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41. Nightfly

    Sunday Night Blues in Mr. Gino's Salt-of-the-Earth Lounge

    Love and Happiness

    By Shea Serrano

    Published: March 19, 2009

    "Nigh-teensehemtythree." That's approximately how Eugene Chevis, owner of Mr. Gino's Lounge (7306 Cullen), answers when asked how long ago he opened his blues-drenched...

42. Chatter

    Industrial Icon Martin Atkins Knows From Touring

    Road Warrior

    By Chris Gray

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Surely Martin Atkins has had one of the most fascinating careers in alternative music. Since joining John Lydon's profoundly influential post-Sex Pistols band Public Image Ltd....

43. Local Rotation

    Hearts of Animals: Cave Lights

    By Daniel Mee

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Hearts of Animals' Cave Lights, the second release for ArtStorm records — yes, another fledgling local label — constructs another level of frontwoman/sole...

44. Rotation

    Thursday: Common Existence

    By Nicholas L. Hall

    Published: March 19, 2009

    For a band whose fortunes rose with the evolution of post-hardcore, an album like Thursday's Common Existence is a bit of a gamble. It's not that the North Jerseyites have...

45. Rotation

    Heartless Bastards: The Mountain

    By Chris Gray

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Gnarlier than a century-old live oak, Heartless Bastards' The Mountain plugs the Cincinnati-born trio's scorching postmodern blues — their debut, 2006's All This Time,...

46. Rotation

    Justin Townes Earle: Midnight at the Movies

    By Craig Hlavaty

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Opening with the lonesome, Randy ­Newman-esque title track, Justin Townes Earle's sophomore effort Midnight At The Movies sees Steve's son moving further away from the...

47. Playbill

    Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra

    By William Michael Smith

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Asked to explain jazz, Louis Armstrong once said, "If you've got to ask, you'll never know." It may be fair to say the same about Chicago's Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra. Forget...

48. Playbill

    Roy Hargrove Quintet

    By Chris Gray

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Waco native Roy Hargrove is without a doubt one of jazz's leading lights among the under-40 set, at least until he reaches that milestone later this year. But fans of Common,...

49. Playbill

    Amanda Palmer

    By Linda Leseman

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Amanda Palmer, best known as front woman of The Dresden Dolls, is flying solo these days. Touring in support of 2008's Who Killed Amanda Palmer, she's incorporated into her...

50. Playbill

    Phosphorescent

    By Brian J. Barr

    Published: March 19, 2009

    In 1975, Willie Nelson recorded a tribute to his musical hero, Lefty Frizzell: the all-covers album To Lefty from Willie. Despite Nelson's efforts, Frizzell remains one of the...

51. Playbill

    Kylesa

    By Daniel Mee

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Kylesa is one of a wave of bands, formed around the turn of the century in the Deep South, that play mid-tempo metal mixed with hardcore, punk and post-rock, drawing heavily on...

52. Playbill

    Chairlift

    By Nicholas L. Hall

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Instant celebrity is a double-edged sword, and today's saturated culture has become a veritable killing field of bands who have been made momentary media darlings, only to be...

53. Cafe

    Downtown Attraction The Grove

    A destination restaurant that only sometimes gets it right.

    By Katharine Shilcutt

    Published: March 19, 2009

    It's said that you can judge how good a restaurant truly is by how well they cook a rotisserie chicken. If that actually is the case, The Grove should be one of the best...

54. Hot Plate

    Crave Sushi

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Crave this: It's not common to find "chips and dip" ($3) on the menu of a sushi restaurant, but then, Crave Sushi (2900 Travis, 713-527-8744) is no ordinary sushi restaurant,...

55. Dish

    Pink's Pizza

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Ken Bridge and his partner Ed Gomez have just opened the second location of Pink's Pizza in Midtown (710 West Gray, 713-521-7465), the first one being in the Heights. Why did...

56. Film

    Eternal Flame: I Love You, Man

    Not even Brody Jenner could extinguish the bromance.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Just as we thought the "bromantic comedy" had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its high point with I Love You, Man. The subtext is finally the text — it's right...

57. Film

    Tony Gilroy's (heretofore unseen) Expert Light Touch in Duplicity

    The Bourne Comedian

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Whether it's the amnesiac super spy of the Bourne franchise or the weary law-firm fixer of Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy specializes in characters who wear so many masks that,...

58. Theater

    Stages Goes Down the Devastating Rabbit Hole

    Good Grief

    By Lee Williams

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Well into the lonely march of grief, the characters who populate the devastatingly suburban landscape of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-­winning Rabbit Hole are...

59. Artbeat

    Capsule Art Reviews: "Get a Rope," "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure," "The Puppet Show"

    By Kelly Klaasmeyer and Troy Schulze

    Published: March 19, 2009

    "Get a Rope" Named after that famous retort in the picante sauce commercials, "Get a Rope" pulls together nine New York City-based artists with varying connections to Houston....

60. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Doubt, Five Flights, Masters of Movement, Nursery School Musical, The Pie Dialogues

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

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Doubt Given its pretentious subtitle, "A Parable," as if this warrants deep, after-theater discussion, John Patrick Shanley's phenomenally successful Catholic-school whodunit...