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Feature
Former shock Jock Russ Martin’s Ego and Wallet Continue to Swell, Though He’s Quietly Losing Relevance
By Richie Whitt
Published: July 30, 2009
Russ Martin is a jackass. He's a vulgar, pompous bully who for years physically and psychologically tormented his Dallas radio co-workers to gain fame and fortune. "Stuff...
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You Said It
Tracks of My Tears, | Slumming It, | Critics’ Pick: Tool,
By ...
Published: July 30, 2009
"Tracks of My Tears," by Jim Schutze, July 23 Rails to the Future I found Jim Schutze's article on DART to be informative, as his articles usually are. The subway that he...
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Buzz
Mitchell Rasansky Speaks Up About Mayor Tom and the Trinity a Little Too Late
By Patrick Williams
Published: July 30, 2009
Now he tells us: Regrets. Mitchell Rasansky has had a few—and not too few to mention. For example, the former city councilman now regrets supporting Mayor Tom Leppert...
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Schutze
Mayor Tom Leppert May Run for Senate? What, and Miss All The Fun?
By Jim Schutze
Published: July 30, 2009
Don't tell me I may be losing my Tom Leppert. What would I do? I'm just not ready for the mayor of Dallas to leave me. I have so much more in mind for him. The speculation is...
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Ask a Mexican
Why do Mexican’s Write on Crapper Walls?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 30, 2009
Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans at construction sites always draw a dick and vagina on the interiors of port-a-potties? They sure are not as poetic as they are artistic. Then you...
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Music
LehtMoJoe Lets It Ride For His Debut CD Release Show
By Pete Freedman
Published: July 30, 2009
Grand Prairie native Vincent Sliva knows there's a good chance you have no clue who he is. And he's perfectly OK with that. Because, for one, super-producer Mark...
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Critics' Picks
De La Soul
Friday, July 31, at the House of Blues
By Quia Querisma
Published: July 30, 2009
Until the release of this year's Are You In? Nike+ Original Run project, the last time the masses got a full-fledged dose of De La Soul was the group's 2006 mixtape, The...
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playlist
The Dead Weather
Horehound (Third Man)
By Albert Ching
Published: July 30, 2009
Jack White is a really good guitar player. With The White Stripes and The Raconteurs, he's shown off his proficiency in a variety of styles and genres (six years later, the...
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Bsides
Ida Maria Carries A Heavy Scandinavian Pop Burden
By Craig Outhier
Published: July 30, 2009
Norwegian pop-punk damsel Ida Maria is making a serious run at American stardom, and that's awesome. We love, love, love Scandinavian pop stars, with their plump cheeks, slick...
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Dish
Cobb Switch Barbecue Knows What’s Important: Meat, Meat, Meat
By Dave Faries
Published: July 30, 2009
Whatever the dreary setting may do to your psyche, whatever hope may fade at the sight of cellophane-wrapped meat and kitchen staff trotting bags of frozen okra from the...
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Cheap Bastard
Michelle’s Homestyle Cooking: Just Like Heaven, With Dressing on the Side
By Alice Laussade
Published: July 30, 2009
I was sitting in Michelle's Homestyle Cooking, sipping on sweet tea, waiting for my food to arrive and thinking to myself that I was living a pretty great life. I've got a...
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Film
Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow are Funny People
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 30, 2009
After devoting his first two films as director, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, to getting laid and having kids, respectively, Judd Apatow brings the circle of life to a...
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Night & Day
T3 Does The Queen's Wave
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: July 30, 2009
Given that we fought a war a couple hundred years ago to free ourselves from the rule of a monarch, we as a nation will let just about anyone take on a "royal" title. We had...
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Night & Day
A-Town Busts A Move
By Jesse Hughey
Published: July 30, 2009
Taste Dance: Addison Style! might just be the most misleading name for an event, ever. First of all, starting it with "Taste..." is clearly a cheap ploy to sucker in all the...
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Night & Day
America's Patriotic And Marginally Threatening Sweetheart
By Andrea Grimes
Published: July 30, 2009
Hello, country music fan. I sense that you are also a patriotic citizen of the United States of America, and I am also relatively certain that you have an excellent memory for...
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Night & Day
Their Super Sweet 15
By Mark Donald
Published: July 30, 2009
Although intimately familiar with the bar mitzvah coming-of-age ritual in Jewish tradition, I've witnessed only one quinceanera--the coming-of-age ritual for 15-year-old...
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Night & Day
Bald Bombshell
By Katey Margolis
Published: July 30, 2009
Philippines-born Ryan Ong Palao, also known as Ongina, is her own kind of drag queen. Best known for her stint on RuPaul's Drag Race, a reality drag competition that aired on...
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Night & Day
Don't Worry, Paint Happy
By Andrea Grimes
Published: July 30, 2009
Anyone who's ever seen The Lion King knows that "Hakuna Matata" is Swahili for "no worries." But we're not going to be snippy if an aide society wants to use the phrase to help...
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Night & Day
Little Red Riding Puppet
By Dianna Wray
Published: July 30, 2009
In the original story, Little Red Riding Hood gets eaten by the wolf, and the fairy tale ends there. It's really a pretty scary tale. The Dallas Puppet Theater version, Little...
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Night & Day
Bid On Charity
By Jesse Hughey
Published: July 30, 2009
This September, you can participate in the Lone Star Ride, a two-day, 150- to 175-mile fund-raising bike trip to benefit local AIDS resources. Feeling a tad less charitable?...
