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Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 11:36 AM

Checklist: Our Top Picks for the Week

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Hear Emmylou Harris’s “All I Intended to Be.” This crisply sophisticated, sometimes solemnly tinged collection of originals and favorites of her fellow artists shows that Harris is still the stalwart songbird at the top of the roost ($18.98).

Rent “Heavy Metal in Baghdad.” Hipster American filmmakers Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti plunge into bullet-riddled, paranoid Baghdad to chart the fortunes of Iraq’s only heavy-metal band, Acrassicauda, who are driven into exile in Syria.

See “End Game—British Contemporary Art From the Chaney Family Collection,” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The exhibition features major works of the radical London scene, from the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s (including Damien Hirst) to today’s avant-garde (mfah.org).

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Read “RFK: A Photographer’s Journal.” World-renowned photojournalist Harry Benson captures intimate photos of RFK’s all-too-brief life in this book marking the 40th anniversary of Kennedy’s death ($39.95; powerhousebooks.com).

Go to the Frietmuseum, in Bruges, Belgium, the first and only museum dedicated to french fries. Learn about the history of the potato and the fry and then sample away! (frietmuseum.be)

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