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21. Night & Day

    F--king for Chastity

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: April 24, 2008

    How do civic-minded carnivores save animals? By eating meat! Yes! You too can chow down on beef-filled tacos while luxuriating in your own benevolence as you hurl money at Shih...

22. Night & Day

    They’d Prefer “Little People”…Who Rock

    By Terra Sullivan

    Published: April 24, 2008

    If you’re a local punk rocker, you’ve most likely heard the infamous tale about decade-plus ago Dwarves show. It all went down at Washington Square in the early...

23. Night & Day

    Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: It’s Kind of a Big Deal

    By Dan Renzi

    Published: April 24, 2008

    South Florida is chock-full of “gay” events year-round, with the various circuit parties and the parades and the pride festivals and such -- but none have the panache...

24. Night & Day

    “Livin’ on a Prayer” is great,

    But you prefer financial security.

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Right now there are two classes of people: those with tickets for tomorrow night’s Bon Jovi concert and those without. Ticket holders are understandably excited; they get...

25. Night & Day

    “Yo, I’m walkin’ here, Adrian!”

    By Phillip Valys

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Movie catchphrases are often more time-honored than the films themselves. Hell, Paul and Young Ron replay Joe Pesci’s chestnut from Raging Bull everyday: “If you win,...

26. Night & Day

    Shake Whatcha Momma Gave You!

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: April 24, 2008

    For a few days out of every year South Florida gets more exotic. Fort Lauderdale becomes flush with lovely ladies, each glittering from their skin-adhered jewels. They drape...

27. Night & Day

    Following Blueprints

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Most people can’t build a building, and building people is probably a hell of a lot harder. But Benefactors is about that very thing. Michael Frayn’s 1984 drama...

28. Night & Day

    Somebody Cue Up the Stevie B.

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Bootie bass maestro José El Rey is multitasking. In addition to his full time job (Player), he’s also throwing down some new tracks in a Miami studio when we call....

29. Night & Day

    Free, Glorious Free

    By John Linn

    Published: April 24, 2008

    It’s 2 a.m. on a Friday night. You’re drunk, as usual. Then, a gurgle in your belly – it starts out low and bass-heavy like far away thunder before building into...

30. Night & Day

    In the Navy

    By John Linn

    Published: April 24, 2008

    You’ve probably heard the sad news already: Due to rising fuel costs and lack of corporate sponsorship, the annual Fort Lauderdale Air & Sea Show has been cancelled. Yes,...

31. Night & Day

    They Make Undressing Look Effortless!

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: April 24, 2008

    There’s a sensual art to disrobing. Most of us get awkwardly tripped up in our blue jeans, god forbid we try our evening wear -- hopping hopelessly until we tumble over....

32. Night & Day

    Star Search

    By John Linn

    Published: April 24, 2008

    We here at New Times are what you’d call city folk: We don’t like roughing it, we rarely wrassle pigs (tell that to my wife, bada bing!), and we couldn’t spot a...

33. Stage

    Mystery Dance

    Rising Action's no-bullshit guide to love and happiness on a shoe-string budget

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Running an underfunded young theater company is hard on the soul. You have big plans, transcendent artistic visions. You understand what you want to do and think you know how...

34. 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...

35. 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...

36. 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...

37. 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...

38. 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...

39. 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...

40. 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...