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21. Night&Day

    Hillbilly Harmony

    Leave your Deliverance jokes at the door.

    By TOM MCFADDEN

    Published: February 21, 2008

    When you hear the picking of a banjo, your thoughts instinctively drift to Ned Beatty, canoes, Burt Reynolds’s mustache, and anal rape courtesy of unsavory inbred mountain...

22. Metro

    Fidel's Gone. Yawn.

    The day el dictador quit was a bizarre one at Versailles, in Hialeah, and on Miami streets.

    By Tamara Lush

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Miami woke up Tuesday to this shocking news: Fidel Castro had resigned as president of Cuba. Um, didn't he kinda do that in 2006, when he had that intestine...

23. Metro

    Sarnoff Turns His Back on Blacks

    Coconut Grove's other half feels left out.

    By Francisco Alvarado

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Dressed in a fire-engine-red short-sleeve button-down shirt and matching slacks, George Symonette leans back in the barber chair where he has clipped hair for more than a...

24. Riptide

    Name Game

    Strip mall magnate gets his own street in Sunny Isles Beach.

    By Frank Houston, Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik and Janine Zeitlin

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Name Game Filed under: News Martin Luther King Jr. Henry Flagler. José Martí. All are historically significant enough to have streets named for them. Add to...

25. Letters

    Letters from the Issue of February 21, 2008

    "If the biggest issue some Grovites have to fight about is a dog park, I suggest they all get a life."

    Published: February 21, 2008

    In the Zone Sarnoff's vision is narrow: Regarding Francisco Alvarado's February 14 article "Combat Zone": I wonder if my district's commissioner, Marc Sarnoff, would consider...

26. Music

    Snares Trap

    Venetian Snares gives New Times his first U.S. interview in two years.

    By Tom Bowker

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Why does everything have to be Forbes magazine?" scoffs Aaron Funk, the electronic music madman who performs as Venetian Snares. Speaking with New Times by phone from his...

27. Suicide Blonde

    Long Live El Rey

    José El Rey rules with poetic justice and sweet, sweet music.

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: February 21, 2008

    It's hard at first to pinpoint what makes mustached local musical sensation José El Rey so damn appealing. Perhaps it's his music, a low-fi version of classic Miami bass...

28. Burner

    Apocalypse Now

    Junc Ops' view of the future isn’t exactly pretty.

    By José Dávila

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Will the world end by the year 2013? According to local left-field hip-hop duo Junc Ops, the answer is a resounding yes. Conceived by producers PG-13 (a.k.a. Paul Gaeta) and...

29. Burner

    Transatlantic Tracks

    Peru Negro brings to light its homeland's African musical influences.

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Not unlike many musicians in Cuba or Brazil, the members of Peru Negro demonstrate strong African influences in their sound. Of course, it's mostly thanks to the Africans who...

30. Burner

    Go Folk Yourself

    Fairport Convention's lasting influence.

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: February 21, 2008

    "Come all ye rolling minstrels," invited Sandy Denny in the 1969 Fairport Convention ditty "Come All Ye." "And together we will try/To rouse the spirit of the earth/And move...

31. Rotations

    José El Rey

    Espirituality (self-released)

    By Abel Folgar

    Published: February 21, 2008

    What do PerezHilton.com, El Cerro Market No. 7, Máxim en Español, botánicas, Mary's Coin Laundry, and your heart have in common? Those are places where...

32. Rotations

    Bob Mould

    District Line (Anti-)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: February 21, 2008

    As a member of legendary Minneapolis underground band Hüsker Dü and leader of the wildly acclaimed Nineties outfit Sugar, Bob Mould was known for blanketing bleak...

33. Rotations

    Dead Meadow

    Old Growth (Matador)

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: February 21, 2008

    "I can't tell if we're running from or coming to," singer/guitarist Jason Simon muses on the folky, eulogic "Ain't Got Nothing (To Go Wrong)," his voice dripping with...

34. Rotations

    North Mississippi Allstars

    Hernando (Sounds of the South)

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: February 21, 2008

    For the first six albums, a dozen years into their collective career, the North Mississippi Allstars took a more traditional approach to their rural, rootsy designs, resulting...

35. Livewire

    George Jones

    By Eric W. Saeger

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Johnny Cash once said, "When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean, besides George Jones?'" Nicknamed "No-Show Jones" in honor of all the gigs he...

36. Livewire

    Q-Burn's Abstract Message

    By Eric W. Saeger

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Truth be told, Q-Burn's message is no more abstract than "get thee under the mirror-ball and shake yo' ass." The former Rollins College (Orlando) DJ is a master at blending...

37. Livewire

    Barry Manilow

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Like Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow knows the value of old songs. But unlike Stewart (who caught his third career wind by recording 76 albums' worth of tunes your grandma got busy...

38. Livewire

    Cobra Starship

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: February 21, 2008

    This emo supergroup began as a lark in 2006, when the blogosphere had Snakes on a Plane fever. Gabe Saporta, frontman for New Jersey rockers Midtown, was recruited to pen a...

39. Cafe

    Wine and Food Fest Pops the Cork

    SoBe’s culinary extravaganza gets under way.

    By Lee Klein

    Published: February 21, 2008

    The 70th annual Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival gets under way Thursday. I mean seventh — it just feels longer because the whole shebang has gotten so big...

40. Cafe

    Space Saver

    The Bar remakes the Conrad Hotel's 25th floor.

    By Pamela Robin Brandt

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Before Hurricane Wilma blew out all the windows of the Conrad Hotel's 25th-floor lobby/restaurant, the space consisted of intimate 80-seat formal restaurant Atrio; Bar Noir, a...