1. Art

Laid Out in Hollywood

Art and Culture Center's diversified space brings down the art

By Michael Mills

Published: May 1, 2008

The come-on was seductive: "There is an assumption that patterns created by the stars carry an indisputable reality to them, and it is with this misapprehension that the viewer may...

2. Artbeat

Paths that Connect: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Andrews-Schroeer Collection.

By Marya Summers

Published: May 1, 2008

An intersection of history and cultures occurs in "Paths that Connect: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Andrews-Schroeer Collection." The evolution of the form can be seen as classic...

3. Dish

Immovable Feast

We want to keep Pistache forever

By Gail Shepherd

Published: May 1, 2008

It's a recent Monday night on Clematis Street, and the only restaurants doing much business after 9 are Cabana, Pizza Girls, and Pistache French Bistro. Not too long ago, West Palm...

4. Dred Scott!

Estelle Shows Us How to Shine

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: May 1, 2008

If there's one thing music journalists have learned over time, it's that whenever a breakthrough, buzz-laden artist from across the pond shows up in your town for a debut performance,...

5. Feature

Last Step to Redemption

Drug counselor Richard Entriken swam a little too easily in a sea of sharks.

By Amy Guthrie

Published: May 1, 2008

On Friday nights, the parking lot of an 18-unit apartment building in Pompano Beach fills with white plastic lawn chairs. The men who gather there seem, at first blush, to have nothing...

6. Film

Mighty Avenger

Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a thing to marvel at

By Scott Foundas

Published: May 1, 2008

Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I mean the ones, like Batman's Bruce Wayne,...

7. Film

Here Comes the Bride. Yawn.

McDreamy tries to win over his engaged gal pal in My Best Friend's Made of Honor Wedding

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: May 1, 2008

In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial "fornicator" slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love for longtime BFF Hannah (Michelle...

8. Game On

When Less Is Less

Prologue is a tantalizing — and overpriced — glimpse at the next Gran Turismo.

By Gary Hodges

Published: May 1, 2008

When the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I first hit theaters, some fans bought tickets for the movie it was presented with, watched the trailer, and then walked out — essentially...

9. Live Wire

Kid Rock

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: May 1, 2008

From rockers like the MC5, Alice Cooper, and the White Stripes, to hip-hop artists like Eminem and Slum Village, to electronic gurus such as Juan Atkins and DJ Godfather, Detroit has...

10. Live Wire

B.B. King

By Dean C. Minderman

Published: May 1, 2008

Audiences first encountered blues guitarist and singer B.B. King in the '50s, thanks to relentless touring of the so-called "chitlin circuit" and a series of memorable recordings....

11. Live Wire

Robert Randolph

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: May 1, 2008

When it comes to making sacred steel music, folks here in Florida take the genre seriously. If you're not familiar with sacred steel, its main instruments are pedal and lap steel guitar...

12. Live Wire

Ozomatli

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: May 1, 2008

Los Angeles is a city known for its musical potpourris. There are over a hundred ethnicities represented in the city, so it makes sense that Ozomatli's latest effort, Don't Mess With...

13. Music

From Boca to Big Time

Starbucks subsidiary has big plans brewing for Hilary McRae

By Lee Zimmerman

Published: May 1, 2008

Perched behind her piano at center stage, Hilary McRae looks positively radiant... and for good reason. For one thing, she's opening for one of her heroes, the inimitable Todd Rundgren,...

14. Music

Revenge of the Nerds

As N.E.R.D. reemerges, Pharell Williams is happy to be one of the gang again

By Dan Leroy

Published: May 1, 2008

Name a pop music A-lister, and he or she has either worked with Pharrell Williams or probably wants to. Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z, Britney Spears, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, and Madonna all...

15. Night Watch

Spare Me, Celine

The world needs a lot more singers who suck

By Tara Nieuwesteeg

Published: May 1, 2008

Personally, I satiate my inner songstress with an occasional Iron Maiden sing-along in the solitary confinement of my Hyundai (my inner songstress also happens to love '80s hair metal)....

16. Bob Norman

Muddy Politics

A sure-fire technique to rile a city: Accuse people of anti-Semitism

By Bob Norman

Published: May 1, 2008

It's been reported in both the Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald unquestioningly as "anti-Semitic." The Broward Sheriff's Office agrees and has gone as far as using subpoena power to investigate...

17. Outtakes

What Time Is It?

Morris Day talks new music and the re-formation of the Time

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: May 1, 2008

In the early 1980s, black music was undergoing a serious metamorphosis. There was less home for the funky sounds of the '70s and a new style of popular music needed to be created....

18. Outtakes

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

The Postmarks reach the U.K.

By Jose Davilla

Published: May 1, 2008

A year ago, with the release of the band's self-titled debut, the Postmarks instantly became the most critically acclaimed band in all of South Florida. Indie press stalwarts such...

19. Outtakes

Teen Spirit Not Lost

The Bad Plus jazz out pop covers and still remain original

By Ernest Barteldes

Published: May 1, 2008

According to Bad Plus bassist Reid Anderson, the concept of creating jazz versions of pop songs like Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule...

20. Pub Stalker

Sips & Dips

By Bryan Falla

Published: May 1, 2008

There's a Super Target, an Office Depot, and a GameSpot. And myriad other chain stores and fast food eateries in this colossal shopping center, which anchors the flatlands that bring...