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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
