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Feature
SMU Landed the Bush Library, But a Group of Former Condo Owners Still Want the World to Know At What Price
By Matt Pulle
Published: July 2, 2009
Even though Leslie Davenport is not a party to the litigation, nothing can keep her away from the Dallas County district court next October. That's when Southern Methodist...
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You Said It
Just Say, 'No, Thank You | Buzz
By ...
Published: July 2, 2009
"Just Say, 'No, Thank You'" by Kimberly Thorpe, June 25 boys will be boys Where's the corresponding program for boys? If you expect teenage girls to abstain from sex, you'd...
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Buzz
Go On, Have Sex. Do It for Big D.
By Patrick Williams
Published: July 2, 2009
Just do it: This can't be right. A highly unscientific "Trojan Pleasure Survey" undertaken by the condom maker finds that Houstonians are a bunny-like people and have sex on...
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Schutze
Don Hill’s Legal Defense May Be Less About the Facts and More About Martyrdom
By Jim Schutze
Published: July 2, 2009
Last Monday, at the end of the first day of the Dallas City Hall corruption trial in federal court, I thought I picked up a little note of letdown in the press corps. I even...
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Sports
The Mavericks' French Misconnection Marks More of the Same on Draft Day
By Richie Whitt
Published: July 2, 2009
One. That's how many foreign players—with a basketball pedigree void of a U.S. college—have excelled for the Dallas Mavericks. Granted, it was a biggie. In fact,...
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Ask a Mexican
Don’t Despair About That Mexican You Let Get Away. Find Her On Facebook.
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 2, 2009
Dear Mexican: Looking back recently on my distant youth in northwest Ohio, I came to the realization that the sweetest, most beautiful girl this gabacho ever went out with...
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Music
Salvation and Victory In Michael Jackson's Flings With Dallas
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 2, 2009
Michael Jackson's Dallas ties are scant, save the obvious concert dates throughout a career cut short last week. But the most memorable of those stopovers celebrates its silver...
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Critics' Picks
The Edge's 20th Anniversary Reunion
Friday, July 3, at the Lakewood Theater
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 2, 2009
When, back in April, we first made mention on our blog of George Gimarc's intention of honoring KDGE FM's 20th anniversary with a shindig at the Lakewood Theater, one commentor...
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playlist
Sunset Rubdown
Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: July 2, 2009
Other than his insistence on giving his projects ridiculous monikers, Montreal singer-songwriter Spencer Krug can't seem to do much wrong in recent years. His main band, Wolf...
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Bsides
Mind Warp
By Eric Grubbs
Published: July 2, 2009
Dissing the Warped Tour and its primary audience is about as moot as criticizing Nickelodeon for catering to a younger audience. Fifteen years in, the Warped Tour still has a...
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North of the Dial
North of the Dial
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: July 2, 2009
Andrew Tinker's new album It Takes the World was released a couple weeks back to little hubbub. Blame the fact that it's pop music in an otherwise anti-pop town. Tinker...
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Dish
Cadot is Poised To Become One of the Best Mid-range Restaurants in Dallas
By Dave Faries
Published: July 2, 2009
There's a timeworn bit of wisdom regarding too many cooks in the kitchen. They get in each other's way, argue over the proper interpretation of recipes, bark countermanding...
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Cheap Bastard
The Hot Sauce at MJ’s Chicken & Rice Makes Everything Else in the Place Nice
By Alice Laussade
Published: July 2, 2009
I've driven past several Chicken & Rice restaurants in Dallas and always kinda wondered what goes on in there (besides the obvious chicken-and-rice-ing). The windows of MJ's...
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Film
Public Enemies: Innovative Camera Work Brings Dillinger to Life
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 2, 2009
"They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger upon surveying...
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Night & Day
Park and Ooh
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: July 2, 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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Stage
Theatre Too Shows There's Good Times Singing About Hard Times in its Woody Guthrie Revue; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Runs Out of Gas
By Elaine Liner
Published: July 2, 2009
Bad times make for good music. Woody Guthrie's American Song, now playing at Theatre Too in The Quadrangle, celebrates the Okie balladeer who blended stories of the Great...
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Music
Online, On-Air and In Dallas Clubs, Michael Jackson's Death Unites Music Fans
By Pete Freedman
Published: July 2, 2009
Given that Michael Jackson's passing on Thursday afternoon came as perhaps the first major death of this age of Twitter, it comes as little surprise just how quickly word of...
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Critics' Picks
Asylum Street Spankers, Porter Davis, The O's
Friday, July 3, at the Granada Theater
By Mark Keresman
Published: July 2, 2009
Superficially, Asylum Street Spankers appears to be two things it is not: neo-/retro-pre-rock 'n' roll pop/swing/whatever (remember that Lounge Nation rag from the '90s?) and a...
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playlist
Meese
Broadcast (Atlantic)
By Michael Roberts
Published: July 2, 2009
Patrick Meese's friendship with fellow The Fray's Isaac Slade was handy from a getting-noticed standpoint. But now that the also Denver-based Meese's namesake band is receiving...
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Bsides
Less Is More
By Christopher lopez
Published: July 2, 2009
Less Than Jake has been around for 16 years—no small feat for any band, let alone one in the particular subgenre of ska-punk. But neither age nor the shifting popularity...
