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21. Metro

    Jack Thompson Don't Know Jack

    Why will the right-wing crusader likely lose his license? Swastikas are just the start.

    By Brantley Hargrove

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Jack Thompson looks nothing like 9/11 orchestrator Mohamed Atta. He wears a slick business suit and lives in a million-dollar home in Coral Gables. Yet the 56-year-old lawyer...

22. Metro

    Canes Got Sugar

    Miami versus FSU rocked. Next up: Stanford.

    By Matt Herb

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Matt Rotolante is a third-generation Miami Hurricane fan. His parents were Canes. His grandmother was a Cane. So there was no better place for him to be Monday afternoon than...

23. Letters

    Letters from the Issue of June 19, 2008

    "It seems mixed messages and the media go hand in hand, and this is where I thought New Times was different."

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Faux Fury Judging a book by its cover: Francisco Alvarado's "Last and Furious" (June 5) article about the Miami Fury football team was informative and enjoyable. These ladies...

24. Music

    Trick Daddy Bids Farewell to Slip-N-Slide

    And launches his own Dunk Ryder imprint.

    By Jason Handelsman

    Published: June 19, 2008

    The light reflects off Trick Daddy's gold grills as he explains his personal evolution, as he tells it, and a recent move that will shock longtime followers of 305 hip-hop. "No...

25. Music

    Trashy Treasure

    The B-52's reappear just in time for far out to be way in again.

    By Tony Ware

    Published: June 19, 2008

    One man's trash is another man's treasure. And nowhere is this more evident than in a Southern small-town thrift store, where beer helmets and broken furniture end up as...

26. Suicide Blonde

    Rock of Ages

    Mudhoney keeps it dirty in '08.

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Most followers of the Eighties/Nineties American rock underground have heard of Mudhoney. The band became known back then for influencing other Seattle-area groups that later...

27. Burner

    Head Spins: Drop.D

    Love Hate's resident hip-hop hero.

    By John Hood

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Less knowledgeable folks might be tempted to consider Drop.D nothing but another DJ in a long line of hip-hop-spinning wide boys who've come to set up shop in South Beach. But...

28. Burner

    Your Company Name Here

    Summer tour sponsorship we would not like to see.

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: June 19, 2008

    With corporate-sponsored arenas, America's sports teams were among the first to pimp out naming rights for a buck. And lately our nation' rock stars have been lining up for...

29. Burner

    Reviewing the Reviewers

    The Futureheads strike back against critiques of This Is Not the World.

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: June 19, 2008

    It's been a tough couple of years for the Futureheads. Following the mixed reception to 2006's ambitious News and Tributes, the British postpunk quartet was dropped by its...

30. Livewire

    Rancid

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Like Green Day, Rancid was once reviled as a band of poseurs by much of the punk-rock intelligentsia but is now seen as a standard-bearer for the genre — and sheer...

31. Livewire

    O Rappa

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: June 19, 2008

    One could say Jamaican singer Papa Winnie had a serendipitous hand in the creation of O Rappa, the Rio de Janeiro-based fusion reggae/funk-rock band that performs this weekend...

32. Livewire

    Paul van Dyk

    By Eric W. Saeger

    Published: June 19, 2008

    The course for superstar trance DJ Paul van Dyk is all-ahead full. In Between, his fifth album of original songs, remains the record he's been giving the most push since its...

33. Livewire

    Modest Mouse

    By Jonah Flicker

    Published: June 19, 2008

    The most bizarre voice in rock these days belongs to Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock. His Tom Waits-esque yowl guides an array of drunken characters through the churning...

34. Cafe

    Raw Deal

    Nothing much is cooking at this midtown joint.

    By Lee Klein

    Published: June 19, 2008

    If vegans are a "Hezbollah-like splinter faction" of the vegetarian movement, as Anthony Bourdain once wrote, then raw foodists would be that group's loopiest fringe. Like...

35. Five Questions

    Ken Lyon

    By Lee Klein

    Published: June 19, 2008

    When Ken Lyon opened Lyon Frères et Compagnie in 1992, the chic, upscale café/market was a gastronomic oasis on an otherwise dry and dusty Lincoln Road. After...

36. Film

    Back ... and Loving It

    Get Smart redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: June 19, 2008

    As old Broadway shows are revived, new Broadway shows get spun from old movies so that new movies may be fashioned from ancient TV series. It's an iron law of the culture...

37. Film

    Life with Father

    A domineering dad and the son under his thumb in When Did You Last See Your Father?

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Nothing snaps a child's head around quite like a dying parent, especially when the parent is a cantankerous old sod like Arthur Morrison (Jim Broadbent), whose nominally adult...

38. Film

    Now Playing

    The Happening

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: June 19, 2008

    What a bunch of nonsense — effective nonsense, chilling nonsense, occasionally wrenching nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless. This is what happens when M. Night Shyamalan...

39. Art

    Miami's Big Moment in the Arts Hits the Screen

    A pair of filmmakers kicks off a series of home movies with the Wet Heat Project.

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Since moving here from New York City in 1996, Bill Bilowit and Grela Orihuela have had front-row seats to the art brushfire that has engulfed this town. "Art is the currency...

40. Current Art Shows

    Art Capsules

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus, Steph Hurst and Michael Mills

    Published: June 19, 2008

    Interrogating Systems Amilcar Packer sits naked on a wooden chair in a dimly lit space. At first glance, it appears the artist is waiting to be interrogated by someone...