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Texas boxer Valerie Mahfood has had the crap kicked out of her by bar bouncers for looking too much like a man. She's had the crap kicked out of her by inmates at a maximum-security prison. Most recently, she's had the crap kicked out of her -- on national TV, no less -- by ring prodigy Laila Ali. But, encouraged by her tough-talking, cigar-smoking father, Mahfood takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Dallas Observer staff writer Rose Farley talks to "A Girl Named Suicide," who may just change the face of women's boxing.

Using a 1926 law that regulates dancing, both Mayor Rudy Guiliani and now his successor Michael Bloomberg are sending cops into the warehouse districts of Manhattan looking for people illegally shaking their booties. The city is using the law "to combat quality-of-life complaints and troublesome clubs," Tricia Romano writes in The Village Voice. Increasing the anger of booming club operators, "the nightlife industry's sole voice ... is not in favor of repealing the law," she writes.

University of Texas film student Rhys Southan and a prankster partner decided to break into Sony Studios, steal the worst script they could find, rewrite it, and then put it back. The 17-minute documentary they made of themselves doing so is one of the year's hottest documentaries, but it also put the studio on their trail. The Houston Press' Tony Ortega talks to the fugitive filmmaker.