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Feature
Dallas' Homeless Turn To The Bridge for Food, Shelter and a New Start
By Sam Merten
Published: August 27, 2009
A silver bracelet dangles from her wrist as she clasps her cell phone in her left hand. She wears sparkling gold sandals, which reveal freshly painted maroon toenails. Her...
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Buzz
A Chat with Carol Reed is Worth $10k? Let’s Hope She Speaks Really Slowly.
By Patrick Williams
Published: August 27, 2009
Leaking dollars: Buzz is not what you'd call a materialistic person. A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou is paradise enow for us. Still, there come moments when we're...
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Schutze
Up the Sleazy River At the Dallas City Hall Corruption Trial
By Jim Schutze
Published: August 27, 2009
Aghast at the river of sleaze oozing out of the Earle Cabell Federal Building in the past two months, reformers on the Dallas City Council have called for a system of...
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Sports
Wade Phillips final season as coach of the Dallas Cowboys? Sure feels that way.
By Richie Whitt
Published: August 27, 2009
It's the eve of training camp at the Grand Hyatt hotel on the San Antonio Riverwalk and—despite a coaching career on the verge of a nosedive—Wade Phillips is headed...
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Ask a Mexican
Mexican Prison Guards, Shoes, Joints and Paralytic Lovers—You Got Questions, The Mexican Has Answers
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: August 27, 2009
Dear Mexican: A gabacho in the local daily suggested that some of our prisons be outsourced to Mexico to save us some money. What are your thoughts? Would wabs make for good...
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Music
Rob Viktum Serves Up A New, Tasty Drink
By Pete Freedman
Published: August 27, 2009
Dallas-based producer Rob Viktum makes beats all the time. No hyperbole there—the guy releases a new sampler disc of beats practically every week, just to put his name...
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Critics' Picks
Toadies, The Secret Machines, Ben Kweller, Bowling For Soup, Eleven Hundred Springs, The Boom Boom Box
Saturday, August 29, at Rough Creek Ranch, Glen Rose
By Pete Freedman
Published: August 27, 2009
Last August, some 5,000 fans made up their minds and decided to rock with The Toadies around Possum Kingdom Lake at the inaugural Dia de Los Toadies festival, a daylong event...
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playlist
Buscar Bronca
Kings and Killers (Self-released)
By Merritt Martin
Published: August 27, 2009
Looking back at the musical career of Aryn Dalton, you'd assume his latest project would either ring bombastic and sordid (a la his many years drumming for indie darlings The...
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playlist
Third Eye Blind
Ursa Major (Mega Collider)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: August 27, 2009
Though Third Eye Blind hails from San Francisco, it has found success by merging the Northern and Southern California aesthetics; the band managed to extract the fun, relaxed...
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Bsides
Peter, Bjorn and John Stay Relevant... Through Hip-Hop?
By Lance Lester
Published: August 27, 2009
It's been three years since the release of "Young Folks," and, sure, on some level, it'd be easy to pigeonhole Peter, Bjorn & John as one-hit wonders. After all, none of the...
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North of the Dial
North of the Dial
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: August 27, 2009
north of the dial The summertime heat may not have lifted yet in Denton, but for many in the two-university town, summer has officially breathed her last. It's fall now....
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Dish
The Long Good Bye to Lola
By Dave Faries
Published: August 27, 2009
"It's kinda weird, honestly," chef David Uygur says of the impending closure of a restaurant he's been associated with for seven years. "It's only gradually becoming...
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Cheap Bastard
Finding the Pot of Gold at Rainbow Grill
By Alice Laussade
Published: August 27, 2009
Sometimes trying new things sucks. Por exemplo, I joined Twitter this week. And when I went to pick a username, I found out that @bigbagodongs was already taken (total...
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Film
Taking Woodstock: OK, Boomers, You Were Young and Carefree. We Get It. Now Shut Up.
By Melissa Anderson
Published: August 27, 2009
"If you remember Woodstock, you probably weren't there," the expression goes. And if you were, can you please stop gassing on about it? Aquarian Nostalgia™ is the most...
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Night & Day
Attn: Ladies Looking To Score
By Andrea Grimes
Published: August 27, 2009
Nail polish and vacuum cleaners and Sex and the City and THE COLOR PINK ZOMG! Do I have your attention, ladies? Because I know that there are only a few things that girls like...
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Night & Day
Buckley Up
By Dianna Wray
Published: August 27, 2009
I saw Betty Buckley perform a couple years ago, and even though I couldn't get her crazy lady cameo in The Happening out of my head, the show was still incredible, as Buckley...
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Night & Day
Train A-Comin'
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: August 27, 2009
If you've ever sat through all two hours and 40 minutes of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, then you no doubt remember the artfully shot train...
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Night & Day
Dallas Reads
By Alex Wolens
Published: August 27, 2009
In 2003, leading members in South Dallas' community founded Tulisoma (a Swahili word, meaning "we read"), a literary festival that invites families and published authors to...
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Night & Day
A Shopaholic's Dream
By Merritt Martin
Published: August 27, 2009
You'd never know that I was a fashion nut. Why? Because I'm a browser. A window shopper. A bargain hunter who doesn't often find a bargain I can justify unless my e-mail sale...
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Night & Day
Spinning Through The Age Gap
By Megan Feldman
Published: August 27, 2009
The plot of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks sounds oh-so-vagely reminiscient of The Graduate. "A widow decides to reawaken her ballroom dancing skills and finds a young man to...
