1. Artbeat

In the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey

By Marya Summers

Published: April 24, 2008

"Exhibit" is such a static word for a collection like this one that really moves — artistically, historically, and emotionally. "In the Hands of African American Collectors:...

2. Dish

Very Like a Whale

Don't like the fried clams? Try the coal oven pizza.

By Gail Shepherd

Published: April 24, 2008

There's a little amusement you can indulge in at the Whale Raw Bar and Fish House in Parkland while you're waiting for your basket o' steamers. It's like those snag-the-stuffed-toy...

3. Feature

Judging Ana

Broward Judge Gardiner's alleged relationships with defense lawyers and prosecutors raises troubling questions

By Bob Norman

Published: April 24, 2008

Defense attorney John Cotrone stood before Broward Circuit Judge Ana Gardiner in her marble-laden courtroom and dropped in what seemed like a jab at her honor. It came after Gardiner,...

4. Film

Let's Go to Prison

Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: April 24, 2008

Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wrote Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle with the novel idea: What if you made a John Hughes movie, but instead of writing garishly caricatured bit...

5. Film

Nobody's Baby

Neither Tina Fey nor Amy Poehler seem the least bit invested in their surrogate mommy comedy

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: April 24, 2008

Could have sworn I've seen this episode of Baby Mama before — like sometime in January 2007, when it was originally titled "The Baby Show" and aired on the other primetime series...

6. Game On

Baroquen Spirit

Atlus' Baroque imagines eternal life in gaming limbo. It isn't pretty.

By Gary Hodges

Published: April 24, 2008

First of all: God bless Atlus. As a publisher devoted to bringing obscure Japanese gaming gems to the West — basically, the much-needed heir apparent of Working Designs —...

7. Letters

Letter for April 24-30, 2008

Published: April 24, 2008

SoFla Clothing, Natch I love Kyra Jachode's stuff ("Dressing for a Warm Climate," Tailpipe, April 17)! This is what I've been looking for all over South Florida. Finally, someone who...

8. Live Wire

Behemoth

By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

Published: April 24, 2008

Even by their own genre's standards, Polish black/death metal outfit Behemoth sounds like a relentless hailstorm of jackhammer drumming and super-fast, abrasive riffing. As if the...

9. Live Wire

Pelican

By Jason Ferguson

Published: April 24, 2008

The dense, crushing expansiveness of Pelican's four-song debut EP was an incisive slice through heavy metal's bloated corpse, with its pinnacle track — the appropriately titled...

10. Live Wire

Ninjaman

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: April 24, 2008

There's always been something a little wacky about Jamaican dancehall legend Ninjaman. He emerged in the late 1980s as one of the hardest and rudest dancehall acts on the scene. Since...

11. Live Wire

Carlos Santana

By Dean C. Minderman

Published: April 24, 2008

Carlos Santana has a lot on his plate these days: He's launching a chain of Mexican restaurants, appearing in Macy's commercials to hype the line of women's shoes he's designed, and...

12. Music

Rootz Rock Rebellion

Kingston's Rootz Underground takes spiritual reggae to higher heights

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: April 24, 2008

Reggae music is rarely considered a genre in which artists are afraid to speak truth to power. The music has a storied tradition of rebellious singers, from Bob Marley to Burning Spear...

13. Music

Too Much Music on the Brain

One day, every song ever recorded will fit into your pocket -- but will you listen to any of them?

By Karla Starr

Published: April 24, 2008

There was a time when I knew what I wanted to listen to. I was poor, but I bought CDs anyway, and I had stacks of them, purchased with enthusiasm and knowledge shared among friends....

14. Music

763 MP3s in 48 Hours

Paul Ford heard more SXSW acts than anyone else, without leaving New York

By John Nova Lomax

Published: April 24, 2008

It's probably safe to say that nobody's South By Southwest experience this year was as comprehensive as that of Paul Ford, an editor at Harper's and a blogger at themorningnews.org. And...

15. News

No Country for Old Communists

Mikhail Gorbachev, at Seminole Hard Rock, tears down that hall

By Michael J. Mooney

Published: April 24, 2008

His hulking Russian bodyguard preceded him at every turn. Next came his translator, a thin, bald man with a brown mustache and a thick accent. Then there he was in the flesh, as though...

16. Night Watch

Borne in the U.S.A.

How they define the heartland on Broward Boulevard

By Tara Nieuwesteeg

Published: April 24, 2008

I like to think I'm a little more culturally savvy than your average cookie-cutter blond American girl. I'm a hookah pro. I love licorice from northern Europe. I can swear in at least...

17. Bob Norman

Judge's Gambit

Gardiner's only defense was an off-the-wall cease-and-desist letter

By Bob Norman

Published: April 24, 2008

His lawyer, Daniel Maggio, told of how Myers was helping his girlfriend cope with cancer and how he was trying to turn his life around. He asked Gardiner to forgive him for his "technical-of-sorts...

18. Pub Stalker

Atmosphere Lounge

By Bryan Falla

Published: April 24, 2008

In the club culture of Las Olas Riverfront, among the booze and the miniskirts, you’ll find a wholly different atmosphere at Atmosphere Lounge. The Lounge is best known for its...

19. Short Cuts

One.Be.Lo

By Khary Kimani Turner

Published: April 24, 2008

Passion + good music = respect. It's a formula few rappers in today's hip-hop climate seem to understand, much less use. Pontiac, Michigan, emcee One.Be.Lo is quickly positioning himself...

20. Short Cuts

Gnarls Barkley

By Ben Westhoff

Published: April 24, 2008

We expect a lot from our indie-ethos, crossover pop stars nowadays, even from a duo as inspired as Gnarls Barkley, AKA DJ Danger Mouse and rapper/singer/preacher Cee-Lo. We expect...