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Feature
Dallas Wants to be a Green City, So Why Not Save Some Trees?
By Alexa Schirtzinger
Published: March 19, 2009
On a windswept rise in southwest Dallas, Frank Bracken squints into the late-afternoon sun and sweeps his wiry, flannel-clad arm across the empty expanse of chalky white...
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You Said It
Gimme Shelter | Addition by Subtraction
By Megan Feldman and Richie Whitt
Published: March 19, 2009
"Gimme Shelter," by Megan Feldman, March 12 No sympathy Cowards. I enlisted before 9/11 and still knew what I was getting into. I have deployed twice, have been in college...
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Buzz
Austin Looks at Raising the Bar for Democracy
By Patrick Williams
Published: March 19, 2009
Democracy inaction: On May 9, thanks to folks who signed a pair of petitions, Dallas voters will decide whether the city should build a convention center hotel and whether to...
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Schutze
Dallas a Great Convention Town -- for Nuns
By Jim Schutze
Published: March 19, 2009
Mayor Tom Leppert and The Dallas Morning News are hell-bent for leather to invest half a billion bucks in public money in a city-owned convention "headquarters" hotel downtown...
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Sports
Despite Its Big-Time Coach, SMU Basketball Remains Small-Time
By Richie Whitt
Published: March 19, 2009
On February 24 SMU's basketball team welcomed a special visitor to its sparkling new Crum Center practice facility. Ushered in by school president Dr. Gerald Turner, the guest...
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Ask a Mexican
Why Don't Mexican Women Like Tampons?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: March 19, 2009
Dear Mexican: Why is it that when I go to the Mexican supermarkets to buy productos femeninas, fully 98 percent of the aisle provided for such things is composed of maxi pads...
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Music
D-FW Acts Make a Strong Showing at SXSW
By Pete Freedman
Published: March 19, 2009
Let's face it: At its core, the annual South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival is a numbers game. Well, once you get down there, at least. In Austin this week, it's...
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Music
Booking Agenty John Iskander Boils Down the Post-SXSW Bounty
By Jesse Hughey
Published: March 19, 2009
With North Texas serving as a natural stopping point both on the way in and on the way out of Austin's South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival, fans in the region have...
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Critics' Picks
MSTRKRFT, Felix CartalFriday, March 20, at House of Blues' Pontiac Garage
Friday, March 20, at House of Blues' Pontiac Garage
By Cory Graves
Published: March 19, 2009
Although the dust hasn't even had time to settle on its latest release, MSTRKRFT claims it has already begun planning its third album. Released earlier this week, Fist of God...
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playlist
Dan Auerbach
Keep It Hid (Nonesuch)
By AUSTIN POWELL
Published: March 19, 2009
The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach used to make annual pilgrimages to the Mississippi Delta, starting on Nashville's Music Row and detouring west through Memphis, if only to dig...
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Bsides
Baton Rouge Rapper Young Bleed Makes a Home in Dallas
By Jesse Hughey
Published: March 19, 2009
The technology has changed from tapes to CDs, but otherwise, Young Bleed (aka Glenn Clifton Jr.) is back where he began. And that's fine with him. The Baton Rouge rapper...
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North of the Dial
NX35 Gives Music Fans Something to Remember
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: March 19, 2009
north of the dial On the final night of NX35, as Monotonix loads its gear and merch into a van in front of Hailey's, some guy a block away at The Boiler Room is already...
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Dish
At Citrus Bistro, Good Things Come from Big Packages
By Dave Faries
Published: March 19, 2009
Remember the old saying "never trust a skinny chef"? Well, our waiter—the one with gunmetal hair—nods toward the back room where Didier Viriot ambles back and...
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Cheap Bastard
Tortas La Hechizara
By Alice Laussade
Published: March 19, 2009
Minutes it took me to decide what I wanted because there was so much good-lookin' stuff on the menu count: 5 Minutes I waited for my food once I'd ordered it count: 3 You...
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Film
I Love You Man: Celebrating Straight-Guy Man-Love
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 19, 2009
Just as we thought the "bromantic comedy" had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its high point with I Love You, Man. The subtext is finally the text—it's right...
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Night & Day
To Look For America
Light & Sie hosts Eberle and Parot
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: March 19, 2009
Photographer Todd Eberle is obsessed not only with the photogenic subjects of pop culture and architecture, but also with how our cultural artifacts reflect upon us as a...
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Night & Day
Batters' Uppers
DTC goes out on a juice run
By Patrick Michels
Published: March 19, 2009
Getting caught in the bathroom stall with a friend, a syringe and your pants down is usually pretty embarrassing. Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco's meetings in the Oakland A's...
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Night & Day
Skunk in the Trunk
See some far-out art in Mesquite
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: March 19, 2009
If you're a conspiracy theorist or a UFO buff, then you've no doubt heard of Skunk Works, the nickname for aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development...
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Night & Day
Doolittle Does a Lot
Artisan puts My Fair Lady in the spotlight
By Dianna Wray
Published: March 19, 2009
In My Fair Lady, Professor Higgins claims to hate women but love phonetics, so when he hears Eliza Doolittle's thick Cockney twang, singing, dancing and rain in Spain that...
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Night & Day
Pomp and Go-Go Dance
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: March 19, 2009
In this town once dubbed the "City of Hate," it often seems as if there are three kinds of people: those who respect the past while living their normal daily lives, those who...
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