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41. Nightfly

    Smooth Sailing at Grooves

    Disguised as a warehouse, this place is a choice upscale R&B lounge

    By Shea Serrano

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Seventy-five percent. If you were smooth-talker Rod Richard, that would be the success rate you'd claim when trying to pull ladies' phone numbers at the year-and-a-half-old...

42. Chatter

    Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. in Song

    In the Name of Love

    By Chris Gray

    Published: January 15, 2009

    It's no great revelation to say that Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, coming as it does 24 hours before Barack Obama's inauguration, will be the most-celebrated MLK Day to...

43. Local Rotation

    Something Fierce: There Are No Answers

    By Chris Gray

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Open letter to the Warped Tour: If you don't include Something Fierce on your 2009 80-something band docket, you deserve to have Andy Macdonald or Kyle Loza do one of their...

44. Rotation

    Combichrist: Today We Are All Demons

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: January 15, 2009

    On Combichrist's fourth and latest album, Today We Are All Demons, mastermind Andy LaPlegua effectively ups the ante on the tried and true ­answering-machine intro. An...

45. Rotation

    No-Neck Blues Band: Clomeim

    By Voegtlin, Stewart

    Published: January 15, 2009

    The members of Harlem's No-Neck Blues Band shut themselves in the studio for 72 hours, pieced together feet and inches of tape Holger Czukay-style and emerged with their...

46. Rotation

    Glasvegas: Glasvegas

    By Lily Moayeri

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Scotland's Glasvegas is the latest in retrofuturism. The band's self-titled debut combines its hometown heroes Jesus and Mary Chain with My Bloody Valentine's shimmering walls...

47. Playbill

    B.J. Thomas

    By William Michael Smith

    Published: January 15, 2009

    I was a huge Hank Williams fan as a child, so much so that my parents swear my first words were "round and round" as I pointed to the phonograph while "Your Cheatin' Heart"...

48. Playbill

    Scott Weiland

    By Craig Hlavaty

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Amid all the drug issues and band strife, it's easy to forget what a talent Scott Weiland is. His distinctive Morrison-style croon has never wavered, only becoming more...

49. Playbill

    Charley Pride

    By Chris Gray

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Until earlier this year, Charley Pride held a record that looked like it might stand forever and ever, amen. Pride's 1983 song "Night Games" was the last time a solo African...

50. Playbill

    Yo! Majesty

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Little, it seems, can stop the improbable Tampa-based female party-rap juggernaut that is Yo! Majesty, not even the occasional near-implosion of the group itself. Earlier this...

51. Playbill

    Bell Biv DeVoe

    By Lees, Jamie

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Once three-fifths of New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe were pioneers of a style of music called new jack swing, which combined smooth rapping over sweet R&B beats. But the genre was...

52. Cafe

    On a Budget at Bistro des Amis

    By Robb Walsh

    Published: January 15, 2009

    The $10.95 lunch special at Bistro des Amis, a tiny French cafe in Rice Village, started with a soul-warming vegetable potage. Dunking buttered baguette slices in the hot and...

53. Hot Plate

    Scoop It Up at Cricket's Creamery & Cafe

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: January 15, 2009

    A server at Cricket's Creamery & Cafe (315 W. 19th St., 713-869-9450) sums up the wildflower honey and lavender gelato ($2.95 cup; $3.20 cone) this way: "You either love it or...

54. Stirred and Shaken

    BAKER ST. PUB'S MADSKIE

    By W. Healy

    Published: January 15, 2009

    When I want to be at my social best after dark, I generally like to day-drink. Rolling into a party full of strangers is more fun when you are five or six drinks ahead of the...

55. Dish

    Khun Kay Thai Café

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: January 15, 2009

    If you are one of the countless Thai fans who mourned the closing of the Golden Room Thai restaurant on Montrose, here's good news. The restaurant was recently rebuilt from the...

56. Film

    Che Is A One-Ton Guerrilla

    Soderbergh's two Che Guevara films in one four-hour sitting

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Richard Nixon will always be part of America's dreamlife, with or without David Frost; the Bush II legacy will linger for years, even as W. addresses a yearning for closure....

57. Film

    Dogs of War in Waltz with Bashir

    This is both documentary and animated feature — and a remarkable bubbling up of repressed violence

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Ari Folman's broodingly original Waltz with Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an animated feature. Folman, whose magic realist...

58. Film

    From Reverence to Rape in Defiance

    Hollywood plunders meaning from the Holocaust – again

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Will there be a special Academy Award for Best Aryan Costume Design this year? Everywhere you turn in the movies, it's swastika flags and SS uniforms. Although the Holocaust...

59. Film

    Biggie, Small

    Notorious B.I.G., made B.L.A.N.D.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Notorious, about a crack dealer who becomes an iconic rapper who becomes a tragic legend, is the first film George Tillman Jr. has directed since 2000's Men of Honor, about a...

60. Theater

    Forward With Spring Awakening

    Broadway in Houston presents a controversial musical

    By Lee Williams

    Published: January 15, 2009

    Philip Larkin famously wrote, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad." Of course, the English poet wasn't speaking about the dreadful parents in Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's...