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21. Night&Day

    Drink Me

    They’re serving up Absinthe at Spiegelworld.

    By Raina McLeod

    Published: December 27, 2007

    You’re well versed in the vodkas and gins of the bar, but absinthe is one highly potent brew that flies under the radar. Until now. Legend has it that if you take a sip of...

22. Night&Day

    Woof

    Take a razor to that dog.

    By Raina McLeod

    Published: December 27, 2007

    As of 9 a.m. December 31, you were 364 days sober. But by 10 p.m., you were doing keg stands like an out-of-control co-ed. Well, we say what happened in 2007 stays in 2007, so...

23. Night&Day

    Hells Yeah

    It’s NYE and we’re shaking it all night long!

    By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik

    Published: December 27, 2007

    The holidays are just about ovah, and you’ve had it up to here with family time (no offense, moms and dads). But seriously, if you hear one more Christmas carol or light...

24. Feature

    Missed Opportunities

    Kick yourself for not seeing these 10 movies.

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: December 27, 2007

    How tough is it for a movie to find its audience, above the din of blockbuster marketing and beyond the clogged distribution pipeline? Tsai Ming-liang, the Taiwanese/Malaysian...

25. Feature

    Doc Block

    Nonfiction continues its ascent onscreen.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: December 27, 2007

    An acquaintance who fought in both Afghanistan and Iraq says he has no use for documentaries about George Bush's bungling of the War on Terror. He has not and will not see a...

26. Feature

    Bad Blood

    Horror films failed to scare up the big bucks in 2007.

    By Luke Y. Thompson

    Published: December 27, 2007

    It was only a couple of years ago that the horror genre seemed newly resurgent, like an undead killer digging himself out of the grave. "Fresh-faced" directors like Eli Roth,...

27. Feature

    Revenge of the Nerds

    Judd Apatow's pretty good year.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Absolutely, unequivocally, this has been The Year of The Apatow. Judd got Knocked Up to the tune of $150 million (at the box office alone); the super-okay Superbad, which...

28. Metro

    On the MMAP

    The key to understanding the new corruption charges? Look at the old ones.

    By Tamara Lush

    Published: December 27, 2007

    One secretary attended school and had skin treatments on the taxpayers' dime. Another employee was let out of work for jury duty ... on most Fridays between January 2005 and...

29. Metro

    The Year in Weapons

    Kids brought 300 guns, knives, etc., to school last year. You can find ’em!

    By Calvin Godfrey

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Hey, Mom and Dad! Can you find and circle all the weapons your kids brought to school last year? Between August 2006 and July 2007, Miami-Dade Schools Police confiscated on...

30. Letters

    Letters from the Issue of December 27, 2007

    "These offenders have surely broken the spirits of their victims."

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Homeless Harangues No sympathy here: I am having a hard time finding sympathy for the men in "The People Under the Bridge" by Isaiah Thompson (December 13). They assaulted the...

31. Music

    Real Women Know When to Pull Out

    Avenue D reaches a sweaty climax, with the women on top.

    By Jamie Laughlin

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Have you ever told a dirty joke so well it eventually wound up owning you? It began innocently enough — a light-hearted anecdote whose punch line you could scarcely make...

32. Music

    Pop, Into Your Head

    Daniel René, local boy and former member of Menudo, grows into adult success.

    By José Dávila

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Many kids grow up dreaming of pop stardom, and in Miami it's no different. But for some, the route to the business leads them straight into our region's fertile Latin music...

33. Burner

    Sex and the Ditty

    From sticking keys in the ignition to exploring Uranus, no metaphor is too outlandish for R. Kelly.

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Rick James had it wrong. That girl he sang about in "Super Freak"? She doesn't even come close to the world's freakiest superfreak: R. Kelly. The R&B chart-topper, alleged...

34. Burner

    Dewey Cox Is Not There

    Walk Hard soundtrack takes on Robert Zimmerman.

    By Frank Houston

    Published: December 27, 2007

    A pair of aged hippies sit on a couch. One says, "If you could be any Bob Dylan you wanted to, which Bob Dylan would you be?" Our answer: Dewey Cox. The New Yorker cartoon was...

35. Burner

    Auld Lang Syne

    We'll take a cup of kindness for some of this year's musical train wrecks.

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: December 27, 2007

    This has been a sad year for some of our favorite musical artists. Many of them self-destructed to a degree we never thought possible, even as we rooted for their career...

36. Rotations

    Map of the Universe

    Curse in Reverse (Spy-Fi/Sound Nutrition Records)

    By Abel Folgar

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Local band Map of the Universe hit the South Florida scene in late 2005, after Ed Artigas and Ivan Marchena's band (acclaimed local act Bling Bling) called it quits. Along with...

37. Rotations

    Various Artists

    Putumayo Presents: Latin Reggae (Putumayo)

    By Julienne Gage

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Dem natty dreads who first rocked it steady in Spanish Town, Jamaica, probably never imagined their music could translate out of patois and back into the language of their...

38. Rotations

    Lupe Fiasco

    Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (Atlantic)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Though some believe Lupe Fiasco is too smart for mainstream rap, that's not exactly true. Most of the lyrics on his sophomore release, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, are pretty basic,...

39. Rotations

    Gram Parsons with the Flying Burrito Brothers

    Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 (Amoeba Records)

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: December 27, 2007

    For a guy who's been credited as the godfather of "cosmic country," Gram Parsons hasn't exactly been well represented when it comes to concert recordings. This goes for his...

40. Livewire

    Lights Down Low

    By Eric W. Saeger

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Something jazzy this way comes Friday night at Tobacco Road. Fort Lauderdale's Lights Down Low offers a breezy vibe, a stylistic combination of Spiro Gyra and Pat Metheny. The...