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Night & Day
35mm Flowers
By Anastasia Jakse
Published: June 26, 2009
If you've got a penchant for the psychedelically weird, then Robert Daniel Flowers' newest film project might be right up your alley. After graduating from the San Francisco...
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Night & Day
Park and Ooh
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 26, 2009
I vividly recall watching two fireworks shows from my family's porch every Fourth of July as a child. One was the display at Fair Park, which we could barely make out over the...
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Night & Day
Beet-ing the Heat
By Dianna Wray
Published: June 26, 2009
It may be a hot time, this summer in the city, so a little Beethoven chamber music will be just the thing. Head down to Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park, stretch out on the...
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Night & Day
Nice Plant. Big!
By Melissa Crowe
Published: June 26, 2009
"Tell your Momma something's gonna get her" because Little Shop of Horrors is in town. The 1950s sci-fi spoof will be featured Tuesday through July 12 at the Bass Performance...
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Night & Day
Lone Star Face
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: June 26, 2009
New York City has traditionally been a mecca of sorts for American artists. But more and more, you hear about artists settling in Texas. Marfa boasts a community of artist...
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Top of the Potts
By Andrea Grimes
Published: June 26, 2009
An unremarkable, even unattractive Britain's Got Talent contestant takes the stage. Simon Cowell licks his chops. The audience groans. Beautiful people are, as everyone knows,...
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Night & Day
Doctor Jones! Doctor Jones!
By Brittan Dunham
Published: June 26, 2009
Roughly one score and 10 years ago, the forefathers of big-budget Hollywood movies set forth to make even more millions of dollars by refusing to let America's most beloved...
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Night & Day
Kicking Off the Fourth
By Merritt Martin
Published: June 26, 2009
Why going to the FC Dallas versus New York Red Bulls game at Pizza Hut Park on the Fourth of July is awesome: There are happy-hour dollar beers and $3 margaritas from 6:30 to...
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Night & Day
Addison's Blowin' Up
By Melissa Crowe
Published: June 26, 2009
Kaboom Town is definitely an upgrade from lighting a string of Black Cats from a tree limb to celebrate Independence Day--though you can't deny the hours of entertainment (or...
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Night & Day
We Hope They Get. This. Job!
By Merritt Martin
Published: June 26, 2009
The longest-running American musical--original run or revival, we don't care--just has something about it. Something that gets you tense, nervous, excited. When 17 Broadway...
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Night & Day
Land of the Misfit Comics
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: June 26, 2009
Larry David and Woody Allen are a match made in heaven--both were standup comedians and are neurotic, self-involved, borderline misogynists who have made a career out of being...
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Night & Day
The Wrestler
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 26, 2009
Comedian Greg Warren has quite the background for a funny man, including stints as an All-American college wrestler and a West Point cadet. His comedy features everything from...
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Night & Day
Mansions Ma'ams
By Alexa Schirtzinger
Published: June 26, 2009
There are probably more than two types of people who attend brown bag lunches, but the ones that come most easily to mind are bespectacled professors in baggy, wide-wale...
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Night & Day
Shopping Is Such Murder
By Melissa Crowe
Published: June 26, 2009
If you love cheesy, trashy, cult-inducing, B-rated horror films but can't endure the anticipation of waiting for the next zombie chase or steamy sex scene, try Horror Remix at...
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Night & Day
Manly Maniscalco
By Jesse Hughey
Published: June 26, 2009
Though he's most famous for a bit about the nightmare of shopping at Ross Dress for Less, Sebastian Maniscalco also wonders what happened to macho guys. "Look at what they're...
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Music
The Future of Used MP3 Sales
By Eliot Van Buskirk
Published: June 26, 2009
Carting a crate of used CDs to your local record store so you can make rent is a rite of passage as ancient as it can be tearful. But what about those MP3s and iTunes songs...
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Critics' Picks
Ben Kweller, Jones St. Station
Friday, June 26, at the Granada Theater
By Sara Brickner
Published: June 26, 2009
When Ben Kweller came charging onto the scene with his 2002 debut, Sha Sha, a light, listenable pop album rife with mainstream potential, no one predicted that the Texas-bred...
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playlist
Math The Band
Don't Worry (Slanty Shanty)
By Doug Wallen
Published: June 26, 2009
With its harried shouting and hurtling, Nintendo-sounding synths, New England duo Math the Band crafts ultra-geeky, ultra-poppy geek-pop that's part Matt & Kim, part Atom...
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Bsides
Paul van Dyk Is On A Mission
By Darryl Smyers
Published: June 26, 2009
Million-selling DJ and renowned remixer Paul van Dyk doesn't ask for much. On tour, van Dyk brings his own computers and various paraphernalia in order to recreate his dense...
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Film
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is Blockbuster Porn, Having No Real Reason to Exist save selling action figures.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 26, 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a bewildering, noisy, sloppy, cynical piece of work, a movie that sneers at the audience for 147 minutes and expects us to lap it up as...
