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You Said It
Rockin' in the Suburbs | Buzz | Sand? What Sand
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Published: June 18, 2009
"Rockin' in the Suburbs," By Pete Freedman, June 11 Fake Music Emo music doesn't count. As far as I'm concerned, those bands don't even exist. I don't care how much money...
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Buzz
Who Will Deliver the Coup de Grace to the Trinity toll road, the Corps or NTTA?
By Sam Merten
Published: June 18, 2009
It's still dead: When the mayor urges people to buy flood insurance, we get a little worried. It means the report by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Dallas' levees is...
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Schutze
How Last Week's Torrential downpour forced Jim Schutze To Reflect On His Insignificance In the Universe
By Jim Schutze
Published: June 18, 2009
I was injured by last week's storm, personally wounded in a way that burdens me with a sense of grievance. I am uneasy. But I am having trouble putting my finger on the exact...
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Sports
Prepare To Be Amazed As Mind Reader David Magee Freaks Out Dallas Cowboys and Other Local Sports Celebs With His Mental Skills
By Richie Whitt
Published: June 18, 2009
It's not often I walk up to another man and utter this declaration: "Do me." But after watching David Magee floor Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan and wow Cowboys offensive...
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Ask a Mexican
Maybe Mexico Should Build a Fence to Keep Out Undesirable U.S. Immigrants
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: June 18, 2009
Dear Mexican: I write to you with a doubt similar to the one that Incensed in Chicago felt a couple of weeks ago, when her friend couldn't believe that Mexicans worked in...
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Music
Bonnaroo: Peace, Love, Music... and Anarchy
By Jesse Hughey
Published: June 18, 2009
"I have never been to a festival that was this disorganized," remarked the young man sitting across a cluttered table in the canvas tent that served as a press conference room....
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Critics' Picks
St. Vincent, Pattern Is Movement
Thursday, June 18
By Adam Perry
Published: June 18, 2009
One of the most memorable turns of phrase from the past few years of original rock music has to be "Jesus Saves, I Spend," from St. Vincent's 2007 debut full-length Marry...
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playlist
Sonic Youth
The Eternal (Matador)
By Michael Coyle
Published: June 18, 2009
Freed from the major-label machine that took them to a Starbucks counter near you (last year's Hits Are for Squares), Sonic Youth is kicking harder than it has since coffee was...
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Bsides
What's In A Name?
There's plenty of music business precedent for Santogold's reinvention as Santigold.
By Cory Graves
Published: June 18, 2009
Change the graffiti on the bathroom wall, get your tattoo fixed, get your T-shirt airbrushed and change the name on your year-end list: Dance pop artist Santogold is now...
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North of the Dial
New Science Projects' Most Recent... Projects
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: June 18, 2009
New Science Projects' Dale Jones may look like a dirty, bloody, undead mess when he's performing—he screams at his audiences and belts out songs about demons, death and...
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Dish
Salum: Paring Down Portions But Not Flavor at a Dining Gem
By Dave Faries
Published: June 18, 2009
Some months ago, Abraham Salum faced a couple of moderately serious problems. Business slipped, first of all, as the recession began to squeeze diners—an issue that he...
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Dish
So What Exactly Are You Eating When You Order Fajitas In A Tex-Mex Restaurant?
By Robb Walsh
Published: June 18, 2009
The front end of a cow carcass was dangling from the ceiling. With a butcher's hook and a boning knife in my hands, I regarded the bright-red expanse of raw meat. The day...
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Cheap Bastard
Fueling Up at Lunch at La Paisanita Taqueria is a Gas
By Alice Laussade
Published: June 18, 2009
So, after my Texaco station taco experience went so well, I decided I'd see what the competition at the Chevron at Park Lane and Greenville Avenue had to offer. Turns out, I've...
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Film
Everyone Lives Happily Ever After in The Proposal, Except the Audience
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 18, 2009
Fifteen minutes after seeing The Proposal, I'd forgotten I'd seen The Proposal. Well, that's not entirely true: By then, it had simply merged in my memory with a thousand other...
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Short Cuts
Short Cuts: Enlighten Up! | Food, Inc. | The Merry Gentleman | Sleep Dealer
By Michelle Orange, Robert Sietsema and Nicolas Rapold
Published: June 18, 2009
Enlighten Up! There are a number of tensions at play in Kate Churchill's Enlighten Up!, a documentary about the proliferation of yoga as both spiritual path and commercial...
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Night & Day
Surf's (Hanging) Up
By Jesse Hughey
Published: June 18, 2009
Aside from a few unimpressive attempts at surfing as a sixth-grader--I retired after I managed to stay on my feet for a few seconds--my exposure to surf culture was mostly...
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Night & Day
Nic of Time
By S. Anne Durham
Published: June 18, 2009
Nic Nicosia left Dallas for Santa Fe, but that doesn't mean that he's churning out photos of pueblos and ambiguous desert flowers. His work still speaks to his reputation as...
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Night & Day
Combo Show
By Merritt Martin
Published: June 18, 2009
What do Swatch watches, nude bodies and neon lights have in common? Aside from collaborative efforts in 1980s porn movies, the Conduit Gallery's current exhibitions. San Fran's...
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Night & Day
Song Sung True
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 18, 2009
The impact of Woody Guthrie on the American landscape cannot be overstated. From riding the Depression-era rails and writing the immortal classic "This Land Is Your Land" to...
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Night & Day
All Hail the Mighty State
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: June 18, 2009
It's a pretty well agreed-upon fact that if the State of Texas charged a dollar for every tacky, big-haired, drawling, cow-tippin' Texan stereotype portrayed in the media, we'd...
