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1. Feature

   Spank the Monkey

   Children's TV pioneer Alan Shalleck had a secret that killed him

   By Amy Guthrie

   Published: February 7, 2008

   Alan Shalleck knew a thing or two about storytelling: how to engage his audience and build suspense, how to bring a character to life. He honed those skills in the pioneering...

2. News

   Bambi Bump-off

   Who's killing the endangered key deer? The bloody mess has caused a scandal in paradise.

   By Chuck Strouse

   Published: February 7, 2008

   Three dusty skulls lay in the dust beneath silvery buttonwood leaves. Two were covered in rotting flesh. One had been severed by a hacksaw. That was December. A month prior, a...

3. Bob Norman

   Ol' Man Wiley Had a Farm

   The patriarch of Waldrep Farm wouldn't go near the place nowadays. Will anybody else?

   By Bob Norman

   Published: February 7, 2008

   The scene might have come from Wiley Waldrep's worst dream. The peeled earth, shorn of all trees and vegetation, cracked and exposed under the sun. Long lines of...

4. Tailpipe

   Tally Against the Machine

   As told to Edmund Newton

   Published: February 7, 2008

   DIY Vote Counting Raise your hand if you think, without a shred of doubt, that your vote will be counted. Tailpipe sees a lot of unraised hands. A lot of doubtful looks....

5. ¡Ask a Mexican!

   Better to Give?

   Joto-hating cuts both ways

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: February 7, 2008

   Dear Mexican: After working with Mexicans for years, I have noticed that Mexican men have a double standard when it comes to homosexuality. Why is it that the "giver" is not...

6. Music

   Son Is Shining

   Ky-Mani Marley steps out of his family's shadow

   By Jason Handelsman

   Published: February 7, 2008

   With signature dreads, gold chains around his neck, and a tattoo of his father on his right arm, Ky-Mani Marley has a presence that is unmistakably Marley. Despite a Miami...

7. Short Cuts

   Wyclef Jean

   Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant (Sony)

   By Dan LeRoy

   Published: February 7, 2008

   In a recent interview, Wyclef Jean summed up in just a few words the very thing fans both admire and abhor about the former Fugee. Bubbling over with understandable enthusiasm...

8. Subtropical

   Jose El Rey

   Espirituality (Self-released)

   By Abel Folgar

   Published: February 7, 2008

   What do perezhilton.com, El Cerro Market no. 7, Máxim en Español, botánicas, Mary's Coin Laundry, and your heart have in common? Those are places where...

9. Live Wire

   Terence Blanchard

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: February 7, 2008

   Although there are a ton of New Orleans-based musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina who are working to resurrect their once-glorious hometown, only a few faces have stood...

10. Outtakes

    Natural Ingredients

    Yonder Mountain String Band gets culinary

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: February 7, 2008

    When Yonder Mountain String Band's lead vocalist and mandolin player, Jeff Austin, caught up with New Times a couple of weeks ago, we expected to gauge where he stood on...

11. Dred Scott!

    Kapone Tackles Black History Month

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: February 7, 2008

    It's February again: that odd, lightning-fast month when musical and cultural education is supposed to peak. Carnival and Mardi Gras festivals buzz around each other rich with...

12. Dish

    Tet à Tet

    Ringing in the Year of the Rat at Sakyo

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: February 7, 2008

    I got to know Japanese food intimately at Yoko, a long, thin strip of a restaurant lined with pleather-covered booths, smoked mirrors, and a sushi bar backed by oversized...

13. Film

    Intelligent Design

    PYT seduces her literary hero in the astute Starting Out in the Evening

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: February 7, 2008

    In Starting Out in the Evening, a new film by Andrew Wagner, a pneumatic graduate student spreads honey over the face of the elderly New York novelist she's trying to seduce....

14. Night & Day

    Swing Back the Romance

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: February 7, 2008

    She’ll be expecting you to impress her with something cool and creative for Valentine’s Day. What she won’t be able to predict is a soaring early start. And...

15. Night & Day

    High Court

    By John Linn

    Published: February 7, 2008

    We hear all the rumors: South Florida is a sports vortex, sucking the life out of any sporting team or event that foolishly wanders into its pull. Poppycock! Sure, our team...

16. Night & Day

    Reunited, and It Feels so Good

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Valentine’s Day is going to be awkward this year. When they were newlyweds, he’d make a reservation at a cozy restaurant, and she’d shave her legs, and the day...

17. Night & Day

    Suck it Up, Then Out

    It’s a liposuction soiree!

    By Riki Altman

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Chew the fat with liposuction experts at an open house for ABSolute Lipo Dissolve and American Laser. They’ll share details about the latest advances while everyone sucks...

18. Night & Day

    “Have You Paid Your Dues, Jack?

    “Yessir, the check is in the mail”

    By John Linn

    Published: February 7, 2008

    It’s been some time since horror director John Carpenter has released a film that’s been worthwhile. Has he lost his touch, or is something else bothering his...

19. Night & Day

    I See You Baby, Shakin’ That Ass

    But please, save it for the club

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: February 7, 2008

    By Thursday night you’re so ready to party. The problem: You live in Boca, Palm Beach, Delray, or some other part of our SoFla county trifecta. What you want: A night club...

20. Night & Day

    Home is Where Your Art Is

    By Terra Sullivan

    Published: February 7, 2008

    If your definition of home is: (1) where you stash your big stuff while you’re gallivanting about the country, and (2) is where a loving family waits for your return, go...