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41. DVDish

    Laughing Pains

    By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Margot at the Wedding (Paramount) Margot (Nicole Kidman, or someone who looks just like her) is a fiction writer whose tales are based, uncomfortably and unkindly, on the...

42. What Else Is New?

    DVD Releases for the Week of February 19

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Black Water (Sony) Catacombs (Lionsgate) Chaos (Lionsgate) Cops: 20th Anniversary Edition (Fox) The Death of Adolf Hitler (Koch Vision) The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town...

43. Game On

    Hell Yes

    Dante's inferno rages on in Devil May Cry 4

    By Chris Ward

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Let's just get it out right now: "Devil May Cry" is a weak-ass name for a wicked action game. But what's in a name? In three previous outings, the brutal, hella-challenging...

44. Critics' Picks

    Sonny Burgess

    Thursday, February 21, at Glass Cactus, Grapevine

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Born and raised in Cleburne, Sonny Burgess was always surrounded by the customs commonly associated with traditional country music: growing up poor in a rural setting and being...

45. playlist

    Danny Schmidt

    Little Grey Sheep (Waterbug Records)

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Born and raised in Austin, country/folk singer-songwriter Danny Schmidt parlays an aggressive acoustic guitar style and a yearning, yowling vocal delivery into a unique...

46. Bsides

    Salvation Blues Saved Former Jayhawk Mark Olson

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Speaking from his tour bus just outside Seattle, Mark Olson sounds revitalized and downright giddy. Things are good at the moment for the former leader of the influential...

47. Film

    We'll Pass on the Multi-Perspective, Mega-Annoying Vantage Point

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Remember the 1985 movie version of the Parker Brothers whodunit board game Clue, with its pre-DVD-era gimmick of multiple endings? Well, Vantage Point is like that, only...

48. Critics' Picks

    Record Hop, The Great Tyrant, Red Monroe

    Thursday, February 21, at Lola's, Fort Worth

    By Jesse Hughey

    Published: February 21, 2008

    While all three of these acts would appeal to a crowd that likes its rock loud, this still seems like a strangely mismatched lineup. The Great Tyrant's Daron Beck plays ominous...

49. playlist

    Beach House

    Devotion (Carpark)

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Downer duo Beach House first made waves with its 2006 single "Apple Orchard," which copped the breathy vocals and slide guitar of Mazzy Star and buried them under layers of...

50. Critics' Picks

    Aiden, Ivoryline, Schoolyard Heroes, Farewell to Freeway, Me Vs. The Sea

    Friday, February 22, at The Door

    By Pete Freedman

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Here's what we do know: Aiden's a decent draw with the teenage crowds, and we've never heard of Ivoryline (although their CD did just come into the office...), Farewell to...

51. playlist

    Nada Surf

    Lucky (Barsuk)

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: February 21, 2008

    There's always been something comforting about the music of Nada Surf. Hipper than Coldplay and less distant than Death Cab, band members Matthew Caws, Ira Elliot and Daniel...