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Feature
Still an Aryan Blood Brother
Two murders and two life sentences won't alter one convict's allegiance to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas
By Jesse Hyde
Published: January 31, 2008
Dale Jameton sat at the wheel of the pickup, the radio console glowing in his face, a freezer bag full of meth between him and his girlfriend. He looked in the rearview mirror...
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News
Little Mexico Gets Squeezed Out
Homeowners in what's left of Little Mexico face the hard sell from an Uptown developer
By Sam Merten
Published: January 31, 2008
Not much is left of Little Mexico, the once-vibrant Hispanic community surrounding Reverchon Park that blossomed in the 1920s. Uptown redevelopment has replaced the blocks of...
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You Said It
Divide and Conquer|Disgusting Bleeding Hearts
Published: January 31, 2008
Divide and Conquer I am elated that Mr. Diaz was able to achieve his goal of becoming a Border Patrol agent ("The Thin Green Line," by Megan Feldman, January 24). However, the...
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Buzz
Dallas City Council Members Are Wusses
We need a pit bull. They give us a poodle.
Patrick Williams
Published: January 31, 2008
Wusses: We suppose we should be grateful. Since Mayor Tom Leppert and the new host of city council members came on board last summer, things have been so civil at City Hall. No...
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Schutze
DART Doing Fuzzy Math
DART: What billion dollar shortfall?
By Jim Schutze
Published: January 31, 2008
Dallas Area Rapid Transit was conceived in sin. Dallas wanted to father a light rail system, but in order to get the money to pay for it, Dallas married its first cousin,...
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Sports
Tom Hicks is Now a Global Billionaire Bozo
He's a vilified clown of an owner on two continents. Or at least he should be.
By Richie Whitt
Published: January 31, 2008
It's a pea soupy kind of Saturday. Damp, frigid, foggy. The kind of day fit for jolly ol' London, not the Texas Rangers' Fan Fest in Arlington. Baseball caps 'n' gloves are...
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Ask a Mexican
Don't Piss Off a Drunken Chihuahua
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: January 31, 2008
Dear readers: Mucho feedback from ustedes regarding recent questions about archetypical Mexican dogs and the propensity of wabs to D.U.I. Let's empezar with the...
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Music
MC 900 Ft. Jesus Lives
Indie-rap innovator MC 900 Ft. Jesus spins on, quietly, at Lee Harvey's
By Jesse Hughey
Published: January 31, 2008
Seated behind a folding table in the small lounge at Lee Harvey's, next to the Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga arcade game, Mark Griffin is flipping through a book of CDs, trying to pick...
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Critics' Picks
The Pikahsso Helps the Homeless Community Event and Birthday Party with performances by PPT, Money Waters, The Boondox and more
Friday, February 1, at Space Studios
By Jesse Hughey
Published: January 31, 2008
Verb! Pikahsso shows action on his birthday by teaming up with local photographer and homeless advocate Hal Samples to throw a party and collect winter clothing for the...
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playlist
Bob Mould
District Line (Anti-)
By Darryl Smyers
Published: January 31, 2008
Despite his best efforts to sway opinion to the contrary, Bob Mould will always be defined by his work within Hüsker Dü. The Minneapolis trio's bracing punk,...
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Local
Advice for the New Observer Music Editor
A lot of music editors enter the Thunderdome. None gets out alive.
Published: January 31, 2008
As you might have noticed, the Dallas Observer music section's been in a state of flux for the past two months awaiting the arrival of a new music editor, with several of us...
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Bsides
The Go-Go's Back on the Beat
By Annie Zaleski
Published: January 31, 2008
In the early '80s, the Go-Go's were considered the quintessential California girls, thanks mainly to sunny new-wave songs such as "Vacation" and "We Got the Beat." But times...
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Dish
Review: Bob's Steak & Chop House
Bob's brings the beef to the 'burbs
By Merritt Martin
Published: January 31, 2008
If there's one slap-in-the-face quality to Bob's Steak & Chop House in Grapevine, it's unabashed masculinity—even more so than at the cozier, well-worn 15-year-old...
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Cheap Bastard
Review: Go Philly
Bring on the buffalo cheesesteak, bitches.
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: January 31, 2008
Lunch special: Small cheesesteak combo with fries and a drink for $5.99, or Buffalo cheesesteak, fries and a drink for $7.50 Q: What does one do when faced with the choice...
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Film
Sunset on Sundance
At this year's fest, there were some curveballs and at least one knucklehead
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: January 31, 2008
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Sugar, which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival (and was inexplicably shut out at the closing-night...
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Night & Day
Song Shopping
Doc Gibbs is in the house…er, mall
By Andrea Grimes
Published: January 31, 2008
These days, it seems like it's harder not to be the cool, hipster parent. What with the availability of adorable onesies adorned with choice crass, four-letter words and...
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Night & Day
Take It All Off
By JARED BINDER
Published: January 31, 2008
Things will get a little steamy at the Dallas Opera when Richard Strauss' Salome opens on Friday. Salome is the name of a sexy bad girl in the Bible. According to the biblical...
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Night & Day
Big Boys of B-Ball
By Katey Margolis
Published: January 31, 2008
The Harlem Globetrotters were originally named the "Savoy Big Five," and the team was founded in 1926 in Chicago by Abe Saperstein. That's right, Chicago. They didn't actually...
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Night & Day
Wands Up!
Feel the magic of the Improv
By Merritt Martin
Published: January 31, 2008
After reading Born Standing Up, Steve Martin's memoir about the beginning of his career, it's clear that many of the entertainers (including Martin) we consider to be legendary...
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Night & Day
Still the King
Bass Hall salutes Bob Wills
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: January 31, 2008
I stood next to Bob Wills' daughter at a SXSW day party once. Of course, I didn't really know that until they brought her up onstage and said, "Hey everybody, this is Bob...
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