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You Said It
Taking it to the Streets | Classic Schlock | Roadkill
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Published: June 11, 2009
"taking it to the streets," by kimberly thorpe, June 4 Surrender Living downtown would be much more attractive if the 65 percent to 80 percent of mixmaster traffic could be...
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Schutze
Who knew sand flowed under the Trinity? Everybody but the folks building bridges there.
By Jim Schutze
Published: June 11, 2009
Public officials are saying things now about the Trinity River in downtown Dallas that make no sense, are impossible to believe and may even be sort of crazy. Here's the...
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Ask a Mexican
Do Mexicans beat their wives? No more than gabachos do.
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: June 11, 2009
Dear Mexican: I was riding the local light rail when two female Mexicans sat down and started talking rapid-fire Spanish nonstop for 45 minutes! It seemed as if neither one...
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Music
Suburban tweeners rock out to mall punk, DFW's hottest musical export. No, really.
By Pete Freedman
Published: June 11, 2009
With its rolling hills, lush green grass and meandering drives—all far removed from the Spring Creek Parkway drag where it's located—the Plano Centre complex hardly...
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Music
Dope opera: A New York music prof takes aim at Dallas' new arts center. Misses.
By Patrick Williams
Published: June 11, 2009
Geographically clueless: This week, we give a Buzz salute to Cornell University associate music professor David Yearsley. (A Buzz salute looks like what is commonly called the...
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Music
Holy Crap, The New Cowboys Stadium Is Impressive
By Pete Freedman
Published: June 11, 2009
Considering that you first see the new Cowboys Stadium looming on the horizon while still a good 20- to 30-minute drive from actually reaching the site of the futuristic...
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Critics' Picks
Peaches, Drums of Death
Friday, June 12, at the Granada Theater
By David Hansen
Published: June 11, 2009
Peaches' 2000 debut, Teaches of Peaches, was undoubtedly a high point for its genre. There was something uniting and motivating to be found in Merrill Nisker's skeletal...
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playlist
Jason Lytle
Yours Truly, the Commuter (Anti)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: June 11, 2009
It may be a relief to fans of Grandaddy that former frontman Jason Lytle's solo debut Yours Truly, the Commuter sounds exactly like a Grandaddy album. But it shouldn't be a...
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Bsides
Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor Is On A Roll
By Doug Davis
Published: June 11, 2009
Grizzly Bear member Chris Taylor is on a streak. In just the past few years, he's been responsible for producing critical darling Department of Eagles' 2008 release In Ear...
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Dish
Naughty is nice at Central 214
By Dave Faries
Published: June 11, 2009
Chef Blythe Beck likes things naughty—in the kitchen, on the plate, even at home, the tawdry cook can never say no when there's some oil and a fine piece of meat. She's...
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Cheap Bastard
Cindi's NY Deli: Meaty Sandwiches Served Next to a Casket Store. How Convenient.
By Alice Laussade
Published: June 11, 2009
Before I walked into the Cindi's on Central, I had no idea why they'd open a location that's literally next door to The Casket Store. (Same question to you, Boxes to Go. You...
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Film
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three falls off track
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 11, 2009
Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a primer in which subway hijackers test how long it'll take a million bucks to pass...
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Night & Day
I'm Just a Caveman
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: June 11, 2009
Gender is a comedy mainstay for a simple reason: It can be boiled down, packaged into neat little stereotypes and fed to audiences anxious to validate their behavior in the...
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Night & Day
Wipeout
By Ben Westhoff
Published: June 11, 2009
BMX freestyle pro Rick Thorne has 27 screws in his head. His worst accident was probably a 1996 crash into the corner of a loading dock, which left him with a broken palate and...
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Night & Day
I'm Just a Caveman
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: June 11, 2009
Gender is a comedy mainstay for a simple reason: It can be boiled down, packaged into neat little stereotypes and fed to audiences anxious to validate their behavior in the...
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Night & Day
Gimme Your Music, Gipsy
By Melissa Crowe
Published: June 11, 2009
Who can resist a concert with rhythms that leave your heart and lungs trembling hours afterward? The Gipsy Kings will bring their epic beats to the Meyerson this Tuesday. Come...
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Night & Day
Stand-Up Guys
By Melissa Crowe
Published: June 11, 2009
Dick's Last Resort will be nothing but burgers, beer and balls, er...um, sports, from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Pick the brains of five of Dallas' favorite sports media...
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Night & Day
In Bloom
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 11, 2009
It's been impossible not to notice the flowers this year, from the bluebonnets that dotted the roadsides a couple months back to the hibiscus and coral honeysuckle we've seen...
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Night & Day
Yearning for Yanni
By John Freeman
Published: June 11, 2009
Women want him. Men want to be him. He can conjure any emotion with just a few notes on the keyboard. He is Yanni, the uber-king of "new age" music. His compositions have...
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Night & Day
Argh Argh Yum
By Dianna Wray
Published: June 11, 2009
If your dad is one of those cook-in-his-soul-kitchen types--rhapsodizing about upright chicken roasting (the chicken looks as if it's about to hop off its roasting seat and do...
