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Feature
In Dallas Dog Parks, Canines Aren't the Only Ones at Play
By Alexa Schirtzinger
Published: May 21, 2009
Around the time the sun first peeks over the eastern horizon, Jim Christian loads his three black dogs into his silver Honda and drives a few miles to the Mockingbird Point Dog...
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You Said It
Magnetic Reaction | A Day Time Curfew
By Jim Schutze and Patrick Williams
Published: May 21, 2009
Magnetic Retraction By Jim Schutze, May 14 Messing with Success The magnets are not only "islands" of excellence, cut off from the larger world around them. They provide a...
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Buzz
South Side Story
By Jim Schutze
Published: May 21, 2009
South Side Story: Turns out the story isn't true. The southern Dallas vote did not deliver the No-vote victory for backers of a city-owned convention hotel in the May 9...
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Schutze
Hey DISD Trustees! Do the Math on Magnet Schools.
Magnets just aren’t the budget-busters trustees are pretending they are.
By Jim Schutze
Published: May 21, 2009
A concerted effort is under way to pit communities against each other—especially Hispanic against black—over public school resources in Dallas. It's sort of like...
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Sports
The Cowboys Pick Up the Pieces After the Valley Ranch Collapse
The accident at the Cowboys' practice facility leaves structures collapsed, questions unanswered and a life forever changed
By Richie Whitt
Published: May 21, 2009
There's a man buried under your jokes. In the wake of the Dallas Cowboys' Valley Ranch practice facility collapsing during a thunderstorm on May 2, you've heard them....
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Ask a Mexican
Arr, Matey: Mexicans Don't Need a Boat to Make Dandy Pirates
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: May 21, 2009
Dear Mexican: My wife and I have an argument going on about pirates. And since you're the source for all things Mexican, I thought I'd ask: While I know there were Spanish and...
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Music
Dallas' Best-Kept Secret: The Prophet Bar's Weekly Jam
By Pete Freedman
Published: May 21, 2009
There was a packed house at the Prophet Bar last Wednesday night for the coolest weekly gig that most of the city still remains clueless about. I mean, sure, it was a pseudo...
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Critics' Picks
The Thermals
Thursday, May 21, at The Loft
By Doug Davis
Published: May 21, 2009
The Thermals are a Portland-based trio (they've gone through a troop of drummers) that retains the energy and anger of punk and grunge that famously flowed out of the Northwest...
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playlist
Eminem
Relapse (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: May 21, 2009
Having fought a prescription pill addiction and mourned his murdered friend Proof, Eminem has chosen new album Relapse as his therapy. Whereas he played his last work, Encore,...
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Bsides
Margot and The Nuclear Apathy
By Amanda Parsons
Published: May 21, 2009
Making music out of pure love of the art form is one way to go about building band notoriety. But according to Richard Edwards, lead singer and guitarist for indie-poppers...
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North of the Dial
Paul Slavens' Improvisational Therapy
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: May 21, 2009
J. Paul Slavens holds his stoic composure as he takes a seat behind his Casio keyboard for his weekly residency at Dan's Sliverleaf. After taking a nip from his whiskey and...
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Dish
Agave Tex-Mex: Good, Bad and Ugly
By Dave Faries
Published: May 21, 2009
There will be good Tex-Mex and rumors of good Tex-Mex. Mostly rumors, though—at least in the Dallas area. It's a sad fact: apart from some fabled taquerias and a few...
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Cheap Bastard
Burguesa Burger: Doing an America Fave the Mexican way
By Alice Laussade
Published: May 21, 2009
On Cinco de Mayo, while you were taking tequila shots off of God knows who's God knows where, Burguesa Burger was opening its ventanas to the public for the first time. Just a...
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Film
Terminator Salvation: Only the audience needs saving
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: May 21, 2009
Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model of killing machine: the classic V8 1984...
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Night & Day
Day at the Movies
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: May 21, 2009
Twenty-four hours is not a lot of time. Though Kiefer Sutherland can make it seem like an eternity, the rest of us often struggle to get through mundane tasks in the...
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Night & Day
Pictures For Pleasure
By Sarah Johnson
Published: May 21, 2009
Whenever I see the words dead and society in the same title or sentence, I usually assume it's along the lines of or referring to the movie Dead Poets Society. You know, the...
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Night & Day
Eat Nice
By Merritt Martin
Published: May 21, 2009
You eat and drink. That is to say, you--at various times throughout the day--open up that mouth-hole and shovel some sort of sustenance into it, whether said kibble is prepared...
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Night & Day
We're Off to See the Wizard
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: May 21, 2009
The Wizard of Oz is one of those things that will never die, like baseball and Dick Clark. As someone who once played a bit part in a multi-thousand-dollar high school musical...
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Night & Day
Get Hosed
By Kelly Knickerbocker
Published: May 21, 2009
Why not toast your brewski to the firefighters who always have your back? They put their lives on the line to combat everything from your common kitchen-related fires (What?...
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Night & Day
You're Getting Very...Erotic
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: May 21, 2009
My first conscious memory of seeing hypnotism in action came courtesy of a Pee-Wee Herman HBO Special I watched as a little kid--and if you've ever seen said HBO special, then...
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