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  • Broward-Palm Beach New Times

    The Agent from Iran

    How a mother of two ended up in a plot to smuggle high-tech gear to the enemy.

    By Deirdra Funcheon

  • Westword

    Murder By Design

    In life and death, tattoo artist Kauri Tiyme made her mark.

    By Alan Prendergast

  • Village Voice

    My Brother the Slumlord

    Amy Neustein never could resist going public with her family dramas.

    By Elizabeth Dwoskin

  • Houston Press

    The Ghosts of Galveston

    A visit with the hurricane victims that a country forgot.

    By John Nova Lomax

Spastic Times Call for Spastic Measures

We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

By Jose Gonzalez

Published on April 09, 2008 at 4:01am

Fictional astronaut Steve Austin had six million dollars behind his rebuilding. What does Matt Spastic -- drummer for chaotic garage punks The Complainiacs -- have? A little help from his friends. Spastic recently took a sucker punch from the universe, fracturing his jaw in five places and knocking out several of his teeth. The downtown denizen’s jaw is wired and subsequent costs keep getting higher, so friends and The Firehouse familia put together the “Hit by a Meteor!” benefit show to help defray the damage. Djentrification, Sonorous, The MadCaPs, Strange Family Circus, Babsomatic!, and Tucson’s ultramaroon will stir up some good mojo.
Thu., April 10, 9 p.m., 2008