaton Ellerby, who, with such a moniker, could be...

17. Night & Day

    Eat Your Heart Out

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: September 20, 2007

    Driving down Federal Highway could make you misjudge the state of food in Broward; chain endeavors with billboard-esque signs block the sun from both east and west....

18. Night & Day

    Primates and Confections

    By John Linn

    Published: September 20, 2007

    It’s an interesting endeavor, trying to interpret Craig Kucia’s painting “when i begin to forget, tell me things i never knew.” A good place to start...

19. Night & Day

    This Fest is Full of Flavor

    By Riki Altman

    Published: September 20, 2007

    Don your brightest crocheted tam and head out to the Jamaican Jerk Festival for a plateful of culture. Sure, there will be cultural stages featuring traditional folk songs,...

20. Night & Day

    This Just In: City of Brotherly Love gets even more brotherly

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: September 20, 2007

    The Hurricane Bar & Lounge (640 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach) bills itself as your home for Philadelphia Eagles games, making it the perfect place to join the cheering...