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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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,...
