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Feature
Can an over-analytical control freak find inner peace— or at least get up in the morning—with help from an Indian life coach?
By Megan Feldman
Published: September 24, 2009
I'm on my way to see a Delhi-born meditation guru who once worked for Gandhi and who specializes in the virtues of discipline and peace. Naturally, I'm late. I slept...
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You Said It
Ask a Mexican | Buzz | Death Becomes Him | Addition by Subtraction | Jumbo Jerry
By ...
Published: September 24, 2009
"Ask a Mexican," by Gustavo Arellano, September 17 Repatriate with a vengeance Our Mexican visitors come to Dallas to work, get free education for their kids and free medical...
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Buzz
Buzz: Dont Blame The System
By Patrick Williams
Published: September 24, 2009
Don't blame the system: We've been hearing a lot of chatter from commenters on the Observer's Web site about how former city council member Don Hill's trial on charges of...
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Sports
Ultimate Fighting Championship shows Dallas why boxing suddenly feels more like the ballet
By Richie Whitt
Published: September 24, 2009
Imagine the Byron Nelson Pavilion on steroids. And ecstasy. Then, about every 10 minutes, a fight breaks out. Welcome to Ultimate Fighting Championship 103, better known as...
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Ask a Mexican
Wait a minute…the Mexican actually laughed out loud at a Garfield comic?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: September 24, 2009
Dear Mexican: In Garfield strips in the funny pages that appeared earlier this year, Garfield is wearing a sombrero and taking siestas. While cute and all, isn't that the sort...
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Music
Good Records Recordings Returns In A Big Way
By Pete Freedman
Published: September 24, 2009
Given that this is a man who spends the bulk of his time singing about sunshine and the other glorious things in life, maybe it shouldn't be surprising to hear Tim DeLaughter...
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Critics' Picks
Busdriver, Abstract Rude
Friday, September 25, at The Cavern
By Chris Parker
Published: September 24, 2009
Los Angeles rapper Busdriver's rack and pinion elocution corners like an Indy car, reaching speeds that would induce whiplash in his hip-hop peers. He sub-references the pop...
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playlist
Pearl Jam
Backspacer (Universal)
By Michael Hoinski
Published: September 24, 2009
Two decades ago, Kurt Cobain dogged Pearl Jam as sellouts, dismissing his grunge rivals as "cock-rock fusion" and its gala debut, Ten, as insufficiently "alternative" because...
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Bsides
Metallica Returns To Relevance
By PHIL FREEMAN
Published: September 24, 2009
When the metal titans in Metallica play Dallas this week, they will do so in triumph, on the heels of their late 2008 release, Death Magnetic, an album many are calling the...
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North of the Dial
For The Uptown Bums, It's All About The House
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: September 24, 2009
In recent months, The Uptown Bums went from churning out catchy, yet sloppy garage pop to producing a more confident, streamlined brand of, well, technically speaking, kitchen...
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Dish
Ah, Espana
By Dave Faries
Published: September 24, 2009
There's a boundary, a set of criteria, something that delineates those who like appetizers from those who quiver at the mention of tapas. Wish I could put my finger on...
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Cheap Bastard
Jen's Place Bakery & Cafe
By Alice Laussade
Published: September 24, 2009
I walked into Jen's Place, saw that the daily special was brisket and noted three things: 1) This is a cafeteria, not a BBQ joint. 2) Nobody named Jen makes a good brisket....
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Film
Trying for tribute, John Krasinski makes a mess of Hideous Men
By Chuck Wilson
Published: September 24, 2009
"Everything I write ends up being about loneliness," said the late writer David Foster Wallace in a 1999 interview on the radio show Bookworm. In that conversation, Wallace was...
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Short Cuts
Amreeka
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: September 24, 2009
Amreeka The thriving subgenre of immigrant displacement dramedy gets a confident new spin from Cherien Dabis, a Palestinian-Jordanian raised in the United States. Divorced,...
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Night & Day
Sedarical
By Jayme Rutledge
Published: September 24, 2009
How many funny people can come from one family? Dane Cook's family is 0-for-1, but if you're a Sedaris, there's more than enough hilarity to go around. Only siblings Amy and...
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Night & Day
Garden Party
By S. Anne Durham
Published: September 24, 2009
It was a far cry from her cousin Jacqueline's Oscar de la Renta outfits and pillbox hats, but Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale had a style all her own. If by "style" you mean...
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Night & Day
Muddy Water
By Carli Baylor
Published: September 24, 2009
Mark Twain may be rolling over in his grave, but it's not the kind of rolling that most would assume is because of insult--he's busting out his dance moves for the opening of...
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Night & Day
Railing On Transportation
By Jesse Hughey
Published: September 24, 2009
You have two basic transportation options in Dallas: rails and roads. Take a bus or car and you get to experience road-rage-inducing traffic. Take a train and you get to stop...
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Night & Day
If They Build It...
By Jayme Rutledge
Published: September 24, 2009
Brace yourself--there's been another British invasion. Norman Foster and his merry band of architects were imported from London to Texas to design the Winspear Opera House at...
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Night & Day
Queen of Kiddie Green
By Merritt Martin
Published: September 24, 2009
With the rising trend of community gardens and locavore food movements, DyAnne DiSalvo was really onto something when she wrote children's book City Green. In it, a little girl...
