The Checklist
Newsweek, May, 2007
RENT "Straight Time." This gritty, hypnotic 1978 sleeper features one of Dustin Hoffman's greatest, and least-known, performances as a self-destructive ex-con strung out on crime.
GO to the Shuttle Launch Experience at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, opening May 25. Find out firsthand how astronauts feel as they launch into space. (Included in admission price, $38; kids, $28)
HEAR "The Sun and the Moon" by The Bravery. This follow-up to their 2005 debut is produced by Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam), who has kept the band as moody and melodramatic as ever.
READ "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. This novel about two women in war-torn Afghanistan promises to be just as good, if not better, than Hosseini's best-selling first book, "The Kite...
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