1. Art

East Wind A'Blowin'

The South Asian artists in this show are so far out of the box they rattle the place

By Michael Mills

Published: April 3, 2008

"Exploding the Lotus" is heavy on conceptual art — to the point, perhaps, of inducing a mild headache. The show, now at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, was jointly curated...

2. Artbeat

Calder Jewelry

By Marya Summers

Published: April 3, 2008

Most of us know Alexander Calder, the famous sculptor. Both his stationary works, which he called "stabiles", and his revolutionary "mobiles" define our cities in displays of public...

3. Dish

Chopsticks Say: Ka-ching!

China Grill brings the show to Lauderdale

By Gail Shepherd

Published: April 3, 2008

Here's a restaurant with volume set to "max," 14,000 square feet of surround-sound at the Fort Lauderdale Grande's new China Grill. From design to dames it's all spilling over the...

4. Dred Scott!

American Idol Goes Geriatric

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: April 3, 2008

On a recent Tuesday evening, local talk radio couldn't seem to talk about anything except the American Idol viewing parties going on around South Florida. Folks had gathered to root...

5. Feature

Spring Break Is Still Decadent and Depraved — and Awesome, Dude!

Try as it might, Fort Lauderdale can't shake some diehard seasonal partiers

By Michael J. Mooney

Published: April 3, 2008

Kacey was blue. Not because someone had just awakened him. Not because it was 4 in the afternoon, and he was naked and confused. No, he was literally the color blue. His friends had...

6. Film

Some Country for Old Men

Seniors Scorsese and the Stones together again

By Camille Dodero

Published: April 3, 2008

Mick Jagger's most essential physical feature, according to Martin Scorsese: his bellystache. On the poster for Shine a Light, the big-shot director's Rolling Stones concert film,...

7. Film

Fourth and Inches

George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet...

By Scott Foundas

Published: April 3, 2008

When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star" — note, not even a question mark at the end — you didn't have...

8. Game On

Paging Freaks

Guinness writes the book on gaming, but doesn't shatter any records.

By Chris Ward

Published: April 3, 2008

As a kid, I spent countless hours thumbing through a dog-eared copy of The Guinness Book of World Records, determined to find just the right stupid human trick to vault me into freak-show...

9. Letters

Letters for April 3-9, 2008

Published: April 3, 2008

Rage Against the Dispenser I read with interest your story on the new wine bar, Vino, on Harrison Street in Hollywood ("Wine Bar Wine Bar," Tailpipe, March 20). I was intrigued by...

10. Live Wire

Caribou

By Jason Ferguson

Published: April 3, 2008

For a guy with a PhD in Math, Dan Snaith sure knows how to find the human warmth inside a machine. Over the course of four albums — his latest, Andorra, was released last August...

11. Live Wire

Vince Neil

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: April 3, 2008

So tonight, everything is as it should be. Vince Neil, the name that could be responsible for breathing permanent life into West Palm Beach's nightlife, is here to do exactly that....

12. Live Wire

Say Anything

By Rob Harvilla

Published: April 3, 2008

In Defense of the Genre, Say Anything's 27-song, two-disc quasi-concept album — which is twice as long and nowhere near as good as its predecessor, 2004's Is a Real Boy —...

13. Live Wire

The Baboons

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: April 3, 2008

If you've never heard of Miami-based music group the Baboons, they're clever enough to capture your attention before you ever listen to their music. For a group of white folks that...

14. ¡Ask a Mexican!

Hung Up on Jotos

Is It Something I Said?

By Gustavo Arellano

Published: April 3, 2008

Dear Mexican: I'm a gay man in his mid-30s that has always loved Mexican men. And this question is not only from my experience, but also that of friends: Why is it that Mexican men...

15. Music

Mikey Dread Remembered

Friends look back at the life and legacy of Mikey Dread

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: April 3, 2008

Like most tales of triumph and tragedy, the life, career, and untimely passing of reggae pioneer Mikey Dread at age 53 will live on long beyond his time on earth. There aren't many...

16. Music

All Dolled Up

David Johansen dresses up the New York Dolls one more time

By Michael Roberts

Published: April 3, 2008

As rock 'n' roll reunions go, the New York Dolls' get-together is as unlikely as they come. For one thing, two members of the original quintet's early-'70s lineup (guitarist Johnny...

17. News

Take Your Rubber Ducks And Vamoose

Merchants fight for a toehold in gentrifying downtown

By Amy Guthrie

Published: April 3, 2008

The life-sized cow figurine is coming home for the evening. Watching it roll indoors from the sidewalk on East Broward Boulevard reminds proprietor Jerry Miles of all the other outrageous...

18. Night Watch

Still Dead and Lovin' It

G's Place elevates unpretentiousness to the freakin' Golden Road

By Tara Nieuwesteeg

Published: April 3, 2008

The club life isn't all sex and glam. It's also expensive drinks, sleazy swinger dudes, uncomfortable clothes, self-doubt, and unpredictable music. Of course, I love the super-sexed,...

19. Outtakes

New Age Klezmer

Longtime klezmer enthusiast Al Matos takes his beloved music to the masses

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: April 3, 2008

It's turning into a week full of klezmer at the New Times office. The folks at Rough Guide sent over their latest disc, The Rough Guide to Klezmer Revival, for review, with 18 tracks...

20. Outtakes

Soulive Evolves

The kings of nu-jazz grow up

By Jon Solomon

Published: April 3, 2008

Personally, I just can't stand doing the same thing all the time," says Soulive drummer Alan Evans. "And all of us feel the same way. I think a lot of musicians, no matter what you're...