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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...
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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