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Readers' picks

Best Bar
 The Poor House, Fort Lauderdale

Best Concert Venue (Tie)
 Culture Room and Revolution, Fort Lauderdale

Best Rock Club
 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale

Best Strip Club
The Cheetah III, Pompano Beach

Best Coffeehouse
 Chocolate Moose Music Café, Davie

Best Sports Bar
 Bru's Room, various locations

Best Movie Theater
 Muvico, various locations
 
The Derek Cintron Trio
www.dc3.cc

In 2001, Derek Cintron released Oh … the Drama, which went on to take Best Rock Album in our Best Of edition that year. Fans of straight-ahead rock music gloried to choice cuts such as "Pirate Radio," an almost criminally catchy tune. At concerts, women swooned over Cintron's often-shirtless torso. Then, aside from creating some buzz on college-rock stations, the band spent the four years since in a bit of a holding pattern. But this year, two things happened. First, the DC3 started performing at the swingers' club Plato's Retreat. Second, the band completed its long-awaited album, You and Me and Everybody Else. It's an improvement over the 2001 release, which means the DC3 will likely be more visible on the live-music scene. And that means the DC3 will be having a very good year come 2006. Major-label A&R people, take serious note.