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How do you cope with loss? Do you wear black and cover the mirrors? Do you sit shivah? Do you trap your husband's soul in a box after he dies trying to save a baby from a...
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There's a slew of community-driven biking events lately. Groups are popping up here and there. Riding through Oak Cliff. Following historic pathways a la Oswald and the like....
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Do you consider Ferris Bueller's Day Off a classic movie? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? We do. After all, like most of John Hughes' other movies, we've been quoting it for more than...
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Sinatra--like Texas--is a state of mind. Yes, there's Frank Sinatra, that Italian guy from Yonkers who made it big in the '40s and spent the rest of the century riding high...
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Artist Dale Chihuly may very well be the most famous glass sculptor in the world. His "Chihuly Bridge of Glass" received international attention when it was unveiled back in...
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The Latino Cultural Center's second annual Maestros Tejanos exhibit features the work of artist Tina Fuentes, who specializes in still-life paintings of fruit. A native of...
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Legendary New Orleans tunesmith Allen Toussaint has enjoyed a well-deserved career resurgence of late, crafting a critically acclaimed post-Katrina protest record with Elvis...
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There are certain things in life that you just aren’t supposed to do, like sell acid out of an ice cream truck, switch out Grannie's Fixodent with super...
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Comedians can get away with saying almost anything they want. "It's just a joke!" is their shield of defense that entitles them to utter things that would likely never be...
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Forget about the Ugly Duckling. It's not that hard to morph from one bird to another. The really impressive transformation story belongs to the butterfly. It starts out as a...
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You may not be a millionaire, but you can play one this weekend. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is celebrating 20 Years at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, hosted by...
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A couple of weeks ago, I was working at the day job and something occurred to me. I wanted to leave. And not just to go home--I wanted to leave my pile of work, head west on...
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Coulda sworn that The Black Monk was a '70s kung fu flick starring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, so it was a bit confusing when The Undermain Theatre announced the return of the play,...
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Country-rock Hunk No. 1, Rodney Atkins, wants y'all ladies to know about a few of his favorite things: bird dogs, honky-tonks, blackjack, pickup trucks, spark plugs, beer...
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If someone were to throw TMTS frontman Scott Reitherman an Oscar, it would be for best supporting actor. He and his band sound like a rom-com female lead's best...
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Though Denver's Apples in Stereo was largely responsible for the revival of Beach Boys-style psychedelic pop, buzz dwindled after the band's late-'90s heyday. You'd be...
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Future civilizations will look back and marvel at the phenomenon we call "The Beatles"—but not so much for the music as for the number of ways their tunes have been...
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When, in the early '00s, I worked as a freelancer for a publication two floors below Vogue—this was pre-Devil Wears Prada—each sighting of Anna Wintour, no matter...
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The seemingly endless wait for the debut full-length from local alt-country combo Somebody's Darling is finally over. Having won the Shiner Rising Star contest last year,...
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Hendrick doesn't sound like it's setting out to change the world on its latest full-length, Exhale, nor does the band even indicate that it's necessarily trying to do anything...
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