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41. Film

    Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Once more, Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) are on a road trip, this time not in search of the perfect late-night slider — a positively Homerian quest...

42. Film

    My Brother Is an Only Child

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: April 24, 2008

    The family as microcosm of a divided country: Two brothers come of age in late-'60s Italy, as political strife reaches their provincial Latina (a city laid out by Mussolini's...

43. Stage

    With The Cure at Troy, UMKC makes an ancient play all too timely

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: April 24, 2008

    A couple of minutes into The Cure at Troy, just after an ominous volcanic rumble, we get the old God-in-the-machine bit that usually hits at the end of this kind of thing. A...

44. Art

    Lee Bowers' nature drawings are best when they're fast and loose

    By Dana Self

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Scribbled on the page, a few dark scrabbles indicate bushes and a tree. Another couple of lines suggest the ground. Done. Such immediacy highlights an artist's hand and infuses...

45. Art Capsules

    Art Exhibitions

    Published: April 24, 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,...

46. Game On

    Baroquen Spirit

    Atlus' Baroque imagines eternal life in gaming limbo. It isn't pretty.

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: April 24, 2008

    First of all: God bless Atlus. As a publisher devoted to bringing obscure Japanese gaming gems to the West — basically, the much-needed heir apparent of Working Designs...