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21. Night&Day

    We Believe You Can Fly

    Indulge your inner Icarus at this festival.

    By Raina McLeod

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Ten years ago you thought that buying a $140 pair of Nike Air Jordans would give you the ups you needed to soar into the sky, but the only thing that went up was the balance on...

22. Night&Day

    Dance Fever

    Catch it at the BankAtlantic Center.

    By Raina McLeod

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Thanks to the writers’ strike, the availability of fresh episodes of your favorite scripted shows is nil. But the bounty of reality shows across the dial can appease even...

23. Metro

    Jam Anyone's Cell Phone

    That turd talking while driving deserves it!

    By Michael J. Mooney

    Published: January 17, 2008

    He came into the bookstore huffing loudly into his cell phone, ignoring turned heads and annoyed glares. His voice shot across the room, a harsh, grating sound, like broken...

24. Riptide

    Rudy for Prez!

    Giuliani agrees with Miami: Screw the public.

    By Isaiah Thompson, Francisco Alvarado and Tovin Lapan

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Rudy for Prez! Filed under: Politics Miamians need a president who represents their values, who sees the world the way they do. For that reason, Riptide endorses Rudolph...

25. Strouse

    New Times Turns 20

    Check out the weirdness from our wacky two decades.

    By Chuck Strouse

    Published: January 17, 2008

    The beef began with a fish. Fueled by liquor, it ended with Miami New Times owner Mike Lacey launching a bottle at its editor Jim Mullin. "One of our sarcastic writers called...

26. Letters

    Letters from the Issue of January 17, 2008

    "Miami has become a refugee camp."

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Thanks, We Think Now you've got it: Jason Handelsman's January 10 article about Rick Ross, "Still Hustlin'," was 10 times better than the garbage he wrote about Bigg D ("Bigg...

27. Music

    Gema and Pavel in Miami Beach

    The Cuban-born duo lights up the stage this weekend.

    By Julienne Gage

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Cuban troubadour and musicologist Gema Corredera, of the melodic duo Gema y Pavel, looks at home while sipping her espresso at El Pub on Calle Ocho. It's been eight months...

28. Suicide Blonde

    Club Action

    Reviewing the places I go to review the music.

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: January 17, 2008

    With the conversion last year of the old Jackie Gleason Theater to the Fillmore Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County gained yet another live music venue. And it was yet another...

29. Music

    Boxing Match

    Record companies get greedy with repackaging excess.

    By Keith Laidlaw

    Published: January 17, 2008

    As the various Radiohead releases in recent weeks prove, rock box sets aren't becoming any more sensible. The "disc box" version of the band's new album, In Rainbows, is...

30. Burner

    The King Is Back

    Chameleonic DJ, musician, and now label impresario King Britt plays at Shine.

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: January 17, 2008

    King Britt is, above all, a shape-shifter. The Philadelphia DJ, musician, and label impresario is no stranger to Miami, but each time he pays a visit, it's in a different...

31. Burner

    Got Wood?

    Ronnie, the Stone's new autobiography, shows rockers and writers don't always mix.

    By Bob Ruggiero

    Published: January 17, 2008

    A band has some kind of amazing longevity if you can still be "the new guy" after 30 years in the lineup. But that's exactly the case with Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood,...

32. Burner

    Somebody Loves Them

    Portishead's back together. Is trip-hop creeping back?

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Bristol, England, has been bestowed with nicknames like "Slackersville, UK." It's a graveyard for ambition, we're told, a place where residents take awhile to climb out of bed...

33. Rotations

    The Magnetic Fields

    Distortion (Nonesuch)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: January 17, 2008

    True to its title, Distortion — the latest album from Stephen Merritt's long-running prickly pop project The Magnetic Fields — is full of feedback and reverb....

34. Rotations

    Too $hort

    Get off the Stage (Jive)

    By Eric K. Arnold

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Get off the Stage marks Too $hort's 17th album — not counting compilations and reissues — but it's also the end of an era. It's his last for Jive, the label he's...

35. Rotations

    Maria Rita

    Samba Meu (WEA International)

    By Jonathan Cunningham

    Published: January 17, 2008

    There's something deeply compelling about the voice and spiritual lilt of Brazilian samba singer Maria Rita. Upon first listening to her newest album, Samba Meu, you're...

36. Rotations

    David Byrne

    The Knee Plays (Nonesuch)

    By Nicholas L. Hall

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Better to burn out or fade away? The current musical tendency to fetishize the past, creating new markets through nostalgia, has come up with a fresh answer to this timeless...

37. Livewire

    Johnny SexFuk and the Fleshrockets

    By Eric W. Saeger

    Published: January 17, 2008

    When last we left Johnny SexFuk, a pumpkin was about to get its brains — or seeds, whatever — fucked out. That was back around Halloween, when the Hialeah-based...

38. Livewire

    Winter Jam Tour

    By Nicholas L. Hall

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Who says big-name, multi-band music festivals have to be filthy, debauched affairs whose main hallmarks are exorbitantly priced bottled water and a dearth of toilets? Who says...

39. Livewire

    Automatic Loveletter

    By Nicholas L. Hall

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Juliett Simms wants you to know she's damaged. Her band, Automatic Loveletter, just released a five-song EP full of loss, regret, pain, and feelings of inadequacy, and now...

40. Livewire

    3 Inches of Blood and the Black Dahlia Murder

    By Nicholas L. Hall

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Check subtlety, pretense, and the past decade at the door: 3 Inches of Blood wants nothing to do with them. Eschewing fads and hipster cred in favor of staying true to their...