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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...
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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...
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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,...
