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21. Shrapnel

    Pity: Our Greatest Marketing Tool

    A look at 2007's most successful train wrecks

    By Serene Dominic

    Published: December 20, 2007

    How is it that two of 2007's top sellers — Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears — sold more than a million records in the U.S. without touring the U.S. this year?...

22. Shrapnel

    Music for the Eyes

    A bevy of new music DVDs, just in time for the holidays

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Music DVDs are typically used as stopgaps between CD releases or to drum up support for some other project an artist is promoting. Most amount to little more than music-video...

23. Home Grown

    Source Victoria

    The Fast Escape
    (www.myspace.com/sourcevictoria)

    By Serene Dominic

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Many have defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results," which explains why Ben Franklin flew his kite in lightning only once. In pop...

24. Home Grown

    Try Me Bicycle

    Voicings
    (www.trymebicycle.com)

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Imagine a coffee shop gig. There's dude or dudette strumming away on stage, pouring his or her heart into the mic in between sips of complimentary joe (the musician's...

25. Listen Up

    Lupe Fiasco

    Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
    (Atlantic)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Though some believe Lupe Fiasco is too smart for mainstream rap, that’s not exactly true. Most of the lyrics on his sophomore release, Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool, are...

26. Listen Up

    Axe Riverboy

    Tutu to Tango
    (Minty Fresh)

    By Thomas Bond

    Published: December 20, 2007

    It's difficult enough to master the pop music idiom, let alone to do so in a second language. Frenchman Xavier Boyer has managed the impressive feat, singing in English...

27. Locals Only

    Acapulco-Five-O

    By Adriane Goetz

    Published: December 20, 2007

    If the term "butt-shake" isn't part of your musical vernacular, you'd better get hip ASAP and have a listen to Phoenix's own Acapulco-Five-O. Inspired by '50s...

28. Locals Only

    The Heymakers

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Great gods of gravy, where would the hep world be without the subtle machinations of the Cramps and Stray Cats? Why, there wouldn't hardly be any rock-a-billy music...

29. Live Wire

    D.I.

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Y'know, it's pretty remarkable how many ancient hardcore bands — ones most of us thought were long gone — are still crisscrossing this great land of ours...

30. Needle Exchange

    Soulman

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: December 20, 2007

    There’s a slew of reasons we dig Al Page. Not only does the laid-back DJ and promoter have one of the most fly Afros in all of P-Town, but he also busts much ass on both...

31. Turntable

    Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

    Who's playing what, where and when

    Published: December 20, 2007

    THURSDAY 20 27th Avenue Bar & Grill: DJ Turtlewaxxx (hip-hop, old school, Latin groove) Axis/Radius: Crystal Thursdays Ladies Night (Top 40, rock, dance) Big Fish Pub: DJ...

32. Cafe

    Suited to a Tea

    By Michele Laudig

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Can you believe I wrote my college admissions essay about how coffee was going to take over the world? Me neither. But somehow it worked. Not only did I get into the...

33. Booze Pig

    Beep! Beep!

    By C.M. Redding

    Published: December 20, 2007

    It's finally winter, and I'm feeling like that damn coyote in the cartoons, hungry for something good to put in my facehole. I'm tired as hell of chasing that...

34. Film

    Director's Cut

    Tim Burton's gorgeously gruesome Sweeney Todd

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Here's the thing: Tim Burton pulled it off. Nearing the end of an uncommonly strong year for American movies, he's taken a hallowed classic of the modern musical...

35. Film

    Savage Love

    Testing familial bonds, one nursing home at a time

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Simmering below the squeamish elder-care euphemism "uncharted territory" is a fearful awareness that when it comes to dealing with the growing army of senile parents, we have...

36. Film

    Hock the Line

    Cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: December 20, 2007

    As an actor, John C. Reilly is the opposite of Mr. Cellophane. He doesn't disappear into a role; roles disappear onto him — the unlikely porn sidekick of Boogie...

37. Film

    Grounded

    Controversy aside, this just won't fly

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Kites fly high over the San Francisco Bay and Kabul (okay, China), but not much else soars in Marc Forster's flaccid adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's vivid 2002 novel, which...

38. Film

    Moolah for Mullahs

    All aboard the '80s way-back machine

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Hell of a thing, getting Mike Nichols to adapt the yer-kiddin'-me story of Charlie Wilson, the congressman from Lufkin, Texas, who damn near single-handedly helped the Afghans...

39. New Year's Eve Guide

    Live and Let '007 Die

    New Year's Eve of destruction

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: December 20, 2007

    As the waning days of 2007 tick away like Vicodins down the gullet of some rehab-bound starlet, so do your final chances of being bad. See, you've finally decided to cut the...

40. Stage

    Sweet Caroline

    The Black Theatre Troupe has a hit musical, for a Change

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: December 20, 2007

    If there’s a criticism to be leveled at Black Theatre Troupe for presenting Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change, it’s that attempting such a challenging piece of...