1. Dish

Cool Blue

Dive into summer at Turquoise

By Gail Shepherd

Published: May 8, 2008

Ask an American what he thinks of the Turkish people or Turkish food and, if all goes well, you'll get a blank stare. What we don't know about Turkey would fill the dome of the Hagia...

2. Dred Scott!

SunFest Shows Fantasma's Still Alive

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: May 8, 2008

Anyone who just made it through all five days of SunFest can attest that this was the long-time festival's best lineup in years. There was enough talent on all three stages each day...

3. Film

Warrior King

David Mamet and his hero fight the power, and succumb to it, in Redbelt

By J. Hoberman

Published: May 8, 2008

David Mamet's Redbelt is a tricky bar brawl — call it the Roundhouse of Games. The writer/director has scarcely abandoned his sense of the movies as an innately duplicitous medium,...

4. Film

Fast Track to Nowhere

It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer

By J. Hoberman

Published: May 8, 2008

Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series—one of the first Japanese animes syndicated on American TV—into a prospective franchise, the Matrix masters, Larry and Andy...

5. Game On

There's more of the same in Mario Kart Wii, and that just might be plenty.

By Chris Ward

Published: May 8, 2008

This year marks the 16th birthday of Mario Kart, the landmark Nintendo franchise that consists of eight identical racing games and legions of fans who buy every one of them. And 16...

6. Live Wire

Black Finger

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: May 8, 2008

When it comes to blending straight-ahead rock with Americana and bluegrass twang, there's no other group locally that does it better than Black Finger. These guys have the feel of...

7. Live Wire

Young Jeezy

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: May 8, 2008

A couple of years ago, Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy was seen as the last great Southern hope. He had the hood respect of T.I. and garnered the admiration of practically every drug dealer...

8. Live Wire

Shirley Caesar and Yolanda Adams

By Khary Kimani Turner

Published: May 8, 2008

It might not be appropriate to refer to them as the best of praise and worship. But few gospel artists stir souls across multiple cultural and economic lines like Yolanda Adams. Couple...

9. Live Wire

DJ Heather

By W. Saeger

Published: May 8, 2008

People are still talking about DJ Heather's set at this year's Om Records WMC party. Like fellow Chicago DJ Colette, whom she followed on the Ultra Lounge stage, Heather is part of...

10. Music

Jimmy Urine's All Pissed

Mindless Self Indulgence's lead singer noodles on and keeps it real

By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

Published: May 8, 2008

Honestly," laughs Mindless Self Indulgence frontman Little Jimmy Urine, "I'd rather fuckin' be drawing a comic strip like Garfield and have it be syndicated. I'd just draw one joke...

11. Music

Fly Paper

Rahsaan dishes out rhymes that stick

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: May 8, 2008

Yo, correct me if I'm wrong, but there used to be a time in hip-hop where fashion sense was a requirement. Fedoras, rope chains, and sneakers were once as much a part of the everyday...

12. News

Look at That Pig in Lipstick

As the housing market collapses, desperate sellers get creative

By Michael J. Mooney

Published: May 8, 2008

A woman is giving away her $1.25 million mansion in Ocala. The house, replete with two 50-foot porches, three crystal chandeliers, and a jacuzzi, sits on two acres lush with oak trees,...

13. Night Watch

Take It Almost Off!

At Kevro's, it's about the tease, not the sleaze

By Tara Nieuwesteeg

Published: May 8, 2008

Sometime in the naive years before puberty, I told my mom that it wasn't fair how I had to wear a shirt when my dad and brothers didn't. She absolutely did not see how "fairness" had...

14. Bob Norman

Bleeding Dollars

A former Broward hospital CEO's trail of dubious expenses is just a drip in the bucket

By Bob Norman

Published: May 8, 2008

When Alan Levine left his post in late 2006 in then-Gov. Jeb Bush's administration to take the top job at the North Broward Hospital District, he made sure to get paid. Not only did...

15. Outtakes

Politically Incorrect

Not every rapper is sold on Sen. Barack Obama

By Jonathan Cunningham

Published: May 8, 2008

Within hip-hop circles, it's well-known that M1 and his partner Stic.Man of Dead Prez veer way left of center when it comes to politics. The highly Afrocentric activists/rappers are...

16. Outtakes

The Five Worst Rock 'n' Roll Moms

Do they get any worse than this?

By Cole Haddon

Published: May 8, 2008

With Mother's Day weekend upon us, we thought it would be a good time to pay tribute to some of the worst moms in pop-music culture... just in case you were wondering whose rock-star...

17. Outtakes

Reviewing the Reviewers

Lyrics Born raps back at the critics

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: May 8, 2008

Bay Area rapper and Quannum Projects co-founder Lyrics Born, AKA Tom Shimura, has a big, engaging personality, whether on wax — as with his new disc, Everywhere at Once —...

18. Pub Stalker

The Stained Glass Pub

By Bryan Falla

Published: May 8, 2008

The Stained Glass Pub has been cooking up a calypso-inspired groove since 1972. The Dutch-style bungalow now sports green, red, and blue side panels -- symbols of the ever-cheery...

19. Stage

Forced Marriages

Three Fittings does the deed but can't commit

By Brandon K. Thorp

Published: May 8, 2008

In her famous review of The Sound of Music — the one that didn't, by the way, get her fired from McCall's — Pauline Kael accused the film of reducing its audience to "the...

20. Tailpipe

Ride 'Em, Cowboy

Hell for Leather on Flight 48

By Edmund Newton

Published: May 8, 2008

Here's the question: Is it safe to fly during times when commercial airlines are under grinding economic stress? American Airlines Flight 48 had just taken off from Dallas/Fort Worth...