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41. Second Helping

    Pigging out on baby back pork ribs

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: November 6, 2008

    I didn't order the ribs at the Berkshire for one simple reason: Ribs should be saved for a place that specializes in them. Baby back pork ribs, in particular -- which is where...

42. Drink of the Week

    Tiny Margarita at Brewery Bar II

    By Nancy Levine

    Published: November 6, 2008

    Oxymoron, or just moron? I'm trying to adopt a Great Dane that I want to rename Tiny — or, if I'm willing to spend the rest of his life explaining his name, Chopine...

43. Drunk of the Week

    Hill-Top Tavern

    By Drew Bixby

    Published: November 6, 2008

    The Hill-Top Tavern (4907 Lowell Boulevard) will not run a tab for anyone. I know this because a sign taped behind the bar says so. Other signs, some written in Sharpie on...

44. Film Feature

    Soul Men

    By Chuck Wilson

    Published: November 6, 2008

    If the dream of every comic is to have his humor live on long after he's left the stage, then the late Bernie Mac has exited this world on a high note. Soul Men, a comedy...

45. Film Feature

    Role Models

    Role Models is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: November 6, 2008

    Paul Rudd wears a constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints him. He's frat-boy handsome and...

46. Film Feature

    Repo! The Genetic Opera

    A Saw director gets musical in Repo! The Genetic Opera

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: November 6, 2008

    Movie cults are born, not made. A youthful audience discovered Donnie Darko on its own, even as another demographic transformed The Sound of Music into sing-along karaoke...

47. Flick Pick

    Adventure Film Festival

    By Amber Taufen

    Published: November 6, 2008

    We're pretty spoiled here in the metro area when it comes to film and film festivals. That goes double for all you adrenaline junkies and nature lovers out there who live mere...

48. Art

    RedLine debuts with through a glass, darkly

    By Michael Paglia

    Published: November 6, 2008

    Laura Merage is an accomplished photo-based artist whose work I've reviewed a few times during the past decade. Her photos and photo-based pieces are supremely elegant and...

49. Theater

    Neil LaBute's Fat Pig is no big deal

    By Juliet Wittman

    Published: November 6, 2008

    Playwright Neil LaBute is a king of nasty, but I've also always thought of him as tough-minded, daring and original. Now that I've seen Fat Pig, though, I'm wondering whether...

50. Artbeat

    Julia Fernandez-Pol at Carson van Straaten Gallery

    By Michael Paglia

    Published: November 6, 2008

    When Sandy Carson, a fixture in Denver's contemporary art world, announced earlier this year that she had sold her namesake gallery, even insiders were shocked. Carson has been...

51. Encore

    Now Playing

    Capsule reviews of current shows

    By Juliet Wittman

    Published: November 6, 2008

    Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it's so relentlessly nice....

52. Now Showing

    Now Showing

    Capsule reviews of current exhibits

    By Michael Paglia

    Published: November 6, 2008

    Adam Helms. This solo in the MCA's Paper Works Gallery is the New York artist's first museum show anywhere. In his works on paper and in a monumental sculpture that conjures up...