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Feature
The Dwaine Caraway Show
Starring that new breed of politician who wants to root out your crack houses, close down your whorehouses and pull up your pants
By Jim Schutze
Published: March 27, 2008
It's a little after 8 a.m. on February 14, and already Dallas Deputy Mayor Pro Tem/District 4 City Council Representative Dwaine Caraway is knee-deep in saggy pants and...
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News
Popular Conservative Texas House Candidate Dunning Has Some Republicans Worried
By Jesse Hyde
Published: March 27, 2008
In person, there is nothing scary about Randall Dunning. He is tall and lean and keeps his graying hair short and nerdy. A software engineer by trade, he's the sort of fellow...
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You Said It
Over the Top|It's a Miracle
Published: March 27, 2008
"After Their Murder-Suicide, Questions About Rufus and Lynn Flint Shaw's Shady Dealings Haunt Dallas," by Jim Schutze, March 20 Over the Top Jim Schutze writes of Rufus Shaw:...
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Buzz
Arrested Development
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 27, 2008
Arrested development: Two years ago, at a cost of around $3.5 million an episode, HBO began production on a new hour-long series called 12 Miles of Bad Road, set in Dallas but...
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Ask a Mexican
Adios, Amigos
The Mexican rides off into the sunset
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: March 27, 2008
Dear Mexican: I'm a gay man in his mid-30s who has always loved Mexican men. And this question is not only from my experience, but also that of friends: Why is it that Mexican...
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Music
Four Clubs Closed in Deep Ellum and Exposition Park in the Past Month
So where's the outcry?
By Pete Freedman
Published: March 27, 2008
It didn't make any sense. Last Thursday, in the wake of four—yes, four—music venues and clubs closing in Deep Ellum and Exposition Park within the span of a month,...
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Music
AA Bondy's Celebrated Nu-folk Sound is a Far Cry From His Earlier Works
By Jaime Lees
Published: March 27, 2008
Though few outside of the indie circuit recognized Verbena, critics and fans hailed the group as the second coming of Nirvana. The comparison was easy to see—and not just...
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Critics' Picks
Record Hop CD Release Party
Thursday, March 27, at Dan's Silverleaf, Denton
By Pete Freedman
Published: March 27, 2008
As South by Southwest approached earlier this month, the folks in Denton-based rock quartet Record Hop faced quite the predicament: Would their soon-to-be-released self-titled...
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playlist
Snoop Dogg
Ego Trippin' (Geffen Records)
By Michael Roberts
Published: March 27, 2008
The Snoopster uses his ultra-cool stoner persona to make up for a multitude of sins—and Ego Trippin' will only enhance his increasingly cuddly image. Thanks to his...
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Bsides
Free From TVT Records, Pitbull is Biting Back
The Cuban-American hip-hop star is eyeing a big future
By PHIL FREEMAN
Published: March 27, 2008
Cuban-American rapper Pitbull made his first appearance on the celebrity-news Web site TMZ.com recently. And it was for the worst possible reason: He was hit in the head with a...
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Dish
Review: Charlie Palmer at The Joule
By Mark Stuertz
Published: March 27, 2008
Embedded in the ceiling, high above the dining room, is a series of lighted, saucer-like depressions. Huge silvery propellers are fixed within, but they don't spin like ceiling...
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Hash Over
Group Owning Geisha House to Launch Sports Bar in Victory
Also: Mico Rodriguez is close to opening the TV-free Twenty 2.
By Mark Stuertz
Published: March 27, 2008
From Los Angeles, a steroided-up sports bar finds its home in Victory. "It's kind of like a pub meets ESPN Zone meets Bellagio Sports Bar," says Lonnie Moore of the Los...
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Film
Bringing Down the House Adaptation 21 Doesn't Hit the Jackpot
Not even close.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 27, 2008
Ben Mezrich's 2002 best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas For Millions was a smart narrative about...well, you did see the...
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Film
Entering Its Second Year, AFI Dallas Avoids the Sophomore Slump
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 27, 2008
When it was revealed in September 2006 that the Deep Ellum Film Festival would be shuttered to make way for the AFI Dallas International Film Festival, and its attendant...
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Night & Day
Assemble for the Ensembles
By Rich Lopez
Published: March 27, 2008
I envision jazz the way Elmer Bernstein musically painted the 1955 film The Man With the Golden Arm—gritty, dark and blaring. Music that is beautiful but treacherous and...
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Night & Day
Be Young Again
Undermain rides through Greendale
By Mark Hughes
Published: March 27, 2008
Neil Young has never been a meticulous sort when it comes to his appearance (God love him), and people often think he is at his best with the band Crazy Horse—a infamously...
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Night & Day
Get Higher, Baby
By JARED BINDER
Published: March 27, 2008
How does someone go from living in a housing project in New Orleans to becoming the NBA's head coach of the year? Dallas Mavericks Coach Avery Johnson tells us in his new book,...
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Night & Day
Come One, Come All
All Inclusive has something for everyone
By S. Anne Durham
Published: March 27, 2008
Contemporary art dealer Craighead-Green Gallery celebrates its third year in its current home on Dragon Street with a group show, and everyone's invited. Invited to attend,...
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Night & Day
Kiddies Tanking
Have a Day Out With Thomas in Grapevine
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: March 27, 2008
Last year we accompanied some tykes to the Day Out With Thomas festivities at Grapevine's Cotton Belt Depot. Unfortunately we didn't have tickets for the train ride on Thomas,...
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Night & Day
Sailing Gracefully
Beauty is in Ainsworth's punch lines
By Merritt Martin
Published: March 27, 2008
Grand Prairie native Laura Ainsworth has a little something to say about aging. In Dallas, it might seem that the singer and comedienne's viewpoints on diets, plastic surgery...
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