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Feature
Bless Us, Oh Lard
Damn fajitas and health-conscious eaters. They're killing traditional Tex-Mex.
By Robb Walsh
Published: July 3, 2008
The soft cheese taco I got with the "Special Mexican Dinner" at El Fenix on McKinney Avenue in downtown Dallas a couple of months ago mystified me. It was stuffed with cheddar...
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News
Pack a Trunk
Despite efforts by animal welfare activists, the zoo decides to ship a problem elephant out of the country
By Spencer Campbell
Published: July 3, 2008
It's been a hard-knock life for Jenny the elephant. She was captured in Africa in 1976 and came to the Dallas Zoo in 1986. Her time there has been marred by self-inflicted...
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You Said It
Daddy Dearest|Beats Us|Give Him an "A"|Lights Out
Published: July 3, 2008
"American Girls," by Glenna Whitley, June 19 Daddy Dearest As a now-adult daughter of an Egyptian father and American mother (along with having one sister as well), I was...
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Buzz
Organic Brick
By Patrick Williams
Published: July 3, 2008
Organic brick: The cry went up almost immediately after the story broke in The Dallas Morning News last week that investment firm Beck Ventures was looking into buying 10 acres...
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Ask a Mexican
Ask a Mexican
Hail Cesar, who was capable of changing his mind
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 3, 2008
Dear Mexican: Whenever I have an immigration debate with my Chicano hermanos who support open borders and get angry at any type of immigration control, they don't seem to...
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Music
Rock On
Centro-matic's balls-out show at the Granada topped off a big week for the local scene
By Pete Freedman
Published: July 3, 2008
There's a reason Centro-matic has such a rock-solid reputation 'round these parts, and the Denton-based rock band proudly showcased that reason on Saturday night. Playing...
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Music
The Halftime Report
With six months X'd off of the calendar year, we look back at the best music of the year—and wonder which albums we'll remember come December
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: July 3, 2008
It's hard to believe that 2008 is already more than halfway over. No need to lament about the New Year's resolutions that you thought you'd keep; six months from now we'll all...
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Critics' Picks
David Banner
Wednesday, July 9, at House of Blues
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: July 3, 2008
When a rapper like David Banner decides to name an upcoming album The Greatest Story Ever Told, you're not gonna split hairs with the dude—at least not to his face. Like...
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playlist
N.E.R.D.
Seeing Sounds (Star Trak/Interscope)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: July 3, 2008
N.E.R.D.'s third album is the compact-disc equivalent of an ad campaign trying to appeal to the Red Bull/BlackBerry generation. "We gotta make it passionate," you can almost...
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Bsides
Not So Fast
Fleet Foxes' successful sound depends on slowing things down
By Darryl Smyers
Published: July 3, 2008
Huffing and puffing, Casey Wescott, keyboardist for Seattle's Fleet Foxes, makes it to the phone just minutes after sound check. Judging by his lack of breath, preparing for a...
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North of the Dial
North of the Dial
By Dave Sims
Published: July 3, 2008
Early last year, Doug Burr finished a suite of Psalms arrangements and decided to record them in a building that had intrigued him for years. The 130-year old, five-story...
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Dish
Bull Ring
By Mark Stuertz
Published: July 3, 2008
Bolla is Italian for bull. Bolla is headed by Bull—chef David Bull, fresh from the Driskill Hotel in Austin, youngest sous chef ever to whip and sauté at The...
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Cheap Bastard
Jimmy's Food Store
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: July 3, 2008
Pig head shaped out of ground pork behind the meat counter count: 1 I went up to the counter in Jimmy's Food Store, the lady asked me what I wanted, and I said, "I'll take the...
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Film
Superzero
Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 3, 2008
The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its follow-up, Unbreakable, starring Bruce Willis as the...
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Night & Day
Greed Machine
Wall Street moves to Main Street
By John Freeman
Published: July 3, 2008
To quote the late Rick James, "Cocaine is a hell of a drug." At one point, Oliver Stone was as famous for his cocaine use as for his films. 1987's Wall Street is his stunning...
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Night & Day
The Fabulous 50
By Merritt Martin
Published: July 3, 2008
In Fort Worth, on July 5, 1958, Casa Mañana was born. A sold-out audience of dapper black-ties and fashionable gowns enjoyed a performance of the musical Can-Can and an...
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Night & Day
A-ha Art
The Modern hosts the work of Kara Walker
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: July 3, 2008
The best kind of art is not the work that makes you scratch your head and wonder if you're culturally illiterate, but the kind that lets you have an "a-ha" moment despite the...
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Night & Day
The Liar's Mask
Onstage plays with Pinocchio
By Spencer Campbell
Published: July 3, 2008
Even with the assistance of Detective Google, I'm having a difficult time grasping the tenets of commedia dell'arte. You see, ONSTAGE in Bedford starts running Pinocchio...
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Night & Day
Boom-Boom
Enjoy explosives in Addison
By Patrick Williams
Published: July 3, 2008
Which is better: sex or fireworks? Seems like the two could share a lot of the same terminology -- a Roman candle, a bottle rocket or a screamer just sound dirty, don't they?...
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Night & Day
Scorcher
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: July 3, 2008
I don't know if you guys have noticed yet, but it's July again. That's right, sports fans, it's every Texan's favorite time of year for to run a little foot race -- if you're...
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