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Night & Day
Whoa, Girlie
By Kimberly Thorpe
Published: June 4, 2009
Do you want to learn to rope a calf cowgirl-style? Cowgirls and ranch women from the Dallas-Fort Worth area will be on hand to tell you how and much more at the Women's Museum...
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The Bitch Is Back
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: June 4, 2009
Joan Crawford gives adoption a bad, bad name. When Christina Crawford was taken in by the movie star in 1940, it appeared that the little girl was destined for a life of...
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Audience Participation
By John Freeman
Published: June 4, 2009
When Mystery Science Theater 3000 was originally on the air, a group of friends and I used to begrudgingly view it and say, "Man, I could have come up with that, we do that...
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Man's World
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 4, 2009
Ladies, unless you have a microphone hidden in the locker of your man's clubhouse, then there's no way you can truly know him. At least that's the idea behind Ron Stout's...
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We're Not Cranking
By Michelle Mathews
Published: June 4, 2009
Fudge-covered, peanut butter-filled pretzels in vanilla malt ice cream rippled with fudge and peanut butter: This is the description of Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby ice cream. As...
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He'll Stand Up Anywhere
By Jesse Hughey
Published: June 4, 2009
With some comics, it takes several minutes of their acts to get where their humor is coming from. With others, all you have to do is read their self-penned bios. Case in point,...
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Bad Idea Park
By Sarah Johnson
Published: June 4, 2009
Theme parks are supposed to be filled with children eating cotton candy while standing in line to ride the coolest new attraction, and teenagers trying to guess our weight as...
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Paper Planes To The Past
By Katey Margolis
Published: June 4, 2009
Harmon and Harriet Kelley began collecting African-American art in 1987 and have amassed a collection that represents a broad range of genres and artists from the 19th and 20th...
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George Stadium
By Alexa Schirtzinger
Published: June 4, 2009
Back in 1998, I pulled on my tight jeans and skimpiest halter top and headed out to Texas Stadium to indulge my alter ego as one of a posse of screaming high-school girls at...
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Let's Pretend
By Brittan Dunham
Published: June 4, 2009
It's that time of year again when the rich and famous flock to the south of France to take part in lavish yacht parties and view fantastic pieces of cinema months before the...
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Comedy Isn't Pretty
By Jesse Hughey
Published: June 4, 2009
"The best comedy comes from the truth," X-rated comic Robert Schimmel has said--and proven, with hilarious observations mixed with compassion and insight when documenting his...
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Revolutionary Reel
By Mark Donald
Published: June 4, 2009
It's not like I needed much help getting radicalized at UT in 1970, what with the Vietnam War, campus protests and a host of college indiscretions at $10 an ounce. But never...
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Night & Day
The Price of Fortune
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 4, 2009
I've always wondered what it must be like for actors to play roles that denigrate themselves or the culture that spawned them, whether it's a little person playing a munchkin...
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Stage
New actors freshen up old fave, Greater Tuna; no bite in Kitchen Dog’s contest winner
By Elaine Liner
Published: June 4, 2009
Seeing Greater Tuna performed by two actors other than Joe Sears and Jaston Williams is like going to a concert knowing it's a cover band. Even with reasonable facsimiles on...
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Music
The Flatlanders' Legendary Careers Keep Growing
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 4, 2009
Even over the phone, it's hard to mistake the voice of Jimmie Dale Gilmore. A high, dusty warble perfectly suited to the Panhandle plains from which it came, it's instantly,...
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Critics' Picks
Wolves in the Throne Room, Kill The Client, Vorvadoss, Embolization
Monday, June 8, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton
By Chris Steffen
Published: June 4, 2009
American-originated black metal is a strange beast: Gone is most of the pomp, mystery and makeup that shrouds the Norwegian architects of the genre, and in its place is an...
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Bsides
Dear and The Headlights Don't Seem Too Stunned...
By Ned Raggett
Published: June 4, 2009
"Have some fun, clap, holler, get down!" On some days, that's hard advice to handle. But Robert Cissell of Dear and the Headlights is handling it just fine. "There are so...
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Film
Away We Go: Dave Eggers' Debut Screenplay is a Staggering Work of Not-Genius
By Scott Foundas
Published: June 4, 2009
Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers' solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic...
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Critics' Picks
Little Joy
Tuesday, June 9, at Club Dada
By Elliott Johnston
Published: June 4, 2009
Rock critics are seduced by the tendency to call out an album of the summer—especially during the season's opening bell, when the road ahead is waiting, in need of a...
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Critics' Picks
Gomez, JJ Grey & MOFRO
By Eric Grubbs
Published: June 4, 2009
Long after its debut album won the Mercury Prize, and its cover of The Beatles' "Getting Better" was featured in a Philips commercial, Gomez is (thankfully) still around. You...
