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Pentecostal Preacher Sherman Allen Turns Out to Be Reverend Spanky
The Fort Worth preacher is accused of beating, threatening and assaulting women for more than 20 years
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Obama and Me
It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial
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Texas' Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop
Harvesting peyote is legal for only three people, and all of them live in Texas
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Why is Hillary Neglecting Delegate-Rich Dallas County?
While Obama has events going on throughout the city, Clinton is nowhere to be found
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Obama and Me (63)
It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial
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Melodica Festival Self-Indulgent, But Still Positive for Dallas (51)
If a festival happens in Exposition Park and only the built-in crowd shows, does it make a sound?
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Ole Oops (58)
Popular prosperity preacher sues ABC and Trinity Foundation
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Pentecostal Preacher Sherman Allen Turns Out to Be Reverend Spanky (21)
The Fort Worth preacher is accused of beating, threatening and assaulting women for more than 20 years
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Why is Hillary Neglecting Delegate-Rich Dallas County? (18)
While Obama has events going on throughout the city, Clinton is nowhere to be found
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Melodica Festival Self-Indulgent, But Still Positive for Dallas
If a festival happens in Exposition Park and only the built-in crowd shows, does it make a sound?
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MySpace Stalking Dallas Music
There are things you can learn on MySpace, and there are things you can't
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Remembering DJ Frantic
The turntablist's friends and collaborators will remember him for his love of the craft
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Dallas Music Finally Getting National Attention
It may not be Austin-level love, but we'll take it
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Erykah Badu Has Returned
The songstress burst through her stuggles with writer's block and created a solid record
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Lynn Flint Shaw's "Inner Circle"
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Tom Pauken Never Saw It Coming
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Racists Wear the Darnedest Tees
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Sloppyworld Closes
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Something's Afoot At The Old Tower Records Spot On Lemmon
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To Vampire Weekend Or Not To Vampire Weekend?
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Among the instruments in Tree Wave's arsenal are: an old beige Commodore computer, a 1985 Epson dot matrix printer and an Atari console that hasn't been in fashion since Knots Landing ruled prime time. Tree Wave makes music with these clunky ancients and--believe it or not--it's good. This isn't a cacophony of tedious bleeps and bloops; Dallas' Paul Slocum coaxes melody out of the equipment's familiar stuttering, using some hard-core techno-wizardry we can't hope to understand, far less convey. All we know is that it's damn cool. Singer Lauren Gray adds a cool, breathy alto, but the music is central here--the soundtrack to games like Pitfall and Pac-Man transposed and reinvented. Live shows also have the added visual element of color patterns programmed on the Atari and Commodore. (Again: Don't ask how. We can't even balance our checkbook, for Christ's sake.) After recent shows at SXSW Interactive and the New York Underground Film Festival, Tree Wave has landed this high-profile gig, opening for some band called the Polyphonic Spree. We figure it's only a matter of time before Tree Wave catches on, and everyone starts replacing their Fenders with dusty Mac II's and Wang monitors from the basement. Now that's garage rock.
