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41. Cafe

    Ouzo's Goes South

    As it becomes a bistro, the former Greek place slides in more ways than one.

    By Lee Klein

    Published: December 6, 2007

    As the sun serenely sets into the cerulean Mediterranean sea, a familiar refrain can be heard around dinner tables throughout Greece: "Moussaka again?" Sadly the 10 million...

42. Cafe

    Argentine Steak House Sates, and Then Some

    Nothing succeeds like excess at Graziano’s.

    By Bill Citara

    Published: December 6, 2007

    When Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, "Less is more," he wasn't talking about Graziano's. This comfortable, unpretentious Argentine steak house spits in the beer of "less." It...

43. Film

    Lost Cause

    Avoiding its anti-dogma roots, Golden Compass veers off-course.

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Casting Nicole Kidman as The Golden Compass's glacial, intractably smooth megalomaniac Mrs. Coulter is no less inspired for being obvious. Indeed she was the one and only...

44. Film

    Sorry State of Affairs

    Ian McEwan's Atonement, now as a bodice-ripper.

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Re-reading Ian McEwan's Atonement last weekend, my first thought was: I hope to God that Joe Wright — whose broadly grinning Pride & Prejudice made a mess of Jane...

45. Film

    Darfur Now

    Now playing

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Can-do pep is the resonant key in this profile of six individuals, spread across three continents, working to provide relief in western Sudan. Featured are a sheik displaced by...

46. Art

    Hidden Treasure

    You can be thrifty at Basel if you know where to look.

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus

    Published: December 6, 2007

    While high-power collectors were fingering six-figure price tags inside the Miami Beach Convention Center during Art Basel last year, I hit the jackpot for less than the cost...

47. Art

    10 Rules for Sponging Off Basel

    You don't have to be a millionaire to enjoy Art Basel (but it sure helps).

    By Frank Houston

    Published: December 6, 2007

    1. FIND FREE FOOD. Art fair and family-style barbecue? That's Scope Miami when it presents a Q&A with emerging Miami artists who created its large-scale and site-specific...

48. Stage

    Soul Porn

    Danny and the Deep Blue Sea rubs your face in life's icky contradictions, and you love it.

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Danny and the Deep Blue Sea was a last-minute addition to the Alliance Theatre Lab's season. It was an economics thing, apparently. Danny's got two actors and almost no set, so...

49. Current Stage Shows

    Stage Capsules

    Current shows

    By Brandon K. Thorp and Frank Houston

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Cosi Fan Tutte: Lorenzo Da Ponte's translated libretto of the Mozart opera is bolstered by good comic acting, especially from tenor Brian Anderson and baritone Michael Todd...

50. Game On

    Future Shock

    Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating too.

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: December 6, 2007

    For a game that's considered Microsoft's premier 360 title this holiday season, it's amazing how sloppy Mass Effect is. Graphical glitches distract from otherwise fascinating...

51. What Else Is New?

    Our Top DVD Picks Scheduled for Release This Week

    Published: December 6, 2007

    Battlestar Galactica: Razor (Universal) The Best of Crank Yankers (Paramount) Bob Hope: MGM Movie Legends Collection (MGM) Erik the Viking: The Director's Cut (MGM) Exiled...

52. DVDish

    Cellar Beware

    By Jordan Harper, Robert Wilonsky and Jim Ridley

    Published: December 6, 2007

    The Girl Next Door (Anchor Bay) If the horror of Saw were a poblano pepper, this here is a habanero. Derived sometimes word-for-word from Jack Ketchum's infamous novel...