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Feature
Un-Super Size Me: One Week of Eating Local
One man’s attempt at slow food living in the Dallas metroplex
By Jesse Hyde
Published: September 25, 2008
It began with a chicken. Or to be more precise, dreams of a chicken. I wanted a plump red bird with a healthy sheen, a thick neck and green tail feathers. I would build it a...
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News
Dallas Convention Center Hotel's Murky Future
Petitions to kill the public project are gaining momentum
By Sam Merten
Published: September 25, 2008
As plans by Mayor Tom Leppert and the Dallas City Council to build a convention center hotel move forward, a petition drive that could kill the project is gathering momentum...
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You Said It
Here to Serve
Published: September 25, 2008
"Swingtown," by Mike Fisher, September 18 Here to Serve I've seen the self-serving claim by proponents of "the lifestyle" that American combat pilots "serviced" each other's...
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Buzz
Irrational Discourse
By Patrick Williams
Published: September 25, 2008
Irrational discourse: In 2004, when Iraqi terrorists beheaded American Nick Berg and posted a horrific video of the murder online, we watched it. One time. Not out of morbid...
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Schutze
DISD's Budget Shortfall: Hinojosa's One-Man Gaffe
By Jim Schutze
Published: September 25, 2008
Two weeks ago I was on vacation, sitting in an airport diddling around with my "smart" phone (yeah, right), when I came across an online story about the Dallas Independent...
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Sports
Exposing bigotry, Mark Cuban saved Josh Howard from the spotlight
Fans' racist comments made a victim of the Mavericks' anthem-dissing forward
By Richie Whitt
Published: September 25, 2008
Never thought I'd feel sorry for a Hummer owner. Never thought I'd start a Josh Howard column with this word: Victim. But because being a racist trumps being unpatriotic and...
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Ask a Mexican
Ask a Mexican
"Anchor baby" is just another way of saying "United States citizen"
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: September 25, 2008
Dear Mexican: What is an anchor baby? I am a 45-year-old male born in the United States of America. My mother was born in ex-Yugoslavia (now Serbia), and my father was also...
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Music
Spencer Krug Lends Wolf Parade, Swan Lake and Sunset Rubdown A Unique Voice
By Jesse Hughey
Published: September 25, 2008
As a singer for collaborative bands Wolf Parade and Swan Lake, as well as his own project, Sunset Rubdown, Spencer Krug's unique voice dominates his songs. Something of a...
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Music
Dallas benefits, again, from being near Austin City Limits
Look at all the concerts ACL is leading our way this weekend (while ignoring the ugly side effects)!
By Pete Freedman
Published: September 25, 2008
Hey, look! There's a big festival in Austin this weekend! Hey! Look at this too! Dallas is getting a nice little runoff from that action! Hmm... Sounds a little familiar,...
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Critics' Picks
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Thursday, September 25, at the Granada Theater
By Brittan Dunham
Published: September 25, 2008
Del tha Funky Homosapien saw some commercial success as a teenager with Hieroglyphics, but it's his solo work, and specifically 1993's No Need for Alarm, that's elevated Del to...
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playlist
Somebody's Darling
Somebody's Darling EP (Self-released)
By Darryl Smyers
Published: September 25, 2008
Ever since the regrettable breakup of Slobberbone, the area alt-country scene has consisted of a lot of bands (however talented) that spend a bit too much time on their...
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Bsides
Hot Chip is keenly aware and danceably fun
By Doug Wallen
Published: September 25, 2008
Hot Chip is a bunch of geeks. Over the course of three albums—2004's Coming on Strong, 2006's The Warning and this year's Made in the Dark—the British five-piece...
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North of the Dial
North of the Dial
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: September 25, 2008
Monday nights are slow ones at the clubs in Denton. School started a couple weeks back, and it seems the kids at the city's two universities haven't yet abandoned hope that...
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Dish
RA Sushi in Plano
The attitude's served up raw, but the execution is half-baked
By Merritt Martin
Published: September 25, 2008
Sometime around second grade, with kiddie fat starting to fade into just awkward kid, I got my first taste of the Orient. My dad worked for a Japanese company. I had pen pals...
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Cheap Bastard
Blackjack Pizza
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: September 25, 2008
Toilets in the women's restroom that are on a platform that makes you feel like your peeing onstage count: 1 Credit cards accepted count: 0 People ask why I'm such a cheap...
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Film
Choke
Palahniuk adaptation needs the Heimlich
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 25, 2008
There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor Mancini with severe Mommy...
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Night & Day
Saxy Time
By Merritt Martin
Published: September 25, 2008
I'm not sure where it began, really. It could be somewhere in a vast history of working in a retail setting with excessive compilations featuring the song. It could've come...
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Night & Day
In Living Color
See The Color Purple at Fair Park
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: September 25, 2008
Alice Walker's 1983 novel The Color Purple won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction that year, as well as bringing Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey...
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Night & Day
Comic Relief
Stand up to fight children's cancer
By KAITLIN INGRAM
Published: September 25, 2008
Everyone knows there's nothing funny about kids with cancer. But in the case of the Children's Cancer Fund's 2nd Annual Comedy Event, it's a rare occasion when audience members...
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Night & Day
Total T.O.
Learn from the master
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: September 25, 2008
I love me some Terrell Owens. Hiding behind a set of diamond earrings that would make Elizabeth Taylor gnash her teeth in jealousy is a sensitive man who cries publicly on...
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