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Feature
Sharon Keller is Texas' Judge Dread
When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas
By Matt Pulle
Published: January 17, 2008
Take her off the bench and Sharon Keller is funny, smart and personable, if a little shy. People genuinely like her. One of the most powerful judges in Texas plays gin every...
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News
Gentrification Welcomed by Deep Ellum Artists
To keep the area alive, artists say change is necessary
By Jesse Hyde
Published: January 17, 2008
Brian Gibb is sitting in his Deep Ellum art gallery on a sunny winter day, talking about why he moved to Dallas from Denton and how much his art means to him, when he looks out...
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You Said It
Mmm. . .Grilled Horse Flesh|Pay Up or Unplug|Come On In, The Door's Open
Published: January 17, 2008
Mmm...Grilled Horse Flesh I can't figure the logic in selectively opposing slaughtering and eating horses ("Tex-Mex Horse Meat," by Megan Feldman, January 10) but being just...
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Buzz
The Vick House Project
By Patrick Williams
Published: January 17, 2008
Dog pile: Frisco's Michael Morford could be the poster child for the "If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade Society." A 34-year-old employee of an investment bank, Morford...
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Sports
Giant Disgust with Dallas Cowboys
Tony Romo and the Cowboys piss away a Super opportunity
By Richie Whitt
Published: January 17, 2008
And you thought there was nothing more disgusting than 2 Girls 1 Cup. Though it's tough to trump the shocking Internet phenomenon, what happened at Texas Stadium last Sunday is...
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Ask a Mexican
Alcohol and Logic Repel Each Other Like 'Border' and 'Enforcement'
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: January 17, 2008
Dear Mexican: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that Mexican-Americans have the highest proportion of D.U.I.'s and alcohol-related traffic fatalities...
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Music
How to Be a Good Cover Band
By Merritt Martin
Published: January 17, 2008
If you'd asked two years ago, I would have said that the only reason for a cover band to exist is to make money and watch the crazy shit that goes down at weddings, and that's...
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Music
Handicapping the Grammys with a Foo Fighter
By Jesse Hughey
Published: January 17, 2008
It's hard to believe that anyone, let alone a member of the Foo Fighters, takes the Grammy Awards seriously. But bassist Nate Mendel says he's honored that his band has been...
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Critics' Picks
Back Door Slam
Thursday, January 17, at the House of Blues' Cambridge Room
By Darryl Smyers
Published: January 17, 2008
Although the name induces thoughts of hardcore porn of the anal variety, Back Door Slam are actually the newest in a long line of British boys infatuated with the blues....
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playlist
It is Well
The Bed Afflictions (Self-released)
By Darryl Smyers
Published: January 17, 2008
Even though he recorded most of the songs in 2006, Dallas' own John Sprengler, the one-man band behind the name It is Well, keeps remixing and adding new songs to this debut...
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Bsides
Bar of Soap Puts Together a Lineup Worth Burning a Whole Day -- Maybe
By Jesse Hughey
Published: January 17, 2008
It's been a long time since I've wanted to go to an all-day, all-night rock festival in Deep Ellum or Exposition Park. I'm sorry to admit that a few awful lineups were all it...
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Dish
Review: James Rowland's Bistro Nous
Bistro Nous is inventive, but it's deviled by poor attention to details
By Mark Stuertz
Published: January 17, 2008
James Rowland is a turnaround artist. He has taken rusted junkers, loosened stuck bolts, tightened loose nuts and finessed it all with a little salt and pepper. He's turned...
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Hash Over
Nick Badovinus Does His Own Thing
By Mark Stuertz
Published: January 17, 2008
This much is obvious: Nick Badovinus wasn't long for the Consilient Restaurants world. As founder Tristan Simon expanded his little Henderson Avenue fiefdom (Fireside Pies,...
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Cheap Bastard
Pepe & Mito's
Pepe & Mito's solid food is nice, the liquid diet even nicer
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: January 17, 2008
Lunch Specials: Two enchiladas, rice and beans for $5.75; two tacos rice and beans for $5.75; three tamales, rice and beans for $5.75; two 2 fajita tacos rice and beans for...
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Film
Katherine Heigl is a Diane Keaton Starter Kit
Keaton's girl power (Mad Money) trumps Heigl's bridesmaid fashion (27 Dresses)
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: January 17, 2008
If Diane Keaton were a comer in 2007, she'd likely be stuck in romantic comedies cooked up in movie studio test kitchens. No Godfather for her. No Annie Hall, no Shoot the...
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Night & Day
Deep Art
Sink into Gael Stack's work
By Andrea Grimes
Published: January 17, 2008
Most of the time you'd be well advised to stay away from an event titled Gaps, Sinkholes and Chasms. Sounds like the kind of thing that would only appeal to the most avid...
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Night & Day
Like It, Or Else
By Katey Margolis
Published: January 17, 2008
Love a good romantic comedy? A sucker for a happy ending? Well, they don't come much better than in William Shakespeare's As You Like It. I know, its not exactly a Meg Ryan...
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Night & Day
The Last Real Barber?
Barry Whistler hosts a year of amazing color
By Merritt Martin
Published: January 17, 2008
I do it every time. I start a series of something and I obsessively watch or read it with this insatiable urge to finish. (Yeah, sometimes even if it starts to suck really...
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Night & Day
LuPone Goes On
By GEOFF JOHNSTON
Published: January 17, 2008
Theater buffs know Tony winner Patti LuPone from her legendary Broadway career, as she effortlessly inhabited some of the Great White Way's most memorable performances in...
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Night & Day
It's That Easy
Bag up the fat, people
By Jesse Hughey
Published: January 17, 2008
Because most people are too lazy to exercise and stop stuffing food into their stupid fat faces, we'll always need more pitchmen trumpeting magical new weight-loss solutions....
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