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21. Night & Day

    C’mon, Hit me With Your Best Shot!

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Deep in the thicket of Wilton Manors, there lies a drinking hole full of ladies with an axe to grind. Or rather, several axes. If you’ve managed to hold on to outdated...

22. Night & Day

    Good Lookin’ Out

    By John Linn

    Published: May 15, 2008

    If you were to walk down a dark alley late at night, you wouldn’t do it alone, right? You’d probably have a buddy close by to watch your back and try to dissuade you...

23. Night & Day

    Californication, Simon-style

    By Riki Altman

    Published: May 15, 2008

    This doesn’t seem to be the same place the Eagles sang about, but Neil Simon’s California Suite takes the audience into another version of a peculiar Golden State...

24. Night & Day

    Titus Commedicus

    By Brett Gillin

    Published: May 15, 2008

    When you think of Christopher Titus, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Oh sorry, first let’s pretend like you think of Christopher Titus on a regular basis....

25. Night & Day

    Miami’s Jazzed Up

    Get your ears outdoors for some tune fusion

    By Riki Altman

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Come out, come out, you jazz aficionados hiding in smoky, dark clubs. Let your Vitamin D-deprived skin cells soak in the rays while your ears take in the sounds of the ninth...

26. Night & Day

    Girls Party Harder Than Boys

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Anyone who watched a Shot of Love with Tila Tequila learned two things: First, that the only way to pick your soul mate out of a crowd of men and women is to stick your tongue...

27. Night & Day

    Summer of Love

    By John Linn

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Santa Maria! Have you seen the teaser trailer for the new (well, more like re-released) flick How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer? It would be the one starring a not-yet...

28. Stage

    Lies That Help You Over the Hump

    Mosaic Theatre explores the joys of deluding yourself in Blessing's Body of Water

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Chuck Klosterman, an inane and deeply self-involved pop-culture critic, once (once!) had a good point. That was in Chapter 13 of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, where he said that...

29. Art

    Black Beans and Rice

    MOA's Cuban show is an edgy but comfortable mix of Calle Ocho and New Havana

    By Michael Mills

    Published: May 15, 2008

    While I'm not sure if I can claim complete objectivity, "Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art" is much too important an exhibition to let go unaddressed. So let me make full...

30. Artbeat

    The True Nature of Mind

    By Marya Summers

    Published: May 15, 2008

    "The True Nature of Mind" has its roots in Buddhism. In the hands of artist Maria Karki, the philosophy blossoms as a modern twist on spiritual tradition. Within the collection...

31. Game On

    Niko Bellic and Grand Theft Auto IV are great, but is that enough anymore?

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: May 15, 2008

    If you read reviews the way I do, you've already started by checking out the score, and now you're back here to see what the hell my problem is. Peace, brother. Grand Theft...

32. News

    The Prom's the Thing

    No afterparties or hotel-room flings here. These kids bring it all to the dance hall.

    By Brantley Hargrove

    Published: May 15, 2008

    It begins sedately enough. Ballgoers slowly filter into the assembly hall of St. Bonaventure Roman Catholic Church in Davie. They walk or strut down a red carpet, past black...

33. Music

    Rolling Out The Red Carpet

    On its 12th studio album, Duran Duran recharges with Timbaland, Timberlake, and Danja.

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Duran Duran boasts a rare longevity in the world of pop music — 12 albums and some 30 years in the business. The group's two distinguishing members, synth master Nick...

34. Short Cuts

    Santogold

    By Braden Ruddy

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Whoever came up with genre classifications for music obviously never heard of Santogold. The alarmingly catchy self-titled debut by Philly native Santi White offers an endless...

35. Live Wire

    Be Your Own Pet

    By Jason Ferguson

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Now that the kids in Be Your Own Pet aren't exactly kids anymore – they were still in high school when the explosive garage-rock band was born, but they're nearly...

36. Outtakes

    Party Like an African

    Rival world-music labels release solid new compilations from the motherland

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Outside of Fela Kuti and his ever-popular Afrobeat sound, African music as a whole is hard for a lot of novices to understand and, furthermore, purchase. There's so much of it,...

37. Film

    New Blood

    The joys of DIY filmmaking persist in Son of Rambow

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: May 15, 2008

    No adult has ever been able to codify what separates a good movie from a classic. In kid terms, though—those favored by Son of Rambow, a chipper tribute to the cinema as...

38. Short Cuts

    Riz MC

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: May 15, 2008

    Sometimes, the assholes in charge of dishing out work visas make mistakes. When British rapper Riz MC (who's Muslim and of Pakistani descent) tried coming to the United States...

39. Live Wire

    Brazilian Voices

    By Julienne Gage

    Published: May 15, 2008

    The Broward Center for the Performing Arts' Amaturo Theater is sure to shake with sweet vibrations Friday when the county's Brazilian Voices pays homage to samba music. The...

40. Outtakes

    The Science of Pop

    Do we really need a formula for perfect music?

    By Jason Ferguson

    Published: May 15, 2008

    A few years ago, a psychology lecturer at a British college came up with the formula for the "perfect" mood-lifting pop song. Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic posited a certain...