1. Art

Function Uncertain

The best of King and Marin's ceramics are the ones that stray into purposelessness

By Michael Mills

Published: February 7, 2008

There is crockery, and then there is crockery. As in the earthenware bowls and other vessels commonly used to store things in and serve them from, and as in the ceramics found in "Peter...

2. Artbeat

"New Works by Derek Anstis and Terre Rybovich"

By Marya Summers

Published: February 7, 2008

Showing us where they've been and how they got there, the pieces in "New Works by Derek Anstis and Terre Rybovich" are each a sort of map. Anstis' paintings are based on a cartographic...

3. Dish

Tet à Tet

Ringing in the Year of the Rat at Sakyo

By Gail Shepherd

Published: February 7, 2008

I got to know Japanese food intimately at Yoko, a long, thin strip of a restaurant lined with pleather-covered booths, smoked mirrors, and a sushi bar backed by oversized photos of...

4. Dred Scott!

Kapone Tackles Black History Month

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: February 7, 2008

It's February again: that odd, lightning-fast month when musical and cultural education is supposed to peak. Carnival and Mardi Gras festivals buzz around each other rich with tradition,...

5. DVDish

How the West Was Wasted

By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky

Published: February 7, 2008

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Warner Bros.) Beautifully shot, masterfully acted, and 19 hours too long, Assassination is an uneven mix of the artful...

6. Feature

Spank the Monkey

Children's TV pioneer Alan Shalleck had a secret that killed him

By Amy Guthrie

Published: February 7, 2008

Alan Shalleck knew a thing or two about storytelling: how to engage his audience and build suspense, how to bring a character to life. He honed those skills in the pioneering days...

7. Film

Intelligent Design

PYT seduces her literary hero in the astute Starting Out in the Evening

By Ella Taylor

Published: February 7, 2008

In Starting Out in the Evening, a new film by Andrew Wagner, a pneumatic graduate student spreads honey over the face of the elderly New York novelist she's trying to seduce. Later,...

8. Film

Pity the Fool

There is no gold at the end of this terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mashup

By Scott Foundas

Published: February 7, 2008

When a friend recently told me that she'd been confused by the poster for the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson fortune-hunting romp Fool's Gold adorning her local multiplex —...

9. Game On

Auto Erotica

Car lovers find a new flame in Burnout Paradise.

By Chris Ward

Published: February 7, 2008

Long have we waited to be taken down to the Paradise City, where the girls are green and the grass is pretty, or whatever. Now, thanks to Burnout Paradise, we know what all the fuss...

10. Live Wire

Terence Blanchard

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: February 7, 2008

Although there are a ton of New Orleans-based musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina who are working to resurrect their once-glorious hometown, only a few faces have stood out as...

11. Live Wire

Jamaica Vintage Music Festival

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: February 7, 2008

Twice a year, South Florida music lovers are treated to a vintage reggae concert that gathers all the best artists from back in the day, brings some of the most recognizable sound...

12. Live Wire

Bang Camaro

By Abel Folgar

Published: February 7, 2008

As part of Miami's only all-male art collective, Boyz of Bazel, I usually have to answer some pretty bullshit questions concerning sexuality and whatnot. I don't even want to know...

13. Live Wire

Blind Boys of Alabama

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: February 7, 2008

When it comes to making music, as crass as this sounds, there are some cool benefits to being blind. The obvious references to Ray Charles, Andrea Bocelli, and Stevie Wonder go without...

14. ¡Ask a Mexican!

Better to Give?

Joto-hating cuts both ways

By Gustavo Arellano

Published: February 7, 2008

Dear Mexican: After working with Mexicans for years, I have noticed that Mexican men have a double standard when it comes to homosexuality. Why is it that the "giver" is not regarded...

15. Music

Son Is Shining

Ky-Mani Marley steps out of his family's shadow

By Jason Handelsman

Published: February 7, 2008

With signature dreads, gold chains around his neck, and a tattoo of his father on his right arm, Ky-Mani Marley has a presence that is unmistakably Marley. Despite a Miami swagger,...

16. Music

Listen Up, Romeo

Ten songs not to include on your Valentine's Day mix

By Cole Haddon

Published: February 7, 2008

Every man has made at least one. The romantic-mix CD is one of the surest-fire ways to woo a woman's heart or, if your goals are more banal, just get laid. With Valentine's Day around...

17. News

Bambi Bump-off

Who's killing the endangered key deer? The bloody mess has caused a scandal in paradise.

By Chuck Strouse

Published: February 7, 2008

Three dusty skulls lay in the dust beneath silvery buttonwood leaves. Two were covered in rotting flesh. One had been severed by a hacksaw. That was December. A month prior, a truck...

18. Bob Norman

Ol' Man Wiley Had a Farm

The patriarch of Waldrep Farm wouldn't go near the place nowadays. Will anybody else?

By Bob Norman

Published: February 7, 2008

The scene might have come from Wiley Waldrep's worst dream. The peeled earth, shorn of all trees and vegetation, cracked and exposed under the sun. Long lines of exhaust-spitting...

19. Outtakes

Natural Ingredients

Yonder Mountain String Band gets culinary

By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

Published: February 7, 2008

When Yonder Mountain String Band's lead vocalist and mandolin player, Jeff Austin, caught up with New Times a couple of weeks ago, we expected to gauge where he stood on bluegrass...

20. Outtakes

They Got the Beat

The Go-Go's again and again

By Annie Zaleski

Published: February 7, 2008

In the early '80s, the Go-Go's were considered the quintessential California girls, thanks mainly to sunny new-wave songs like "Vacation" and "We Got the Beat." But times are (somewhat)...