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41. Playbill

    Randy Travis

    By Chris Gray

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Randy Travis is as durable and dependable as the photograph on the cover of his 1988 album Old 8X10. First appearing on the country-music radar with 1985's "1982," Travis has...

42. Playbill

    Starlight Mints

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Starlight Mints have never quite gotten a fair shake. One could venture that's because there's only room enough for one huge psych-pop band from Norman, Oklahoma — that'd...

43. Playbill

    Cryptacize

    By Nicholas L. Hall

    Published: June 25, 2009

    It should come as no surprise that a band called Cryptacize plays music that is, well, a bit coy. The band often seems to tiptoe around the issue at hand, with drums that don't...

44. Playbill

    Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights

    By Douglass, Kim

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Unlike the rock that has dominated the airwaves as of late, Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights' Hot Trottin' mixes all the key styles that originally gave rise to the music:...

45. Playbill

    Joe, Chico DeBarge

    By Craig D. Lindsey

    Published: June 25, 2009

    According to House of Blues's Web site, the official title of this show is the "Road to Essence Festival Featuring Joe w/Special Guest Chico DeBarge." Presumably, that means if...

46. Cafe

    Brooklyn Gumbo

    A chef from New York City is knocking them dead in Piney Point at Jonathan's The Rub.

    By Robb Walsh

    Published: June 25, 2009

    The giant sea scallops at Jonathan's The Rub were lightly dusted with an herb and pepper rub and seared so that they were opaque on the outside, but still a little translucent...

47. Hot Plate

    Catch it while you can at Hugo's

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: June 25, 2009

    The literal translation of pan de cazón is "small-shark bread." It's the sort-of national dish of Campeche, where they use blacktip sharks to make it; dogfish or "baby"...

48. Dish

    Goodbye Mak Chin's, Hello Shuck Daddy's

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Mac Chin's has become Shuck Daddy's (1511 Shepherd, 713-861-9888). "We opened Mac Chin's as our first and only venture into upscale dining; now we're sticking to casual...

49. Film

    Dying in Vain

    My Sister's Keeper is honest about illness, false about everything else.

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald's parents didn't just plan for her — they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare parts and infusions for her...

50. Art

    Meta-Colonialism

    Inside the CAMH, the works of "No Zoning" lose their power.

    By Troy Schulze

    Published: June 25, 2009

    In a recent article in Interview magazine, film director Jim Jarmusch and Interview editorial director Glenn O'Brien were discussing how museums' colonialism decontextualized...

51. Artbeat

    Capsule Art Reviews: "Anthony Thompson Shumate: Novus Ordo Seclorum," "Carlos Cruz-Diez: Crosswalk," "Literally Figurative," "Perspectives 166: Torsten Slama"

    By Kelly Klaasmeyer and Troy Schulze

    Published: June 25, 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...

52. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Cabaret, The Farnsworth Invention, Grey Gardens, Thom Pain (based on nothing)

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Cabaret The Kit Kat Klub comes to deliciously naughty life once again with a newly imagined production of Cabaret from Theatre Under the Stars. And the story about Sally Bowles...

53. Ask a Mexican

    Mexicans in the Movies

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Dear Mexican, You once asked why Mexican bands don't hit it big in the good old US of A. I think the simple answer is that there are no Mexican Mouse­keteers. You don't...