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Night & Day
And All That Jazz
Addison hosts a weekend of music
By Kelly Knickerbocker
Published: April 16, 2009
Posh restaurants? Classy dames? Stylish boutiques? Sure, Big D's got those. But nothing exudes class like a celebration honoring the best in North American jazz music. And,...
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The GPS Is Hard To Read
Fareed Zakaria speaks at the Fairmont
By Daniel Daugherty
Published: April 16, 2009
Based on his writings, it's tough to pin down Fareed Zakaria's point of view. At times he sounds like an apologetic voice for U.S. imperialism--he initially supported the...
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The Pauly Shore of Science
Biosphere 2 founder John Allen speaks in Dallas
By Michelle Mathews
Published: April 16, 2009
Why do projects such as Biosphere 2 capture the imagination? Is it because they resonate with the thrill of the possibility of exploring and settling other planets or moons? Or...
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For Real
By Erin Waters
Published: April 16, 2009
Continuing its 2008-2009 "Discover Series," WaterTower Theatre presents the regional premiere of Based on a Totally True Story by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. As comic book writer...
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Arting Around
Fort Worth's best arts fest returns
By KAITLIN INGRAM
Published: April 16, 2009
2009 marks the 24th year of Fort Worth's art/food/music/film/good times fest, the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival. Art Fair SourceBook recently called the annual event the...
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Metro-Rhyme Off
Dallas and Fort Worth poets fight it out
By Erin Waters
Published: April 16, 2009
Perfect your comedic chops. Fine-tune your rhythm and rhyme. Sharpen your literary arsenal, area poets. The ringmaster waits. Linguistic smackdown--with words and vague...
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Super Dave
Live the moment at GoodBody's Yoga
By Jesse Hughey
Published: April 16, 2009
Judging from a quick skim of Yeah Dave's Guide to Livin' the Moment: Getting Ecstasy through Wine, Chocolate, and Your iPod Playlist, it seems author Dave Romanelli is a master...
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Warm Wizards
Don Snuggies proudly for charity
By Daniel Daugherty
Published: April 16, 2009
Ten thousand years (6,000 in the South) of human development have finally brought us to the precipice. Not the Internet and its bounty of free porn. Not even the first black...
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Shred Masters
By Merritt Martin
Published: April 16, 2009
Raise your hand if you have a corrugated box--that probably once housed some electrical gadget, Girl Scout cookies or bulk anything--full of credit card offers, address labels,...
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Join The Wine Train
By Merritt Martin
Published: April 16, 2009
Where can you listen to live jazz, get loaded and get religion all in one place? OK, fine. Where, other than New Orleans, can you do all those things? Right. Seriously, now....
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The Good Barney
The Modern salutes a free-speech icon
By Katey Margolis
Published: April 16, 2009
As a librarian and an American, I'm a big fan of unwavering defenders of freedom and opponents of censorship, and Barney Rosset is one of the big ones. Rosset, as owner of...
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Balls Out
The Inwood screens a comedy classic
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: April 16, 2009
Today, HBO is a venerable cable institution--a go-to for quality, almost literate programming that has somehow managed to vault TV into cultural and intellectual realms where...
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The Barber of Garland
See Sweeney Todd at the Granville
By Kelly Knickerbocker
Published: April 16, 2009
Sweeney Todd had me captivated at, "There's a hole in the world like a great black pit, and it's filled with people who are filled with shit!" But did you know that the...
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Food For Thought
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: April 16, 2009
It was only a matter of time before the knitting craze and the world of chick lit collided into one club, and author Kate Jacobs is the reigning president. The woman behind the...
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Full Mooney
By John Freeman
Published: April 16, 2009
Any fan of quality comedy television will instantly recognize Paul Mooney as the "Ask a Black Dude" sage or "Negrodamus" from the funniest show in decades, Chapelle's Show, a...
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Night & Day
Travelin' Ballers
The RoughRiders take on Arkansas' best
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: April 16, 2009
Arkansas is one of 25 U.S. states--others include Virginia, Alabama, South Carolina, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska--without a major sports franchise, but it does support the only...
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Music
My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields Talks his Band's Past, Possible Future
By Jesse Hughey
Published: April 16, 2009
Kevin Shields, frontman of the critically beloved dreamy noise-pop band My Bloody Valentine, sees his band's recent return to active status a bit differently than those of us...
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Critics' Picks
Electric Six,Bang Camaro
Thursday, April 16,at the Boiler Room, Denton
By Andrew Lentz
Published: April 16, 2009
Ask anyone from Echo Park to Williamsburg. They'll tell you irony is a dead scene. Which is why Electric Six is only partially insincere. Bouncing between Tom Jones-y...
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playlist
The Texas Red Legs
Rattlesnake Inn (Self-released)
By Darryl Smyers
Published: April 16, 2009
"Long Way to Lubbock," the opening cut on this impressive debut, showcases the singing and songwriting acumen of Red Leg frontman Richard Davis. Dense and poignant, "Lubbock"...
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Bsides
Two Jayhawks Again Flock Together
By Andrea Swensso
Published: April 16, 2009
The first line of the first single off the new album by Mark Olson and Gary Louris begins mid-sentence, as if picking up partway through a story we should already know. "And...
