He knew his killer long before he perished in September 2006.

"Ted strongly believed it was the mold in ...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/news/killer-fungus-attacks-justice http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/news/the-horror Egad, it's happening again. Tailpipe feels an evil current drawing him back... back to Lost River Lake.

There's Dr. Hoak, the bristly mad scientist, and his lethal little meat-eaters. The government abandoned his project, of course, the controversial Operation Razorteeth. Hoak's ba...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/news/the-horror http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/news/there-goes-the-hood Don't make like this is Beverly Hills. This is the real goddamned hood. The motherfuckin' hood."

So warns the gentleman watching workers set up lights and cameras in front of a graffiti-strewn, one-story yellow house just off Sistrunk Boulevard — in Fort Lauderdale's most notorious ...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/news/there-goes-the-hood http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/news/trickster-in-chief The assault on Scott Israel, a man who very well might be Broward County's next sheriff, came fast and furious a week before Election Day.

First came mailers comparing Israel to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for changing his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat before filing to ...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/news/trickster-in-chief http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/news/letters-for-september-4-10-2008 Water Is Not Water

One quote that really made me laugh in "Kick the Bottle" by Lee Klein (August 14) was: "Water is water." No, it isn't!

Have you ever wondered why so many of the imported beers taste better than our American-made brands? It's because the water is different...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/news/letters-for-september-4-10-2008 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/the-gentleman-classicist It's been almost 25 years since Chris Isaak slipped his debut album, Silvertone, on to the pop music scene, but it could just as easily have been yesterday — or a half century ago. Why? Because Isaak, 52, carries the torch of tradition — steady, ready, and steeped in the kind o...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/the-gentleman-classicist http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/takin-care-of-business All That Remains frontman and bandleader Phil Labonte has no worries about how recent changes in the music industry have made it increasingly difficult for bands to remain economically viable. As a self-proclaimed conservative, Ronald Reagan enthusiast, and "fan of commerce," Labonte takes a hand...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/takin-care-of-business http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/brazilian-forr-oacute-star-chico-c-eacute-sar-returns For a variety of reasons, Latin American proponents of music from the native lands often pretend that race and class aren't relevant when it comes to music. But listen to the rhythms and the lyrics of samba — or cumbia or bachata or other styles of Latin American music — and it's easy...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/brazilian-forr-oacute-star-chico-c-eacute-sar-returns http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/enough-with-bossa-nova Legendary guitarist, singer, and songwriter Lulu Santos can no longer bear to hear about the 50th anniversary of the bossa nova movement, an occasion that is being milked around the globe with an endless parade of concerts, documentaries, and special music releases. "Thank God I was never part of...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/enough-with-bossa-nova http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/no-more-sweet-home-alabama Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/no-more-sweet-home-alabama http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/subterranean-finds The Avett Brothers

