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21. Letters

    Joe's Café: A love-hate relationship revealed in letters

    Published: May 7, 2008

    NEWS REAL, APRIL 24, 2008 Joe's has Left and gone away Good riddance: Thank God! I live down the block from Joe's and have patiently waited for this place to close down ["Say...

22. Amazing Facts & Beyond

    Crazy Talk

    By Ted May

    Published: May 7, 2008

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23. Ask a Mexican

    The Mexican explores wet backs and red faces

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Dear Readers: The paperback version of my book is out in stores now, cheap enough so that even a Guatemalan can afford it. Buy, por favor! Now, on to the preguntas... Dear...

24. This Week's Cover

    The Cover of the May 8 Print Edition

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Photoillustration, source photography from www.istockphoto.com

25. Music

    She's Crafty: The Breeders' Kelley Deal talks knitting, nudity and Steve Albini's bodily functions

    By Jaime Lees

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Kelley Deal co-leads the Breeders with her sister Kim, who's best known for being a member of the Pixies (and later, the Amps). The Dayton, Ohio, quartet first found fame in...

26. B-Sides

    Sweet Honey: B-Sides defends Radiohead's Pablo Honey and dishes dirt on new local rock & roll bar the TRADE

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: May 7, 2008

    It's next to impossible to choose a favorite album among those in Radiohead's catalog. After all, the UK quintet has a release to fit almost every mood: alienated (1997's OK...

27. Critics' Picks

    The Hood Internet

    9 p.m. Friday, May 9. Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

    By Jaime Lees

    Published: May 7, 2008

    The two dudes in the Hood Internet are multitasking experts. In addition to the occasional remix, the Chicago DJ crew pumps out frequent mash-ups, which layer beat-filled songs...

28. Critics' Picks

    MU330

    3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

    By Ryan Wasoba

    Published: May 7, 2008

    If the third wave of ska is over, either nobody told MU330, or it simply doesn't care. The latter option must be true; in the fourteen years since their first album, the...

29. Critics' Picks

    The Coke Dares

    9 p.m. Sunday, May 11. Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: May 7, 2008

    The three members of the Coke Dares have logged time in fellow Bloomington, Indiana, rock outfits Magnolia Electric Co. and the Impossible Shapes. But its latest album, Feelin'...

30. Critics' Picks

    The Black Hollies

    8 p.m. Sunday, May 11. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

    By Matt Sullivan

    Published: May 7, 2008

    First, melt down your favorite Who, Kinks, Stones, Motown and regular ol' Hollies records, run them through a blender and toss them in your freezer. Wait 30 years to pull them...

31. Critics' Picks

    The Brakes

    9 p.m. Tuesday, May 13. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University Cit

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: May 7, 2008

    The dark, sweet piano march that opens the Brakes' Tale of Two Cities, a collection of precisely choreographed live recordings, snakes into trumpet blats and other sadistic...

32. Critics' Picks

    Ill Bill/Tech N9ne

    8 p.m. Tuesday, May 13. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

    By D.X. Ferris

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Growing up in '80s Brooklyn, Ill Bill heard something common in Slayer and Public Enemy — and not just the sampled guitar riff that linked the dissimilar Def Jam artists....

33. Critics' Picks

    The Mary Onettes

    9 p.m. Wednesday, May 14. Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: May 7, 2008

    The Mary Onettes' music is unabashedly '80s in every way; the Swedish new-wavers borrow from bands such as New Order, the Cure and the Jesus and Mary Chain. But as the...

34. Homespun

    Gotta Be Karim

    Bean Pie EP
    (Cobblestone Rock Music)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Karim Hameed used to perform with Soul Tyde, and his love for old-school samples and smooth soul textures is made plain on "When You See Me." The track, which kicks off Gotta...

35. Cafe

    The Pla Song Kruang Remains the Same: Basil Spice puts the newest Thai twist on South Grand

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: May 7, 2008

    As I ate lunch at Basil Spice, a slow, bittersweet melody played over the restaurant's speakers. I hummed along with the climactic passage: hum HUM hum hum hum hum. It was my...

36. Gut Check

    To Market, To Market: It's May, and farmers' markets are bustin' out all over!

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: May 7, 2008

    The month of May heralds many things: the end of school, the beginning of barbecue weather. At Gut Check the big news is that area farmers' markets have begun to open for the...

37. Drink of the Week

    SmartWater

    By Kristie McClanahan

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Here's a very short list of smart things we did last night: We walked from bar to bar during our mini pub-crawl through our Dogtown neighborhood. And that about sums it up....

38. Keep It Down

    See Malcolm get his Pork Pattie Loaf on!

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Make no mistake about it, prying open a can of Army Brand Chopped Pork Pattie Loaf is not for the faint of heart. Sure, the Chopped Pork Pattie Loaf may be a bit confused as...

39. Film

    Fast Track to Nowhere: It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series — one of the first Japanese animes syndicated on American TV — into a prospective franchise, the Matrix masters, Larry...

40. Stage

    Harlem Duet: What we talk about when we talk about interracial love

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Djanet Sears' Harlem Duet is a prequel of sorts to Shakespeare's Othello. Here Othello is a college professor in late-'90s America who is in the process of leaving Billie, his...