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Feature
Dallas Flashes Back to 1997
A Trinity River vote, the return of the Citizens Council, a corruption case at City Hall. Buzz is confused. Was this 2007 or 1997?
By Patrick Williams
Published: January 3, 2008
A maverick female city council member challenges the powers that be at City Hall all by her lonesome. Voters trek to the polls to decide the fate of the Trinity River project:...
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You Said It
Aunt Fannie's Butt|Smogville|Douchebaggery
Published: January 3, 2008
Aunt Fannie's Butt Jim Schutze's kind and understated article "Slow Train Coming" (December 20) should really have been titled "Decrepit and Totally Dead Middle Ages Oxcart...
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Schutze
Resolutions
Be better person. Cause major flood in Park Cities.
By Jim Schutze
Published: January 3, 2008
One of my New Year's resolutions is to be a better person. Another is to do a better job cleaning up after the dogs in my backyard. Whichever comes first. The dog thing I can...
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Ask a Mexican
Ask a Mexican
At least Chihuahuas are too small to jump fences
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: January 3, 2008
Dear Mexican: As everyone knows, dogs seem to reflect their master's personality. Likewise, the breeds invented by a nation say a lot about that nation. Germans bred the German...
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Girl on Top
Goodbye Girl
Dallas, I love you, but I've found Austin
By Andrea Grimes
Published: January 3, 2008
Dear Dallas, We need to talk. You're a really great city, and you're really nice and all, but things are not working out for me right now. No, shhh, listen! I have so much...
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Music
Record Hop, Scott Porter Ready for 2008
Scott Porter's year coulda self-destructed, but he got engaged instead
By Jesse Hughey
Published: January 3, 2008
Last year was a tough year. Clubs in Deep Ellum, Denton and Fort Worth closed, only to be replaced with sterile, corporate-owned chain venues. Carter Albrecht was killed. The...
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Music
Old Dog Bow Wow Learns New Tricks
A rap veteran at age 20, Bow Wow dispenses advice to the next generation
By Ben Westhoff
Published: January 3, 2008
A pint-size novelty act who made preteen girls swoon with his 2000 debut, Beware of Dog, Bow Wow has somehow evolved into an elder statesman in the hip-pop genre. Now 20 years...
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Critics' Picks
Darcy, Uba and Fracas
Thursday, January 3, at Hailey's
By Darryl Smyers
Published: January 3, 2008
The sophisticated pop smarts of Denton's Darcy can either make a listener start singing along or dismiss them with a sneer and a hardy, "Oh, come on!" Such pleasant numbers as...
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playlist
Darryl Lee Rush
Live from the River Road Icehouse (Palo Duro Records)
By Darryl Smyers
Published: January 3, 2008
It's been a couple of years since the release of Llano Avenue, local roots rocker Darryl Lee Rush's extraordinary debut, and various snafus have kept this sophomore effort off...
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Bsides
Everybody Back in the Pool
Who in music will join the Choir Invisible this year? Let's bet.
By Jesse Hughey
Published: January 3, 2008
Unbelievably, not a single person on our 2007 music death pool (see "Pool Queue," January 4, 2007) was waved past the velvet rope into the Ultimate Afterparty—though...
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Dish
Review: Urban Taco
Try a little Mexican food without the gloop and refrieds
By Elaine Liner
Published: January 3, 2008
My favorite dining companion put it this way: Urban Taco sounds like something you'd order from the J. Peterman catalog. He's onto something. Think cute but functional. Trendy...
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Film
There Will Be Blood Strikes Oil and Then Some
Paul Thomas Anderson creates an epic gusher
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: January 3, 2008
A great brooding thundercloud of a movie, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on a gust of critical acclaim, lowering over a landscape of...
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Night & Day
Solo Monos
Allen signs Uncovered
By Jesse Hughey
Published: January 3, 2008
Allow me to throw out a half-baked psychology theory: Mutilating books is one of the earliest forms of creativity a child will express. Many a parent has picked up a kid's copy...
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Night & Day
Them's Bitin' Words
By S. Anne Durham
Published: January 3, 2008
It seems that lunch is out of fashion. With networking lunches, lunches in the office or lunches just plain skipped in favor of an extra hour of productivity, hardly anyone...
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Night & Day
Your Flies Redone
The Bath House hosts a new Lord
By GEOFF JOHNSTON
Published: January 3, 2008
Adapting a wildly popular, widely familiar work of literature for the stage can be a dicey affair. That's not to say that it hasn't been attempted. There was, of course, the...
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Night & Day
Zofo A La DSO
By GEOFF JOHNSTON
Published: January 3, 2008
Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones performed at a benefit tribute concert in London last month, reuniting Led Zeppelin after almost 30 years of dormancy as a group...
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Night & Day
Postage Paid
Welcome. Now get out.
By Merritt Martin
Published: January 3, 2008
"You say goodbye, and I say hello." Everyone from the Beatles to your mom has had a relationship with the dichotomy of greetings and farewells, arrivals and departures. Are you...
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Night & Day
Spectacular Rat
New Tang celebrates at Nokia
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: January 3, 2008
Over the past couple of years, I think I've schooled you guys appropriately in the fine art of celebrating Chinese New Year. By now you know all about the scrumptious food and...
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Night & Day
Wax Works
Ruminate at Mighty Fine Arts
By Megan Feldman
Published: January 3, 2008
Remember back in elementary school, when in art class they used to have you scatter crayon shavings onto a piece of wax paper, then cover it all with a second sheet of paper...
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Night & Day
Sweet Mulch
By Rich Lopez
Published: January 3, 2008
I want to marry the Dallas Arboretum. As a whole, I would actually do it. They have wooed my heart by offering a whole week of chocolatey goodness and whimsy. And thus, I would...
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