The Second Gleam

Yours truly first discovered this North Carolina trio — two brothers and their buddy on bass — in 2006 at the remarkable Telluride Bluegrass Festival and was immediately impressed. A fusion of folk, rock, and, yes, a bi...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/subterranean-finds http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/gator-is-a-vegetable There are days that just fucking suck. Maybe you notice some weird rash after a recent one-night stand. Maybe you lose your job and come home early to find Mom in bed with the BF. Maybe you back your F-150 over your dog. Whatever; shit happens. And the ensuing bad mood can stick to you like sweat...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/gator-is-a-vegetable http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/howl-at-the-moon Even as the recession sweeps Fort Lauderdale bare of cash-spending nightwalkers, Howl at the Moon manages to bring out a raucous crowd. By midnight, this wide-open bar on the second floor of BeachPlace is packed elbow to elbow with drunken, stupidly jolly Margaritaville rejects who sing painfully...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/howl-at-the-moon http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/buika Buika (pronounced BWEE-kah) was born María Concepción Balboa Buika on the Spanish island of Mallorca. If that's not spicy enough for you, her parents were political exiles from Equatorial Guinea. Like many a young lass, her early musical allegiances were to Michael Jackson and Whitn...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/buika http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/roach-motel If you know your Florida punk rock, you'll know the mighty Roach Motel, the Sunshine State's highly un-PC answer to Minor Threat. This CD compiles pretty much every RM song recorded (plus a Grand Funk Railroad cover), with the notable exclusion of the band's classic "Wetback." Oh well, you can't ...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/roach-motel http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/frank-zappa Wazoo had been released w...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/frank-zappa http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/yellowman Preparing for a bout of sexiness, the original "King of the Dancehall" — Yellowman — returns to South Florida's shores with his slack lyrics and wry sense of humor. Known as Jamaica's first dancehall superstar, Yellowman helped turn the artform of toasting (like American rap) into a t...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/yellowman http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/rachid-taha Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/rachid-taha http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/marc-anthony The mixed response that Nuyorican actor, singer, and songwriter Marc Anthony received for his role in last year's El Cantante (the much-hyped biopic of tragic salsa pioneer Héctor Lavoe) does not do justice to Anthony's real star power. As he reaches his 40th birthday, Anthony is st...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/marc-anthony http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/the-baseball-project Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/the-baseball-project http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/shwayze "Woke up with a semi-hard dick/In a fat chick/Three this week/Call that a hat trick." Yeah, it's that bad. Oddly, though, the partly sung, partly rapp...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/shwayze http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/bendy-pastorius-group The Bendy Pastorius Group isn't playing straight-ahead bop by any means, but its funk-tinged electric jazz still swings, and it's lively enough to make folks want to get up and dance. The group has local roots (natch) as drummer Julius Pastorius was born and raised here along with his twin brothe...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/music/bendy-pastorius-group http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/dining/the-fourth-element In her amusing memoir Serial Monogamy, Nora Ephron remembers how she used to cook for Craig Claiborne in her head, spinning fantasies of having this man she'd never met come to her house for dinner (and later, of course, he'd write an article about her, including her recipes). After her im...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/dining/the-fourth-element http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/film/in-the-heat-of-the-knight And so, another summer movie season comes to an end not with a bang but with a whimper — what else to call four new releases (Babylon A.D., Bangkok Dangerous, College, and Disaster Movie) in the past ten days that weren't prescreened for critics by their respective distributor...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/film/in-the-heat-of-the-knight http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/food-with-a-view Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/food-with-a-view http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/i-feel-faint-maybe-i-need-mouth-to-mouth Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/i-feel-faint-maybe-i-need-mouth-to-mouth http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/skirmish-in-the-swamp WEC Championship Battle between the World Featherweight Champion and crowd favorite Urijah “California Kid” Faber and the relatively unkn...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/skirmish-in-the-swamp http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/a-jet-all-the-way Dolphins coach Tony Sparano told reporters simply, “It’s Chad,” leaving them to guess just which Chad — Pennington or Henne — would actually get the first snap. Turns out — duh — it was Pennington, ...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/a-jet-all-the-way http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/to-know-them-is-to-love-them Say Anything, where our man Lloyd (John Cusack) lifts his stereo on high to serenade his estranged love, Di...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/to-know-them-is-to-love-them http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/boozing-with-brutus Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/boozing-with-brutus http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/a-pair-of-queens-beats-your-hearts Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/a-pair-of-queens-beats-your-hearts http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/all-artsy-no-fartsy Yuroz. You’re way off.

Yuroz is an acclaimed artist whose focus is humanity: paintings, drawings, and sculpture all dedicated to the relationships between people and the world around them. So ...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/all-artsy-no-fartsy http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/we-re-being-invaded Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/we-re-being-invaded http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/kiss-her-for-me Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/kiss-her-for-me http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/celestial-occurrences-drunk-drumming MoonPath chapter of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans at the UU Church of Fort Lauderdale (3970 NW 21st Ave., Fort Lauderdale) is celebrating the solstice the same way Wiccans celebrate everything else: drumming...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/celestial-occurrences-drunk-drumming http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/stiff-convictions The play Ly...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/stiff-convictions http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/rock-the-runway Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/rock-the-runway http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/one-day-anime-festival one-day anime festival is coming to Davie on Saturday, and you really owe it to yourself to check it out. Even if you’re not a fan of animated films there is plenty for everyone to see. Take cos-players for instance: These folks are so into their hobby that they dress in some of the mo...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/one-day-anime-festival http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/finding-new-friends-through-fetish Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/finding-new-friends-through-fetish http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/made-in-canada Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/made-in-canada http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/she-s-a-fragile-f-n-flower Kathy Griffin caught a whiff of her own skin burning. Her efforts to reach mass-fame status had landed her a spot on the lower-tier reality game show Celebrity Mole Hawaii. To win — and win she did — Griffin forced herself to tread barefoot across a pathwa...]]> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/she-s-a-fragile-f-n-flower http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/small-wonders Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/calendar/small-wonders http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/culture/let-the-games-begin-the-art-of-competition-and-just-plain-fun Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2008-09-04/culture/let-the-games-begin-the-art-of-competition-and-just-plain-fun