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21. Riptide

    Shack Attack

    Grovites decry kiosks as empty vessels.

    By Tamara Lush, Francisco Alvarado and Natalie O'Neill

    Published: June 5, 2008

    News Shack Attack Grovites decry kiosks as empty vessels. By Tamara Lush Sometimes city leaders mean well. They spend money on a project thinking it will help residents,...

22. Metro

    Budget Cuts Hit Mentally Ill

    As the state budget sinks, Florida's indigent mentally ill descend even further.

    By Isaiah Thompson

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Kathryn Fernandez doesn't leave home much. She rents a tiny room in a tiny dilapidated Hialeah house overrun by cats and garbage. Her bedroom is somewhat cleaner but acrid with...

23. Metro

    Red Erring

    To the boxers who will square off in Red China, retired Olympian Nicholas Spanakos makes a cautionary tale.

    By Brantley Hargrove

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Driving his Buick Regal around Aventura, Nicholas Spanakos might seem just another seventysomething snowbird. But look closely. The nose gives him away. It bulges to the right...

24. Music

    Computer Camp and Disco Balls

    Norway's Datarock creates dance anthems for freaks and geeks.

    By Siran Babayan

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Who knew music this shit-hot could come from a mountainous Norwegian town known as "The City of Rain"? Following in the footsteps of fellow townsfolk Röyksopp, Kings of...

25. Suicide Blonde

    Vampire Weekend: Scary Name, Friendly Music

    It's more Manilow than morbid.

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Sweet, I thought, upon seeing the band Vampire Weekend's name online the first time. New cheese goth rock! From the first download, though, I realized I was so, so wrong. With...

26. Burner

    Happy Birthday, Jazid

    The South Beach stronghold celebrates 12 years of live music.

    By Bernard Hacker

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Since 1996, it's been all about the music "every damn night" at 1342 Washington Ave., the home of Jazid. This unwavering ethos has attracted a loyal following to the venue,...

27. Burner

    Social Distortion

    Miami transplant Social Klash crafts electro en español.

    By José Dávila

    Published: June 5, 2008

    The local boys of Social Klash make sweet electro- and Britpop-inspired melodies, effortlessly swapping English and Spanish lyrics as well as crafting a cool, unique sound the...

28. Burner

    Simple, Not Stupid

    Van Morrison ventures back into the slipstream.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: June 5, 2008

    I was originally supposed to write about the new Van Morrison album, Keep It Simple (which was released April 1), a few weeks ago, when other deadlines got in the way. Then a...

29. Rotations

    Bun B and Prodigy

    II Trill (Rap-A-Lot) and H.N.I.C., Pt. 2 (Voxonic)

    By Evan McGarvey

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Thanks to sad coincidences, the latest albums from both Bun B and Prodigy — not so much parallel narratives as subtle varieties of disturbance—stake out oddly...

30. Rotations

    Shawn Snyder

    Romantic's Requiem (Wild Iris Records)

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: June 5, 2008

    With his turnip hairdo and a voice that evokes an infusion of wanderlust and yearning, South Florida's Shawn Snyder could be Adam Duritz's forgotten sibling. The tangled...

31. Rotations

    Al Green

    Lay It Down (Blue Note)

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Most producers who supervise reclamation projects for aging stars make the mistake of trying to contemporize the artist's sound — the equivalent of dressing your...

32. Livewire

    Camila

    By José Dávila

    Published: June 5, 2008

    In case you haven't heard, Camila is the Mexican rock act of the moment. The band's 2006 single "Abrázame" — a catchy Spanish ballad reminiscent of Oasis's...

33. Livewire

    Djavan

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Brazilian singer-songwriter Djavan got his start in the late Seventies while playing modern sambas with a clear bossa nova vibe. Over the years, he has expanded his musical...

34. Livewire

    Josh Gabriel

    By Eric W. Saeger

    Published: June 5, 2008

    The San Francisco-based house DJ duo of Josh Gabriel and Dave Dresden celebrated its "Best American DJ" award at this year's Winter Music Conference in novel fashion: They...

35. Livewire

    Steely Dan

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: June 5, 2008

    It's certainly impressive that Steely Dan masterminds Walter Becker and Donald Fagen have contributed such a staggering group of hit songs to the canon of modern music. One...

36. Cafe

    Flapjack Flip-Off VIII

    Who says politics and pancakes don't mix?

    By Lee Klein

    Published: June 5, 2008

    In the spirit of this pugnacious presidential primary season, we proudly present a special Kitchen Sink Edition of the eighth annual Flapjack Flip-Off. "Anything Goes" is the...

37. Five Questions

    Dewey LoSasso

    North One 10

    By Lee Klein

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Every Friday evening, from 5:30 to 11, North One 10 (11052 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-893-4211) hosts a barbecue and beer blast that is unlike any other in town. Chef Dewey...

38. Film

    Hairpiece in the Middle East

    Adam Sandler returns as a Mossad baddie turned stylist, and the bubbies will love him.

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Behold Adam Sandler, in a passable Israeli accent and outsize codpiece, as Zohan the Mossad superheavy: catching barbecue fish in his butt crack on a Tel Aviv beach, repelling...

39. Film

    Supermarket Sweep

    Male fulfillment and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America — how we define it, the price we pay for it, and what it looks like depending on...

40. Film

    Now Playing

    The Strangers

    By Ed Gonzalez

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Suggesting an American remake of David Moreau and Xavier Palud's Them, The Strangers is practically an abstraction: an old-school spooker spun from the blood splatter on a...