1. Art

Bronzes Schmonzes

Even Degas had his doubts about their artistic value

By Michael Mills

Published: February 21, 2008

Sometimes the making of art is as interesting as the art itself. Occasionally, as with "Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures," now at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, it's even more...

2. Artbeat

Winslow Homer: Illustrator and Graphic Artist

By Marya Summers

Published: February 21, 2008

When it comes to images, the digital world values clarity, but in the art world — both old and new — sometimes blurry is better. "Winslow Homer: Illustrator and Graphic...

3. Dish

Thinking Outside the Noodle Box

Cross this bridge when you come to it

By Gail Shepherd

Published: February 21, 2008

People don't want to cross the bridge to get here," says Peter Wong. He's talking about the little concrete blip that arches over the Intercoastal on East Commercial Boulevard in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea,...

4. Dred Scott!

Living for the Funk

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: February 21, 2008

Most bass players don't get recognition, let alone fame. You can probably count on two hands the bassists that found the limelight in the past 40 years. I'll spot you Jaco Pastorius...

5. DVDish

Laughing Pains

By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

Published: February 21, 2008

Margot at the Wedding (Paramount) Margot (Nicole Kidman, or someone who looks just like her) is a fiction writer whose tales are based, uncomfortably and unkindly, on the real-life...

6. Feature

Just Say Uncle

The DEA's "Twin Oceans" hooked a big fish, but can they reel it in?

By Thomas Francis

Published: February 21, 2008

On his last day as a free man, in the spring of 2006, Pablo Rayo Montaño probably didn't venture far from his home in São Paulo, Brazil. It was too dangerous, even for...

7. Film

Straight to Video

Michel Gondry attempts to celebrate DIY filmmaking but comes up short, stale, and flat

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: February 21, 2008

The pleasures of Be Kind Rewind do not extend far beyond the promise of its premise: Jack Black, magnetized and manic (yawn), erases every single video tape in the rental store where...

8. Film

Kids These Days

Teen comedy Charlie Bartlett could use a dose of mean

By Ella Taylor

Published: February 21, 2008

Like most wannabe heroes of the eager-to-please teen comedy, poor little rich boy Charlie Bartlett is charming and quirky. Too charming by half and not nearly quirky enough, as played...

9. Game On

Hell Yes

Dante's inferno rages on in Devil May Cry 4.

By Chris Ward

Published: February 21, 2008

Let's just get it out right now: "Devil May Cry" is a weak-ass name for a wicked action game. But what's in a name? In three previous outings, the brutal, hella-challenging series...

10. Letters

Letters for February 21-27, 2008

Published: February 21, 2008

Lighten Up, Guitar Man Guitar Hero isn't a menace to society — it's a game! I just had to comment on this article ("Guitar Zero," Ashley Harrell, February 14). I'm the father...

11. Live Wire

Güajiro

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: February 21, 2008

The local punk scene in South Florida isn't as strong as it should be. The bands are here, and the venues exist, but there's something that prevents all the dots from connecting. While...

12. Live Wire

Cobra Starship

By Monica Cady

Published: February 21, 2008

On their 2006 debut, While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets, Cobra Starship's lead man Gabe Saporta smugly sings, "Success has its price;" but success also has a few perks —...

13. Live Wire

Anne Murray

By Lee Zimmerman

Published: February 21, 2008

Of all her many hits, Canadian chanteuse Anne Murray may be best known for her first, a song called "Snowbird," which winged its way to the top of the international charts. Of course,...

14. Live Wire

The Three Jacks

By Greg Baker

Published: February 21, 2008

There is a great tradition, or at least a stereotype, of an association between storytelling and drunkenness among the Irish. With his new project, the Three Jacks, Henk "Jack" Milne...

15. ¡Ask a Mexican!

High-Flying Mexico

Don't Believe the Claptrap

By Gustavo Arellano

Published: February 21, 2008

Dear Mexican: Why do you suppose Mexico has such a hard time getting its act together? It has vast natural resources, good climate, natural ports, super-generous and good-looking neighbors,...

16. Music

Drum Healer

Former Third World drummer Willie Stewart shows how the beat goes on

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: February 21, 2008

From the first moment you get on the phone with Willie Stewart, you can tell he's vibrating on a higher plane. The 55-year-old musical savant speaks with the slow joviality of a sage...

17. Music

Snares Trap

Venetian Snares gives New Times his first U.S. interview in two years

By Tom Bowker

Published: February 21, 2008

Why does everything have to be Forbes magazine?" scoffs Aaron Funk, the electronic music madman who performs as Venetian Snares. Speaking with New Times by phone from his native Winnipeg,...

18. News

Are We There Yet?

Jeez, can we just embrace the electric car already?

By Deirdra Funcheon

Published: February 21, 2008

The Countyline Dragway sits on the western edge of civilization, on US 27, just south of the Broward/Miami-Dade line. The sky looks like it came from a Tim Burton movie: all black,...

19. Bob Norman

Cops and Gypsies

Friendly law enforcement officers become the weapons of rival destruction in the gypsy tribal wars

By Bob Norman

Published: February 21, 2008

The gypsy elder says there's only one reason he's out to rid South Florida of John Uwanawich and his family of fortune tellers. "He's giving all gypsies a bad name," said the elder,...

20. Outtakes

The Boatlift Floats

Pitbull bounces back

By Jose Davila

Published: February 21, 2008

It must be hard beings all things to all people — especially when your name is Pitbull and you happen to be the top Latin MC in the country. Yeah, broadly speaking, Pit's music...