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41. ˇAsk a Mexican!™

    The Race Card Is an Ace Card

    You got to know when it's low

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: November 8, 2007

    I like to think that I’m an open-minded sorta guy for a teenager. I fervently oppose racial stereotypes, though I do think that they’re good for a laugh or two sometimes. I...

42. Shrapnel

    Say What?

    Word fun with Max Bemis

    By Cole Haddon

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Say Anything frontman Max Bemis was diagnosed three years ago as bipolar, which, he says, made absolute sense considering the manic episodes he had been experiencing for some...

43. Film

    Social Suicide

    The afterlife is just a lousier version of real life. Oh, and Tom Waits is there

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Wristcutters: A Love Story, a well-wrought indie written and directed by Goran Dukic, has to be the kewpie doll of current zombie flicks: Its walking dead are a bunch of...

44. Home Grown

    The Resonars

    Nonetheless Blue
    (Get Hip)

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Are the Resonars a "real band" or aren't they? Only Matt Rendon knows for sure, and he's not saying (yet). To paraphrase the immortal Bard, what's in a band . . . as long as...

45. Film

    Dull Roar

    War drama has an odd upside

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest movie ever made about American foreign policy — and it wasn't...

46. Home Grown

    Scott Johnson

    Scott Johnson
    (You Sound Bitter Music)

    By Sarah Ventre

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Scott Johnson's new release is a fusion of all that is local. While the Gin Blossoms' guitarist has risen to national success and recognition, this album truly does feel...

47. Film Feature

    What's Wrong With This Picture?

    Robert Redford and the American façade

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Although he plays a college professor in his latest film, Robert Redford was, by his own admission, never much of a student, consistently more interested in what was going on...

48. Home Grown

    Gemini Soul

    The Liquid Soul Tour
    (Pearl Jazz Recording)

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Gemini Soul takes jazz and injects it with a heavy, rhythmic dose of funk. Bass player André Marcel Ajamu Akinyele's four-string coils itself around the steady snare percussion...

49. Film

    Protect the Legacy

    Demme follows Carter's controversial book tour

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Jonathan Demme, who directed Tom Hanks to an Oscar as the AIDS-afflicted lawyer in Philadelphia, may be the most well-meaning filmmaker in Hollywood. Jimmy Carter, winner of...

50. Listen Up

    Puscifer

    "V" Is for Vagina
    (Puscifer Entertainment)

    By Aaron Burgess

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Although fans of his multiplatinum vehicles Tool and A Perfect Circle like to paint him as an arcane, poetry-drunk, Jim Morrison-esque frontman, Maynard James Keenan is one...

51. Listen Up

    Felix Da Housecat

    Virgo Blacktro & the Movie Disco
    (www.nettwerk.com)

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Chicago-based DJ Felix Da Housecat takes a journey back to disco with his new release, navigating through sonic textures from that bygone era. Hearing it, you notice that Felix...

52. Listen Up

    Dwight Yoakam

    Dwight Sings Buck
    (New West Records)

    By Henry Cabot Beck

    Published: November 8, 2007

    We miss Buck Owens. Genial, shrewd, goofy, and incredibly gifted, Owens shared the pop and country music stage with the vast crowd of '60s musical wunderkinder. He stood his...

53. Live Wire

    Old Crow Medicine Show

    By Tracy M. Rogers

    Published: November 8, 2007

    If you like tales of cocaine and depravity mixed with gospel/soul tinges and down-home twang, Old Crow Medicine Show has just what you're looking for. The members of the...

54. Live Wire

    Otep, and Hellyeah

    By Niki D'Andrea

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Otep Shamaya says, "Art is war." The singer for her namesake L.A.-based metal-fusion band, Otep, considers herself a revolutionary, and makes art catharsis via visceral screams...

55. Live Wire

    Saturday Looks Good to Me

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: November 8, 2007

    God bless K Records' tousled-bedhead messes, but it's a mystery to us what, exactly, Saturday Looks Good to Me are doing on this label's roster. These Ann Arbor, Michigan-based...

56. Needle Exchange

    Make A Wish

    Rave all night in the Cell Block

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: November 8, 2007

    As much fun as warehouse raves can be — what with all the thrill of thrashing around in some anonymous location that could be visited by the po-po at any moment —...

57. Turntable

    Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

    Who's spinning what, where and when

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Thursday 8 Bikini Lounge: Sophisticated Boom Boom with DJ HFE (rockabilly, surf, jazz, classic country, indie, obscuro) The Blooze: DJ El Dedo (rockabilly) Bunkhouse: DJ...