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Feature
Our 20th Music Awards
1988-2008: Two Decades of DOMA
By Noah W. Bailey, Pete Freedman, Jesse Hughey, Merritt Martin, Darryl Smyers and Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 24, 2008
Twenty years ago we launched this annual tradition called the Dallas Observer Music Awards—way back in April of 1988. "Our stated goal with these awards is to narrow the...
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News
Reason to Believe
Quick, someone call Mulder. We have a sighting.
By Jesse Hyde
Published: July 24, 2008
On the evening of January 8, at about 7 p.m., Constable Lee Roy Gaitan, a no-nonsense Texas lawman, was walking outside his house when something caught his eye. Off in the...
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You Said It
Diggin' the Dirt
Published: July 24, 2008
"The Dirt Doctor" by Jim Schutze, July 17 Diggin' the Dirt I've been a "follower" of Howard's and his message of organics for 16 years now. We've not sprayed or used...
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Buzz
Trash Ain't Nothin' but Cash
By Patrick Williams
Published: July 24, 2008
Trash ain't nothin' but cash: Virtue, they say, is its own reward. That fact probably helps explain why Buzz isn't on anyone's short list for sainthood. We prefer more tangible...
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Schutze
Something Happening Here
We're doing the hokey pokey on race and ethnicity. What's that all about?
By Jim Schutze
Published: July 24, 2008
Maybe it's Obama. Something is going on, something bubbling up. I feel it all around me. Don't you? Not just nationally but locally. Some kind of touchiness. Not touchy-feely....
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Sports
America's Tease
With their best team since the '90s dynasty, the Cowboys can stop merely flirting with a championship
By Richie Whitt
Published: July 24, 2008
Super Bowl. Or bust. If the Dallas Cowboys don't win the NFL championship February 1 in Tampa, it will be a devastating disappointment impossible to ignore. If they don't at...
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Ask a Mexican
Ask a Mexican
In corn vs. flour, wheat gets a smackdown
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 24, 2008
Dear Readers: Gracias, merci, obrigado for the many submissions in our contest asking readers to argue in 25 words why corn tortillas are superior to flour, or vice versa....
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Music
Always Greener
Saturday Night's DOMA Showcase on Lower Greenville rocked. So how come it's not always like that?
By Pete Freedman
Published: July 24, 2008
I hope you were out at your clubs on Saturday night, Lowest Greenville bar owners. I hope you got to see what I saw at our 2008 Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase. It was a...
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Music
Crapping Out
What happens when a music journalist listens to Bryan Adams' newest release, 11, on loop for 11 straight plays?
By Ryan Wasoba
Published: July 24, 2008
Bryan Adams' 11 is his 11th studio album. It features 11 tracks and is released exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, where it sells for roughly $11. In accordance with Mr....
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Critics' Picks
The Romantics, Missing Persons and Tommy Tutone
Friday, July 25, at Glass Cactus
By Darryl Smyers
Published: July 24, 2008
Most every male who went through puberty in the early '80s had fantasies involving Dale Bozzio, lead singer for Missing Persons. With her flare for see-through plastic dresses...
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playlist
Beck
Modern Guilt (DGC)
By Michael Roberts
Published: July 24, 2008
Danger Mouse is arguably the most adventurous producer to tackle a Beck project since the Dust Brothers helped birth a 1996 baby called Odelay (the Dusters' return for 2004's...
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Bsides
Biting Back
Wolf Parade's Arlen Thompson takes the time to critique the critical responses to his band's new release
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: July 24, 2008
Montreal indie-rock quintet Wolf Parade—relentlessly championed by Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock—made a huge splash in 2005 with their exhilarating debut...
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North of the Dial
North of the Dial
By Dave Sims
Published: July 24, 2008
Five months. When Pete Freedman first asked me to take on this column, I confess that I thought, at the time, I'd be lucky to last that long. I was already over-committed with...
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Dish
Woodshed Trip
By Mark Stuertz
Published: July 24, 2008
Years ago, well before cigarette smokers were forced to take their leprosy to the gutter, the American grill was an unpretentious place of hearty food washed down...
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Cheap Bastard
Jumbo Super Buffet
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: July 24, 2008
Buffet rounds I survived count: 2 Chicken lo mein burps per hour after eating count: 142 Located right next to a DART rail station (which is obviously always a good sign),...
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Film
Men Will Be Boys
With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that.
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: July 24, 2008
I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the win-at-any-cost NASCAR driver...
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Night & Day
Bases and Airplanes Loaded
By Merritt Martin
Published: July 24, 2008
So you say you like baseball, huh? Ever been to a "big game"? You know, the ones that make you forget the rivulets of sweat behind your knees and the jerk behind you that...
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Night & Day
To the Polls!
By Spencer Campbell
Published: July 24, 2008
Is there anything greater than democracy? I'm not just talking about unalienable rights, freedom of religion, the right to bare arms, yadda yadda yadda. Whatever. No, the...
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Night & Day
Artistic Invention
Kilby was a 'chip off the ol' easel
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: July 24, 2008
More often than not, engineers are not terribly artistic people. Of course, there are always exceptions to such blanket statements, but for the most part, engineers tend to use...
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Night & Day
Salon! Salon!
The Bath House celebrates accessible art
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: July 24, 2008
It's not really necessary to visit a museum to see great artwork anymore. NorthPark Center has an extensive collection on display for you to enjoy between trips to Forever 21...
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