Playboy March 2009

FEATURES 46 BOOM CAR BOOM It's real tropic thunder. GEORGE PROCHNIK hangs out with Florida's growing boom-car community. 50 PLAYBOY'S MUSIC AWARDS 2009 Our annual aural retrospective has Lily Allen talking dirty and more. 60 AT YOUR DESK, IN YOUR LAP AND ON THE TOWN The latest laptops have some serious byte. 88 SHARK TALE It's man vs. monster as THAYER WALKER cage dives in Mexico with great whites. INTERVIEW 29 KENNY CHESNEY Nashville's golden boy chats with ROB TANNENBAUM about life on the road and his ill-fated marriage to Renée Zellweger. 20Q 78 FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS ERIC SPITZNAGEL confronts Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement about their hit HBO series and unlikely road to stardom. FICTION 76 THE WORLD'S FASTEST WHITE WOMAN Our narrator meets a woman whose speed is matched only by her appetites—for food and sex—in this story by JIM HARRISON. PICTORIALS 40 PLAYBOY'S SEXIEST CELEBRITIES Sure, the definition of celebrity has changed over the years, but hot is still hot. We highlight 2009's most scintillating stars, including Megan Fox, Hayden Panettiere, Beyoncé, Angelina Jolie, Eva Mendes, Jayde Nicole, the Girls Next Door and other beauties. 64 PLAYMATE: JENNIFER PERSHING Miss March rocks in two places: the Sunset Strip and right here. 90 BACKSTAGE WITH AUBREY O'DAY You think she's great onstage? Wait until you get our all-access pass to see the sexy singer raw and unplugged. FASHION 82 ROCK THE RABBIT Six very different music makers—the Kooks, Pharrell, MGMT, Q-Tip, Perry Farrell and Motley Crue—break the rules of fashion in all the right ways. BY JOSEPH DE ACETIS NEWS AND NOTES 9 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY Hef and his new girlfriends step out at Playboy's 55th anniversary party, several Playmates visit troops at Fort Irwin for Playboy Radio, Carmen Electra slips into a Bunny costume to deal blackjack at the Playboy Club in Las Vegas, and more. 114 PLAYMATE NEWS Miss April 1997 Kelly Monaco teams with former Spice Girl Mel B for the Vegas production Peepshow; Miss June 2008 Juliette Fretté takes a closer look at Juno writer Diablo Cody's Candy Girl. DEPARTMENTS 1 PLAYBILL 7 DEAR PLAYBOY 11 AFTER HOURS 14 REVIEWS 17 CITY GUIDE 21 MANTRACK 26 SUCCESS: DUFF MCKAGAN 27 PLAYBOY ADVISOR 74 PARTY JOKES 122 GRAPEVINE FORUM 117 START MAKING SENSE Arizona has the most illegal U.S. border crossings, and that makes Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio mad. JOE DOMANICK looks at one tough cop. 119 AMERICAN PEON A guest-worker program would help U.S. businesses, which would love to create a working class with few rights.