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21. Feature

    With a Bullet

    Corruption-busting lawyer Bruce Udolf wants to be Broward sheriff. After the Ken Jenne experience, though, are voters too suspicious of lawyers turned cops?

    By Thomas Francis

    Published: August 21, 2008

    Last September, Bruce Udolf and his wife, Sheryl, were in the living room of their Southwest Ranches home watching the news. A report came on about disgraced Broward County...

22. Tailpipe

    A Brother Ain't a Brother

    West Palm, Where the Livin' Is Uneasy

    As told to Edmund Newton

    Published: August 21, 2008

    Now, why would black firefighters claim there's institutional bias in the West Palm Beach Fire Department? OK, departmental brass are all white, despite the availability of...

23. Music

    It Must Be the Sauce

    Blues and hip-hop fusion kings G. Love and Special return with a tenth album in tow

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: August 21, 2008

    In the beginning, Philadelphia native Garrett "G. Love" Dutton — hitting the national music scene like a fourth Beastie Boy crossed with splashes of Beck and Bob Dylan...

24. Music

    Lovers' Rock Giant

    The top ten Beres Hammond tunes of all time

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: August 21, 2008

    Within reggae, few people could argue that Beres Hammond is revered as one of the greatest balladeers to ever live — if not the best. His honey-coated voice and...

25. Pub Stalker

    Dada Restaurant and Lounge

    By Bryan Falla

    Published: August 21, 2008

    Dada Restaurant and Lounge is dark — mysterious, even. Its shell, a renovated Jazz Age home, is an appropriate house for this random collection of art, food, alcohol, and...

26. Subtropical

    Cyne

    By Bernard Hacker

    Published: August 21, 2008

    Hip-hop music with a message in 2008 is like a biased voter. It has plenty of opinions but often can't see the bigger picture outside of whatever it's ranting about at the...

27. Short Cuts

    Pas/Cal

    By Hobey Echlin

    Published: August 21, 2008

    Detroit's Casimer Pascal is a fop-pop genius, the case being made first with three leave-'em-wanting-more EPs and now indisputable with this debut full-length. Caz is the RZA...

28. Live Wire

    Gata

    By Julienne Gage

    Published: August 21, 2008

    Some cats really know how to scratch at your heartstrings. A little over a year ago, Miami's popular octogenarian tango interpreter La Gata had Latin American...

29. Live Wire

    Lou Gramm

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: August 21, 2008

    When talking about Foreigner circa 2008, it's tempting to refer to the group with air quotes around its name: Lead guitarist Mick Jones — who shouldn't be confused with...

30. Short Cuts

    J-Live

    By Khary Kimani Turner

    Published: August 21, 2008

    If sanity in hip-hop is sexy, then J-Live might fuck around and become Denzel. The New York underground fixture's fifth indie release, Then What Happened?, is a consistent...

31. Short Cuts

    Sonny Rollins

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: August 21, 2008

    In the 1960s, the concept of the "power trio" came into full existence. Bands of the guitar/bass/drums configuration, such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream, were the...

32. Live Wire

    Boston

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: August 21, 2008

    When thinking of bands that defined the 1970s classic-rock sound, it's hard to understand why more people don't consider Boston. The band had a number of chart-topping hits...

33. Short Cuts

    The Bug

    By Chris Martins

    Published: August 21, 2008

    If Lil Wayne indeed sleeps, there's little doubt as to the details of his particular dreamscape — it's ugly, heaving, hopelessly dark, and in constant flux at the hands...

34. Live Wire

    Fall of Olympus

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: August 21, 2008

    This four-piece outfit is not to be confused with, oh, Walls of Jericho or Fall of Troy or any number of the other heavy acts out there with vaguely ancient-sounding names....

35. Dish

    Call in the Fluffer

    Can't get it up for dinner at Aizia

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: August 21, 2008

    Strangest restaurant-review scenario ever. We're trying to turn in to the Westin Diplomat Resort for dinner at Aizia, and a uniformed guy surrounded by a slew of orange cones...

36. Film

    Not To Be

    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: August 21, 2008

    In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise, and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It's hard to knock any sequence that climaxes...

37. Film

    Hard-Knock Life

    Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: August 21, 2008

    When I heard that Quentin Tarantino handed the Grand Jury Prize for best feature to Courtney Hunt's Frozen River at this year's Sundance Film Festival, telling the audience...

38. Art

    A Question of Taste

    What? No gators or hibiscus flowers? Boca's All Florida show goes global.

    By Michael Mills

    Published: August 21, 2008

    Just as there's often an idiot with a cell phone on hand to disrupt your moviegoing, sooner or later some short-fingered vulgarian with a bad attitude will show up to add a...

39. Stage

    Bad Sex

    With Blowing Whistles, Sol Theatre gives the bad news about good times

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: August 21, 2008

    Because we live in a beautiful and tolerant world, nobody will come out and tell you that gay theaters suck. But they do. They suck a lot. Almost without exception, they are...