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Diane once considered herself above other prostitutes. In nearly 20 years working highway truck stops, downtown street corners and even a brothel in Nevada, for the most part...
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All's fair: Well now, that hardly seems fair. Those wily Dallas County Republicans are out soliciting campaign contributions, and they're landing some really low blows to do...
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Last week I attended a community meeting in East Dallas where an angry crowd of middle-class homeowners denounced community gardeners as a dangerous, invasive horde of...
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Jerry Jones has had better teams. But not many better moments.
Minutes after his team's 34-14 shellacking of the Philadelphia Eagles last Saturday night in an NFC Wild Card...
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Dear Mexican: I'm surprised by the choice of the word "amnesty" by those who would demonize immigration reform, especially in the South. Doesn't the modern well-being of many...
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You could see it in his eyes. Nick Jonas, the youngest of the chart-topping trio of Disney-backed siblings who call Westlake home, had just wrapped up the January 2 live...
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Founded in the mid-'90s, Goodie Mob is one of Southern hip-hop's most revered acts. The Atlanta foursome, led by rotund crooner Cee-Lo Green in his pre-Gnarls Barkley days, was...
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In the last year, The River Mouth has refined its sound to such a degree that even the experimental psychedelic rock outfit's fans, friends or family would be forgiven for not...
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A couple years ago I sat in some fancy French restaurant watching two servers wheel a polished brass cart to my table. One of them fussed about a copper chafing dish for a...
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Directors Allen and Albert Hughes' fourth film, The Book of Eli, centers on the Christianity that was at the margins of their previous films—hypocritically misused by...
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Contrary to what you might believe, Give It Up! is not an anti-abstinence seminar, but rather a "contemporary pop musical comedy" written by playwright Douglas Carter Beane...
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As if art isn't already complex enough--just deciding on a simple idea can take weeks--providing an entrance to understanding the broad universe of geometric abstraction...
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Anyone who's ever read Alice Walker's The Color Purple, or even just seen the Spielberg film--hell, even seen part of it--knows what a harrowing yet jubilant life sweet Celie...
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Joe Pike doesn't dick around. He's a mercenary and a badass, and he's seemingly got no qualms about his intense line of work...until his friend, another former mercenary, and...
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I'm just going to go ahead and throw this out there--I'm a geek. A big one. I jump up and down every time I receive my National Geographic magazine, I do cartwheels when Shark...
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I'm a music person. No, not really a musician--a fan. A connoisseur, really. So, if I believed in the healing power of anything besides medicine, it would be music. Music...
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I think there's a tendency among a lot of people to regard remembrances of the civil rights movement as somber affairs, simply because of all the struggle and strife that...
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Let's say your New Year's resolution was to finally get in shape this year. Well, join the club. We've all been there--some of us more than once. Perhaps you've noticed that...
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Debating the merits of Houston compared to Dallas seems an exercise in futility. One has enough smog to choke a horse, while the other has an NBA team with a horse mascot and...
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I admit I have a certain fondness for those Broadway tunes, and I love a good soft-shoe shuffle, which is why I'm an easy sell for a night of song and dance complete with a...
