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Poke-A-Thon
By Patrick Michels
Published: June 18, 2009
How sword fighting and not, say, pistol duels or throwing knives, evolved into a slick Olympic sport, I'll never quite understand. With button-tipped foils and thick safety...
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Dad's Day Out
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 18, 2009
Not to pooh-pooh the arts or anything, but do any of you really think the average dad wants to spend Father's Day at the Nasher Sculpture Center? Yeah, me neither--though I...
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Boys Vs. Girls
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 18, 2009
Artists Daniel Mirer and Raven Schlossberg have much to say about male stereotypes in their respective new exhibits, In the Finest Tradition and The Road South. Mirer's...
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Legal Drama
By KAITLIN INGRAM
Published: June 18, 2009
The film Slumdog Millionaire didn't go over so well in my world. I was excited to see it, and I liked it and all, but then my stupid boyfriend and I had a huge fight over...
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Thinkin' 'Bout Food
By Jesse Hughey
Published: June 18, 2009
Food for Thought is a cleverly named gala to benefit Big Thought, a Dallas nonprofit serving some 300,000 students and teachers with creative learning programs inside and...
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Dragon Daze
By Sarah Johnson
Published: June 18, 2009
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...it's an oversized, dog-like creature flying through the sky? WTF? No need to worry, it's just Falkor, the luckdragon from The Neverending...
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Bang, Bang, He's Dead
By Anastasia Jakse
Published: June 18, 2009
Saloons, outlaws and whiskey brawls--old-time Western shoot-outs aren't reserved for re-runs of John Wayne shows. Did you know that Doc Holliday (in case you're not familiar...
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Kelly Call
By Anastasia Jakse
Published: June 18, 2009
Got Ideas? Then ladies, you're in luck! Kelly Ripa and TLC are casting for a new show where female inventors can produce and market their ideas into everyday household...
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Bottom's Up
By Alexa Schirtzinger
Published: June 18, 2009
Don't take it literally: the Eat Me-Drink Me exhibition opening this month at the Goss-Michael Foundation is more about whimsy and imagination than about actually ingesting...
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An Elite Squad
By Katey Margolis
Published: June 18, 2009
"In the fairy tale criminal justice system, the characters from fairy tales and nursery rhymes are represented by two separate yet equally ridiculous groups: the fairy tale...
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Queen of Chick Lit
By Dianna Wray
Published: June 18, 2009
It's fun to read about trophy wives getting dumped, being crushed and coming to realize that there's more to life than planning parties and buying Prada. Well, it's not always...
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Sizzling School
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: June 18, 2009
Dads don't cook--they grill. It's more manly to stick a beer can up a chicken's ass than it is to sous-vide, so when it comes to paternal cuisine, we haven't expected a lot of...
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30-Year-Old Grit
By John Freeman
Published: June 18, 2009
Since the heady days of the 1966 flower power uprising, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has been trucking along the country-rock highway. Starting like many groups of the day as a...
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What A Dame!
By Andrea Grimes
Published: June 18, 2009
Everybody likes to think they were the first to come across a great idea, band or film. Trouble is, you're a nerdy schmuck and unless you're God Herself, chances are you're as...
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Up and Away
By Merritt Martin
Published: June 18, 2009
I remember being high in the sky, not giving a damn that it was 114 degrees in the basket (and even hotter in the envelope above me) or that the sporadic flames were singeing...
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Go Go Car Car Fly Fly
By Andrea Grimes
Published: June 18, 2009
The Joker may have wondered where Batman got all his wonderful toys, but everybody knows the original king of grown-up gadgetry was James Bond. Self-destructing bags, tear gas...
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A Sort Of Homecoming
By Merritt Martin
Published: June 18, 2009
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure Iliza Shlesinger is a very funny gal. She's won Last Comic Standing and hosts The Weakly News on TheStreamTV and that's all well and good but that's not...
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The Shorts of Texas Are Upon You
By Brittan Dunham
Published: June 18, 2009
If you're not a film festival attendee yet, it's time to get started. Each November, the Lone Star International Film Festival in Fort Worth offers an array of great feature,...
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Su Nombre Es Dora!
By Merritt Martin
Published: June 18, 2009
The most entertaining impression of that backpacking, pageboyed, ever-jubilant princess of interrogation they call Dora the Explorer! was created by Robert Smigel on SNL's TV...
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Look, Take In, Repeat
By Merritt Martin
Published: June 18, 2009
Tania Kaufmann is an amazingly focused artist with an incredible spirit. Or at least, she must be if we're to assume anything from her work. I've never actually met her, but...
