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Feature
The Dirt Doctor
How radio show host Howard Garrett pushed Dallas to the center of the organic gardening movement through passion, principle and molasses
By Jim Schutze
Published: July 17, 2008
The announcer is a little girl. In the clear airspace of Sunday morning radio, her voice is sweet, but the message is heavy. As if introducing story time for the kiddies, she...
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News
A Case of Hives
Couple encourages local homeowners to be sweet on bees
By Megan Feldman
Published: July 17, 2008
On a sweltering Saturday at the Dallas Farmers Market, Brandon Pollard is wearing his weekend uniform: a honeybee costume, complete with bobbing antennae. "Buzz, buzz, busy...
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You Said It
Canceled Ticket|Elephant Hell
Published: July 17, 2008
"The Hard Lie," by Richie Whitt, July 10 Canceled Ticket I just finished reading "The Hard Lie," and I have to pay compliments to Richie Whitt for a comprehensive and...
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Schutze
The Invisibles
I have seen the future, and it is Frisco
By Jim Schutze
Published: July 17, 2008
Sometimes people look at the wrong thing when they look at Dallas. They want to find what makes Dallas unique, so they look for something unique. But the thing that makes this...
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Sports
Plan See
With blueprints A and B trashed, the Rangers have stumbled onto a visually stimulating development
By Richie Whitt
Published: July 17, 2008
The Texas Rangers' plans have gone to shit. Ain't it grand? Last winter, the franchise had designs on hosting the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 2015. Then arose the...
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Ask a Mexican
Ask a Mexican
If Germany had won the War to End All Wars, we'd all be living in Dallas, Tejas
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 17, 2008
Dear Mexican: Why are there Mexicans in the Border Patrol? What a hypocritical thing to do to our people. —Carne Asada Carlos Dear Wab: Not only are Mexicans in the...
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Music
Money Talks
With Lil Wayne's latest single, Play-N-Skillz cements its reputation as a production team—and maybe Dallas' reputation as a source of hip-hop?
By Pete Freedman
Published: July 17, 2008
The call came a while back now, but Play doesn't have a problem remembering it. After all, it was one of those sacred, career-changing moments. One of those once-in-a-lifetime...
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Critics' Picks
Rx Bandits, Portugal. The Man., Facing New York
Saturday, July 19, at House of Blues' Pontiac Garage
By Darryl Smyers
Published: July 17, 2008
The term "indie" barely describes the Alaskan combo Portugal. The Man. While maintaining ties with soul, blues and folk, the band's experimental bent is both its calling card...
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playlist
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis
Two Men With the Blues (Blue Note)
By Chris Gray
Published: July 17, 2008
Did music really use to be less complicated, or does it just seem that way? Maybe it's just that life used to be less complicated, and music is simply a mirror of its times. Or...
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Bsides
Writing on the Wall
We try—with very little luck—to get to the bottom of why Del Tha Funkee Homosapien isn't touring with his old cats in Hieroglyphics
By Chris Parker
Published: July 17, 2008
While the G-funk hip-hop genre garnered headlines in the early '90s, influential crews began percolating along the West Coast, such as Los Angeles' Freestyle Fellowship and...
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North of the Dial
North of the Dial
By Dave Sims
Published: July 17, 2008
A large mural of the Virgin Mary is being illuminated by intermittent splashes of blue light, and against the wall to the right is an animated image of a mother running through...
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Dish
Pirate of the Caribbean
By Jonanna Widner
Published: July 17, 2008
Ah, Dallas, the town with no history. Think about it: We tear down centuries-old buildings so we can erect temples built of fake bricks and paper-thin sheetrock. We desecrate...
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Cheap Bastard
Miss Chicken
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: July 17, 2008
Hot sauce packets I got with my order count: 10 Times I thought they might sell Canadian boner pills to me in a back room if I said the secret code word count: 2 When you...
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Film
Heart of Darkness
Heath Ledger peers into the void as The Dark Knight returns
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: July 17, 2008
What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City—if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so deeply and sometimes despairingly...
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Night & Day
Creative Assassination
By John Freeman
Published: July 17, 2008
Dallas will always be saddled with the reputation of being the city where John F. Kennedy was assassinated. By the same token, director Oliver Stone will always be saddled with...
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Night & Day
All We Are Saying
Give Wright a chance at FunAsia
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: July 17, 2008
So, we're five years into this dash for oil we call the Iraq War, and it seems at least a portion of the public finally seems to be catching up with the facts--there were no...
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Night & Day
Get Doomed
By Jesse Hughey
Published: July 17, 2008
Rapper POS, of Minneapolis' Doomtree collective, has one of the most interesting bios in hip-hop. He started in the punk scene as a guitarist and singer, initially hating but...
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Night & Day
Hug It Out
Marty Walker brings 12 artists together
By Merritt Martin
Published: July 17, 2008
Group hugs have always left me smushed and gasping for breath--part of being short, I suppose. I never felt like everyone got their fare share of hug; there was always that one...
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Night & Day
Non-Fiction Stew
By Jesse Hyde
Published: July 17, 2008
Here's the thing they won't say at the Mayborn Literary Conference: Print journalism is dead, or dying, or most charitably, the forum for an incredibly shrinking job market....
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Night & Day
Hot As Blazes
Heated runs make for cooler wins
By JARED BINDER
Published: July 17, 2008
The 11th annual Blazing Saddles Duathlon is almost upon us. For most of us the words "Blazing Saddles" conjure up images of a group of cowboys eating buckets of baked beans and...
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