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Issue: May 7, 2009
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40 stories found - 1 through 20
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  1. You Said It

    "Who Do You Trust? | "Dirty Dozen,"

    By Sam Merten and Richie Whitt
    Published: May 7, 2009

    "Who Do You Trust?" by Sam Merten, April 30 A Water Park Would Be Nice I can't even imagine the wonders we could accomplish in this city with half a billion dollars. How...

  2. Buzz

    A Backward Way of Moving Forward on the Trinity

    By Sam Merten
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Better late...: After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its report on the city's levees in April, we were baffled to learn that construction on the Margaret Hunt Hill...

  3. Schutze

    Convention Center Hotel Promoters are a Bunch of Get-Along Business Guys Who May Not Even Realize Their Own Deception

    By Jim Schutze
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Does truth get more difficult the smarter you are? On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton told a Washington grand jury, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is'...

  4. Sports

    The Mild-Mannered Mavericks Are Infected Again By Chronic Case of Whine Flu

    By Richie Whitt
    Published: May 7, 2009

    If this pisses off Dirk Nowitzki and Mark Cuban and the suddenly trendy bandwagon of MFFLers, so be it. After watching the nauseating Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference...

  5. Ask a Mexican

    Don't Blame Mexicans for Swine Flu; They Just Work Here.

    By Gustavo Arellano
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Is it true that most Mexicans are carriers of the swine flu because they eat a lot of chicharrones, or is it the fact that your women are so pig-like? I knew that Mexicans have...

  6. Music

    311 Isn't Lame. No, Really. They Aren't. Seriously.

    By Christopher lopez
    Published: May 7, 2009

    For the better part of two decades, 311 has been cranking out album after album and trotting almost nonstop around the globe. Of the band's eight albums, four have gone gold,...

  7. Music

    The Paper Chase Avert Disaster with New Disaster Album.

    By Jesse Hughey
    Published: May 7, 2009

    We're all going to die, and there's nothing you can do about it. So relax. As grim as that sentiment may be, it's morbidly comforting when everyone around you is frantically...

  8. Critics' Picks

    Robin Thicke, Jennifer Hudson

    Thursday, May 7,at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

    By Christian Schaeffer
    Published: May 7, 2009

    That Robin Thicke could become a top name in R&B is proof that anything's possible in the magical world of pop music. A clean-cut white boy with a pop-culture family tree (he's...

  9. Bsides

    Elvis Perkins Comes to Grips With His Past--and Himself

    By Cory Graves
    Published: May 7, 2009

    It's been two years since Elvis Perkins burst onto the scene with his melancholic solo debut Ash Wednesday, a poignant and at times grief-stricken homage to his photographer...

  10. North of the Dial

    If You See Daniel Folmer's Guitar Around, Tell it he Misses It

    By Daniel Rodrigue
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Last month was a bad month for singer-songwriter Daniel Folmer. From start to finish, April dealt him a handful of troubles and misfortunes that sound like a sad plot plucked...

  11. Dish

    Nick & Sam's Grill: Where Everybody Knows Your Name, or at Least Acts Like They Do

    By Dave Faries
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Nickie is a fan of English football's perennial also-ran, Liverpool. That's neither here nor there, really, except that I got into a rather lengthy (but friendly) flap with...

  12. Cheap Bastard

    Williams Chicken, For When You Want it Fast and Done Right

    By Alice Laussade
    Published: May 7, 2009

    If there's one thing you can get fast in Dallas, it's food (if there are two things, they're food and meth. Three? Food, meth and laser hair removal). And when it comes to fast...

  13. Film

    J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Offers Proof a Franchise Can Live Long and Prosper

    By Robert Wilonsky
    Published: May 7, 2009

    It's difficult for this long-time Trekkie to review J.J. Abrams' relaunching of the U.S.S. Enterprise. It's difficult to dispassionately dole out compliments and complaints per...

  14. Night & Day

    Rhythm & Boz

    By John Freeman
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Master of blue-eyed R&B, Boz Scaggs has been laying down grooves since he was 12 years old. Raised in Dallas, he met Steve Miller (you know, "Fly Like an Eagle") while...

  15. Night & Day

    Focus On Hopper

    By Jesse Hughey
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Austinite Chad Hopper may be a respected collage and mixed-media artist, illustrator of the great World Salad comic series and Night Viking member. Most of his work involves...

  16. Night & Day

    Stages Of Style

    By Jennifer Elaine Davis
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Despite the fact that consumerism is not terribly hip right now, sprinkle it with a dose of nostalgia and it never goes out of style. Neiman Marcus has a corner on that market...

  17. Night & Day

    Mmm, That's Some Good Addison

    By Kelly Knickerbocker
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Mmm, mmm, good! Taste Addison is back, and I don't mind if I do. Skip out on dinner the night before, grab your Tums and head out to Addison Circle Park. This three-day event...

  18. Night & Day

    Roaring For Mom

    By Sarah Johnson
    Published: May 7, 2009

    It's already that time of year again, when we begin that frantic search for the perfect gift for mom, one that says "thank you for enduring endless hours of pain and suffering...

  19. Night & Day

    Mama's Big Houses

    By JENNIFER MEDINA
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Moms and dads are two totally different entities. Biological differences aside, moms need recognition and appreciation, whereas dads need to be respected and left alone. This...

  20. Night & Day

    Appreciative And Lucky Louie

    By Jesse Hughey
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Our country's economy is on the precipice of collapse, and comedian Louis CK isn't so sure it would be a bad thing if it took the plunge. "When I read things like, 'The...

Issue: May 7, 2009
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40 stories found - 1 through 20
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