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21. Night & Day

    Give Me Head, Davy Jones!

    By Heather Burdick

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Peter’s sweet, Mickey’s funny, and Mike is earnest, but Davy Jones is the absolute dreamiest. Even Marsha Brady swooned. He sings, has an accent, is a real groovy...

22. Night & Day

    Smells Like American Spirit

    By Riki Altman

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Boy, modern hunters have it tough. Those patsies have camouflaged gear, attractive scents made of animal urine, and custom tree lofts they can sit in to wait out their prey in...

23. Night & Day

    Deadly 18th Century Love Triangles

    By Penn Bullock

    Published: June 5, 2008

    The Sorrows of Young Werther has come a long way since Goethe published it in the late 18th century. It was the novel that turned Goethe into an international celebrity....

24. Night & Day

    The Punk is in the Pudding

    By Terra Sullivan

    Published: June 5, 2008

    In the early stages of a band, when the important things like song structure and matching guitar straps are established, the band’s moniker remains the most painstaking...

25. Night & Day

    Wrap Your Lips Around This

    By Riki Altman

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Publix’ produce section will seem quite different after sex therapist Lori Sarvis teaches you how to blow a banana and seduce strawberries during her “Art of Oral...

26. Night & Day

    Beauty and the Beast

    By John Linn

    Published: June 5, 2008

    You don’t have to be an art expert to know that the mingling of nature and women is a well-traveled motif — the whole Mother Earth thing has been driving art and...

27. Night & Day

    And You Won’t Step in Manure!

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: June 5, 2008

    The three races that comprise the Triple Crown are always exciting, but with all the hype and success surrounding Big Brown, pretty much everyone’s getting in on the...

28. Night & Day

    A Life Less Ordinary

    By John Linn

    Published: June 5, 2008

    If we didn’t know better, we’d think that Carter W. Lewis’ play Ordinary Nation was one of those hip, indie films that been commanding all the theatrical...

29. Night & Day

    A Life Plan Snaps Into Place

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: June 5, 2008

    New York artist Nathan Sawaya is an idyllic example of following one’s bliss. Four years ago he had LEGO on the brain, so he did what anyone else would: Quit his law...

30. Night & Day

    Look Out Ladies! You Mai Tai One On!

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: June 5, 2008

    For many years it was widely believed that the greatest thing about the Mai-Kai wasn’t the fire dancing (although it is hypnotizing). Or the bikini-clad waitresses (also...

31. Night & Day

    We All Wear the Ribbon

    By Brett Gillin

    Published: June 5, 2008

    We live in an age where science has enabled 80-year-old men to continue procreating via a pill or two. And where bald men can grow hair by rubbing foam on their domes. Despite...

32. Night & Day

    Riding the Wave of Nostalgia

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: June 5, 2008

    The best ’60s surf movies share a common bond of ultimate wholesomeness. For Those Who Think Young is no exception to the clean-scrubbed rule, making it a perfect...

33. Night & Day

    “If I Didn’t Play Drums As Hard As I Can,”

    “I’m going to kill someone.” — Marwan, drummer for Acrassicauda

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: June 5, 2008

    In America — hell, at Churchill’s alone — everything that can be done, has. We’ve seen a guy light himself on fire then ride inside on a motorcycle (he was...

34. Night & Day

    A Really Good Reefer Joint

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Four months ago in this very publication, we announced the first local Reef Fest rally — called Reef Rally — to take place at Alligator Alley (1831 E. Commercial...

35. Stage

    Judy Blue

    Rising Action shows us why Baby Gumm still matters

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Watching Tommy Femia impersonate Judy Garland for 90 minutes is one of the better ways to spend a Friday evening. His voice maybe isn't so powerful as the Late Great Garland's,...

36. Art

    His Satanic Majesty's Bequest

    Art meets rock at a raucous new MoCA exhibition.

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Not unlike blues legend Robert Johnson, considered by many to be the granddaddy of rock and roll, Dominic Molon must have found himself tempted by a Faustian deal. Five years...

37. Artbeat

    Beached

    By Marya Summers

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Pablo Picasso asserted, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." This is doubly true for someone like photographer Barry Seidman,...

38. Game On

    Castle of Shikigami III tests the bounds of Wii loyalty

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: June 5, 2008

    John Edwards might see two Americas, but this simpleminded little game enthusiast is more preoccupied with America's two Wii owners. One is the Nintendo fan: the cat who bought...

39. Short Cuts

    James McMurtry

    By Brantley Hargrove

    Published: June 5, 2008

    He's got a few more gray hairs in his goatee now, but James McMurtry is still the dry-as-a-West-Texas-creekbed voice of the proletariat on his latest album, Just Us Kids. And...

40. Live Wire

    Via Audio

    By Monica Cady

    Published: June 5, 2008

    You know you're off to a pretty kick-ass start when Spoon's producer (Jim Eno) offers to help make your debut album. Thanks to Eno, in September 2007, the quartet recorded its...