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21. Night & Day

    Make Me Over

    By John Linn

    Published: May 29, 2008

    If you’re like us, your idea of eating right is noshing ketchup with your fries (hey, tomatoes are a vegetable!), and exercise means getting a couple extra rounds of pool...

22. Night & Day

    Feed Me, Seymour

    By John Linn

    Published: May 29, 2008

    What’s your favorite food? Savory tacos? Juicy, inch-thick hamburgers? Double chocolate chunk ice cream? Whatever it is, imagine you’re craving it — fiending...

23. Night & Day

    Make Love, Music, and Pain — Cubed

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Modern cinema rarely makes room in its bed for a musical, but since the release of the new French flick Love Songs, it’s decided that cuddling might be back on the menu....

24. Night & Day

    They’ll Never Be Big In Burma

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Prescient or tasteless? That’s the question the men and women of sketch-comedy troupe The Jove must be asking themselves right now, as they prepare to bring Mobile Home...

25. Night & Day

    Put on the Blue Light

    Bill’s Filling Station whores itself out for $5

    By Penn Bullock

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Graham Greene described the Blue Plate Special as a symbol of American democracy. It was popular in the ’20s through the ’50s. It was the kind of thing that a person...

26. Night & Day

    J-A-G-E-R-M… Ah, Screw It

    By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Any douchebag with nothing better to do can yell out correct answers during reruns of the classic Scripps Spelling Bees of yore (praise be to ESPN for covering all such...

27. Night & Day

    It’s OK to View Art Now

    By Brett Gillin

    Published: May 29, 2008

    It seems there are only two types of people who go to art exhibits. One: friends and family of the artist who are supporting their loved one, but would rather be elsewhere. And...

28. Night & Day

    Oh No, They Say He’s Got to Go

    By John Linn

    Published: May 29, 2008

    There are two kinds of people in this world: those who liked Godzilla better as Tokyo’s radioactive harbinger of destruction, and those who liked him better when he became...

29. Night & Day

    Vegas, Baby, Vegas!

    By John Linn

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Scantily clad dancers? Ferocious big cats? Magic tricks involving levitation, David Blaine-esque antics, and a seven-foot-long balloon? Is it just us, or does Cashetta, Queen...

30. Night & Day

    Get Sexy in Your City

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: May 29, 2008

    You’ve waited four long years for Sex and the City the movie to wrap up all of those pesky loose ends, and now it’s finally here. You’ve already got the...

31. Night & Day

    Saving The World, One Perm at a Time

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: May 29, 2008

    A touching, sassy little play about lives intersecting at a beauty shop. This is called Steel Magnolias, unless it involves a she-male and a former American Idol contestant....

32. Night & Day

    Root for the Underdog: Have “Sympathy for the Devil!”

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Anyone with framed records hanging on their walls gets it. So do concert goers who secretly attend shows with Exacto knives in their handbags. (Wha-at? Tape is tough to remove...

33. Night & Day

    Growing up Girl

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Young girls are taught to fit in, be slender, and strive for the ultimate goal: to someday play a sassy drunk chick on a reality television show. During adolescence those who...

34. Night & Day

    Success Bites

    Published: May 29, 2008

    What else can you say about Vampire Weekend that hasn't already been written? They're blowing up faster than they wanted to. They've graced the cover of plenty of magazines,...

35. Artbeat

    Everything's a Portrait: Watercolors of Dean Mitchell

    By Marya Summers

    Published: May 29, 2008

    "Everything's a Portrait: Watercolors of Dean Mitchell" offers more than the title suggests — not just watercolors but oil and acrylic paintings, etchings, and drawings...

36. Game On

    Nintendo's Wii Fit ignites yet another fitness fad

    By Chris Ward

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Somebody forgot to tell Nintendo that "strenuous indoor exercise" does not top anyone's summer fun list. This, of course, does not explain why poor suckers everywhere are...

37. Music

    The Art of Doing Nada

    For pop-rock trio Nada Surf, slowing down actually helped the band's career

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: May 29, 2008

    "Everyone else who gets the one-hit-wonder tag had real hits," chuckles Nada Surf frontman and principle songwriter Matthew Caws. Of course, he's referring to the New...

38. Short Cuts

    Prodigy

    By Braden Ruddy

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Nearly a month into his three-and-a-half-year bid on weapons possession, Prodigy, half of the veteran Queens rap duo Mobb Deep, must endure the release of his new album,...

39. Live Wire

    Ben Prestage

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: May 29, 2008

    When it comes to playing Southern blues, some musicians have a stronger ear for it than others. If you really want to play it, you need an inherent ability to hear the music....

40. Film

    Frame It on Rio

    Up-and-comer Brazil shops its movies in Miami

    By P. Scott Cunningham

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Brazil's big moment in the international cultural sun is still ahead of us. Hipsters might resist this assertion; after all, they've been onto Brazil since at least 2002, when...