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41. Live Wire

    Herbie Hancock

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: November 15, 2007

    Despite an amazing five-decade career, Herbie Hancock remains an enigma to most. But only the great Miles Davis can lay claim to reinventing jazz with crossover pop appeal as...

42. Live Wire

    Queen Latifah

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: November 15, 2007

    It's been almost 20 years since Queen Latifah recorded her first song, "Princess of the Posse," an assertive rap with Jamaican inflections. She was the definitive strong-minded...

43. Home Grown

    Jimmy Eat World

    Chase This Light
    (Tiny Evil)

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: November 15, 2007

    The first lyric on Jimmy Eat World's new album, Chase This Light, is a self-assured (if not presumptuous) one-word imperative: "Stay." But an enormous wall of distorted guitars...

44. Home Grown

    The Wiley One

    No. 7 Kid
    (www.thewileyone.com)

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: November 15, 2007

    Sammy Wiley, a.k.a. The Wiley One, is the brother of Cristiana Cole and Marta Wiley (of local esoteric rock group W.O.M.B.), and judging by his new CD, there's some serious...

45. Listen Up

    Michelle Shocked

    To Heaven U Ride
    (Mighty Sound)

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: November 15, 2007

    Has our 'Shell gone all "born again" or something? Nope — eclectic folk-rocker Michelle Shocked has discovered the joys and power of the African-American gospel...

46. Listen Up

    Ween

    La Cucaracha
    (Rounder)

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: November 15, 2007

    On La Cucaracha, Ween continues its tradition of delivering polymorphous albums full of brilliant, warped pop songs graced with lyrics that range from the nonsensical to the...

47. Listen Up

    Coheed and Cambria

    No World for Tomorrow
    (Sony)

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: November 15, 2007

    There's so much about Coheed and Cambria's work that cries out for ridicule, especially the '70s-art-rock-derived instrumental wankery and the skyscraping, get-your-Geddy-on...

48. Needle Exchange

    Wonder 4

    Sick and pretty

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: November 15, 2007

    If one wanted to gauge the anticipation for Wonder 4, merely peeping one of the local EDM message boards would reveal the kind of fervor that's building around the annual rave...

49. Turntable

    Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

    Who's spinning what, when and where

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: November 15, 2007

    Thursday 15 Axis/Radius: Ladies Night (hip-hop, rock, dance) Baja Tilly's: DJ Adrian (old school, R&B, cumbia, reggaeton) Big Fish Pub: Chronik Frequency Thursdays with...

50. Cafe

    Downtown But Not Out

    By Michele Laudig

    Published: November 15, 2007

    In the three years since City Bakery opened its doors to the hungry hipsters of downtown Phoenix, the whole area has undergone a whirlwind of change. First, the mood was pure...

51. Film

    Small Wonder

    Mr. Magorium is far less fantastical than its title

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: November 15, 2007

    Midway through the amiable children's movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, there comes a speech that I'll wager writer-director Zach Helm had been saving for future use ever...

52. Film

    Revelations

    Nothing left behind in this pop-packed apocalyptic pageant

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: November 15, 2007

    A doom-ridden pulp cabalist with a dark sense of purpose as well as humor, Richard Kelly shoots the moon with his rich, strange, and very funny sci-fi social satire, Southland...

53. Studio Visit

    Sky Girl

    Art is looking up — literally

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: November 15, 2007

    Laura Spalding, 26, ditched her digs in Illinois to paint in the desert. Now, she's a member of five15 gallery in downtown Phoenix and the preparator at Scottsdale Museum of...

54. Surreal Estate

    You May Already Have Been a Wiener

    Nostalgia is missing the point

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: November 15, 2007

    I whine a lot about what a teardown town Phoenix is, about how buildings, no matter their significance, get knocked over all the time, taking with them what passes for...

55. Art Scene

    Current Shows, Exhibits and Installations

    By Lilia Menconi

    Published: November 15, 2007

    Paintings by Xiao Shunzhi at Calvin Charles Gallery: After a few hours of viewing art, it sometimes feels as if I've rubbed my eyeballs with sandpaper. The visual wear makes...

56. Game On

    Shred Cred

    You wanted the best? You got the best: Guitar Hero III

    By Chris Ward

    Published: November 15, 2007

    Show of hands: Has anyone not heard of Guitar Hero at this point? You sir, in the back row clutching the Ratt cassette — you're the only one? All right, pal, here's your...

57. DVDish

    Once Upon a Time

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: November 15, 2007

    The Princess Bride: 20th Anniversary Edition (MGM) As far as anniversary-edition DVDs go, The Princess Bride is crushingly disappointing: no Rob Reiner commentary track, no...

58. What Else Is New?

    New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Published: November 15, 2007

    The Addams Family: The Complete Series (MGM) Amazing Grace (Fox) Annie Duke's Texas Hold'em Supercourse (Big Vision) Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Criterion Collection...

59. Night & Day

    Debbie Does Chandler

    Published: November 15, 2007

    A performance by the cast of Artists' Theatre Project's Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical follows the screening of the original -- the all-time best -- soft-core...

60. Night & Day

    Mural Superiority

    Graf artist SuchStyle recaptures the beauty of the form

    By Sloane Burwell

    Published: November 15, 2007

    On just about every corner in CenPho, some teenage malcontent with a spray can has thrown up his or her initials on anything stationary. Even worse are the morons with knives...