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Feature
By Alexa Schirtzinger
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
By Megan Feldman and Richie Whitt
"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
By Patrick Williams
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
By Jim Schutze
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
By Richie Whitt
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
By Gustavo Arellano
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
By Pete Freedman
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
By Jesse Hughey
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
Friday, March 20, at House of Blues' Pontiac Garage
By Cory Graves
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
Keep It Hid (Nonesuch)
By AUSTIN POWELL
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
By Jesse Hughey
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
By Daniel Rodrigue
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
By Dave Faries
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
By Alice Laussade
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
By Robert Wilonsky
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
Light & Sie hosts Eberle and Parot
By Noah W. Bailey
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
DTC goes out on a juice run
By Patrick Michels
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
See some far-out art in Mesquite
By Noah W. Bailey
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
Artisan puts My Fair Lady in the spotlight
By Dianna Wray
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
By Noah W. Bailey
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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