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Urban Experience
Piece of Cake
Payback could be sweet
Published: March 25, 2004
3/27 Parents suffer "sticker shock" for the new baby even before he or she is born. Kids will cost you, and their yard work potential won't begin to cover it. Take a lesson...
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Encore
Capsule Reviews
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Published: March 25, 2004
The Lion in Winter King Henry II of England has plans for sons Richard, Geoffrey and John. But Henrys long-imprisoned wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has other ideas about...
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Gonzalez
Showing a Pulse
Getting Drew, Keyshawn and Marcellus reveals the Cowboys have life after all
By John Gonzalez
Published: March 25, 2004
It was growing grim around here. The Cowboys were stagnant for months, and it only got worse once free agency began. While the rest of the league drove armored cars filled with...
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playlist
Sarah Harmer
All of Our Names (Zoe Records)
By Sam Machkovech
Published: March 25, 2004
Sarah Harmer's 2000 release, You Were Here, was the stuff of which VH1 dreams are made, but dreams never really came true on the charts. Perhaps that's why she has followed the...
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Sports/Outdoors
Face-Off
The Ticket's stars act like Dallas Stars
Published: March 25, 2004
3/29 For young hockey players struggling with feelings of athletic ineptitude, there's no greater confidence booster than seeing two teams of untalented aging radio...
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You Said It
Letters
Published: March 25, 2004
A Tear for Mr. Buzz The sound of silence: How can you be surprised? (Buzz, March 18.) These are the same readers who haven't uttered a peep about the additional funds given to...
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Iron & Wine
Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
By Zac Crain
Published: March 25, 2004
Sam Beam has a voice as sweet as iced tea in the summertime and a way with words that breaks hearts like a drunken surgeon, and so his second full-length teems with love songs...
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See/Be Seen
Have a Cow, Man
Beef is what's for dinner at the Ultimate Cowtown Cookout
Published: March 25, 2004
3/25 Oh, those crazy Chick-Fil-A cows. Whether they hold up kooky signs with badly spelled pleas for their lives or dress up in cute outfits to elicit mercy from potential...
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playlist
Sondre Lerche
Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)
By Zac Crain
Published: March 25, 2004
Sondre Lerche's songs live in a world with Nick Drake's pink moons and the Flaming Lips' pink robots, where maladies have melodies and modern rock is just an ugly rumor. In...
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Performance
Great Apes
This Endeavor is another wacky one
Published: March 25, 2004
3/31 Sometimes it's best to let people speak for themselves, especially when they use an intriguing combination of words that also describes everything in the simplest way...
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Critics' Picks
Apollo Sunshine
March 27
By Zac Crain
Published: March 25, 2004
In the short history since 9-11, there hasn't been a song that so accurately sums up the feelings of that ambush and its aftermath as Apollo Sunshine's "Happening" does, and...
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Critics' Picks
The Elected
March 27
By Mikael Wood
Published: March 25, 2004
I'd already been disappointed by one Saddle Creek spin-off project this year--Desaparecidos guitarist Denver Dalley's mushy synth-pop disc Statistics--when the Elected's Sub...
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Critics' Picks
Thrice and Poison the Well
March 31
By Mikael Wood
Published: March 25, 2004
If I'd read only one or two of the 847 magazine stories that attempt to illuminate the screamo scene for the parents of junior high kids with pictures of Bert McCracken on...
