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41. Music

    Rock ’n’ Roll Replay

    For Craig Martin, re-creating the greatest albums of all time is his life's passion

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: September 18, 2008

    First there's that familiar "suuuuuuump," then the rattle, followed by the first verse: "Here come old flat top, he come groovin' up slowly..." and then "Come Together," the...

42. Dred Scott!

    Broward Carnival Woes Begin Already

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: September 18, 2008

    When it comes to the Caribbean carnival season in South Florida, there's usually no shortage of fun-filled drama affiliated with the weekend-long fete. Big parties, colorful...

43. Outtakes

    Funky Cowboy

    Nightlife ace Funky Junction moves to Spirits

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: September 18, 2008

    It's an early Sunday morning inside Spirits Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, and as usual, the ground floor is filled with hip-hop and reggae beats galore....

44. Outtakes

    Fistful of Nostalgia

    Is U2's latest reissue package worth the cost?

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: September 18, 2008

    When U2 first came onto the international scene in 1980 with its debut album, Boy, it had yet to grow into the ungainly behemoth that audiences know and love today. Arena-rock...

45. Outtakes

    Local Motion

    Three more recent Miami releases

    By Abel Folgar

    Published: September 18, 2008

    Eric Stinnett Chocolate Soul (SMG Music Group) www.ericstinnett.com Chocolate Soul is exactly that. Well, it's Eric Stinnett's chocolate soul, and that means jazz-driven...

46. Live Wire

    Hercules & Love Affair DJ Set

    By John PAYNE

    Published: September 18, 2008

    Any moment now, it will be dubbed prog-disco or sexy-cheese-disco or even chamber-disco. Whatever the case, the "-disco" must be appended and heeded, for it is back. Hercules &...

47. Live Wire

    Nicole Henry

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: September 18, 2008

    It is little wonder this Miami-based 30-something has been getting a lot of attention since signing a national distribution deal through a major label. An experienced singer...

48. Live Wire

    The O'Jays

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: September 18, 2008

    In spite of the fact that this legendary trio hasn't scored a hit in the 30 years since "Used to Be My Girl" charted back in 1978, the O'Jays still have a huge following among...

49. Live Wire

    Enrique Iglesias

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: September 18, 2008

    In many ways, you could consider this Madrid transplant a Latin pop pioneer. He was one of the first Spanish-language artists to play for arena-sized audiences in the United...

50. Dish

    Up-Tempo

    Métronome

    By Gail Shepherd

    Published: September 18, 2008

    Few restaurants are perfect. And most of us don't demand perfection anyway. We just want to have a place to hang, eat, and drink, secure in the knowledge that we're not going...

51. Film

    Your Friends and Neighbors

    Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: September 18, 2008

    Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out to be a blond, blue-eyed...

52. Night & Day

    Fulfill Your Uniform Fantasy

    Without getting Tasered

    Published: September 18, 2008

    Almost anytime you get the opportunity to see a police officer fight someone up close, you have a few of these things in your future: a) Taser, b) pepper spray, c) handcuffs,...

53. Night & Day

    Art, Music, Wine, And Weed

    By Riki Altman

    Published: September 18, 2008

    What did you plan to do this Thursday night now that American Idol is over? Pluck your eyebrows and wash your pet ferret in the sink? Don’t waste your time. Instead go...

54. Art

    Where the Rubber...

    ... meets the rhododendrons. That's where photographer Alex Heria finds art.

    By Michael Mills

    Published: September 18, 2008

    The photographs of Alex Heria have an eerie quietness that's sometimes at odds with the means of their creation. Take the triptychs from a series called "Roadside Gardens,"...

55. Stage

    Black and White

    Mosaic Theatre gives August Wilson the bad guys he never wanted

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: September 18, 2008

    August Wilson, in case you're not a fan or happened to miss the obits in 2005, was a half-black, half-white American playwright who, in a scattershot way, attempted and...