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41. Chatter

    Can Lil Wayne Overcome His Spotty Live Track Record?

    Weezy Peezy

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: December 18, 2008

    Lil Wayne is scheduled to bring his "I Am Music" tour to Toyota Center Thursday, but be warned before you drop nearly $50 on a ticket. While the New Orleans native born Dwayne...

42. Local Rotation

    2008 in Plastic: Seven inches at a time...

    By Daniel Mee

    Published: December 18, 2008

    Two thousand seven was a banner year for the album in Houston indie rock; with recession looming in 2008, local bands adjusted their ambitions, rediscovering the pithy charms...

43. Rotation

    Aterciopelados: Rio

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: December 18, 2008

    While social and political issues are not new to the music of this Colombian rock duo formed by Andrea Echeverri and Hector Buitrago, Rio is actually the first time they...

44. Rotation

    Ludacris: Theater of the Mind

    By Shea Serrano

    Published: December 18, 2008

    Ludacris's strength as a rapper has been, and always will be, an unfortunate irony: he's a schizophrenic mess of disputatious bravado and wit. It serves him well on guest...

45. Rotation

    Waylon Jennings & the .357s: Waylon Forever

    By Ciznar, Martin

    Published: December 18, 2008

    With his final works in the American Recordings series, Johnny Cash had some of his biggest commercial and critical success, setting the bar ridiculously high for departed...

46. Playbill

    Samantha Ronson

    By Craig Hlavaty

    Published: December 18, 2008

    It's not easy traveling the world with your tarnished sex-symbol girlfriend Lindsay Lohan while you are trying to DJ at dance clubs all over the world, but somehow Samantha...

47. Playbill

    Bianca Noons Tribute

    By Chris Gray

    Published: December 18, 2008

    Bianca Noons, who passed away peacefully November 29 after lying in a diabetic coma for a year, was half of Houston sibling reggae duo the Neutral Sisters, memorably profiled...

48. Playbill

    Chris Masterson & Eleanor Whitmore

    By William Michael Smith

    Published: December 18, 2008

    Anyone who saw 13-year-old Chris Masterson shredding a Strat at the Fabulous Satellite Lounge or Big Easy in the late '80s probably had a clue the little guy was going to grow...

49. Playbill

    King's X

    By Chris Gray

    Published: December 18, 2008

    Simply put, King's X is a marvel. The Katy-based trio has been hanging around the margins of hard rock for nearly 30 years; next year marks the 20th anniversary of...

50. Cafe

    Bombay Salad and Colossal Shrimp at King's Inn

    By Robb Walsh

    Published: December 18, 2008

    Every meal at the King's Inn on Loyola Beach starts with a plate of sliced tomatoes and a dish of the restaurant's mysterious "tartar sauce." I usually eat huge gobs of the...

51. Hot Plate

    Taste of Tuscany at McCormick & Schmick's

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: December 18, 2008

    In its simplest form, the Italian appetizer called bruschetta is toasted bread scraped with garlic, drizzled with olive oil and topped with tomatoes. The dish also can be as...

52. Dish

    The Broken Spoke

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: December 18, 2008

    Don't be surprised if you see lots of bikes parked outside The Broken Spoke (1809 Washington, 713-863-7029) — that's what the racks are for. Owner Ray De La Garza has...

53. Film

    Doubt Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism

    J'Accuse!

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: December 18, 2008

    Back in the early 1980s, when I was a graduate student in Boston, a prominent professor I knew was accused of sexually harassing a female colleague. This man was a compulsive...

54. Film

    Yes Man Repackages Jim Carrey's Greatest Hits, Which Maybe Weren't So Great to Start With

    Just Say No

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: December 18, 2008

    For so major a movie star — at least, once upon a time — Jim Carrey seems to make a lot of awfully minor films, several of them over and over again. Isn't Yes Man,...

55. Film

    It's a Miserable Life in Seven Pounds

    Will Smith encores his Pursuit of Happyness

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: December 18, 2008

    Two years ago nearly to the day, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, one of the most underrated of recent Hollywood movies,...

56. Theater

    Gate of Heaven is a Gift for All

    For Any Season

    By D.L. Groover

    Published: December 18, 2008

    I defy anyone to leave Gate of Heaven unaffected. Although this tremendously moving drama, a co-production between Nova Arts Project and The Asian/Pacific American Heritage...

57. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: But Not Goodbye, A Fertle Holiday, The Gifts of Christmas, The Nutcracker, Panto Cinderella, Santaland Diaries, Spirits to Enforce, Twelve Ways of Christmas

    By D.L. Groover, Marene Gustin and Lee Williams

    Published: December 18, 2008

    But Not Goodbye Main Street Theater's But Not Goodbye has nothing to do with Christmas except its family spirit and joy of giving, but George Seaton's fantasy comedy is...

58. Artbeat

    Capsule Art Reviews: "Frank Zeni," "Proscenia," "Thrive," "We the People..."

    By Kelly Klaasmeyer and Troy Schulze

    Published: December 18, 2008

    "Frank Zeni" New bar/gallery Khon's celebrates its grand opening on Milam with an exhibit of paintings by local artist/architect Frank Zeni. Known mostly for his Roman...

59. Ask a Mexican

    SPECIAL NAVIDAD SHOPPING GUIDE EDITION

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: December 18, 2008

    Dear Readers, A couple of columnas ago, I published a short list of my favorite books regarding Mexicans and Mexican Americans and urged ustedes to submit better choices so...