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21. Outtakes

    Global Shakedown

    Banging beats from all around the world

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: July 17, 2008

    There must be something about the summer months. It seems like every other bubble-wrapped package that shows up in the mail these days is stuffed with offshore audible treats....

22. Outtakes

    Head Spins: Danny Daze

    Miami's resident road master

    By John Hood

    Published: July 17, 2008

    It's doubtful that DJ Danny Daze loves the road above all else, but he sure seems to be on it a lot. Mondays at Tabu in Vegas, Saturdays at either Slide in San Francisco or...

23. Night Watch

    Seminole Smackjack

    Long waits. Elevating stakes. Strained relationships. What more could a girl ask for?

    By Tara Nieuwesteeg

    Published: July 17, 2008

    I'll just come out and say it: The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino horrifies me. It's a depraved place full of slot machines, waitresses in hot pants, and plenty of people...

24. Pub Stalker

    The Grape Merchant

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: July 17, 2008

    The smooth jazz sets the tone. The bartenders keep their distance, approaching only when called. And the wine is taste-tested before it's added to the list. It's little things...

25. Live Wire

    Jacob Jeffries Band

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Listening to the music of the Jacob Jeffries Band is better than any antidepressant you can imagine. The talented foursome is one of my favorite local bands right now, as their...

26. Subtropical

    Fourth Dimension

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: July 17, 2008

    There's no denying that Fourth Dimension is one of South Florida's hardest-working reggae bands. The group gigs constantly — at least four or five nights out of the week...

27. Short Cuts

    Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis

    By Chris Gray

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Did music really used to be less complicated, or does it just seem that way? Maybe it's just that life used to be less complicated, and music is simply a mirror of its times....

28. Live Wire

    Flamenco in the Summer

    By Julienne Gage

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Summer's heavy precipitation might have you thinking Fort Lauderdale's Flamenco in the Sun Festival is a misnomer. Then again, that brow-beating Andalusian sunlight is probably...

29. Short Cuts

    Sigur Rós

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Sigur Rós' latest is positively festooned with danger signs: first album to be mainly recorded outside its home base of Iceland, first to feature a track sung in...

30. Live Wire

    G.B.H.

    By Jason Ferguson

    Published: July 17, 2008

    It's ironic, of course, that consistency, longevity, and predictability have come to be the hallmarks of "true punk," but that's where we are more than three decades after...

31. Short Cuts

    Pinetop Perkins

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: July 17, 2008

    At 95 years of age, Mississippi Delta-born pianist Pinetop Perkins is still an active performer and one who is still able to hit his piano's keys with amazing dexterity. The...

32. Live Wire

    Zappa Plays Zappa

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Dweezil Zappa can't stop talking about his late father. "Frank's music just needs to be heard," he says. Alongside brother Ahmet and several of Frank's former sidemen, Dweezil...

33. Short Cuts

    Aimee Mann

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: July 17, 2008

    It takes only a cursory listen to Aimee Mann's alluring new album to affirm that the only thing possibly forestalling a commercial connection would be its inexplicably feisty...

34. Dish

    Light My Fire?

    I try and fail to warm to Oakwood Grill

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: July 17, 2008

    We SoFloridians have got to make the best of our rainy, hurricane-whipped summers, so it makes sense that we're suddenly all about barbecue. Even upscale restaurants like...

35. Film

    Heart of Darkness

    Heath Ledger peers into the void as Christopher Nolan's Batman returns

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: July 17, 2008

    What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City — if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so deeply and sometimes despairingly...

36. Film

    Thank You for the Music

    But your movie's kinda drab. Mamma Mia! drains the fun out of ABBA.

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: July 17, 2008

    I've always enjoyed ABBA — not in that post-hoc, so-bad-it's-good hip way but innocently, the way I like Phil Spector. To this day, howling along in my car to that...

37. Artbeat

    Paintings Beneath the Sea by Jason Mathias

    By Marya Summers

    Published: July 17, 2008

    "Paintings Beneath the Sea by Jason Mathias" lets museumgoers catch a school of fish by the South Florida artist who has been featured at the International Game Fish...

38. Stage

    Use Your Illusion

    Punk rock in operatic clothing at Palm Beach Dramaworks

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Famed coloratura soprano Florence Foster Jenkins was 44 years old when her singing career began. It started with small recitals for her friends and carefully selected music...