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21. Night & Day

    Art School in a Can

    Hocking paintings from a human art-cyclopedia

    By Phillip Valys

    Published: August 23, 2007

    So you’re the next Rembrandt, but you know absolutely squat about pimping your magnum opus to the kingpins of the world? That’s a quandary which, if left untreated, could...

22. Night & Day

    The Burden of Blues

    By John Linn

    Published: August 23, 2007

    “The blues died when they took the ‘fuck’ out of it, ” says Rocco DeLuca, the front man of California rock outfit the Burden, in his bio. “To get [the blues] back we need to...

23. Night & Day

    Microphone Fiend

    Do you have “Ice, Ice Baby?”

    By Raina McLeod

    Published: August 23, 2007

    We see you in your car, thrusting your imaginary gun in the air, rapping furiously to Tupac’s “All Eyez On Me.” Yeah, on the surface we point and giggle at you,...

24. Night & Day

    I Have a Dream...

    To one day be a famous actress

    By Penn Bullock

    Published: August 23, 2007

    The “struggling actress” is an old, anemic, American myth. David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive transmogrified the cliché into a multi-faceted mindfuck. Hollywood Dreams (2006), an...

25. Night & Day

    Rapid Deterioration

    Of your adulthood, that is.

    By John Linn

    Published: August 23, 2007

    There’s absolutely nothing embarrassing about being a 26-year-old man who rides waterslides. There may, however, be something embarrassing about screaming louder than that...

26. Night & Day

    Back in Black, and Funny Wigs

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: August 23, 2007

    You’re not getting out of an AC/DC concert for less than a half a grand. Two tickets near the stage? $300. Parking? $20. T-shirts for you and your about-to-rock date? $80 to...

27. Night & Day

    Embrace Your Inner Twister

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: August 23, 2007

    There’s really no point in listening to the oldies station while driving; seatbelt laws inhibit your Twist and bucket seats make it impossible to do the Pony. It’s an atrocity...

28. Night & Day

    A Double Dose of Bravery

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: August 23, 2007

    Everyone makes capricious decisions when they’re young. For some, those choices will remain buried like a time capsule only to emerge years later when they run for political...

29. Night & Day

    Braves’ New World

    No longer great, Atlanta’s still playing for postseason against Marlins

    By Sam Eifling

    Published: August 23, 2007

    It was kind of cute when the Braves went all-in to bring hard-swinging righty Mark Teixeira to Atlanta before the trading deadline, only to go 6-5 over their next 11 games with...

30. Night & Day

    Surly You Jest

    By Sam Eifling

    Published: August 23, 2007

    That frisson of terror you feel when you see clowns has a fancy name: coulrophobia. Perhaps it stems from meeting a drunken clown as a child, or reading It, or attending a...

31. Night & Day

    T. G. I. Effen

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: August 23, 2007

    You’ve been dreaming about this moment all week, the way the diligent student secretly pines for recess. It’s Friday. Your boss has unhinged your cubicle’s shackles. For the...

32. Night & Day

    We Predict "Light My Firefighter"

    By John Linn

    Published: August 23, 2007

    At Boca’s debauched dueling piano bar, FunKey Nutz (303 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton), patrons are usually the ones who shed their clothing. During naughty renditions of classic...

33. Night & Day

    Just An Awesome Fucking Band

    Are The Jean Marie the best thing to happen to post-punk since punk?

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: August 23, 2007

    What do you get when you grab the Au Pairs, ´80s-era King Crimson, Mungo Jerry, and the guy who mixes the harmonies for The Scissor Sisters, stick them in a blender, and hit...

34. Night & Day

    A Thousand Shipwrecks

    By John Linn

    Published: August 23, 2007

    People love tragedy as long as they’re not on the receiving end. It’s an artistic premise that’s not likely to be shelved anytime soon thanks to our sickly little addiction to...

35. Night & Day

    In America, We Like Everything Big

    Especially our movies

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: August 23, 2007

    There are a lot of values that are associated with being an American; respect for your community is one, pride in family is another. Maybe the most important trait that we all...

36. Art

    Once More With Feeling

    New Art Expressions Offers Some Gems in Mixed Show

    By Michael Mills

    Published: August 23, 2007

    It really was like déjà vu all over again. Stepping into Art Expressions Gallery, I mean. The gallery, once crammed into a cramped space in a tiny strip mall on...

37. Artbeat

    Second Look

    By Marya Summers

    Published: August 23, 2007

    You might wonder how seriously you should take a gallery that got started on Craigslist. But that's sort of the point: Gallery owner Peter Meyerhoefer thinks art should be as...

38. DVDish

    The Sympathetic Spy

    Published: August 23, 2007

    The Lives of Others (Sony) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's film, easily the best of last year, exists on many levels: as tragedy, dark comedy, and love story — not...

39. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    South ParkUgly Betty

    Published: August 23, 2007

    Broken English (Magnolia)The Ex (Weinstein)Exorcism: Special Edition (BCI)The Far Side of Jericho (First Look)The Films of Michael Haneke (Kino)House of Games: The Criterion...

40. Game On

    Bend It Like Bowser

    Soccer gets a surreal twist in Mario Strikers Charged.

    By Chris Ward

    Published: August 23, 2007

    The first worthwhile online-compatible game for the Wii has finally arrived. And in at least one way, Mario Strikers Charged is just like real soccer: Sometimes it scores, and...