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Issue: May 21, 2009
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45 stories found - 1 through 20
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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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....

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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,...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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?...

  20. 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...

Issue: May 21, 2009
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45 stories found - 1 through 20
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