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Critic's Choice
Ronnie Baker Brooks
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: February 7, 2008
Why is it that blues guitarists these days can sound as stiff and cold as a plate of day-old scrambled eggs? Ronnie Baker Brooks doesn't have to bother pondering the issue....
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Critic's Choice
3 Inches Of Blood
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: February 7, 2008
If songs about invading hordes, swordplay and other such lighthearted macho compensation — sung in ball-squeezed tones — are your thing, then this...
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Critic's Choice
Supersuckers
By Richard Gintowt
Published: February 7, 2008
Ten years ago, the Supersuckers grilled up a bacon-and-eggs country record on par with anything the country or alt-country establishments could crap out. Like Ween's 12 Country...
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Spin Cycle
The Sauce
By Chris Milbourn
Published: February 7, 2008
Miles Bonny, producer, DJ and cultural philosopher, has a theory as to why the mainstream dinner crowd at the Spitfire Grill feels so comfortable with the atmosphere that his...
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Cafe
City Lites
Trolley's Downtown Bar & Grille lets suburbanites pretend they're in the city.
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: February 7, 2008
Acouple of months ago, I received a clever e-mail from a reader named Sarah Beasley, who told me that she had seen an advertisement for a new restaurant called Trolley's...
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Fat Mouth
Visual Feast
The Pi gallery ads lunch to its art.
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: February 7, 2008
My friend Ned likes to hang out in art galleries. He likes to discuss the arts — well, he likes to argue about them — with artists, gallery owners, collectors, and...
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Film
Pregnant Pause
On a rock with the director and star of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: February 7, 2008
The title of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, also known as the acclaimed drama that didn't get nominated for this year's foreign-language...
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Art
Stop Motion
Two art professors work in different media but create similarly strange spaces.
By Dana Self
Published: February 7, 2008
You know how, when you're deep in the interior of a large, encyclopedic museum, you can feel detached from the rest of the world, like those dispossessed and encased objects...
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Stage
Toil and Trouble
The Coterie boils down Macbeth into something cool but incomprehensible.
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: February 7, 2008
Before showtime, as purplish light bathed a stony-walled Dunsinane and its impressive drawbridge, word spread through the crowd: "The actors are going to be switching parts...
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Art Capsules
Art Exhibitions
Published: February 7, 2008
Blue Gallery Aaron Morgan Brown's oil-on-canvas paintings are spectacular evocations of the technique used on television shows such as Cops in which faces are obscured with an...
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Stage Capsules
Theater
Published: February 7, 2008
Improv Thunderdome The rules of this make-it-up-as-you-go cage match haven't changed: Three teams compete for 30 minutes apiece, with the audience's favorite advancing to the...
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What Else Is New?
Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:
Published: February 7, 2008
Across the Universe (Sony) The Apartment: Collector's Edition (MGM) The Aristocats: Special Edition (Disney) Blonde and Blonder (First Look) Boy Meets Girl...
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DVDish
How the West Was Wasted
By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
Published: February 7, 2008
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Warner Bros.) Beautifully shot, masterfully acted, and 19 hours too long, Assassination is an uneven mix of the...
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Game On
Auto Erotica
Car lovers find a new flame in Burnout Paradise.
By Chris Ward
Published: February 7, 2008
Long have we waited to be taken down to the Paradise City, where the girls are green and the grass is pretty, or whatever. Now, thanks to Burnout Paradise, we know what all the...
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