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While My Guitar Makes You Groan
Stephen Lynch visits the Majestic
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: April 2, 2009
If there's anything thing in this world that's a sure beating, it's a comedian with a guitar. Sure, there are exceptions (like the wildly inventive Demetri Martin, for example)...
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Murder She Ate
By Kelly Knickerbocker
Published: April 2, 2009
I mean, sure, a murder mystery sounds legit, but did you say "free dinner"? Ramen-slurping, drive-through-frequenting, meal card-swiping college students are officially...
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He Luvs Me, He Luvs Me Not
By Jesse Hughey
Published: April 2, 2009
Females age 16 to 24 are almost three times more likely to suffer violence at the hands of an intimate partner than any other group, strong evidence that teen couples should...
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Count 'Em
See 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Tenors at the Meyerson
By Andrea Grimes
Published: April 2, 2009
Everybody who's anybody--and that means people who know and love This Is Spinal Tap--knows that good music goes to 11. So if the 10 Tenors had just one more tenor, they'd lose...
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Breakable Zoo
See The Glass Menagerie
By Sarah Johnson
Published: April 2, 2009
I have a confession to make, and it's not a good one. Growing up I believed the award-winning playwright Tennessee Williams and the country singer Tennessee Ernie Ford were the...
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Fashion 4-1-1
McKinney gets a visit from the Glam God
By Merritt Martin
Published: April 2, 2009
He won VH1's Glam God and dammit, if he can stand up to Vivica A. Fox and still make hot duds, this guy must be a force. He's Indashio and he's making his Texas fashion show...
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Rex and Effect
See Sophocles' classic in Addison
By Daniel Daugherty
Published: April 2, 2009
Patricide. Incest. Suicide. Self-inflicted blindness. This isn't the content of an underground snuff film but a night of classic Greek theater (rated PG-13). For those who...
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Treasure Hunt
See some glittering rarities at the Heard
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: April 2, 2009
I spent many an hour combing through rock shops as a kid, fascinated with fossils and minerals of all shapes and sizes. If only I'd spent a few of those hours combing through...
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The Art of Rembrance
The Modern hosts Rosson Crow
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: April 2, 2009
Memory is a strange thing. Somewhere in the tangled neurons of our brains lies our ability to make sense out of the things that have happened to us in our lifetime, and the way...
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Ca-Caw, Ca-Caw
Grapevine hears the call of the Falcon
By Daniel Daugherty
Published: April 2, 2009
You've seen this story before: 1) Private detectives take on gorgeous, seductive female client. 2) Client gives them a dummy assignment. 3) Detectives figure out they've been...
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Acting for the Movement
Stage and screen legends speak at TBAAL
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: April 2, 2009
There has been much talk in the months since Barack Obama's election about what that historic event means for "the black experience" in the United States. While a sign that...
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Blurry Vision
John Holt Smith shows off in Fort Worth
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: April 2, 2009
Fort Worth artist John Holt Smith's paintings start with him taking cross-sections of a photograph and manipulating them into colorful striated patterns, which he then copies...
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Acting Up
By Merritt Martin
Published: April 2, 2009
Delaney boys: NYPD or no, if you can't tell your mom you're engaged (or married and expecting) because she's got such a hold over you with guilt and good cooking, then we've...
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Spring In Your Step
By Kelly Knickerbocker
Published: April 2, 2009
Things are always getting bigger in Texas, and no other metropolitan area in the United States is growing faster than Dallas-Fort Worth. Sure, we're dealing with our urban...
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He's A Gass
The stand-up has Walken and Pacino at the ready
By Merritt Martin
Published: April 2, 2009
Seems appropriate that someone so adept at impersonating voices, comic Craig Gass, grew up in a deaf family. Without verbal guidance from his parents or sister, Gass relied on...
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The Horror, The Horror!
UNT gets a dose of Rocky
By Erin Waters
Published: April 2, 2009
Cult junkies, trannies and all the rest of you de-virginized Rocky sluts: It's time to time warp. Again. But theater enthusiasts are also welcome this time. Richard O'Brien's...
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Sin City
By Erin Waters
Published: April 2, 2009
"Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven." (Genesis 19: 24-15) "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them...
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Not About Jazz
By Kelly Knickerbocker
Published: April 2, 2009
The Jazz might be a teeny bit ahead of the Mavericks statistically, but that doesn't make the boys from Big D an underdog in their upcoming matchup. We've got tons of stuff...
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Stage
An actress going buck naked on stage doesn't give Closer the sexual chemistry it demands.
By Elaine Liner
Published: April 2, 2009
The stripper alone should make Patrick Marber's play Closer a red-hot ticket. The character's name is Alice Ayres, and in a scene in the second act, she performs a seductive...
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Critics' Picks
Robyn Hitchcock
Saturday, April 4, at the Granada Theater
By Elliott Johnston
Published: April 2, 2009
It seems either impossible or super-difficult to simultaneously look backward and move forward. But eccentric underground pop legend Robyn Hitchcock has been remarkably...
