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41. Livewire

    Hungrytown

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Granted, the name Hungrytown suggests a Third-World municipality desperate for charitable donations. But it's actually the handle for a husband-wife duo that purveys...

42. Rotations

    The-Dream

    Love Hate (Def Jam)

    By Michael Arceneaux

    Published: February 7, 2008

    You might not know The-Dream's name, but you've heard his work. The former Terius Youngdell Nash, along with production partner Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, penned a number of...

43. Rotations

    Black Mountain

    In the Future (Jagjaguwar)

    By John Albert

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Nostalgia isn't always a bad thing in rock. No, it doesn't always result in great art, but it can sound pretty bitchin' blasting from a car stereo. Such was the case last year,...

44. Rotations

    Hot Chip

    Made in the Dark (Astralwerks)

    By Lily Moayeri

    Published: February 7, 2008

    From its debut to this third album, Hot Chip has traveled an uneven path. The British quintet started out experimenting with sound sources and working entirely beyond...

45. Rotations

    The Whigs

    Mission Control (ATO Records)

    By Jonathan Garrett

    Published: February 7, 2008

    "River and ocean, a wave in my heart/We got your money, now we'll make a new start." And so the Whigs do. With Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith) helming the boards for its...

46. Clubs

    Greatest Show on Earth

    A real circus comes to Miami Beach.

    By Elyse Wanshel

    Published: February 7, 2008

    The first time I tried absinthe, I didn't feel compelled to hack off my ear. Nor did I see any green fairies. In fact the only things I remember are sugar, a lighter, a shot...

47. Cafe

    The Tao of Timó

    Five years on, it's the same as it ever was: a great restaurant.

    By Lee Klein

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Few things are as dismaying as returning to a favorite restaurant and discovering it has slipped. Worse is when you recommend the place to a friend — a needless...

48. Cafe

    Shanghai Rabbi

    Mister Chopstik serves up Chinese food with a kosher touch.

    By Pamela Robin Brandt

    Published: February 7, 2008

    It's often theorized that a restaurant's complimentary bread is a tip-off to the quality of the rest of the meal. If the same is true of the free noodle snacks on Chinese...

49. Film

    Pity the Fool

    There is no gold at the end of this terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mashup.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: February 7, 2008

    When a friend recently told me she'd been confused by the poster for the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson fortune-hunting romp Fool's Gold adorning her local multiplex —...

50. Film

    Universal Soldier

    Twenty years later, our one-man military machine's still going Rambo.

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: February 7, 2008

    A fourth Rambo? The question isn't why; it's what took him so long. Was America's avenging angel of meat just planning to sit out Fallujah and what we're cooking up for Iran...

51. Film

    Starting Out in the Evening

    Now playing.

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Faithful in style and spirit to the award-winning novel by Brian Morton, Andrew Wagner's wise, observant, and exquisitely tacit chamber piece complicates every May-December,...

52. Stage

    Death and Tosca

    Florida Grand Opera's lead diva gears up for Puccini's masterwork.

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: February 7, 2008

    New Times spoke on the phone last week with the dusky-voiced Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs, who will be portraying Floria Tosca through the majority of Florida Grand Opera's upcoming...

53. Art

    Photog Brings the Flamenco

    Gilles Larrain shows the soul of Seville in Coral Gables.

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus

    Published: February 7, 2008

    View a slideshow of some of Larrain's Falmenco shots. At Centro Cultural Español, Gilles Larrain stands over a photograph he took in 1983 in Gualdaquivir, Spain, and...

54. Current Art Shows

    Art Capsules

    Current shows.

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus and Steph Hurst

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Triangle of Need: Chicago-based theater and film artist Catherine Sullivan will participate in a free screening and talk about her new multichannel video installation, Triangle...

55. Current Stage Shows

    Stage Capsules

    Current shows.

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Altar Boyz: The hit off-Broadway musical about a fictional Catholic boy band brims with delightful sacrilege. The show is set up like a concert, with songs and between-song...

56. Game On

    Auto Erotica

    Car lovers find a new flame in Burnout Paradise.

    By Chris Ward

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Long have we waited to be taken down to the Paradise City, where the girls are green and the grass is pretty, or whatever. Now, thanks to Burnout Paradise, we know what all the...

57. DVDish

    How the West Was Wasted

    By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky

    Published: February 7, 2008

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Warner Bros.) Beautifully shot, masterfully acted, and 19 hours too long, Assassination is an uneven mix of the...

58. What Else Is New?

    Our Top DVD Picks Scheduled for Release This Week

    Published: February 7, 2008

    Across the Universe (Sony) The Apartment: Collector's Edition (MGM) The Aristocats: Special Edition (Disney) Blonde and Blonder (First Look) Boy Meets Girl...