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.