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Feature
The police raid on the Rainbow Lounge has rocked the world of Fort Worth gays
By Thomas Korosec
Published: August 20, 2009
Fort Worth's drowsiness more than a century ago led to an urban myth of sorts that a panther had wandered up from the Trinity River bottoms and was spotted sleeping on a...
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Buzz
Smokey dare: Maybe it's time to regulate marijuana like cigarettes
By Patrick Williams
Published: August 20, 2009
Smoke 'em if you got 'em: Craig Johnson, executive director of ProtectYouth.org, a Dallas-based nonprofit and lobbying group, doesn't smoke marijuana himself, he says. He...
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Schutze
It may be time for some defendants in the federal corruption trial to play Make a Deal.
By Jim Schutze
Published: August 20, 2009
Right about now, I'm flippin'. This has got to be one of the last time-windows for co-defendants to flip in the 2-month-old Dallas City Hall corruption trial in federal court....
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Sports
You can say race doesn’t matter, but a look at how we treat the screw-ups of Josh Hamilton vs. Josh Howard indicates otherwise.
By Richie Whitt
Published: August 20, 2009
Josh I has 26 tattoos, some of which are demons. Belying a stable, middle-class upbringing, he has a résumé littered with revolving-door drug and alcohol rehab...
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Ask a Mexican
Are European immigrants gabachos too? For the most part, yes.
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: August 20, 2009
Dear Mexican: My family hasn't been long in this country, came here because of lousy treatment by other Europeans, and didn't live close enough to the southern U.S. border to...
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Music
Telegraph Canyon Constructs Something Special On Its Sophomore Release
By Pete Freedman
Published: August 20, 2009
It's fitting, perhaps, that the first sound heard on the new Telegraph Canyon record, The Tide and the Current, is the faint whisper of a buzzsaw churning in the distance,...
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Critics' Picks
El Paso Hot Button, PVC Street Gang, Gentle Ghosts
Thursday, August 20, at The Cavern
By Berry Anderson
Published: August 20, 2009
Hailing from Norman, Oklahoma, Mickey Reece, the man behind El Paso Hot Button, combines dirty guitar riffs, pulsing kick-drum action and searing vocals into a tenacious aural...
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playlist
Trey Johnson
Mount Pelée (Idol)
By Pete Freedman
Published: August 20, 2009
It'd be easy to lump Trey Johnson's solo work in with his earlier efforts as the frontman for Sorta. That old familiar voice, after all, in all its vulnerable, heartfelt glory,...
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Bsides
As Bat For Lashes Flies, Natasha Khan Stays Grounded
By Doug Davis
Published: August 20, 2009
Natasha Khan creates illusions to help take her audience on a journey and, in part, as a way to dispel those images for herself. She's the wildly creative force behind Bat for...
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North of the Dial
The Heartstring Stranglers Say Goodbye...Again
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: August 20, 2009
It's amazing how cyclical certain aspects of the Denton music scene can be, because, for the second consecutive year, an album release show for The Heartstring Stranglers...
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Dish
Bella gives a little-known, talented chef a place to shine
By Dave Faries
Published: August 20, 2009
Everyone is familiar with Dean Fearings and Stephan Pyles and the other big boys of the Dallas dining set, but this year a group of relative unknowns is challenging their...
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Cheap Bastard
Split Peas Soup Café: Can We Just Be Friends
By Alice Laussade
Published: August 20, 2009
With many of my favorite homegrown Dallas restaurants closing down (Mr. Barbecue Bus is gone, Big D's Dogs bit it and now Vern's Place is shutting its doors? I hate choo,...
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Film
In A Triumph Of His Will, Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Makes Holocaust Revisionism Ridiculously Fun
By J. Hoberman
Published: August 20, 2009
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is consummate Hollywood entertainment—rich in fantasy and blithely amoral. It's also...
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Night & Day
Dennis The Menace
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: August 20, 2009
Comedian Dennis Miller hated on Ronald Reagan as much as any other comedian in the 1980s, but when 9/11 happened, the self-described libertarian was among the first celebrities...
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Night & Day
Prints And Pimps
By Melissa Crowe
Published: August 20, 2009
To help finance the November relaunch of the quarterly magazine Art Prostitute (which features interviews with and works by modern artists) in hardback, The Public Trust needs...
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Night & Day
Ghostly Familiar
By Melissa Crowe
Published: August 20, 2009
Until Zombies of the Opera chronicles the undead love for a stunning soprano, The Phantom of the Opera maintains its hold as my favorite stage production. We're talking...
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Night & Day
Vino And Vibratos
By Anastasia Jakse
Published: August 20, 2009
Flex those vocal cords, because you'll be singing operatics after a night of Mediterranean cuisine. Who knows, the food just might inspire you to sing your way over to the...
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Night & Day
Blue Chiles
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: August 20, 2009
Foodies everywhere should know that it's Hatch Chile season--the best time of year for those tasty treats from Hatch, New Mexico, aka "Chile Capital of the World." If you love...
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Night & Day
Sailing On Air
By John Freeman
Published: August 20, 2009
The super-mellow sounds of the pop music sub-genre AM Gold reached a fever pitch as the 1970s came to a close. However, two of its biggest stars didn't make their mark until...
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Night & Day
Criminal Minds
By S. Anne Durham
Published: August 20, 2009
We love book clubs, but most of them are speculative. We really don't know what the author meant by certain turns of phrase, or how the story was originally conceived. Since it...
