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Critics' Picks
Trey Songz, J. Holiday
Monday, March 17, at House of Blues
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: March 13, 2008
If you don't remember Trey Songz from his 2005 debut album, I Gotta Make It and you somehow missed last fall's follow-up, Trey Day, you're missing out on one of the acts making...
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Del the Funky Homosapien
11th Hour (Definitive Jux)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: March 13, 2008
Del the Funky Homosapien is an outer-space hip-hop trailblazer, helping to pioneer a weird-for-its-own-sake rap style by focusing on absurdist rhymes and sci-fi storytelling. A...
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Cosmonautical
The Transmissionary Six (Tarnished)
By Jesse Hughey
Published: March 13, 2008
If the Transmissionary Six were from Texas, everyone would rip them for sounding like Knife in the Water or any number of the state's many soporific, country-influenced...
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Critics' Picks
Sydney Confirm, D Numbers, Sunward
Friday, March 14, at Club Dada
By Pete Freedman
Published: March 13, 2008
Well this looks fun. Just two weeks after blowing people's minds with computer-based beats, whiny vocals and contagious energy at their Melodica Festival performance, the...
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Dish
Review: Cliff Cafe
At Cliff Cafe retro diner style flourishes with some modern touches
By Mark Stuertz
Published: March 13, 2008
Aft the Cliff Café's gravel parking lot is a brick house—an ancestral McMansion with subtle ornate strokes that predate soaring chateau turrets and vaulted front...
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Hash Over
Hard Holy Roll
By Mark Stuertz
Published: March 13, 2008
After plowing down the Hard Rock Café on McKinney Avenue and scraping the plot clean, Uptown developer Brett Landes is flexing his muscle with a 16-story boutique...
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Cheap Bastard
Review: Anton Cafe
Trust us, you need a gyro from here.
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: March 13, 2008
Giant American flag count: 1 Tiny Greek flag count: 50 Gyro (pronounced yeero and not jyro or guyro) is Greek for half-moon, soft taco-looking thing filled with yummy lamb....
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Film
Gus Van Sant Returns to Disaffected Youth and Shoestring Budgets in Paranoid Park
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: March 13, 2008
The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few...
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Film
The Games People Play
Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you, again
By Jim Ridley
Published: March 13, 2008
For the crime of obliterating high culture, for the crime of getting off on vicarious degradation—and, above all, for the crime of sitting through any movie that...
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Night & Day
Fly Write, Right?
Southwest's James Parker hopes his book takes off
By Sam Merten
Published: March 13, 2008
It's hard to believe it's already been 19 years since Spike Lee made Do the Right Thing, which put Lee on the map and also launched the career of Martin Lawrence. Looking to...
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Stage
The Unseen Steals the Show at the Out of the Loop Festival
Rum and Vodka stops it and Fool for Love flops all by itself
By Elaine Liner
Published: March 13, 2008
The Unseen must be seen. Wedged into a ragged repertory of a dozen shows at WaterTower Theatre's seventh annual Out of the Loop Festival, this 65-minute drama by Craig Wright...
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What Else Is New?
DVD Releases for the Week of March 11
Published: March 13, 2008
. . . And Justice for All: Special Edition (Sony) Appleseed Ex Machina (Warner Bros.) August Rush (Warner Bros.) Bee Movie (DreamWorks) Black Widow (Fox) Dan in Real Life...
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DVDish
Three the Hard Way
By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper
Published: March 13, 2008
No Country for Old Men (Paramount) "A horror comedy chase" is how a grinning Tommy Lee Jones describes No Country for Old Men in the making-of — meanwhile, his fellow...
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Game On
Pounding Headache
Patapon marches to the same damned drummer, over and over again
By GARY HODGES
Published: March 13, 2008
You'll know in the first few minutes exactly what Patapon has going for it. There's the goofy premise, which casts you as the tribal god Patapon, lord of a band of creatures...
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