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Feature
No Justice: We've Bailed Out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind Our Financial Collapse?
By James Lieber
Published: October 29, 2009
Where did our wealth go? How do we claw it back? And when are we going to punish the culprits? When Barack Obama donned the crusader's mantle during the 2008 presidential...
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You Said It
The Price of Payoffs | SF Treat VS. Dallas Heat
By ...
Published: October 29, 2009
"Guilty," by Sam Merten and Jim Schutze,October 15 The Price of Payoffs Who's forcing white people to pay off minorities? That's just ridiculous. Everybody has a choice....
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Buzz
Texas GOP Shifts Even Further Right With New Chair Cathie Adams
By Sam Merten
Published: October 29, 2009
Adams' family: If you didn't notice when Texas Republican Party chair Tina Benkiser stepped down last month to join Governor Rick Perry's re-election campaign as a senior...
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Schutze
The Mayor’s Proposal for City Council Ethics Reform Misses its Target: the City Council
By Jim Schutze
Published: October 29, 2009
Wait a minute. I know I almost promised last week that I wouldn't write about the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial again soon. But you know—almost promising is...
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Sports
What’s So Appealing About Gorgeous Women in their Underwear Tackling Each Other? If You Have to Ask, You Won't Want To See the Lingerie Football League's Dallas Desire.
By Richie Whitt
Published: October 29, 2009
OK, here goes: I don't much care for women's sports. Because, let's face it, they're inferior. Call me a sexist, chauvinistic pig if you must. Just admit I'm right. It's not...
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Ask a Mexican
Why Can't Mexicans And Salvadorans Just Get Along?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: October 29, 2009
Dear Mexican: For most of my life I was oblivious to the hate that Mexicans have for Salvadorans. I became aware of it when I made the huge mistake of marrying a Salvi. Once I...
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Music
The Pogues Aren't The Drinkers They Once Were. Well, For The Most Part.
By Jesse Hughey
Published: October 29, 2009
Maybe it's because they're part Irish. Maybe it's because the tear-jerking ballads and raucous Celtic-folk rock jigs just inspire audiences to have a few pints of their own. Or...
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Critics' Picks
Those Darlins
Thursday, October 29, at The Cavern
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: October 29, 2009
For a certain stripe of concert-going, PBR-drinking, Western-style shirt-wearing dude, Those Darlins shouldn't be a tough sell. Three cute, 20-something gals from Murfreesboro,...
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playlist
NEON INDIAN
Psychic Chasms (Lefse)
By Pete Freedman
Published: October 29, 2009
As modern music goes, you really can't get that much more with-the-times than with Neon Indian's sun-warped, synth-based, dance-pop sound. It's a style so current, in fact,...
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Bsides
Owl City: The Latest In A Long Line Of Rip-Offs
By Ben Westhoff
Published: October 29, 2009
There are many reasons to dislike Owl City, the electro tweepop project spearheaded by Owatonna, Minnesota's 23-year-old Adam Young. For one thing? The moniker is horrible....
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North of the Dial
Spooky Folks Is Neither Spooky Nor Folk.
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: October 29, 2009
Last Wednesday night, the double threat of flash flooding on Dallas streets and several competing area shows made for a modest turnout to see Bad Sports and Spooky...
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Dish
Smokin' at C.T.'s Real Deal BBQ
By Dave Faries
Published: October 29, 2009
Even over the phone, you can feel Corey Toney's smile when he talks about his South Dallas barbecue joint, C.T.'s Real Deal BBQ. "There's a brick pit back there," he says....
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Film
An Education and Its Star, Carey Mulligan, Get Good Marks
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 29, 2009
The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she received in the "university of life"...
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Night & Day
A Horse, Of Course
By Carli Baylor
Published: October 29, 2009
Can strides, jumps and gallops really be captured on a flat surface? Sure, maybe in a photograph, but can you capture it in a painting? Susan Rothenberg thinks so. She's been...
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Night & Day
Midsummer's In Mid-Fall
By Carli Baylor
Published: October 29, 2009
If you're looking for William Shakespeare's well-known productions with drawn-out soliloquies and tragic suicides, think again. It's time to experience a happy ending from this...
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Night & Day
Real-Life Horror
By Dianna Wray
Published: October 29, 2009
Dr. Saul Friedlander, a survivor of the Holocaust, grew up in France and survived the German occupation hiding in a Catholic boarding school. His parents weren't so lucky; they...
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Night & Day
Sons of the Shining Star
By Patrick Michels
Published: October 29, 2009
Ma'am, I'm sure your son has worked very hard to be the most-feared power hitter in Highland Park. Sir, your son's curveball is the toast of Plano Senior High, and I won't...
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Night & Day
Power House
By KAITLIN INGRAM
Published: October 29, 2009
My house is definitely not a net zero energy house. But such things do exist. GreenCraft Builders just put up a new house in Lewisville--the TimberCreek Net Zero Energy...
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Night & Day
Eye Candy
By Jayme Rutledge
Published: October 29, 2009
Calling all aspiring filmmakers! Hey, guy in the Woody Allen glasses, I'm talking to you. The Video Association of Dallas wants eight teams to come up with movie shorts for the...
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Night & Day
In Stitches
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: October 29, 2009
All too often, it seems like the art world is dominated by the same old, same old. That's why, to get to the truly great stuff, you have to break from the herd and keep an eye...
