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Feature
Beating a DWI case may soon get a lot tougher
By Kimberly Thorpe
Published: April 2, 2009
I'm going to screw up, Andrea says to herself as she walks a straight line in front of a Dallas police officer. Only hours into what was supposed to be a relaxing Memorial Day...
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You Said It
Forest Grumps | Blowin' In The Wind | Home Improvement | Baby One More Time
By Alexa Schirtzinger, Chris Vogel, Richie Whitt and Cole Haddon
Published: April 2, 2009
"Forest Grumps," by Alexa Schirtzinger, March 19 the Money Tree I enjoyed your article on the tree problems with Dallas City Hall. It looks to me like there should be a...
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Buzz
Roll dem bones:
By Sam Merten
Published: April 2, 2009
For someone who doesn't have any actual money, Buzz lately has been mighty interested—obsessed even—with the stock market. We check the Dow Jones about a zillion...
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Schutze
If only The Dallas Morning News had attacked its Trinity River reporting with the same punch it attacked us.
By Jim Schutze
Published: April 2, 2009
Let's begin with the assumption that you, as reader and citizen, do give a damn what's going to happen along the Trinity River through downtown, where the biggest public works...
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Sports
NASCAR drivers start your engines: It's about the most athletic thing you'll be doing during the Samsung 500.
By Richie Whitt
Published: April 2, 2009
Eddie Gossage thinks I'm an April Fool. Texas Motor Speedway's president told me so—in no uncertain terms—when I trial-ballooned my thesis that NASCAR drivers...
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Ask a Mexican
Why do Mexican's love bad-boy cops so much?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 2, 2009
Dear Mexican: Why are Mexicans so proud of the brutality of their police force? They seem to glamorize it in all their music and telenovelas. —Batons Are Bats, Or Super...
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Music
Club Dada Preps For Major Renovations
By Pete Freedman
Published: April 2, 2009
Stop me if you've heard this before: Things are changing down in Deep Ellum. Oh, you have heard that? Well, bear with me anyway. Because as we inch closer to the proposed...
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Music
PVC Street Gang Pipes Up
By Darryl Smyers
Published: April 2, 2009
If the three members of Denton's PVC Street Gang didn't tell you that they were in a band, chances are you would mistake them for out-of-work computer programmers and motley...
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Critics' Picks
Chris Knight, Back Porch Mary, Mo Robson Band
Thursday, April 2, at the Granada Theater
By Chris Parker
Published: April 2, 2009
No Western Wear cowboy, Chris Knight earned his country backwoods bona fides working as a mine reclamation inspector and living in a trailer on 90 acres in Western Kentucky....
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playlist
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's Blitz! (Interscope)
By Steven Gdula
Published: April 2, 2009
The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD shares its name with the legendary London nightclub that served as a way station between '70s punk and '80s synth-pop. Like the club, the record...
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Bsides
Great Lake Swimmers Get All-Natural
By Lance Lester
Published: April 2, 2009
Last summer, there seemed to be a folk-rock revival beginning to form on the musical landscape, with bands left and right being lauded for their folky, melodic harmonies. But...
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North of the Dial
DJ G Celebrates Five Years of '80s Nights
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: April 2, 2009
After thumbing through one of his 30 or so milk crates of vinyl records, Jonathan Graham slips one of the discs out, slides the jet-black vinyl record free of its sleeve and...
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Dish
Wolfgang Puck soars high with Five-Sixty
By Dave Faries
Published: April 2, 2009
Dallas loves celebrity chefs. Hell, Guy what's-his-name, the one with the hair, from Food Network, drops by a restaurant or two and people practically wet themselves. The...
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Cheap Bastard
Long live the Taco King
By Alice Laussade
Published: April 2, 2009
"No pets, shirt shoes required," is my favorite sign inside Taco King on Park Lane. I'm pretty excited to go back without my cat and also without a shirt or shoes and order me...
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Film
Adventureland: Greg Mottola loves the '80s
By Scott Foundas
Published: April 2, 2009
Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola's Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for the leg warmers and knee socks clinging to lower...
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Night & Day
Too Much Lipstick, Too Much Rouge
Get excited by makeup at the Galleria
By Andrea Grimes
Published: April 2, 2009
OMG, GIRLFRIENDS! Round up your Carries and your Samanthas and your Charlottes--leave that sulky bitch Miranda at home--'cause it's time to get your makeup on! Girls love...
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Night & Day
Tex-Max
Max Stalling takes the Granada stage
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: April 2, 2009
Texas country singer-songwriter Max Stalling's been at it for years now, playing damn near every honky-tonk in Texas and releasing four studio albums over the past decade and...
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Night & Day
Farm to Market
North Haven Gardens gets fresh with you
By Jesse Hyde
Published: April 2, 2009
Several new Dallas-area restaurants offer organic and locally produced menu items in an appeal to environment...and health-conscious diners. It seems like "locavores" are...
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Night & Day
Post-Preschool
Zounds Sounds opens a new school in Plano
By Brittan Dunham
Published: April 2, 2009
Being a rock star comes naturally to you. You're all about windmills, headbanging and breaking stuff. You're the king of stage dives, the world's fastest autograph signer and...
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Night & Day
Get Into Gear
NASCAR hits TMS for some serious fuel-burning
By Merritt Martin
Published: April 2, 2009
I'll admit that thanks to the perfection that is Top Gear (that they'd ever try that show in America is a travesty, by the by) and to my car-loving beau, I've learned a bit...
