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1. Feature

   For Whom the Bell Tolls

   Electronic monitoring may dramatically curb truancy. So why isn't DISD interested?

   By Sam Merten

   Published: June 26, 2008

   On a cloudy May morning, the 1,700 students of Bryan Adams High School enter the building in different states of haste, some racing to class to beat the 8:35 bell, some...

2. News

   Do Not Disturb

   A debate over the city's convention center hotel gets quietly canned

   By Sam Merten

   Published: June 26, 2008

   Last week, Dallas continued its speedy progress toward completing a deal to build a $500 million, publicly owned convention center hotel when a city council committee selected...

3. You Said It

   Unpaved Paradise|God Votes "No"

   Published: June 26, 2008

   "Sexy Town," by Jim Schutze, June 19 Unpaved Paradise In response to Jim Schutze's column "Sexy Town," I have to say that he may have spent copious time trying to phrase his...

4. Buzz

   Conventional Thinking

   By Sam Merten

   Published: June 26, 2008

   Conventional thinking: It's not that we're obsessed. Just because we ask everyone who comes through the door what they think of the city's fast-track plan to spend half a...

5. Schutze

   Fluid Victory

   DART acts as though it is accountable to no man. Especially my man Betz.

   By Jim Schutze

   Published: June 26, 2008

   For one brief shining moment last week my man Roscoe Betz was in tall cotton. Dallas County Justice of the Peace Albert B. Cercone handed him a victory on every score. I wrote...

6. Sports

   R.I.P. Reunion

   Good riddance to a bad arena that provided only mediocre moments

   By Richie Whitt

   Published: June 26, 2008

   Let us not weep at the death of Reunion Arena, but rather rejoice in its life. For it was a splendid stadium, elegantly framing unforgettable moments for a generation of sports...

7. Ask a Mexican

   Ask A Mexican

   Why buy land when you can just take it?

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: June 26, 2008

   Dear Mexican: What do you think would happen if U.S. citizens could as easily buy land and set up businesses in Mexico as Mexicans can do in the United States? Might that be a...

8. Music

   Clubbed Over

   Big changes are in store for Club Dada thanks to new ownership and a re-energized booking philosophy

   By Pete Freedman

   Published: June 26, 2008

   You'll have to pardon Ben Tapia's giddiness. Club Dada still has something of a "new club smell" to him. Whenever he speaks of the venue (or his upcoming plans to help revamp...

9. Music

   Bringing Sachse Back

   21-year-old Dondria Nicole's on the verge of a major-label push as we prepare for the Observer's 20th Music Awards issue

   By Pete Freedman

   Published: June 26, 2008

   Two years ago, 19-year-old Sachse resident Dondria Nicole was just another kid with a camera hooked up to her computer. And 'cause she liked to sing, she started recording...

10. Critics' Picks

    Reckless Kelly, South Austin Jug Band, The Gougers

    Thursday, June 26, at the Granada Theater

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Reckless Kelly more than lives up to the implications of its moniker (inspired by a infamous Australian bank robber) and its hometown (Austin). Led by brothers Willy and Cody...

11. playlist

    Lil Wayne

    Tha Carter III (Young Money/Cash Money/Universal)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Destined to be a stoner classic, Tha Carter III should silence critics who think Lil Wayne can't make a cohesive album. III is pop rap to giggle to and marvel at, from "Phone...

12. Bsides

    For the Birds

    Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg used to study ornithology. Now he sings about his learnings.

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: June 26, 2008

    The work of reclusive biologist and nature writer Alistair Graham may seem like rather unlikely inspiration for a rock album, but then again, Austin's Shearwater is no ordinary...

13. North of the Dial

    North of the Dial

    By Dave Sims

    Published: June 26, 2008

    The intersection of Cedar and Oak streets, just off the Denton Courthouse Square, has been full of backhoes, barricades and construction workers for most of this past spring...

14. Dish

    What's in a Name

    By Merritt Martin

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Think, for a moment, on these known establishments: Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles, Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs, Katz's Delicatessen, Cheesecake Factory. Consider, even, a...

15. Cheap Bastard

    Cheap Bastard

    By ALICE LAUSSADE

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Tie count: 6 Diaper count: 2 Mom jeans count: 10 I was finishing the last three miles of my usual Wednesday 25-mile workout at LA Fitness, thinking about how it would really...

16. Film

    Robots in Love

    WALL-E blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie's gone before. And that's a good thing.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Many will attempt to describe WALL-E with a one-liner. It's R2-D2 in love. 2001: A Space Odyssey starring The Little Tramp. An Inconvenient Truth meets Idiocracy on its way to...

17. Night & Day

    Pizza Party

    By S. Anne Durham

    Published: June 26, 2008

    There's no designated Little Italy neighborhood, but Dallas' Italian food options seem to be at an all-time high. Among the newest is Grimaldi's, a New York transplant. With...

18. Night & Day

    McConaugh-Art

    By JENNIFER MEDINA

    Published: June 26, 2008

    During a recent trip to Chicago, I spent an insanely excessive amount of time checking out new art. Whether it was one of the many galleries I happened upon or the public works...

19. Night & Day

    TNT Laughs

    By Daniel Rodrigue

    Published: June 26, 2008

    After CBS pulled the plug on Good Times in 1979, Jimmie "J.J." Walker returned to his roots on the stand-up club circuit. In the '80s, he made guest appearances on TV shows...

20. Night & Day

    Let's Dance!

    Kick off your Sunday shoes at Casa Mañana

    By John Freeman

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Once again, the '80s are spewing forth into our modern age like a Rubik's Cube being shot out of a wormhole. Footloose—The Musical is finally coming to the...