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21. Night & Day

    Pretty Random

    Eddie Izzard’s bringing lipstick and comedy to The Fillmore.

    By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Rambling. Circuitous. Twisty and random. Eddie Izzard's damn-near-inimitable style of comedy has been called all this and more. He's known for donning fabulous makeup and...

22. Night & Day

    Don’t Recycle Your Date Until After Prom

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Most of us have a love/hate relationship with prom. Whether it makes you twiddle your thumbs in recollection of young love, balloon archways, and sneaking out past curfew, or...

23. Night & Day

    “My Body is an Engine…

    And this is my fireplug.”

    By John Linn

    Published: June 12, 2008

    You’ve trained hard for years for this moment, and not without sacrifice: You’ve worn out nearly three dozen stress-relief squeeze balls working up your forearm...

24. Night & Day

    Gotta Catch ΄Em All!

    By John Linn

    Published: June 12, 2008

    The average person might not know what the heck yōkai are, but chances are they’ve encountered one of the mythical spirits before. The strange creatures are often the...

25. Night & Day

    It’s no CB4…

    By Brett Gillin

    Published: June 12, 2008

    When a film is written, directed by, and stars the same guy, it normally spells disaster. When that man is Stephen Chow, it means something completely different: Delirious fun!...

26. Night & Day

    Cabaret at the Colony

    By Penn Bullock

    Published: June 12, 2008

    The personal website of Baby Jane Dexter compares her new CD, You’re Following Me, with Judy Garland’s 1961 live album from Carnegie Hall. Given that Garland is one...

27. Night & Day

    No Comedian is an Island

    By John Linn

    Published: June 12, 2008

    So you can make your friends crack up with your impressions of Golda Meir and you’re working on a gag that involves flatulation and the phrase “Not on my watch!”...

28. Night & Day

    Make it a Tiki Weekie!

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: June 12, 2008

    There is a point in South Florida’s yearly timeline when you know that summer has arrived: You step outside and it hits, an all-consuming tide of moist heat. While you...

29. Stage

    Real Drama

    Debra Lombard and the kids of the ETC can tell you a thing or two about motivation

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: June 12, 2008

    The Exceptional Theatre Company is the largest theater company in South Florida, but you've probably never heard of it. It's got more than 200 actors on the books, three dozen...

30. Artbeat

    Summery/Summary Group Show

    By Marya Summers

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Coffeehouse galleries are nothing new, but seldom do you see exhibits in such spaces curated by a bona fide art expert. At My Coffee House Gallery, however, artist and educator...

31. Game On

    Guitar Hero and Rock Band give new meaning to "rock 'n' roll excess"

    By Chris Ward

    Published: June 12, 2008

    I am absolutely dreading the arrival of Guitar Hero: World Tour. Can't even enjoy the summer. It might sound like insanity, given that the fourth installment in the Guitar...

32. Music

    Neo Griots

    North Carolina's Toubab Krewe takes world fusion to new levels

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: June 12, 2008

    West African music is getting pimped out fairly regularly these days. Vampire Weekend takes the most watered-down version of Afropop you can imagine, scores a record deal, and...

33. Live Wire

    Gogol Bordello

    By Jason Ferguson

    Published: June 12, 2008

    There's a line in Gogol Bordello's 2002 song "Let's Get Radical" that goes something like: "You know mother, some things are actually sacred, and tapping your foot to the...

34. Film

    Epic Bore

    The Children of Huang Shi is just another sweeping, extraordinary journey to redemption

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Loath though I am to carp about any director who's devoted chunks of his career to bringing the non-white world's suffering to Western attention, Roger Spottiswoode's The...

35. Short Cuts

    Tab Benoit

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Live performances are the way musicians prove their mettle, and this recording showcases the raw energy of this Louisiana-born singer and guitarist, who is at the top of his...

36. Live Wire

    Melissa Etheridge

    By Nicholas Hall

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Over the course of 20 years and nearly a dozen albums, Melissa Etheridge has been through quite a lot: breast cancer, a struggle with her sexuality, fickle fans, and the...

37. Dred Scott!

    Summer Slowdown

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Let me know when the funeral is being held, because Fort Lauderdale's music and party scene is just about dead. Local audiophiles might as well start dressing in all-black to...

38. Short Cuts

    Benga

    By Dominic Umile

    Published: June 12, 2008

    South London dubstep veteran Benga operates on several (next) levels when he plants himself in front of a synthesizer keyboard and a hard drive of edited drum patterns. The...

39. Live Wire

    Kottonmouth Kings

    By Nicholas Hall

    Published: June 12, 2008

    High Times magazine's "Stoner Band of the Year" in 2006; two-time guest judges at Amsterdam's "Cannabis Cup"; Hidden Stash parts one, two, and three. It's no secret what the...

40. Outtakes

    Kings of the Tiki Beat

    The Martini Kings offer up Polynesian retro grooves

    By Jose Davilla

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Back in the mid-1980s, brothers Tony and Frank Marsico had a revelation: They decided to quit their punk-rock bands and form a space-age jazz combo called the Martini Kings....