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41. Critic's Choice

    Spoon

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: March 27, 2008

    No matter how big Spoon gets — Saturday Night Live and two bona fide hit singles notwithstanding — the celebrated avant-rock band never seems to jeopardize its...

42. Critic's Choice

    Explosions In the Sky

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: March 27, 2008

    “Welcome, Ghosts” by Explosions In the Sky, from All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone (Temporary Residence): Is there any band more quintessentially Texan than Explosions...

43. Critic's Choice

    Saliva

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: March 27, 2008

    During Saliva's 2007 hit, "Ladies and Gentlemen," Josey Scott raves through megaphone-style distortion about A feast for your eyes to see/An explosion of catastrophe. He then...

44. Critic's Choice

    Street Dogs

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: March 27, 2008

    Anti-Flag attacks many societal ills in the same curt fashion, placing the word fuck in front of the offending entity or sucks after it. This formula generates rallying cries,...

45. Cafe

    Trays of Our Lives

    To eat in a cafeteria is to travel through time.

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: March 27, 2008

    Last week, I groggily poured myself a cup of coffee at 7 in the morning and flipped on the tube to watch the news, but Turner Classic Movies came on instead. It was way too...

46. Film

    Stop-Loss

    Stop-Loss does its best not to mention the war.

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: March 27, 2008

    Considering that the war in Iraq has proven to be Washington's shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it's only natural that Hollywood has followed suit, giving us a series of...

47. Film

    21

    This card-counting film is a bust.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: March 27, 2008

    Ben Mezrich's 2002 bestseller, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, was a smart narrative about ... well, you read the...

48. Art

    Passage to India

    At the Nerman, artists bring India's Distant Nearness even closer.

    By Dana Self

    Published: March 27, 2008

    India has fascinated Westerners at least since Rudyard Kipling's birth there in 1865. British Imperialism; Gandhi; the 1947 partition that created India and Pakistan; and...

49. Art Capsules

    Art Exhibitions

    Published: March 27, 2008

    Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-1979 American photographer Stephen Shore's exhibition includes more than 150 images of '70s-era parking lots,...

50. Stage Capsules

    Theater

    Published: March 27, 2008

    Miss Nelson Has a Field Day It's phys-ed terror in this Theatre For Young America musical — and not in the typical body-issues and tight-shorts ways. An adaptation of...

51. Game On

    Online Turnoff

    Who said first-person games need a second person?

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: March 27, 2008

    Developers seem to believe that their first-person games are required to include online modes. Blame it on the few narrow-minded gamers (and critics) who constantly hammer away...