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41. 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...

42. Short Cuts

    Talib Kweli

    Eardrum (Blacksmith)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: September 6, 2007

    "Conscious rap" needs to be eliminated from hip-hop's vernacular — or, at the very least, Talib Kweli's name should be stricken from its rolls. Nobody's quite sure what...

43. 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...

44. 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...

45. Short Cuts

    Paul Motian Trio 2000+Two

    Live at the Village Vanguard (Winter & Winter)

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: September 6, 2007

    Paul Motian has never been quite so stunning a bandleader as he was an ensemble drummer, playing with guys like Bill Frissel and Bill Evans in the late 1950s. On his latest...

46. 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 &...

47. Short Cuts

    Mala Rodriguez

    Malarismo (Machete)

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: September 6, 2007

    Mala Rodriguez is more than just another hot Spanish singer. Yes, she is sexy, but she's also an authentic rapper. Consider her Tego Calderón minus the 'fro. She's a...

48. 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...