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Feature
Recession Blues Got You Down? The Folks at Get Motivated! Have a Solution: Think Happy Thoughts.
By Megan Feldman
Published: November 5, 2009
An autumn storm soaks the streets and paints the outdoors a dull shade of gray, but inside the Fort Worth Convention Center the scene is all bright lights, pyrotechnics, and...
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Buzz
Can a Good Democrat Vote for Perry?
By Patrick Williams
Published: November 5, 2009
True confessions: Many of us carry some secret shame, a memory of youthful indiscretion that we'd rather no one else know. Maybe you shoplifted or felt up a cousin at a family...
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Sports
Drowned Out By Grandiose Doings in Arlington, the Dallas Mavericks Begin What Should Be a Loud, Proud Season
By Richie Whitt
Published: November 5, 2009
Mark Cuban is sweating. Not the nervous kind of lather you work up fretting over a lawsuit slapped on you by Ross Perot Jr., a witch hunt targeting you by the Securities and...
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Ask a Mexican
Help! Those Mexicans Are Laughing at Me.
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: November 5, 2009
Dear Mexican: Why do beaners or gabachos deliberately try to ignore white people and act like they're not there, or when you're walking by, the lady beaners laugh so hard with...
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Music
With Local Radio Sucking, What Does KXT's Launch Mean?
By Pete Freedman
Published: November 5, 2009
Chances are, right now, Gini Mascorro is listening to music. Not necessarily by choice, mind you, but, at least in part, out of necessity. That's because, come Monday morning,...
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Critics' Picks
Mumiy Troll
Thursday, November 5,at Granada Theater
By Ben Westhoff
Published: November 5, 2009
One of Russia's biggest rock bands, Mumiy Troll's members grew up in Vladivostok, a city of a half-million people in the far eastern edge of the country, a good 10-hour flight...
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playlist
Spiral Stairs
The Real Feel (Matador)
By Paige Richmond
Published: November 5, 2009
For all the emotions conveyed on Spiral Stairs' debut album, few of them come from the lyrics. Instead it's Scott Kannberg's artful and nuanced use of sounds that create the...
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Bsides
The Antlers Keep Growing, Despite Early Praise
By Doug Wallen
Published: November 5, 2009
Every band evolves. Sometimes it's a gradual thing that's apparent only in retrospect; sometimes you see it happening right before your eyes and ears. The latter is the case...
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North of the Dial
Electro Act Peopleodian Rises... From The Folk Scene?
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: November 5, 2009
Peopleodian's recent performance at Denton DIY venue The Gazebo was far from flawless—blame the guitar amp the band was playing through—but the flaws that did exist...
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Dish
Chef Tre Wilcox, of Bravo and Food Network Fame, Wants to Make a Celebrity of his Restaurant, LOFT 610
By Dave Faries
Published: November 5, 2009
Tre Wilcox shrugs off the name recognition gained through appearances on some of television's most popular cooking shows. "My window has passed," he insists. "I don't say 'I'm...
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Cheap Bastard
Quesa-D-Ya's: Hate the Name. Love the Food.
By Alice Laussade
Published: November 5, 2009
Quesa-D-Ya's. Really, dude. That's what you went with? Guess you assumed that Dallas folk don't know how to spell, let alone pronounce, "quesadilla"? Probably fair. Still feels...
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Film
The Men Who Stare at Goats: Did Aliens Abduct George Clooney's Sense of Humor?
By J. Hoberman
Published: November 5, 2009
Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany's loss in World War I, the JFK assassination and 9/11 are all naturally understood as the stuff of unimaginable...
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Night & Day
Slithering Sisters
By Jesse Hughey
Published: November 5, 2009
Whenever my mother ticked me off when I was a kid, I would pantomime pulling an electrical cord from a wall socket. It was part of an ongoing family joke that I would eagerly...
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Night & Day
All In the Family
By Carli Baylor
Published: November 5, 2009
There's such a thing as unhealthy family dysfunction. And in Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, dysfunction is so rampant, the family is beyond repair. The play takes place in...
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Night & Day
It's In the Bag
By Michelle Mathews
Published: November 5, 2009
Like no other piece of apparel, purses have become an instant announcement of status and wealth (the ubiquitous Louis Vuitton), and they can even offer a comment on societal...
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Night & Day
A Sporting Chance
By Carli Baylor
Published: November 5, 2009
Ready, set, donate! The Mwamba Family Foundation and all-pro bowler Al Wilson present Fight for Five, a charity campaign seeking to raise awareness for the Democratic Republic...
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Night & Day
Tastes Like a Good Cause
By Jayme Rutledge
Published: November 5, 2009
I don't need a special reason to eat, but chomping down for a good cause is a pretty tasty idea. Proceeds from The Taste of Lee Park will support cystic fibrosis research and...
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Night & Day
Breadstick Birbiglia
By Jesse Hughey
Published: November 5, 2009
For such a white-bread (or more specifically, as he describes himself, "fake Italian--like Olive Garden") comedian, Mike Birbiglia makes some pretty funny observations about...
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Night & Day
Step-Dog-Change
By Dianna Wray
Published: November 5, 2009
I took a tap-dance class in college, and every morning after class I would whirl around my dorm room, slapping the steel tips of my shoes against the brown linoleum. When the...
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Night & Day
Some Like It Hot
By Patrick Williams
Published: November 5, 2009
You have to give the organizers of the Chile Pepperama Festival at Old Town Shopping Center credit. They don't shy away from asking the hard question, as in: Who makes the best...
