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21. Music

    Tales of a Traveling Troubadour

    Shawn Snyder finds a perfect mix of move and groove

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Ask Shawn Snyder to summarize the past five years of his life and you'll find he has a flair for the dramatic. "Grabbing the aspiring beast of a music career by its uncertain...

22. Music

    Into the Wild

    Alaska's Portugal. The Man brings its unique psychedelic improv to the lower 48

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Portugal. The Man likes spontaneity. The band also likes random punctuation in the middle of its name. You could even say the Alaska-based quartet has a knack for doing things...

23. Dred Scott!

    Baby Loves to Boogie-Woogie

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: July 24, 2008

    South Florida has its fair share of hip parties. Winter Music Conference, Langerado, Calle Ocho, Best of the Best, Poplife, Crush, Heat_r, Flaunt: the list goes on. Where we...

24. Outtakes

    Samba Bloodlines

    Mart'nália brings the joy of Rio to Broward

    By Julienne Gage

    Published: July 24, 2008

    It's hard to grasp everything Mart'nália tells you in Spanuguese — the only common language through which she and New Times can carry out a Miami-to-Rio de Janeiro...

25. Outtakes

    The Greats of '68

    It may not get its due, but 1968 helped alter rock's reality

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Considering that 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of a year that produced innumerable musical milestones, it's surprising how little has been made of it so far. While pundits...

26. Outtakes

    Subterranean Finds

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: July 24, 2008

    The last thing the world needs is another rant by some snooty music scribe who actually believes he can peg the next Coldplay or validate some MySpace wannabe. Don't worry;...

27. Night Watch

    Hottest of Them All

    A Hooters extravaganza means wings, beer, family fun, and, oh yeah, hooters

    By Tara Nieuwesteeg

    Published: July 24, 2008

    For years, the Hooters restaurant chain has aroused both groups of wing-eating dudes and the tempers of militant feminists. Questions have been raised: Are Hooters girls...

28. Pub Stalker

    Mix Ultra Lounge

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Back in the day, the address 1903 Hollywood meant O'Hara's – a constant blend of jazz and blues brewed for nearly 15 years. Today, the new Mix Ultra Lounge did away with...

29. Live Wire

    Tongues of the Heartworm

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: July 24, 2008

    When it comes to the marriage of straight-ahead rock with experimental schizoid, nobody does it better locally than Hollywood-based freak-out band Tongues of the Heartworm....

30. Live Wire

    Anita Baker

    By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

    Published: July 24, 2008

    With a sound like warm melted butter in songs that defined the "quiet storm" slow-jam genre, the voice of Anita Baker ruled the airwaves during the '80s and early '90s. From...

31. Live Wire

    Secondhand Serenade

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Most indie-rock groups of today seem to have forgotten the importance of piano in their compositions. The instrument is practically absent in much of the music on MTV today,...

32. Live Wire

    Flobots

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: July 24, 2008

    This politically and socially conscious hip-hop collective from Denver hit big in April with its song "Handlebars," off its second album, Fight With Tools. The tune tackles...

33. Dish

    Guatemala Típico

    Two miles, two wonderful meals

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Guatemalans have been much on my mind lately and much in the news. The account of a May 12 ICE raid on a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, written by FIU professor...

34. Film

    Men Will Be Boys

    With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay, and company still don't wanna grow up. Thank God for that.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: July 24, 2008

    I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the win-at-any-cost NASCAR driver...

35. Art

    Art Finds a Way

    Shattered mirror, raining jellyfish, delicate entrails: harsh images made beautiful at the Museum of Art

    By Michael Mills

    Published: July 24, 2008

    Nobody portrays entrails as beautifully as Carol Prusa. Stripped of all their bloody messiness, pale organs float in a sort of stylized heavenly realm in her mixed-media...