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Various Artists
White Riot: A Tribute to the Clash (Uncut Magazine)
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 18, 2003
Never met a tribute album worthy of its appellation. They're doomed, if not outright damned, endeavors that make you wonder whether the artists involved ever listened to,...
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Sports/Outdoors
Make a Run for It
Bikers give kids some toy joy
Published: December 18, 2003
12/21 My man Beardog Wheeler--have you ever heard a better name for a biker?--says that rain or shine the December 21 Big Texas Toy Run, which benefits underprivileged and...
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You Said It
Letters
Published: December 18, 2003
Good WorksDiffering visions: Normally I wouldn't read an article as lengthy as "Fallen Angel" (December 4), but your story was filled with enough distortions that I couldn't...
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playlist
Dr. John
All By Hisself: Live at the Lone Star (Skinji Brim)
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: December 18, 2003
Mac Rebennack, a.k.a. Dr. John, is America's answer to Vladimir Horowitz. He is the foremost master of boogie-woogie and barrelhouse piano, as well as having invented a large...
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Kid Stuff
Stir Crazy
The mouse is in da house
Published: December 18, 2003
Ongoing Sitting here trying to write another holiday feature, I discover that my kitten can't stand the fact she's not getting all of my attention. Instead, my computer--a...
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Critics' Picks
Doosu
December 20
By Sam Machkovech
Published: December 18, 2003
Every once in a while, when I'm preaching the gospel of Dallas music to out-of-towners, some faraway friend asks about the band Doosu. That's odd for a few reasons, but the...
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See/Be Seen
Getting Nutty
Kids really have fun at the ballet
Published: December 18, 2003
12/23 Who's afraid of the big bad ballet master? Certainly not Texas Ballet Theatre, formerly Fort Worth-Dallas Ballet, which recruited an internationally acclaimed Brit to...
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Critics' Picks
The Polyphonic Spree
December 19 and December 20
By Mikael Wood
Published: December 18, 2003
Between you and me, I'm beginning to tire ever so slightly of The Polyphonic Spree. Some days I get into my silver VW Bug, pump up the jams on my 40-gigabyte iPod and realize...
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Performance
Snow Ball
Join the Spree's holiday spree
Published: December 18, 2003
12/19 A choir and musicians in long white robes. A precocious kid too talented for her age. Tap dancers. Comedians. The lineup of the Polyphonic Spree's Fourth Annual Holiday...
