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Feature
Demanding Answers as the Dallas Convention Center Hotel Moves Forward
As Mayor Tom Leppert pushes for a convention center hotel, critics demand more details and less tax money. At least, those who haven't been silenced do.
By Sam Merten
Published: April 17, 2008
There was a buzz March 12 at Urban Market, and it had nothing to do with the beer and wine samples at the front of the store. Downtown residents were gathering near the meat...
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News
Teaching Teens How to Parent and Stop Having Children
Battling the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation, Texas counselors have their work cut out
By Jesse Hyde
Published: April 17, 2008
It's a Thursday morning at A. Maceo Smith High School, and the girls in parenting class are struggling to stay awake. There are six of them, freshmen and sophomores mostly, and...
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You Said It
Fighting for the Fiefdom|Truth Shall Get You Votes|Lotta Love for Little D
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Published: April 17, 2008
"Down and Dirty Developers Want Into the Inner City," by Jim Schutze, April 10 Fighting for the Fiefdom Jim Schutze, you have done it again. I read the DMN editorial on...
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Buzz
Shoe Doesn't Fit
By Patrick Williams
Published: April 17, 2008
Shoe doesn't fit: More than a decade has passed since Buzz visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., so we remember little about the exhibits there. One image remains...
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Schutze
The Great Trinity Forest Ain't So Great
Well, not yet anyway.
By Jim Schutze
Published: April 17, 2008
As I hike down from the high embankment of the levee and out of the Great Trinity Forest, rain and dusk pushing me on, not to mention mosquitoes, I find two cop cars waiting...
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Sports
Dallas Stars Finally Align
Yep, and just when you thought we'd never again witness hockey in May.
By Richie Whitt
Published: April 17, 2008
Something funny happened on the way to penning another Dallas Stars' April obit. The team that annually dies in the first round of the playoffs not only has life, it suddenly...
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Ask a Mexican
Ask A Mexican
It's a multilingual world. Get used to it.
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 17, 2008
Dear Mexican: I work at a Seattle-based company, and our customer service department uses a phone tree system that asks all callers to press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish and a...
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Bible Girl
Baptist Seminary President Says Women Shouldn't Teach Men
By Julie Lyons
Published: April 17, 2008
A conservative pastor known for championing dissident views in the Southern Baptist Convention has posted an interesting, well-argued and chilling sequel to Southwestern...
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Bible Girl
Like a Thief in the Night
By Julie Lyons
Published: April 17, 2008
I’ve found a way to gauge the economic desperation of the times: Note what gets stolen from my church in the heart of South Dallas, a microcosm of economically hard-hit...
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Bible Girl
The Reverend Wright Scheduled to Speak Sunday at Friendship-West
By Julie Lyons
Published: April 17, 2008
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright—Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor—is scheduled to preach Sunday at Friendship-West Baptist Church for the 25th Pastoral...
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Music
James Dante Kings was Talented, But Other Facts Are More Pressing
By Pete Freedman
Published: April 17, 2008
We usually talk about music in this space. Well, as I understand it, James Dante Kings was a talented percussionist. I can't say that I know this for certain; I've never...
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Music
The Best Albums of 2008, So Far...
Just over three months into 2008 and we're already fussing over which albums will make our year-end best-of lists
By Michael Gallucci
Published: April 17, 2008
Hard to believe that 2008 is already four months old. It seems that only yesterday we were counting the days till our New Year's Day hangover would subside. As we take stock of...
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Critics' Picks
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, The Joggers
Monday, April 21, at the Granada Theater
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: April 17, 2008
Fans of Pavement have been clearly divided on their opinions of lead singer Stephen Malkmus' post-Pavement material. Half accept their hero following his muse. The other half...
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playlist
Panic at the Disco
Pretty. Odd (Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen)
By Chris Parker
Published: April 17, 2008
Pop-punk and an errant exclamation point are nothing but distant memories on Panic at the Disco's second album. The Las Vegas quartet makes a bold—and...
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Bsides
After 25-plus Years of Debauchery, Al Jourgensen Has Decided to Shut Down His Ministry
By Darryl Smyers
Published: April 17, 2008
The end was sadly inevitable. After nearly three decades of bashing any Bush who has happened to be president and helping create an entirely new genre of music along the way,...
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North of the Dial
Isaak Hoskins Found Denton to be a Songwriter's Shangri-La
By Dave Sims
Published: April 17, 2008
Isaak Hoskins was on his way to Austin to try his hand at a songwriting career when he stopped in Denton to take a job and make some cash. Half a decade later, he still hasn't...
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Dish
Review: Spiral Diner & Bakery
Spiral Diner & Bakery lets you avoid sins of the flesh
By Elaine Liner
Published: April 17, 2008
Dining out with a vegan is like a date with Mr. Bean, the Rowan Atkinson character for whom things rarely go right. In our group of friends, it's all about Mr. Green Bean,...
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Cheap Bastard
Review: Strokers Ice House
Get your motor runnin' at Strokers
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: April 17, 2008
People in the place at noon count: 6 Bike count: 2,000 million I got an e-mail a while back that I should check out Strokers Ice House on Harry Hines Boulevard. So, I looked...
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Film
Jason Segel Uses His Balls to Great Effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 17, 2008
Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of which occurred during the sole...
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Night & Day
Close Encounters of the Metal Kind
See UFO at HOB
By John Freeman
Published: April 17, 2008
UFO was the band that your cool older brother would blast in his van while smoking weed and drinking Coors. While not a household name like your Sabbaths or Zepplins, they were...
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