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41. Critic's Choice

    Napalm Death

    By Matt Sullivan

    Published: April 10, 2008

    “Scum” by Napalm Death, from Scum (Earache Records): In 1981, four gutter-punk kids from Birmingham, England, instigated the seemingly endless splintering of metal...

42. Critic's Choice

    Suzannah Johannes

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 10, 2008

    “Hangin’ On” by Suzannah Johannes (Range Life Records): Lawrence resident Suzannah Johannes picked up the guitar a couple years ago during a trip to El...

43. Critic's Choice

    Blitzen Trapper

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: April 10, 2008

    “Wild Mountain Nation” by Blitzen Trapper, from Wild Mountain Nation (Lidkercow Ltd.): Sure, plenty of Portland, Oregon, indie rockers mash up genres like...

44. Critic's Choice

    Why

    By Jason Harper

    Published: April 10, 2008

    “The Hollows” by WHY?, from Alopecia (Anticon): Why (usually printed with a question mark) is one of the musically juiciest groups working anywhere near the...

45. Fat Mouth

    On weekends, El Paso del Norte lays out an excelente Mexican breakfast spread

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Ever since I had my last blowout Sunday brunch at the Terrace Buffet at the Argosy Casino, I've tried to keep a discreet distance from the all-you-can-eat arena. I've learned...

46. Film

    Street Kings

    By Tim Grierson

    Published: April 10, 2008

    For a movie built around questions of failed ethics and duplicitous behavior, Street Kings is just as dishonest as its characters. Though conceived as yet another sobering...

47. Film

    The Counterfeiters

    By ELLA TAYLOR

    Published: April 10, 2008

    When an Austrian filmmaker who makes no secret of the fact that his grandparents were Nazi sympathizers makes a fact-based movie (and wins the Academy Award for best foreign...

48. Film

    Smart People

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid, under a greasy moptop and a brushy beard) is a misanthropic college professor who, when he's not willfully forgetting his students' names or...

49. Film

    Under the Same Moon

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Firing off a deluge of immigrant-hardship vignettes with the thudding consistency of a tennis-ball machine, Under the Same Moon presents a genre somewhat at odds with itself:...

50. Art

    At Byron Cohen, two Asian artists work around hair and beauty

    By Dana Self

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Hair is never just hair. Hair has been a stand-in for the human body since at least the 19th century, when Victorians created hair jewelry and decorative hair pictures. Hair...

51. Stage

    At the Improv Thunderdome, competition guarantees you'll laugh your ass off

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: April 10, 2008

    I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you're into, how much you sulk or how hardcore you front. Last month, at the final qualifying round of Jared Brustad and Ed...

52. Game On

    Just Shy of Seaworthy

    Viking: Battle for Asgard shows promise, but not much more.

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: April 10, 2008

    It's nice when a game comes along that pleasantly surprises you. I admit, I judged Viking: Battle for Asgard by the screenshots, writing it off as yet another one of those...