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41. Cafe

    This return to Ophelia’s is a classic tale of forgiveness and redemption

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: June 25, 2009

    I don't know if there's any connection between Ophelia's, the attractive, upscale restaurant across from the historic Independence courthouse, and the more famous Ophelia who...

42. Film

    Away We Go

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, author Dave Eggers makes the following observation about his generation of self-obsessed, media-savvy technobrats:...

43. Film

    My Sister's Keeper

    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...

44. Film

    Outrage

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Director Kirby Dick doesn't actually stick his camera under any Capitol Hill bathroom stalls in this new documentary, but his goal is more or less the same: to catch closeted...

45. Film

    Transformers

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Michael Bay's 2007 Transformers offered Bay at his most surprisingly reflective and unexpectedly restrained — the domestic scenes involving Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf)...

46. Film

    Valentino: The Last Emperor

    By Melissa Anderson

    Published: June 25, 2009

    "I love beauty — it's not my fault," the septuagenarian Valentino sniffs to reporters backstage at his spring show in February 2007. Filming the last year of the...

47. Stage

    Don’t worry about missing any great poetry at this year’s Shakespeare Festival

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Whether I enjoy the shows, I still find myself bemused at each summer's Heart of America Shakespeare Festival — at the way the finest of poetry is, at times, reduced to a...

48. Art

    The Kemper’s Dan Christensen retrospective shows the painter aging backward

    By Dana Self

    Published: June 25, 2009

    Walking through Dan Christensen's Forty Years of Painting exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, you note certain things. The painter's "Lisa's Red," from 1971,...