1. Artbeat

2007 All Florida Juried Show

By Marya Summers

Published: August 16, 2007

It's easy to take for granted what comes easily. But the thing about a showing of local or regional art: It gives you perspective on the pool of talent you're swimming in. The "2007...

2. Dish

Don't Thai Me Down, Babe

Who put the bang back in Bangkok?

By Gail Shepherd

Published: August 16, 2007

You think it's all fun and games being a food critic, dontcha? "Oooooh, you're so luuucky," perfect strangers purr when they hear what I do. "I wish I had your job." I have news:...

3. Dred Scott!

Gary Enforcement Takes Dancehall Digital

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: August 16, 2007

It's a muggy Wednesday night in Plantation, and reggae is blaring through my car speakers. It's a tad scratchy, as local station 101.1-FM isn't an above-ground frequency, but the signal...

4. DVDish

Keeping the Meter Running

Published: August 16, 2007

Taxi Driver: Collector's Edition (Sony) "Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads: Here is a man who would not take it anymore." Martin Scorsese's 1976 vision of hell as city-of-night...

5. Feature

Powerfall

For David Lee Edwards, winning the lottery was a wild rocket ride

By Amy Guthrie

Published: August 16, 2007

In the fall of 2006, David Lee Edwards and his wife, Shawna, decorated their front door for Halloween. But if trick-or-treaters made it to the couple's home, a storage unit in Riviera...

6. Film

Wondrous Nerd Love

Geeky teens try to get knocked up in the instantly immortal Superbad

By Scott Foundas

Published: August 16, 2007

The latest comic meteorite to hurtle forth from the galaxy of producer Judd Apatow, Superbad is about a couple of chronically unpopular best friends who, after four years stuck on...

7. Film

Man Down

Werner Herzog takes his hero worship to Hollywood

By J. Hoberman

Published: August 16, 2007

Nothing if not appropriate for summer blockbuster season, Werner Herzog's latest feature, based on his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly, offers a suitably fantastic tale...

8. Game On

Fill in the Blank

Picross DS illustrates that there's life after Sudoku

By Gary Hodges

Published: August 16, 2007

Ask a random person five years ago what Sudoku was and you'd be lucky if he mumbled something about Japanese ritual suicide. But go down any supermarket's magazine aisle today and...

9. Letters

Letters for August 16-22, 2007

It's a Freakin' Show

Published: August 16, 2007

It's a Freakin' Show I like it like that: Michael Mills' "Texting Nature" regarding the exhibit "Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford" (August 9) is a well-written explication...

10. Live Wire

Dance Gavin Dance

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: August 16, 2007

Don't let the name fool you. If you show up to a Dance Gavin Dance show expecting to boogie like it's the disco era all over again, you'll be disappointed. The six members of the California-based...

11. Live Wire

Kid Sister

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: August 16, 2007

One of the last times I flew on an airplane, I sat next to Kid Sister on a two-hour flight from Jacksonville to Austin for SXSW. She was the flyest-dressed girl on the plane (tight...

12. Live Wire

Chris Isaak

By Lee Zimmerman

Published: August 16, 2007

He's the master of the smooth croon, and his low-key delivery might give the impression that he rarely breaks a sweat. But with a career that spans two decades and nine best-selling...

13. Live Wire

The Doobie Brothers

By Lee Zimmerman

Published: August 16, 2007

If you don't know what a doobie is, then brother, chances are you weren't around when the Doobie Brothers lit up the Top 40 charts while scoring big back in the '70s. In retrospect,...

14. Music

Married to the Sound

An acoustic duo reinvented with a new name, new album, and a bigger band

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: August 16, 2007

The hard part of being a musician in love is choosing between making music and making love. One wins at the expense of the other. If you're lucky, like Jeff and Christine Maldonado,...

15. Music

Gentle Jazz Giants

Spyro Gyra's Jay Beckenstein reflects on three decades of resolve, radio, and the band's edgy approach to smooth jazz

By Lee Zimmerman

Published: August 16, 2007

Jay Beckenstein makes it a point to be prompt. Maybe too prompt. Phoning from his home in upstate New York, the leader and sax player for the jazz band Spyro Gyra duly checks in for...

16. News

Fin be Gone

Local entrepreneurs say they've perfected a sunblock with a twist: It repels sharks

By Jamie Laughlin

Published: August 16, 2007

Patrick Rice just high-fived the lunch lady, an unexpected bit of camaraderie that elicits a blush and a two-handed hairnet adjustment from the woman before she returns to slopping...

17. Night Rider

Three-Minute Miracles

Dada embraces rock 'n' roll fantasy

By Marya Summers

Published: August 16, 2007

On a recent Monday night, the wannabes, the could-have-beens, and the almost-weres joined cover band Diesel at Dada for the kickoff of live band karaoke. There was Jen, the karaoke-crazed...

18. Pub Stalker

Finish Line Sports Bar

By Bryan Falla

Published: August 16, 2007

Finish Line Sports Bar 5300 N. Powerline Rd. Fort Lauderdale 954-491-6265 It's never smart to drink and drive. Especially when the car is tiny and fast enough to require that you wear...

19. Short Cuts

Linkin Park

Minutes to Midnight (Warner Bros.)

By Bryan Falla

Published: August 16, 2007

The Apocalypse is upon us. Or so nü-metal superstars Linkin Park would have us believe. They mean it too. They even cleaned up their soccer-practice-carpool friendly act and actually...

20. Short Cuts

Grateful Dead

Three From the Vault (Rhino)

By Stephanie Sanders

Published: August 16, 2007

Direct from the Grateful Dead's multitrack master tapes is the third installment in the Vault series. Believe it or not, it was ready for release back in the early '90s, shortly after...