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Playbill
Andy Vargas, David de la Garza
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: December 25, 2008
Having cut his teeth in the big-time music business by joining icon Carlos Santana's band during the Supernatural tour, California-born vocalist Andy Vargas recently got a...
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Playbill
New Year's Eve
By Chris Gray
Published: December 25, 2008
Known to those in the biz as "amateur night," New Year's Eve is nonetheless a near-guaranteed full house for bands and clubs, and a boon to local music fans — often with...
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Cafe
The United Nations of Food at Phoenicia Specialty Foods
By Robb Walsh
Published: December 25, 2008
The slow-cooked lamb shank was so tender you could cut it with a plastic knife and fork. And since those are the only utensils available in the dining area of Phoenicia...
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Hot Plate
Open up at Beaucoup Wings N Wings
By Paul Galvani
Published: December 25, 2008
The dish called "crawfish bread" ($5.99) at Beaucoup Wings N Wings (3511 Elgin, 713-751-1705) is better than it sounds. A cross between garlic bread and a crawfish poor boy,...
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Stirred and Shaken
818 BAR & LOUNGE'S VODKA TONIC
By W. Healy
Published: December 25, 2008
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 818 Bar & Lounge (818 Travis, 713-222-2254). No name. No artwork. No ambience to speak of. No glassware (just plasticware — you stay...
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Dish
Cedar Creek is a Blend of Dry and Onion
By Paul Galvani
Published: December 25, 2008
If you guessed the new Cedar Creek (1034 W. 20th St., 713-808 9623) has the same ownership as Onion Creek and Dry Creek, you guessed right. "Our menu is a blend of both Onion...
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Film
The Curious Case of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Old Man Pitt
By Scott Foundas
Published: December 25, 2008
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Film
The Reader Is Fundamental
Winslet and Fiennes take the long and (Oscar-)worthy road to redemption
By Ella Taylor
Published: December 25, 2008
Like Doubt, Stephen Daldry's The Reader is low-budget, high-profile and beamed straight at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Category of High Moral Tone. Only in...
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Film
Risky Business for Valkyrie
Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 25, 2008
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg — a lot of name for a lot of guy. Born into aristocracy in 1907, he was a soldier by the age of 19 — and, by most...
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Art
Lines and Wine
A radiant installation lights up 13 Celsius
By Kelly Klaasmeyer
Published: December 25, 2008
"Art" in bars usually runs to beer signs, posters or maybe lame paintings by friends of the owner. But Ariane Roesch's new installation Hot and Grounded at 13 Celsius, a hip...
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Encore
Capsule Stage Reviews: A Christmas Carol, A Fertle Holiday, The Nutcracker, Panto Cinderella, Santaland Diaries, Twelve Ways of Christmas
By D.L. Groover, Marene Gustin and Lee Williams
Published: December 25, 2008
A Christmas Carol Filled with specters and overlaid with deafening thunder and seas of fog, the Alley's A Christmas Carol reeks of Halloween, not Yuletide. There's enough aroma...
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Artbeat
Capsule Art Reviews: "Blind Lines," "Frank Zeni," "Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970," "We the People..."
By Kelly Klaasmeyer and Troy Schulze
Published: December 25, 2008
"Blind Lines" In the 19th century, locks of hair from the living and the dead were considered sentimental mementos. In the 21st century, collected strands of hair are more...
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Ask a Mexican
SPECIAL YEAR-END EDITION
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: December 25, 2008
Dear Mexican, I was driving home on old King Road in San Jose, where a bunch of Mexicans live, and I noticed that almost every house has their Christmas lights still hanging...
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