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41. Film Feature

    Blood, Sweat and Tears

    Paul Thomas Anderson on making his masterpiece and how baseball may have saved him.

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: January 17, 2008

    It could almost be a scene from a Paul Thomas Anderson movie — a dropped subplot from Magnolia, perhaps, in which a 37-year-old, press-shy movie director responsible for...

42. Stage

    Undignified Death

    The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre doesn't go quietly out of its space.

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Like most things these days, executions ain't what they used to be. No longer are the condemned paraded to their gibbets with drums and cheers. No longer, in the moments before...

43. Art

    House Painter

    People don't live in Travis Pratt's homes — emotions do.

    By Dana Self

    Published: January 17, 2008

    For a ceramics major, Travis Pratt sure knows how to paint. That's not to say ceramists can't paint, but talent in one medium doesn't necessarily guarantee success in another....

44. Stage Capsules

    Theater

    Published: January 17, 2008

    An Evening of Three One-Act Plays The event: the Kansas City Actors Theatre, our best new theater company, lays claim to the Off-Center Theatre, Kansas City's brand-new stage...

45. Art Capsules

    Art Exhibitions

    Published: January 17, 2008

    American Soil In the elegant and subtle new Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, architect Kyu Sung Woo has designed a light-filled space whose primary duty is to showcase art,...

46. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Alex Haley's Queen (Warner Bros.) Amazing Planet Earth (Questar) The Attic (Allumination) Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (Warner Bros.) Breaker Morant (Image) Extras: The...

47. Game On

    Lukewarm Gun

    Unreal Tournament III blasts new holes in old terrain.

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Unreal Tournament III is ideal for overcaffeinated teenage boys with PlayStation 3s, broadband internet connections, extensive online friend lists, hours and hours of time to...

48. DVDish

    Wookiee Mistake

    By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest (Fox) As someone with no use for Seth MacFarlane's potty-mouthed Simpsons rip, I'll admit to choking out a few giggles during his Star Wars...