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41. Rotation

    Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You

    By Craig Hlavaty

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Lily Allen would be the perfect girlfriend. She likes to drink and smoke. Growing up, family friend Joe Strummer played old ska records for her. Not to mention that she has a...

42. Rotation

    Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: The Tiffany Transcriptions

    By Chris Gray

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Western Swing is an enigma for people outside Texas and the Southwest, who — if they spare a thought for it at all — tend to write it off under "country" and move...

43. Rotation

    The Derek Trucks Band: Already Free

    By Bob Ruggiero

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Talk about laziness. Slide guitar genius Derek Trucks is pushing 30, and so far he's only worked as a professional musician for two decades — jamming with everyone from...

44. Playbill

    The Take Action Tour, with Meg & Dia

    By Christopher Lopez

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Hopeless Records and nonprofit organization Sub City have joined forces with music chain F.Y.E. to put on the eighth annual Take Action Tour. To date, this tour has raised over...

45. Playbill

    Southern Culture on the Skids

    By Chris Gray

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Southern Culture on the Skids' annual two-night Continental stand is becoming a local rite of spring that would make Igor Stravinsky proud. The late Russian composer knew a...

46. Playbill

    Little Joe Washington's 70th Birthday

    By Chris Gray

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Since he's entering his eighth decade, Little Joe Washington gets a pass (for now) on any speculation about whatever bargain the iconic, dreadlocked local electric bluesman...

47. Playbill

    Russian Spring Festival

    By William Michael Smith

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Lovers of bliny — those toasty Russian pancakes served with sour cream and caviar — should be in carbohydrate heaven when the Russian Cultural Center of Texas...

48. Playbill

    Estelle

    By Craig D. Lindsey

    Published: March 5, 2009

    For the next couple of weeks, Houston will be visited by a couple of soulful, award-winning Brit chicks. Booming-voiced, zaftig darling — and newly minted Best New Artist...

49. Playbill

    Tokyo Police Club

    By Nicholas L. Hall

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Tokyo Police Club is like the best children's literature: Energetic, fast-paced, whimsical, yet with a certain intellectual bent — as if the author is either catering to...

50. Cafe

    Trainsmash and Bobotie at Out of Africa

    At this Sugar Land South African restaurant, you'll find a lot of delicious dishes you've never heard of before.

    By Robb Walsh

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Pap with trainsmash is a South African dish I encountered on the Sunday brunch buffet line at Out of Africa in Sugar Land. The pap was a yellow cornmeal mush, and the...

51. Hot Plate

    What A Spread At Hazzard's Bar & Grill

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: March 5, 2009

    If you've never eaten Indonesian food, the rijsttafel ($21.50) at Hazzard's Bar & Grill (1910 S. Dairy Ashford, 281-497-8783) is the perfect way to get to know this exotic...

52. Stirred and Shaken

    THE USUAL'S THE USUAL

    By W. Healy

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Sometimes these things just write themselves...I knew it was karaoke night the moment I got out of my car at The Usual (5519 Allen St., 281-501-1478) on a recent Thursday...

53. Dish

    Brick House Tavern & Tap

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Mike Jones, the general manager of the newly opened Brick House Tavern & Tap (12910 Northwest Fwy., 713-462-0576), says it's a guys' paradise. "It's the perfect basement...

54. Film

    Dr. Manhattan, Meet Dr. Hollywood

    Whew! Tinseltown's go-to graphic-novel guy didn't ruin Watchmen. But he doesn't get it either.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: March 5, 2009

    The most eagerly anticipated (as well as the most beleaguered) movie of the year (if not the century), Watchmen is neither desecratory disaster nor total triumph. In filming...

55. Theater

    He's The Man Who Came to Dinner

    The Alley does a pitch-perfect rendition of a classic comedy.

    By D.L. Groover

    Published: March 5, 2009

    "Fabulous monster." "Spoiled baby." "Improbable...insufferable." "Fat duchess." "A scorpion." "God's big brother." And that's just what his close friends called him. He was all...

56. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Amadeus, Nursery School Musical, The Pie Dialogues

    By Lee Williams

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Amadeus The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has fascinated the world since the child prodigy turned musical genius died in 1791, when he was only 35 years old, after producing...

57. Artbeat

    Capsule Art Reviews: "Danny Rolph — Accelerator," "Donald Baechler — Recent Paintings and Collages," "Garland Fielder – A Likely Story," "PRISMATTAK," "The Puppet Show"

    By Kelly Klaasmeyer and Troy Schulze

    Published: March 5, 2009

    "Danny Rolph — Accelerator" Ostensibly, "Accelerator" is a kind of crash-'em-up homage to trucking culture and fast living. London-born Rolph's mixed-media pieces seem...

58. Ask a Mexican

    Pinche Bumblebee man

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: March 5, 2009

    Dear Readers, Before we move on to your spicy preguntas, a bit of housecleaning. Pri­meramente, gracias to all the Know Nothings who responded to my 100-word-essay...