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Kill Gus Boulis's Killer?
Paul Brandreth didn't want to murder anybody. Or did he?
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Silly Wabbit
So a guy in a bunny suit walks into a bar ...
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Mayor of the Nude Beach
So he's naked and in his seventies. He's still the coolest guy you'll ever meet.
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Poisoned Well
What was contaminating our drinking water? Who knows - Dade officials stopped looking.
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Ignored and Cheated
Farm workers earn nada in America's green bean capital.
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Sarnoff Shmarnoff (14)
Commissioner Marc's claim to a famous bloodline just might be fiction.
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Mayor of the Nude Beach (5)
So he's naked and in his seventies. He's still the coolest guy you'll ever meet.
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The Reporter and the Tranny (4)
He kissed her, um, him, and that was only the beginning.
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Wine and Food Fest Pops the Cork (2)
SoBe’s culinary extravaganza gets under way.
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Spanish Empire (2)
Miguel Bosé is no run-of-the-mill Latin heartthrob.
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Sigher Education
Get your Ph.D. in bOINK-ing today.
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Wear a Cup
Old-school comedians can handle you hecklers.
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Making Shit Up
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The Shape of History
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Park Life
Healthy eating and outdoorsy fun at Bayfront.
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2008 Dolphins Mock Draft
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Love and Cancer
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Weekly News Wrapup - Spiraling Economy, Racketeering and Still No Delegates.
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WMC Preview! Q&A with Louie Vega
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New House Shoes Podcast Up
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Q&A with Pink Martini, at the Adrienne Arsht Center this Friday
03:48PM 03/19/08
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Recent Articles By TOM MCFADDEN
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In Heaven There Is No Beer
That is why we drink it here!
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Talk to Me, Goose
The real Top Guns take the throttle at Wings Over Miami.
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Hillbilly Harmony
Leave your Deliverance jokes at the door.
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Sittin’ on 72s
The Monster Jam will destroy the competition.
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A Bird in the Grave Equals Two in the Pub
Hear Irish words of wisdom at the Saint Stephen’s Day celebration.
National Features
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Village Voice
A Long Way Wrong?
Another celebrated memoir threatens to blow into a million little pieces.
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LA Weekly
Hoop Dawg
Billionaire Donald T. Sterling owns the L.A. Clippers and loves the ladies. And those are just two of his problems.
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The Pitch
Children of the Porn
Elvin Boone's sex-shop empire crumbles as his offspring feud.
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Westword
The Good Soldier
When the Army tried to take down Andrew Pogany, they messed with the wrong coward.
By Joel Warner
Don’t Call It a Comeback
Boxing harks back to the glory days.
By TOM MCFADDEN
Published: January 10, 2008Although the groundswell of interest in mixed martial arts (MMA) ostensibly struck a deathblow to boxing, rumors of its demise have been greatly exaggerated. Sure, Chuck Liddell read lines with Johnny Drama on HBO’s Entourage, but Floyd “Money” Mayweather and the Golden Boy set pay-per-view records for their May bout. Only boxing can make brutality aesthetically pleasing.
MMA boasts more blood, but it’s no match for boxing’s long, storied history. The sweet science is pure Americana, on par with apple pie, cheeseburgers, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Tonight at 9, boxing’s resurrected Friday Night Fights comes to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino when Colombian Edison “Pantera” Miranda and Haitian-born Jean Pascal face off against American opponents. Miranda battles Oregon’s David Banks, while Pascal squares off against Omar “Pit Bull” Pittman, the latest in a long tradition of Philly bad-asses. Miranda and Pascal are expected to battle in late ’08, but only if they can survive in South Florida.
Fri., Jan. 11, 2008
