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41. Critic's Choice

    Morrissey

    By Jason Harper

    Published: April 2, 2009

    Just when you're at your lowest — when all is bleak, when no one calls and when even your cat slinks under the bed at the sight of your disgraceful, shambling approach...

42. Critic's Choice

    Britney Spears

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 2, 2009

    For Britney Spears, the unceremonious revealing of her lady bits in a paparazzi photo was tantamount to a burlesque routine gone horribly wrong. After years of lusting after...

43. Critic's Choice

    Aterciopelados

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: April 2, 2009

    As one of the most prominent bands of early '90s rock en Español, Aterciopelados (which translates as "The Velvety Ones") refuse simply to sit back and enjoy the fruits...

44. Critic's Choice

    The Ting Tings

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 2, 2009

    Pop music, in its truest sense, is a lot like Fruit Stripe gum: Yummy for about 30 seconds and then a bit flat. The Ting Tings walk that line like kids at a candy store,...

45. Critic's Choice

    Quintron and Miss Pussycat

    By Matt Erickson

    Published: April 2, 2009

    Quintron and Miss Pussycat is the band that plays in the bar at the end of the world. When the duo bangs out its "swamp tech" brand of garage-dance rock, the sound is...

46. Cafe

    The Gaslight Grill illuminates chef Eddie Djilali’s interesting talents

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: April 2, 2009

    A friend has just started studying tarot. Recently she called with a warning: "Don't eat chicken today. The cards warn against it." I'm superstitious by nature, so I took the...

47. Film

    Fast & Furious

    By Nicolas Rapold

    Published: April 2, 2009

    Vin Diesel's already-dubious ripped-tough-guy star has dimmed enough to warrant a return to the car-chase series that made him. In the latest, notably slack Fast & Furious...

48. Film

    Adventureland

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: April 2, 2009

    Drawn from Superbad director Greg Mottola's own experiences working at a ramshackle, suburban amusement park in the 1980s, Adventureland feels at once personal and...

49. Film

    A Secret

    By ELLA TAYLOR

    Published: April 2, 2009

    Based on the roman à clef by Philippe Grimbert, a French Jewish psychoanalyst whose parents committed suicide when he was young, Claude Miller's World War II domestic...

50. Stage

    With My Name Is Rachel Corrie, the Unicorn stares down activism and idealism

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: April 2, 2009

    For all the controversy they've stirred up in New York and London, the creators of My Name Is Rachel Corrie have insisted that their play takes no side in any particular...

51. Art

    From 17th-century India, big thoughts writ tiny — and gorgeous

    By Dana Self

    Published: April 2, 2009

    If the devil is in the details, then even the most bored art devotee will be seduced by the manuscript paintings that make up the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's new exhibition....