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21. Night&Day

    Praise Ye Jah

    Reggae Wednesday is for the people!

    By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

    Published: December 6, 2007

    The burdensome workweek and nonstop barrage of pretentious arty parties got you down? Need a respite from the typical watering holes? We’ve got a suggestion. It’s all...

22. Night&Day

    Holiday Fun for a Reason

    Go Get Scrooged with the Tropees.

    By DAMARIS HAY

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Feeling like those Bah, humbug!s are just waiting to roll off your tongue this holiday season? With parties like the Get Scrooged Holiday Bash hosted by the Historical...

23. Riptide

    Riptide Presents: Art? Or Not Art?

    Separate the legit from the bogus and you could win a work of art.

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Ever found yourself scratching your noggin, trying to comprehend a work of art? Especially one displayed at Art Basel Miami Beach? Like us, you might even mistake fair director...

24. Metro

    Mount Sinai Mired and Sinking

    A doctor takes aim at the hospital’s CEO and foundation.

    By Francisco Alvarado

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Enrique Davila dedicated 23 years of his professional life to Mount Sinai Medical Center, the largest employer in Miami Beach. The 58-year-old Cuban-American oncologist was...

25. Metro

    Pearls Before Pigs

    A haywire hunting trip in the Everglades for an elusive oinker.

    By Calvin Godfrey

    Published: December 6, 2007

    The sun reflects off the artificial lake at the center of Midway Campground, bouncing a torpid late-afternoon light onto a trio of humongous RVs. In a sprawling tent near the...

26. Letters

    Letters from the Issue of December 6, 2007

    "Animal products are cruel, unhealthy, and downright dangerous."

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Racist Washing And we're all along for the spin cycle: The Haitian refugee situation mentioned in Janine Zeitlin's November 29 article "Washed Up" is to be expected,...

27. Music

    Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    Budding local R&B star Casely is only 21 years old, but he's got the musical chops of an industry veteran.

    By Esther Park

    Published: December 6, 2007

    If the name Casely sounds familiar, congratulations! You don't live under a rock. His single "Emotional," a delicious slice of R&B pop, has been racing up the local radio...

28. Music

    Blame It on Rio

    Eclectic English DJs Layo and Bushwacka! channel Brazil's up-for-it energy on their new mix for the famed Global Underground series.

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Dance music's squabbling factions should all join hands and sing "Kumbaya" this Saturday, when Layo and Bushwacka! storm the decks at Shine. Refreshingly the veteran English DJ...

29. Burner

    Vince Neil’s Little Black Book

    Imaginary conquests in the life of the former Mötley Crüe frontman.

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: December 6, 2007

    If you have breasts and attended a Mötley Crüe concert in the Eighties, odds are you had sex with one of, some of, or all of the band members. But, ahh, wasn't that...

30. Burner

    Free for All

    Give it away, give it away, give it away now.

    By Randall Roberts

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Radiohead may have gotten all the hype for the pay-what-you-wish scheme behind its latest online-only release, In Rainbows. But the English rockers weren't the first to...

31. Burner

    Girls, Aloud

    A new Shangri-Las compilation reminds pop tarts how it's really done.

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: December 6, 2007

    This month Cleopatra Records offers some important aid in resuscitating the girl-group genre. The new compilation Leader of the Pack highlights the career of the inimitable...

32. Rotations

    Wu-Tang Clan

    8 Diagrams (Loud/SRC/Universal)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Wu-Tang Clan's fifth album, 8 Diagrams, comes at a time of strife for the group. Ghostface Killah and Raekwon have publicly laid into Wu ringleader and beatmaker RZA for the...

33. Rotations

    Café Tacuba

    Sino (Universal)

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: December 6, 2007

    This latest effort by Mexico's supreme rock en español group will grow on you, but that's not necessarily a ringing endorsement. Café Tacuba made its name by...

34. Rotations

    Tender Forever

    Wider (K)

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Being the girlfriend of Tender Forever's Melanie Vera has to be as much of a curse as it is a blessing. On the plus side, your French expat squeeze writes nose-wrinklingly...

35. Rotations

    Musab

    Slicks Box (Hiero Imperium)

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Musicians are known for toeing the line between two different worlds — drifting between good and evil — or various mind states to become successful. We've all got...

36. Livewire

    Alejandro Sanz

    By Eric W. Saeger

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Whether they know it or not, most radio-listening gringos have heard Alejandro Sanz. In 2005 the Madrid native recorded a little duet with Shakira called "La Tortura" ("The...

37. Livewire

    Glass Candy

    By Nicholas Hall

    Published: December 6, 2007

    When Ida No was deciding what to call her glam-inflected, no-wave-­channeling, ­minimalist-disco, shrapnel-­shrieking dance-floor mindfuck of a band, she must have...

38. Livewire

    Alex Gaudino

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: December 6, 2007

    The Italian-born Alex Gaudino had already enjoyed more than a decade and a half as a successful DJ, remixer, and A&R guy when, earlier this year, he concocted a little...

39. Livewire

    Andrea Bocelli

    By Andrés Solar

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Don't let the glossy veneer and marketing budgets befitting a multinational conglomerate fool you. Tuscany's towering tenor is a rare, satisfying talent. That is, when smarmy...

40. Midnight Glimpse

    Monty's

    By Alexandra Quiñones

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Kokomo might not be real, but Monty's (2550 S. Bayshore Dr., Coconut Grove; 305-858-1431) surely captures the touristy quality of that fictional vacation paradise. At this bar...