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21. Music

    Rebel Rockers

    Fourth Dimension celebrates eight years of creating a conscious reggae party

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: August 14, 2008

    There's a tough balancing act that comes with being an active reggae band in South Florida. Groups that are serious about their craft typically promote spirituality and...

22. Dred Scott!

    Rick Ross' Credibility Takes a Bullet

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: August 14, 2008

    When gunfire erupted outside Carol City Park last Wednesday during Rick Ross' Second Annual Be Out Day, it turned what was billed as a positive charity event for the community...

23. Outtakes

    Shhh!

    The Hush Sound turns emo-pop into a formula for success

    By Monica Cady

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Chicago-based quartet the Hush Sound clearly had lady luck on its side in 2005, just two years after it first became a band. Using male and female vocal harmonies and...

24. Outtakes

    Northern Lights

    Looking for fresh new jazz? Try Scandinavia.

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: August 14, 2008

    To uninitiated American ears, learning that there is such a thing as "Nordic jazz" might seem contradictory — maybe even absurd. After all, is it really fair to wonder...

25. Night Watch

    Dreading the Scissors

    Rapunzel ventures into the lion's den — and finds it hypnotically appealing

    By Tara Nieuwesteeg

    Published: August 14, 2008

    I hate getting my hair cut. I hate the awkward, stilted conversations you have with hairdressers — those perfect strangers who just happen to be paid to wield scissors...

26. Pub Stalker

    Porterhouse Bar and Grill

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Every week, it seems, fewer people are getting out. You can blame the economy or the gas prices, but you can't blame Porterhouse Bar and Grill. Porterhouse, the Riverwalk...

27. Short Cuts

    Immortal Technique

    By Braden Ruddy

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Five long years have passed since Immortal Technique, a Harlemite Afro-Peruvian hip-hopper, released an album. His diehard fans have been waiting, and unfortunately, The 3rd...

28. Live Wire

    Gilberto Santa Rosa

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Although the Puerto Rican-born "Caballero de la Salsa" has not yet achieved his dream of creating the world's first salsa symphony, he has won the endearing respect and...

29. Subtropical

    Black Kids

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Last year, Florida quintet Black Kids released a free four-song EP of electro-tinged dance songs addressing themes of incest and gender ambiguity. The girls went wild —...

30. Short Cuts

    Various artists

    By Jason Ferguson

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Continuing to prove that psychedelic rock was as omnipresent in the '60s as it is loosely defined today, the tenth volume in the QDK Media series further breaks down the...

31. Live Wire

    Stone Temple Pilots

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Hey, Scott Weiland: Look, I'm gonna be honest with you — I really don't care whether Slash took his stinky leather boot, planted it on your scrawny behind, and gave you...

32. Live Wire

    Smashing Pumpkins

    By Monica Cady

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Few bands have attracted the amount of angst and emo breakup/makeup drama of Smashing Pumpkins. More specifically, lead man Billy Corgan's career could have been the blueprint...

33. Short Cuts

    G-Unit

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Like corrupt politicians and David Hasselhoff, gangsta rap isn't going away — but the played-out quality of T.O.S. suggests that it's headed for an extended stretch down...

34. Live Wire

    Esperanza Spalding

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Among the young voices to emerge on the national jazz scene of late, Esperanza Spalding has the makings of a star draped all over her. The Oregon-born singer and acoustic bass...

35. Short Cuts

    Grouper

    By Dominic Umile

    Published: August 14, 2008

    A blur of slow, gaping chords literally smothers the vocal tracks on Grouper's Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill. An organ produces only lethargic tones on the album, and...

36. Dish

    Last Man Standing?

    For restaurants in a recession, it's survival of the fittest

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: August 14, 2008

    "I don't know — maybe they're on a diet." I can't tell if Beth Schibanetz is kidding or if she's speaking metaphorically. These days, we're all on a diet, tightening our...

37. Film

    Mighty Aphrodites

    Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces — and other stuff — in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer/director, will do little to endear itself to the...

38. Film

    Apocalypse Whatever

    Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: August 14, 2008

    Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and cowritten by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz parodies — a savage beast with a...

39. Stage

    Fuzzy, Fuzzy Fuzz

    The Women's Theatre Project's True Blue leaves us truly blue. And confused.

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: August 14, 2008

    A lot of plays fail simply because they can't find any justification for their own existences. They die quietly, sinking under the weight of their unintended dreariness or...