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41. Dish

    Shula's Steakhouse

    By Paul Galvani

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Don Shula, the ex-coach of the Miami Dolphins, has had as much success with his steakhouses as he did with his team. The new Shula's Steakhouse (1200 Louisiana,...

42. Film

    Hairpiece in the Middle East: You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    Adam Sandler returns as a Mossad baddie turned stylist, and the bubbies will love him

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Behold Adam Sandler, in a passable Israeli accent and outsize codpiece, as Zohan the Mossad super-heavy: catching barbecued fish in his butt crack on a Tel Aviv beach,...

43. Film

    Austin City Limits: The Unforeseen

    Man vs. nature deep in the heart of Texas

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: June 5, 2008

    For those growing up in weatherbeaten West Texas, someone says early in Laura Dunn's The Unforeseen, "nature becomes God." A God that hands out abundance at times, to be sure,...

44. Film

    The Children of Huang Shi Is an Epic Bore

    This film is just another sweeping, extraordinary journey to redemption

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Loath though I am to carp about any director who's devoted chunks of his career to bringing the nonwhite world's suffering to Western attention, Roger Spottiswoode's The...

45. Film

    Empire Strikes Back in Mongol

    This film paints a historically hazy but kickass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: June 5, 2008

    You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny old-school epic to make the CGI...

46. Art

    John Alexander, the Mediocre

    The MFAH showcases an artist of limited talents

    By Kelly Klaasmeyer

    Published: June 5, 2008

    John Alexander is one of those iconic Texans. He's irreverent, opinionated, proud of his Gulf Coast roots and, as evidenced by the work in "John Alexander: A Retrospective" at...

47. Encore

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Bright Lights, Big City, Present Laughter, Time of My Life, The Splasher, Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

    By D.L. Groover and Lee Williams

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Bright Lights, Big City In 1984, Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, a narrative about the bacchanalian, cocaine-snorting world of New York City in the early '80s, became...

48. Artbeat

    Capsule Art Reviews: "Drawing in Space"

    By Kelly Klaasmeyer

    Published: June 5, 2008

    "Drawing in Space" For his drawing/performance, Marker Head Marker at Lawndale Art Center, Daniel Adame encased his head in a giant chunk of plaster shaped like a huge piece of...

49. Ask a Mexican

    Extreme Prejudice, Chained Dogs and Mixed Marriages

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Dear Mexican, First, it was the Native Americans, then it was the blacks, then the Japanese. For a while, Muslims. Now, I fear that American prejudice will soon overwhelm...