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Imagine, if you will, a utopia smack in the heart of downtown Dallas. In this green, sustainable building of tomorrow, you might roll out of bed, take a shower and find your...
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"Perry sets up pay for recruiters"—headline in The Dallas Morning News about Governor Rick Perry's Amway-like campaign program that pays cash incentives to "volunteers"...
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Dear Mexican: As a Mexican-American, I've lived in St. Louis for about 17 years and have seen a substantial influx of my brethren. Nevertheless, I'm for border...
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Seems every year, right around this time, we start to notice the same thing: the abundance of impressive shows on the upcoming concert calendar. This year's no different. In...
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Two-man rock groups generally fall into one of two types of rock: blues and hard-rock. Then there is Maryland's Wye Oak, a duo that is far from the blazing guitar work of...
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Though its heyday has passed, the legacy of the psych-pop collective Elephant 6 has been preserved through classic records by Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in Stereo and The...
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Looking at an extended hiatus from The Foo Fighters, bassist Nate Mendel considered a couple of options. He considered playing again with The Fire Theft, a band he was in with...
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It honestly doesn't feel like it's been more than a year since the music editor of my hometown alt-weekly asked me to "think over" whether or not I wanted to take over the...
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As a kid, my parents subjected our family to a couple different themed meals on a regular basis. One was Dad's weekly catfish and hushpuppies fry-fest. Others involved dinners...
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I've had Primo Brothers' big-ass pizza delivered to my house, but I had never gone over to the actual restaurant to check out their lunch specials. Until today.
They're in...
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The ushers at a packed screening of Michael Moore's latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, came proudly decked out in T-shirts bearing slogans like "Make Love, Not...
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Three hours of nonstop shopping, eating and drinking sounds like a great night out--but add in a trolley shuttle and it's near perfect. A shopper gets tired hauling around all...
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When you hear of a theater company that emphasizes plays "by, for and about women," you probably imagine something a little like the Hallmark Channel or the Lifetime Movie...
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If only Dustin Diamond had chosen the path taken by Jaleel White. Both '90s child stars were hopelessly typecast as endearing nerds thanks to the success of their respective...
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I have a great mom, but I was always jealous of J.J. Evans, the character played by Jimmie Walker on Good Times. He had Florida Evans, and there was no finer mom. If you were...
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Every family has dirty laundry and dark secrets. Siblings pull hair, throw punches and argue over who used up all the shampoo. Even the Huxtables had their fair share of...
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British contemporary artist Marc Quinn
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The last circus I went to was not much of a circus at all. Whoever decided throwing laser lights, near naked bimbos and gruesome tricks under a striped tent equaled...
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If you weren't required to read Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird at some point in your childhood education, let's hope you've at least seen a glimpse of the 1962 film...
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With the weather finally cooling off, outdoor exercise is possible again without worrying about a heat stroke. Every year, people have the chance to choose from hundreds of...
