1. Artbeat

Architecture in Colombia: A Sense of Place

By Marya Summers

Published: September 6, 2007

Take 59 pages from a book on modern Colombian architecture and reproduce them as posters and you've got "Architecture in Colombia: A Sense of Place," or so it seems (the book was under...

2. Dish

Pass the Bread, Casanova

At Tulio's, it's the sole that seduces

By Gail Shepherd

Published: September 6, 2007

Ladies, watch your backs. Three-quarters of the single adult American male population is suddenly out there perfecting the magic art of seduction. They've learned their foolproof pickup...

3. Dred Scott!

UNlimited Heavy Metal

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: September 6, 2007

Someone needs to pinch Freddy Lim. The 31-year-old Taiwanese singer thinks he's living the ultimate heavy-metal dream. His long-time black metal band, ChthoniC, has been traipsing...

4. DVDish

Seasons in the Sun

Published: September 6, 2007

The Office: Season Three (Universal) After a shaky first season and a better-with-every-episode second, The Office proved itself one of the most consistent comedies in the history...

5. Feature

Voodoo Man

A voodoo ceremony in the 'burbs? Who'da thunk it?

By Tamara Lush

Published: September 6, 2007

Watch an audio slideshow of Erol Josue leading a Little Haiti Vodou ceremony. Chantal Louis is a 42-year-old Haitian immigrant who lives in suburban Hempstead on Long Island. She's...

6. Film

Still Waiting for That Train

James Mangold remakes a classic Western for our ADD times

By J. Hoberman

Published: September 6, 2007

Huffing and puffing to resuscitate a long-moribund genre, James Mangold manages to imbue a 50-year-old Western with the semblance of life. Mangold's remake of 3:10 to Yuma isn't as...

7. Film

Owen, Clive Owen

Shoot 'Em Up proves that its star could have been a killer Bond

By Chuck Wilson

Published: September 6, 2007

There have already been critical rumblings about the extreme violence in Shoot 'Em Up, but it's hard to get too worked up about a film whose very title announces its maker's intent...

8. Game On

Getting Medieval

Two Worlds sends next-gen RPGs back to the Dark Ages

By Chris Ward

Published: September 6, 2007

Funny how gaming's most epic genre — the role-playing game — often feels the most limited in scope. After all, how many ways can we traverse a medieval land, defeat the...

9. Letters

Letters for September 6-12, 2007

Published: September 6, 2007

Crooked Flight Novelists can't make this stuff up: So when are the indictments coming ("Return to Sender," Bob Norman, August 30)? Is Palm Beach County the only county to begin cleaning...

10. Live Wire

Bad Boy Bill

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: September 6, 2007

There aren't many names within the global house community as recognizable as Bad Boy Bill's. As the long-time poster boy for Chicago house, Bill has been taking house music to higher...

11. Live Wire

Mavis Staples

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: September 6, 2007

There aren't many performers alive today with catalogs more extensive in both gospel and contemporary music than Mavis Staples. The gifted singer got her start in the early 1950s as...

12. Live Wire

Tigercity

By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

Published: September 6, 2007

It's not every day that you find a group of musicians who can straddle the line between the dreamy atmospheres of Ambient Works-era Aphex Twin and the soul pop of Hall & Oates...

13. Live Wire

Grimy Styles

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: September 6, 2007

Taking their cues from dub pioneers like King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry, Austin-based quartet Grimy Styles seems glad to respectfully step away from anything old school and focus...

14. ¡Ask a Mexican!

Speedy Is Suave

Ándale! It's OK to Laugh

By Gustavo Arellano

Published: September 6, 2007

Dear Mexican: A new line of Speedy Gonzalez clothing came out earlier this year. As a black vendor in a predominantly Mexican market, I immediately thought about selling some of these...

15. Music

Latin Crunk's New Tastemaker

Sito Oner Rock takes a new genre global

By Jose Davila

Published: September 6, 2007

It's an unusually breezy Thursday afternoon on Hollywood Boulevard. The vintage shops and restaurants that line the old district are mostly empty, and Latin music sensation Sito Oner...

16. This Week in Music

Hot Shit

Published: September 6, 2007

Hot Shit Bill Bellamy: He's been a player and a booty call. He's worked his way from ground up to headlining position on Def Comedy Jam. This week, the host of NBC's Last Comic Standing...

17. Music

The Grand Hustle

A Broward County hip-hop group is in a league of its own

By Esther Park

Published: September 6, 2007

On a lone desolate strip off Broward Boulevard, among barefoot crackheads and auto-body chop shops, lies a deserted strip mall with few signs of life. One can drive by it for months...

18. News

Kongfrontation

When manipulating Mario goes stratospheric, who's the real Donkey Kong champ?

By John Linn

Published: September 6, 2007

History means a lot to Billy Mitchell. The 42-year-old gamer from Hollywood has had a long one, beginning back in 1982, when he first set the world record in the arcade game Donkey...

19. Night Rider

Geek Porn

Tits 'n' asteroids at Tate's

By Marya Summers

Published: September 6, 2007

The opening of the "Sex and Science" show at Bear and Bird Boutique and Gallery, the girly section of Tate's Comics in Lauderhill, brought out all manner of perverts, who perhaps were...

20. Bob Norman

Pure Fraud

When somebody offers to "purify" your possessions, call the bunko squad

By Bob Norman

Published: September 6, 2007

The house, set back off a private country road in Davie and ensconced in old palms and high-reaching tropical vegetation, has a Sunset Boulevard feel to it. Its dual chimneys seem...