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21. Night & Day

    “Born to be Wiiiild”

    By John Linn

    Published: August 16, 2007

    When the bike-nic film Easy Rider first screened in 1969, it was met with heaps of praise from film critics, burgeoning rock ´n´ rollers, and motorcyclists alike. As the first...

22. Night & Day

    Comic Inspiration

    Get your RPG, DC, and LIT on at War and Pieces.

    By John Linn

    Published: August 16, 2007

    What image appears in your head when you hear the words “comic book community”? Two costumed convention-goers, one squeezed into tight red-and-blue spandex with a homemade “S”...

23. Night & Day

    The Mothers of Immersion

    By Dominic Sirianni

    Published: August 16, 2007

    Another installment of the Where-Are-They-Now Musical Odyssey Game, South Florida Edition, rears its not-so-ugly head this week. Thank god this version includes a healthy dose...

24. Night & Day

    Going Green

    By Riki Altman

    Published: August 16, 2007

    While the tourists on Hollywood’s Broadwalk spend their Sundays hunting for tacky T-shirts, locals in the know are busy shooting fresh wheat grass shots and squeezing gold...

25. Night & Day

    A Quick Lesson in Firearms

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: August 16, 2007

    For the gun show neophyte, the sales floor can be a scary place, especially since so many venders appear deranged and have enough weapons with them to supply a small country at...

26. Night & Day

    Cool Your Fins

    Hot baseball goes great with ice cream

    By Mia Saavedra

    Published: August 16, 2007

    After a summer afternoon of baseball, who can say no to ice cream? Today the Florida Marlins host the Second Annual Ice Cream Festival. Edy’s Ice Cream will provide the good...

27. Night & Day

    On Friday, Friday, Friday!

    And Saturday, Saturday, Saturday!

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: August 16, 2007

    As a kid you saw Monster Trucks as spectacular demons of destruction, turning boring automobiles into metal road kill with every brilliant ramp jump; you wished desperately to...

28. Night & Day

    Street Art’s Newest Tag Team

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: August 16, 2007

    Their styles are as different as their backgrounds, but today, Sole Estate (513 Clematis St., West Palm Beach) brings two of West Palm’s emerging street artists together. JET,...

29. Night & Day

    A Change of Season

    Can be a real lifesaver

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: August 16, 2007

    Technically, South Florida has two seasons: wet and dry. If you’re a woman, you get two more: Girl Scout Cookie and Firefighter Calendar, each delicious in its own right....

30. Night & Day

    Pass the Mike

    By Terra Sullivan

    Published: August 16, 2007

    Any open mic comic worth their weight in complimentary drinks carries with them a difficult childhood experience that- - while not so funny at the time- - turns into joke...

31. Night & Day

    The Iceman Cometh Again

    By John Linn

    Published: August 16, 2007

    It’s one of the oldest adages of fame: once your big break hits, you’re destined to forget all the little people, without whose steadfast support you’d have never risen to the...

32. Night & Day

    No Need to be Shellfish

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: August 16, 2007

    Jonathan Swift said it best: “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” Whether it’s their calcified exterior shells or their slimy interior bivalve design,...

33. Night & Day

    Dogs: Harbingers of Heat

    By John Linn

    Published: August 16, 2007

    We’re at the tail end of the dog days of summer – that sweltering August sun sapping every last bit of our will like a chunk of Floridian kryptonite – which, if you listen to...

34. Night & Day

    Less James Dean, More John Cusack

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: August 16, 2007

    She was a beauty queen, international model, and runner-up in the Mrs. America pageant; Victoria Howard lived a charmed life. Her choice of men, however, was questionable....

35. Stage

    Such Charming Brutality

    Joe Adler murders kittens and makes you like it

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: August 16, 2007

    The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a lighthearted political satire that features four murders, two toenail-pullings, one near-miss nipple amputation, the brains of two cats, six...

36. 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...

37. 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...

38. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: August 16, 2007

    All Creatures Great & Small: The Complete Collection (BBC Warner)Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for DVD (Turner)Back to School: Extra-Curricular...

39. 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...

40. 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...