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Feature
Dallas Has A Dirty Secret: It Acts As If Supports the Community Gardens Movement, But That's Not the Real Truth.
By Jim Schutze
Published: October 8, 2009
It never occurred to Jan Worthington, an East Dallas yoga instructor, that her idea for a community garden could be controversial. "I simply wanted a fresh tomato," she...
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Buzz
The Jury that Found the Defendants Guilty in the Federal Corruption Trial Was Also Indicting City Hall
By Jim Schutze
Published: October 8, 2009
Out of business: So, it turns out Buzz was right. No matter how you do the accounting, how you structure the contracts, how you interpret arcane campaign finance laws and city...
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Schutze
Counting DART's Light Rail in Heavy Traffic Leads to One Inescapable Conclusion: Downtown Gridlock
By Jim Schutze
Published: October 8, 2009
What am I doing here with a notebook, waiting for DART trains and being abused by people? I've been out here trainspotting for the last few days, and it's not much fun. They...
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Sports
The Rangers May Be Out But They Are Not Down--Not Come Next April
By Richie Whitt
Published: October 8, 2009
In the midst of a pennant race into mid-September for only the fifth time in 37 seasons, the Texas Rangers promptly lost 13 of 19 games. Their uncharacteristically punchless...
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Ask a Mexican
Pandering During Hispanic Heritage Month is Nothing to be Proud of
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: October 8, 2009
Dear Readers: Since the Mexican's sister is getting married to a good man from Zacatecas this weekend, I must ignore my research archives to slaughter a pig and hire a banda...
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Music
Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights Made the Best of a Rainy Saturday at ACL.
By Pete Freedman
Published: October 8, 2009
If years from now people talk about the 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival, they'll, without a doubt, start with Saturday. That was the day on which the rains came...
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Critics' Picks
David Bazan, Say Hi
Thursday, October 8, at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: October 8, 2009
It's not exactly a secret that David Bazan's closet contains some skeletons of the Bible-toting variety. Bazan, the son of a Pentecostal music minister, has sown seeds of doubt...
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playlist
The Shaky Hands
Let It Die (Kill Rock Stars)
By Doug Wallen
Published: October 8, 2009
Last year's Lunglight introduced Portland's The Shaky Hands to the world outside their hometown, complete with the Kill Rock Stars' seal of approval. Most noticeable was the...
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Bsides
Enroll in the Rap Institute of Acting Today!
By Chris Parker
Published: October 8, 2009
So you're a young man with star-studded dreams of Hollywood. What are you doing in drama school? There's just no need: The Rap Institute of Acting offers a quick, inexpensive...
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North of the Dial
The Rising Sound of Denton-Based Seryn
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: October 8, 2009
Some Telegraph Canyon fans were visibly puzzled as they trickled into Good Records for the band's recent album release show in Dallas. Some strange, other band was setting up...
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Dish
Good Pizza Makes Good Neighbors at Urbino on Henderson.
By Dave Faries
Published: October 8, 2009
When David Pedack fires up his rickety ZAP car—a three-wheeled all-electric bug assembled in Hong Kong—and clatters down the street on a pizza delivery run, it may...
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Cheap Bastard
Cheap Bastard Goes to the State Fair and Gets Her Fry On
By Alice Laussade
Published: October 8, 2009
It's State Fair time. Time to make out with Big Tex, take a ride on the Texas Star and maybe even do a little balloon-darting on the Midway. But more important, it's time to...
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Film
The Coco Chanel Hagiography is so Last Season
By Melissa Anderson
Published: October 8, 2009
Anne Fontaine's Coco Before Chanel gives us Belle Époque Coco, opening in 1893 with a grim scene of the 10-year-old waif and her sister unceremoniously dumped at an...
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Stage
WaterTower Theatre's Grey Gardens: Shades of Glamour Amid Stray Cats and Corn
In WaterTower's production of Grey Gardens, a rare ensemble of actors and singers pull off one of the great shows of the theater season.
By Elaine Liner
Published: October 8, 2009
Not until the second act of the musical Grey Gardens, now playing in a rather splendid production at WaterTower Theatre, do we see the Edith Bouvier Beales whom we know from...
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Critics' Picks
Wilco, Liam Finn
Friday, October 9, at the Palladium Ballroom
By Cory Graves
Published: October 8, 2009
This summer, when Wilco guitarist Nels Cline was asked by Paste magazine about how the band has evolved over the years, he responded by saying, "I think we're having maybe more...
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playlist
J Tillman
Year in the Kingdom (Western Vinyl)
By Josef Alton
Published: October 8, 2009
There is an undeniable spiritual element to J. Tillman's latest record, Year in the Kingdom. The album's opener and title track tells of a man beginning a journey toward...
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Bsides
Wavves Is Out Of Control--In A Good Way
By Ray Cummings
Published: October 8, 2009
What Wavves' Nathan Williams vividly renders on cassette and aluminum isn't The Beach Boys' carefree beachscape, with its bathing beauties, surfboard-wielding Adonises and...
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Short Cuts
The Boys Are Back
By Brian Miller
Published: October 8, 2009
In the Oscar derby for Best Actor, is it better to die or to grieve? Clive Owen opts for the latter route in this strained, sentimental adaptation of a memoir by widowed...
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Critics' Picks
U2, Muse
Monday, October 12, at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington
By Pete Freedman
Published: October 8, 2009
The ugly truth behind this most recent tour from U2—named the 360-Degree tour, as it's an in-the-round type set-up—is that the band, despite having played some...
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playlist
Owen Temple
Dollars and Dimes (El Paisano Records)
By Jesse Hughey
Published: October 8, 2009
City folk might describe their economic plight in terms of shuttered restaurants, dwindling sales numbers and shrinking retirement funds. But while he has lived in Dallas,...
