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1. Feature

   Life Without Debt Leaves Jimmy Phipps Owing Society

   By Mark Stuertz

   Published: March 6, 2008

   On the first Tuesday of every month, Phil Brantley hosts a conference call. He never knows who will be calling in, or from where. Brantley, a retired liquor store owner and...

2. News

   Fight Over New Apartments Shows Dallas' Growing Pains

   By Sam Merten

   Published: March 6, 2008

   When Kat Truitt walks to the neighborhood Central Market at Lovers Lane and Greenville Avenue, she passes the Signature Pointe Apartments, which face her condominium complex on...

3. You Said It

   The Audacity of Us

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Obama and Me, by Todd Spivak, February 28 The Audacity of Us Whose grand idea was it to distribute this as journalism all over Dallas, with a red-eyed Obama on the cover,...

4. Buzz

   Workin' for a Livin'

   By Patrick Williams

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Workin' for a livin': Buzz caught excerpts from a Hillary Clinton speech to Ohioans this week in which she was all charged up about helpin' workin' folk. She talked just like...

5. Schutze

   Are Surveillance Cameras the Answer to Rising East Dallas Crime Rates?

   Cameras have had an effect in the Richland Park Estates neighborhood, homeowners say.

   By Jim Schutze

   Published: March 6, 2008

   All of the unmistakable and depressing signs are gathering over my neck of the woods in Old East Dallas. We seem to be in for another spike in crime, and I'm wondering again...

6. Sports

   One Bone Down, Hank Blalock Hopes to Help the Rangers Get Back Up

   By Richie Whitt

   Published: March 6, 2008

   SURPRISE, Arizona—In the Garden of Eden, so goes biblical legend, Adam involuntarily surrendered a rib so God could fashion a woman. In Arlington, according to medical...

7. Ask a Mexican

   Ask a Mexican

   Leave the Gun, Take the Enchilada

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans have padrinos for everything? I never understood why, can you help me out? —The Godfather Fan Dear Wab: Many gabachos have long wondered...

8. Music

   South by Southwest Bounty Overflows to Benefit Dallas

   This and next week are full of big-name acts making their ways to or from the Austin festival

   By Pete Freedman

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Say what you want about South by Southwest: that's it's overrated, that it's over-inflated, that it's already jumped the shark... None of those statements are necessarily...

9. Music

   The N-Word Still Alive and Well in Hip-Hop

   Eight month after the hip-hop community gave the word a funeral, it hasn't died

   By Ben Westhoff

   Published: March 6, 2008

   Last July, thousands of folks, including the mayor of Detroit and the governor of Michigan, gathered in Motown at the NAACP's annual convention for a symbolic funeral for the...

10. Critics' Picks

    Centro-matic, South San Gabriel, Robert Gomez

    Saturday, March 8, at the Granada Theater

    By Jesse Hughey

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Suck it, Austin. Will Johnson may have moved from Denton to your overrated yupster hamlet years ago, but when it comes time to debut music from Centro-matic's forthcoming...

11. playlist

    Goldfrapp

    Seventh Tree (Mute)

    By Merritt Martin

    Published: March 6, 2008

    The last track ("Monster Love") of Goldfrapp's fourth full-length claims, "Everything comes around/Bringing us back again," and it's so very true for Allison Goldfrapp and Will...

12. Bsides

    The Gospel According to Hymns

    Despite its name, the NYC band with Dallas ties is definitely not a Christian band

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: March 6, 2008

    The ramifications of a band name can never be overstated. Just ask Hymns. The New York by way of North Carolina band has had its share of misunderstandings because of the...

13. Dish

    Review: Afghan Grill

    At Afghan Grill, the fortunes of war pay delicious dividends

    By Mark Stuertz

    Published: March 6, 2008

    There's magic to the kebab, properly prepped, fired with finesse over glowing coals. There's a hairsplitting technique to properly trimming and cubing meats before stabbing and...

14. Cheap Bastard

    Review: Top's Cafe

    By ALICE LAUSSADE

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Flat screen TV count: 1 Friendly behind-the-counter lady: 1 So, I was at the Dallas Central Library, totally engrossed in Jewel's A Night Without Armor (an oldie, but a...

15. Film

    Heist Flick The Bank Job is Too Fun to Fact-Check

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Based on a true story," brags The Bank Job before diving into the clear blue water of the Caribbean, where, in 1970, a topless woman frolics with two swimming mates—just...

16. Night & Day

    Coffee Boy

    David Sheff signs at Satrbucks

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Beautiful Boy is author David Sheff's moving account of his own son's struggle with meth addiction, a subject many families can no doubt identify with. It's also possible even...

17. Stage

    Murder at the Howard Johnson's Serves Up Flavorful Fare

    Also: Collin College kicks up heels with Li'l Abner and unfunny Nipples at Hub

    By Elaine Liner

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Pocket Sandwich Theatre gets no respect. The only for-profit theater in Dallas, the charming but grungy playhouse tucked into a corner of a two-story shopping strip on...

18. DVDish

    Oscar-Starved

    By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Into the Wild (Paramount) Sean Penn waited a good decade before adapting Jon Krakauer's book about Chris McCandless, who graduated college in 1990, then disappeared into the...

19. What Else Is New?

    DVD Releases for the Week of March 4

    Published: March 6, 2008

    Archie's Funhouse: The Complete Series (Classic Media) Army of the Dead (Maverick) Arranged (Film Movement) Ben 10: The Complete Season 3 (Turner) Billy Wilder Film...

20. Game On

    Thinning Crowds

    It's always dead at The Club

    By Chris Ward

    Published: March 6, 2008

    To all the gun-toting video-game bad guys out there: Please stop standing next to exploding barrels. Seriously now. Of the hundreds of places you could squat and shoot, you and...