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41. Playbill

    Jenny Lewis, Heartless Bastards

    By Chris Gray

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Two years ago, Rilo Kiley played a set to a sold-out Warehouse Live ballroom that left more than a few of the L.A. band's fans wishing their sardonic Saddle Creek soft-rock...

42. Playbill

    Roky Erickson

    By William Michael Smith

    Published: June 18, 2009

    I've always loved the story that the 13th Floor Elevators were the one band the Grateful Dead didn't like to follow. Anyone who saw the original Elevators, and especially the...

43. Feature

    Not So Clear Cut

    What are you really eating when you order fajitas in a Tex-Mex restaurant?

    By Robb Walsh

    Published: June 18, 2009

    The front end of a cow carcass was dangling from the ceiling. With a butcher's hook and a boning knife in my hands, I regarded the bright-red expanse of raw meat. The day...

44. Feature

    The New Bistro Steaks and Fajitas

    By Robb Walsh

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Here are some of the newly popular cuts of beef you might find in the grocery store meat case. We grill them and eat them fajita-style in Texas, but they are known as "bistro...

45. Cafe

    Hollister Hospitality

    Customers love to get coddled at this new neighborhood grill in Spring Branch.

    By Robb Walsh

    Published: June 18, 2009

    The crab cake Benedict on the Sunday brunch menu at Hollister Grill is my new favorite version of the old-fashioned egg dish. It starts off with two slices of salty prosciutto...

46. Hot Plate

    Hello, Liver

    Peli-Peli prepares their liver with an expert touch.

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Chicken livers can have a strong taste if they're not prepared correctly, but the Peli-Peli chicken livers ($8) at South African restaurant Peli-Peli (110 Vintage Park,...

47. Dish

    Blue Planet Cafe

    Simple yet delicious food rules at this cozy coffee spot.

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Retired teacher Ingrid Syam and her husband Deep Syam recently opened fast-casual Blue Planet Cafe (1330 Wirt, 713-681-9800), which offers pizza, panini, gelato and coffee....

48. Film

    Victim of Circumstance

    The Proposal merges in the memory with a thousand other films just like it until it loses all identity of its own.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Fifteen minutes after seeing The Proposal, I'd forgotten I'd seen The Proposal. Well, that's not entirely true: By then, it had simply merged in my memory with a thousand other...

49. Dance

    Soaring Swan

    Stanton Welch's production of Swan Lake at the Houston Ballet is easily one of the best around.

    By Marene Gustin

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Houston Ballet's Swan Lake reminds us just why we love this ballet of love, betrayal and death. It will make balletomanes swoon and novices sit up in their theater seats and...

50. Theater

    Credit Crisis

    The fight over who pioneered the TV plays out in The Farnsworth Invention

    By D.L. Groover

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Is it good planning or just good luck that the Alley Theatre programmed Aaron Sorkin's breathlessly entertaining television history pageant The Farnsworth Invention during the...

51. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Beauty Queen of Leenane, Complete Works of William Shakespeare...Abridged, The Story of Burford, Category 5

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Beauty Queen of Leenane If you know anything about the works of playwright Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman, Lieutenant of Inishmore), then you're well aware that his vision of...

52. Artbeat

    Capsule Art Reviews: "Anthony Thompson Shumate: Novus Ordo Seclorum," "The Art Guys: New Clichés," "Measuring Your Own Grave," Round 30: Home. Space. Place.

    By Kelly Klaasmeyer and Troy Schulze

    Published: June 18, 2009

    "Anthony Thompson Shumate: Novus Ordo Seclorum" Novus ordo seclorum ("New Order of the Ages") is one of those bits of Latin written on your dollar bill, as well as the title of...

53. Ask a Mexican

    Immigrant vs. Immigrant

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Dear Mexican, I write to you with a doubt similar to the one that Incensed in Chicago felt a couple of weeks ago, when her friend couldn't believe that Mexicans worked in...