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Subterranean Finds

By Lee Zimmerman
Joe Ely & Joel Guzman Live Cactus ely.com Though he hails from the same West Texas environs that birthed Buddy Holly and he practices the same roots regimen as his fellow Flatlanders Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely is still an original. A crossover country troubadour, his dust-blown...
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Breaking With Boredom

By Erica K. Landau
In 2008, Forbes magazine gave Hialeah the dubious honor of being one of America’s ten most boring cities. While Hialeah politicos debated whether being boring was a good or bad thing for the city’s reputation, blog commenters, despite a few who offered some kind words, were resoundingly discontented with the...
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Interview With a “Zoo” — Part 2

By Thomas Francis
With a local legislator, Sen. Nan Rich, touting a bill that would make it a felony to have sex with an animal, I've recently interviewed a self-described "zoo" from the upper Midwest, "James." Part one of that interview is here. I asked James whether zoophilia was the product of life...
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Artbeat

By Michael Mills
Don't stay away from the Coral Springs Museum of Art these days just because it's showcasing the work of the execrable Romero Britto. No, just take a sharp right when you enter the museum and make a beeline into the smaller side galleries, where you'll find the uneven but worthwhile...
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Corporate Shakeup At Palm Beach Post

By Bob Norman
Following the lead of the Miami Herald (and, to a lesser extent, the Sun-Sentinel), the Palm Beach Post announced some major management changes this morning. Top Editor John Bartosek will move down to the investigations editor role and Managing Editor Bill Rose is retiring in the summer, giant developments both...
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Bad News All Over Department

By Gail Shepherd
Food related bad news is everywhere this morning, beginning with this story: Money doesn't buy happiness, as we know. But evidently fast food does. Researches at the University of Arkansas teamed up with the University of Taiwan to extrapolate from a long term study of Taiwanese children, a quarter of...
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He Cut the Rug, but His Jokes Aren’t Bald

By S. Pajot
Under constant threat from snarky bloggers and 24-hour tabloid television, the average celebrity lifespan has been cut from 15 minutes to mere nanoseconds. The result: a terrorized star population with a mania for “expanding the brand!” And the wired world should probably just surrender, because diversification isn’t only for stockbrokers...
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Todd Rundgren

By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
With his soaring voice and arena-rock fluency, Todd Rundgren seemed destined for hit-after-hit superstardom when he released his third album, the entirely self-recorded Something/Anything, in 1972. Looking back, though, it was clear that Rundgren had too many experimental itches to scratch — and the progression of his career has arguably...
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Landscapes From the Age of Impressionism Through May 10 at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. Call 561-832-5196, or visit norton.org. This small but satisfying show includes just over three dozen French and American paintings that form a sort of encapsulated history of the subject, drawn from the collection […]
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Breaking: New Steroid Scandal Hits BSO

By Bob Norman
Fifteen Broward Sheriff's Office deputies and one civilian employee have been taken off the road on suspicion that they are using steroids. The sixteen BSO employees were rounded up Friday and ordered to take a drug test, sheriff's spokesman Jim Leljedal told me this afternoon. They were placed on administrative assignment until the results of those tests...
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Free is the New Black

By John Linn
Just two days after the Super Bowl, Denny’s Restaurants across the nation gave away a free Grand Slam breakfast to all comers, going so far as to advertise its intentions during the Big Game. The result: people queued up for hours in the longest lines ever to form outside of...
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Beer of the Week: Hazed & Infused Dry-Hopped Ale

By John Linn
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it's all about the love of the brew. If you...
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Ordinary Angels

By John Linn
One day you're filling out TPS reports in your cubicle, praying for your paycheck to come like rain during a drought; the next you're getting interviewed by a reporter outside of your new home in Tent City. Yep, nothing is guaranteed these days. In a hot minute any one of...
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Whose School Parties Harder?

By Michael J. Mooney
Nobody likes an injustice, especially when kids are involved. But ladies and gentlemen, that's exactly what we have. When Playboy announced the magazine's picks for best party school this week, this nation saw the worst kind of injustice since the Alpha Betas framed the Tri-Lambs in Revenge of the Nerds...
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D-Wade Makes Buzzer His Bitch

By Michael J. Mooney
The first time came at the end of the first half. Then again to tie the game at the end of regulation. Then, after he stole the ball from John Salmons with three seconds left in the second overtime, Wade hit a running three as time expired to give "El...
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Letters From the Issue of April 9, 2009

The Other Side of Sidelines I recently read the "Night Watch" feature column ("Sports Bar Score") written by Tara Nieuwesteeg that appeared in the March 26, 2009, issue of New Times. As director of marketing for Sidelines Sports Bar, I must first thank you and Nieuwesteeg for the great deal...
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For Deerfield Beach Mayoral Candidate, Vindication Served Cold

By Thomas Francis
During Deerfield Beach's recent mayoral campaign, Don Cleveland lugged a big piece of baggage: a foreclosure action in which he lost his Sunny Isles home.A troublesome issue, if only because Cleveland was fairly new in town (moved there in 2001) and had never run for office in Deerfield Beach. The...
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The Subdudes

By Lee Zimmerman
The Subdudes may not be among the New Orleans musical legends that the average Joe could immediately name. But examine the band's track record, which stretches back a couple of decades, and its seamless blend of riveting rock and roll, nimble rhythms, and sinewy roots. It's clear the Subdudes have...