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Elias dangles the dead iguana by the tail. His friends close in around him, watching hungrily. With a knife he slices...
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It's about midnight on a Saturday night at the Monkey Bar, and I find myself rather confused.
It's a few beers into the evening, so colors are blurring and edges are bending...
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Obsessed with a found trashed white piano, decidedly quirky and channeling everything from '80s pop to Modest Mouse, Bishop Allen is a band chasing after the heart of every...
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If these local punks had a bit more chutzpah they would have covered the Psychedelic Furs' song they poke fun at with the title track of this terrific EP. As is, this potent...
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On the mouth: That charming fellow we all know as Cottonmouth Texas is hard at work these days, including recording a mash-up with Los Angeles-based band the Spores. (If...
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The life of a touring band has got to be glamorous and decadent. Luxurious buses packed to the gills with liquor, drugs and acquiescent groupies, shuttle you from one...
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There's a certain lethargy to Stone Horse Bistro, a stiffness. It doesn't completely unravel the place, but frays are visible through its gaunt earnestness. It appears on the...
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Sadly, No Reservations is not the big-screen adaptation of Anthony Bourdain's snack-gulping, risk-taking Travel Channel show; you'll find no monkey brains here, nor any...
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Last time I checked, getting shot in the head could earn you some serious street cred. However, for singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, best known for the 1991 adult contemporary hit...
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When it's festooned with Winnie the Pooh characters, it's a mobile. When it's strung with abstract shapes, it's "kinetic art." The works of Salvador Presta fall into the...
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Never really got the whole "cowboy poetry" thing. Seems like contrived sentimentality, the bane of good poetry, but since this Sunday Fort Worth will mark the National Day of...
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Tim McGraw and his CMA-sore-loser wife bring their bullshit mainstream country treacle back to Dallas for the second installment of their Soul2Soul tour. Faith Hill's music is...
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I've attempted to draw the perfect rocket ship since I was around 5 years old. I am incapable of such an achievement. For more decades than I can to admit, this simple...
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The day George Clooney, Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie do dinner theater may be light years away. Heck, it would probably be an alternate universe. So instead we'll just have...
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Remember the days of neighborhood pickup football games? You know, lacing up your sneaks after watching the Cowboys whip the Steelers (or maybe the Bills, depending on how old...
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Well, it looks like Felicity's higher education from fictional college UNY didn't do her much good--she ended up as a waitress at a pie diner in Small Town, U.S.A. And forget...
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Since the early '90s, hundreds of young women have been found dead, raped and tortured in the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua--the Mexican sister city of El Paso....
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When a photographer shoots a photograph, he has a decision to make. Crop close to show only detail, removing the noise that might surround the subject, or allow other elements...
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Forget Captain Jack Sparrow and the Pirates of the Caribbean. Chances are in 20 years everyone else will have forgotten it too. But Long John Silver will still be sailing the...
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Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell is an appropriate, Bush-approved Afghanistan war hero. In his new book, Lone Survivor, the Texan lashes out at the media and questions engagement...
