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21. Night&Day

    We Hope, We Pray

    By Chris Joseph

    Published: February 28, 2008

    This season continues to be one massive cock-punch for the Miami Heat. No matter the day of the week, chances are that somewhere in America, the Heat players are getting their...

22. Night&Day

    Snakes in My Spam

    Eric Idle’s latest, greatest moneymaking scheme hits Miami.

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Strictly speaking, Spam is a cooked-meat product containing bits of many long-dead animals -- pigs, chickens, turkeys, clumsy factory workers -- jammed together and canned for...

23. Riptide

    Sarnoff Shmarnoff

    Commissioner Marc's claim to a famous bloodline just might be fiction.

    By Francisco Alvarado, Michael J. Mooney and Calvin Godfrey

    Published: February 28, 2008

    TV Guise Filed under: News For quite some time, Miami city Commissioner Marc Sarnoff has represented himself as the grandson of the late commercial radio and television...

24. Metro

    Payday Mayday

    While its owner lives the high life, a county contractor stiffs its employees.

    By Isaiah Thompson

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Alanis Security is headquartered in a cheerless, gray five-story building with black windows and dark hallways on NW 36th Street in Doral, hulking inconspicuously amid a lonely...

25. Metro

    Mayor of the Nude Beach

    So he's naked and in his seventies. He's still the coolest guy you'll ever meet.

    By Calvin Godfrey

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Larry Fleischman recalls his pre-Miami life as hard and suburban. He lived in New Jersey with his wife and three kids. He loaded trucks in the evening, worked at a flea market...

26. Letters

    Letters from the Issue of February 28, 2008

    "People need to know the truth about him. He makes me sick!"

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Don't Turn the Page on Manilow He can do Zeppelin: Michael Gallucci's writeup of Barry Manilow (Live Wire, February 21) is not only offensive but also clearly lacking any...

27. Music

    José González at the Manuel Artime

    A Swedish-Argentine folk rocker? It must be world beat.

    By Julienne Gage

    Published: February 28, 2008

    José González is happy to headline a world beat concert for Miami's Rhythm Foundation and Poplife, but the Swedish-Argentine folk rocker is not so content to...

28. Music

    Miami Movement

    Our guide to the 15th annual Caribbean Festival.

    By Arielle Castillo and Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: February 28, 2008

    This weekend marks the impressive 15th anniversary of the local annual event known colloquially as the Bob Marley festival. Which is more or less accurate; meant to honor the...

29. Burner

    The Prodigal Piano Man

    Johnny Rodgers plays his hometown a song.

    By Andrés Solar

    Published: February 28, 2008

    "When Liza found out that I could sing and dance, she pulled me off the piano," Johnny Rodgers recalls. "Now I play one of the Williams Brothers in her show based on Kay...

30. Burner

    More than Semi-Pro

    Andre 3000, renaissance man.

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: February 28, 2008

    You'd think that, after having won six Grammys, Andre "3000" Benjamin, of hip-hop superduo OutKast, would take a break and relax a bit, but the rub is, of course, you don't win...

31. Livewire

    Ghost Stroke

    By Jennifer Lima

    Published: February 28, 2008

    With only a handful of live performances to date, local act Ghost Stroke is already making waves. The quartet comes fully equipped with a seasoned vocalist, a Berklee alum...

32. Livewire

    Mannheim Steamroller

    By Eric W. Saeger

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Mannheim Steamroller is comin' to town, which doesn't automatically mean Santa Claus is along for the ride. Like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Steamroller is best known for...

33. Livewire

    Kryptonite Metal Fest

    By Eric W. Saeger

    Published: February 28, 2008

    An anti-harmonic convergence takes place at Tobacco Road on Friday when the 30-band Kryptonite Metal Fest touches down. DJ Oski and QueenOfTheScene.com are handling the event,...

34. Livewire

    Ricky Skaggs

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: February 28, 2008

    You don't rack up country credibility by wearing big hats and shiny shirts, although the current crop of Nashville movers and posers might suggest otherwise. Better to emulate...

35. Clubs

    Pick Up and Go

    Blue Martini is maybe a good place to meet a significant other. But first listen to the stories they tell.

    By Elyse Wanshel

    Published: February 28, 2008

    I don't really like to date," says Javier, a short, dark, timeworn fellow in his thirties. "I basically come here looking for a sexy woman. You know, the kind who's confident...

36. Cafe

    Bourbon Buzz

    The latest Michael Mina venture is as fine as fine dining gets around here.

    By Lee Klein

    Published: February 28, 2008

    "Fine dining" once conjured images of elegant salons, white-glove service, and the type of meals you would never, and could never, cook at home. Nowadays it is a label affixed...

37. Cafe

    Unchained Charmer

    Flawed but fascinating, Macchiato fights the giants in South Miami.

    By Bill Citara

    Published: February 28, 2008

    When it comes to chain restaurants, Miami diners are like masochists at a convention of sadists. Steak house, Mexican, Italian, Chinese. Seafood, burgers, chicken, hot...

38. Film

    Movie Magic City

    The Miami International Film Festival may have finally arrived on Hollywood's radar.

    By P. Scott Cunningham

    Published: February 28, 2008

    During one fateful night of insomnia in 1894, Frenchman Louis Lumière invented the cinématographe, a portable, hand-cranked film camera that fit into a suitcase...

39. Film

    Reel Wrap

    Our critics review a sampling from week one of the film fest.

    By Frank Houston and P. Scott Cunningham

    Published: February 28, 2008

    La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon): The festival's opening-night selection is the feel-good tale of a nine-year-old Mexican boy's odyssey to reunite with his mother, who has...

40. Art

    Waif Cake

    Melissa Rodwell's fetishizing of young men is nothing new in our exhibitionist age.

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus

    Published: February 28, 2008

    At first blush, the image of a scrawny young man dry-humping a plush Snoopy doll seems like an effort to shock. The model in the black-and-white large-scale photo is nude, his...