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41. Cafe

    Shanghainese, If You Please

    You can get THE hot stuff if you want, but don't miss the bold flavors at one of the city's only Shanghainese restaurants.

    By Robb Walsh

    Published: May 21, 2009

    "Pork with preserved vegetables" sounds boring. But Jay Francis kept tapping on this item on the menu at Shanghai Cuisine and insisting that I try it. A friend of his from...

42. Hot Plate

    Hot Mess

    Savory phyllo dough pies at Super Pita

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Hot Plate has discovered a new savory snack: the bourekas ($.85 each) at Super Pita Bakery & Deli (9806 Hillcroft, 832-576-2692). They're savory pies made with puff pastry in...

43. Dish

    New Noodles

    Jenni's Noodle Shop opens its newest location on Post Oak

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Jenni's Noodle Shop has had a cult following ever since Jenni Tran-Weaver opened her first location on Jefferson Street eight years ago. That restaurant was shuttered; she...

44. Film

    Save Yourself!

    From McG's Terminator, that is. What a drag.

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model of killing machine: the classic V8 1984...

45. Film

    The Man, The Myth

    Wandering Spain with the lone wolf of Jim Jarmusch's Limits of Control.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Jim Jarmusch's anonymous antihero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of Control as the Lone Man, exists only in...

46. Film

    Behind the Metal

    Revealed: Everything you wanted to know — or didn't — about Canuck headbangers Anvil.<

    By Camille Dodero

    Published: May 21, 2009

    And now for the story of Lips and the dildo. Back in the late '70s, before Guitar Hero III or Rock of Love 2 or even VH1, a jolly Canadian guitarist named Steve "Lips" Kudlow...

47. Film

    Man Drive Car

    Taxicab Confessions this isn't: Ramin Bahrani's quietly profound Goodbye Solo.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: May 21, 2009

    At 73, the Memphis-born actor, stuntman, former U.S. Marine and Golden Gloves boxer Red West has the stoic, leathery repose of a barfly on a John Ford or Howard Hawks saloon...

48. Film

    Dans la famille

    Old money meets a new world in Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Throughout his career, festival favorite Olivier Assayas has alternated between meta-pop, sometimes lurid, neo-new wave genre flicks and their antithesis — genteel,...

49. Film

    Soderbergh's True Character

    Sasha Grey plays the part — or a part — of herself in The Girlfriend Experience.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Steven Soderbergh has no particular stylistic signature, and one of the most uneven oeuvres imaginable. But he does have interests. The essence of cine Soderbergh is the...

50. Art

    Clever, Funny and Disturbing

    Austin exports 20 artists and installations for a show at DiverseWorks.

    By Troy Schulze

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Ever since Richard Linklater's 1991 film Slacker defined Austin, Texas, as a mecca for eccentrics and people more interested in "living life" than advancing up the career...

51. Artbeat

    Capsule Art Reviews: Bryan Wheeler: The Souls of Texans Are In Jeopardy In Ways Not Common To Other Men, "Casual Encounters", Round 30: Home. Space. Place.

    By Troy Schulze

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Bryan Wheeler: The Souls of Texans Are In Jeopardy In Ways Not Common To Other Men These nine works by Bryan Wheeler, the younger of the Wheeler Brothers who curate the annual...

52. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Awake and Sing!, Antigone, Dangerous Corner, Rock 'N' Roll, The Third Side

    By Lee Williams

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Awake and Sing! Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing! is more relevant than ever in Main Street Theater's emotionally charged performance — and it was first produced in 1935,...

53. Ask a Mexican

    Modern-day piracy, Mexican style

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Dear Mexican, My wife and I have an argument going on about pirates. And since you are the source for all things Mexican, I'd thought I'd ask: While I know there were Spanish...