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41. Film

    In Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood Finds Salvation

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: December 25, 2008

    Walt Kowalski growls a lot — a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of his midriff-baring teenage granddaughter text-messaging...

42. Film

    Tom Cruise Plots to Kill Hitler in Valkyrie

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: December 25, 2008

    Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg — a lot of name for a lot of guy. Born into aristocracy in 1907, he was a soldier by the age of 19 — and, by most...

43. Film

    Brad Pitt Ages in Reverse in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: December 25, 2008

    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious — a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born in the twilight of life and gradually regressing toward...

44. Film Feature

    Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer on Valkyrie

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: December 25, 2008

    It's July 20, 1944, and Adolf Hitler has been assassinated — the victim of a bomb blast organized and executed by a cabal of high-ranking German army officers seeking to...

45. New Year's Eve Guide

    All About Eve

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: December 25, 2008

    Is it over yet? Can we look? Don't know about y'all, but we're more than ready to put the titanic clusterfuck that was 2008 behind us. Frankly, we're hoping to forget the past...

46. Art

    Light-Rail Stations Ride the Line Between Public Art and Construction Detail

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: December 25, 2008

    Editor's note/correction: The original version of this review incorrectly attributed statements made in a letter to the editor ("Feedback," February 14, 2008) to Bob Adams, a...

47. Surreal Estate

    Circles Records Is Still Selling Music to the Masses from Its Central Avenue Flagship

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: December 25, 2008

    About a hundred years ago, when I was just out of short pants, I worked for a company called Associated Distributors. It's a Phoenix-based business, owned by Leonard and Angela...