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1. Feature

   DISD In the Hole

   Teachers get axed and parents fret as Dallas' school leaders scramble to cover a budget hole

   By Jim Schutze and Robert Wilonsky

   Published: October 9, 2008

   A greeting, passed along in a coffee shop: "Hey, I haven't seen you in a long time." "How are you?" "Just like you—waiting to see if I'll still have a job." A long...

2. News

   Is there Natural Gas Beneath Dallas County?

   Drillers—and cities—are betting Barnett Shale riches are headed Dallas' way.

   By Pablo Lastra

   Published: October 9, 2008

   Dallas may have cultivated the image of an oil town in the popular imagination. In reality, fortunes here were built on oil extracted hundreds of miles away. Wildcatters just...

3. You Said It

   Never Forget|Strike Back|Focus on Plate, Not Walls

   Published: October 9, 2008

   "Collateral Damage," by Megan Feldman, October 2 Never Forget Just something I feel I need to clear up. This is one person's view of me and my family's tragedy. Let's get...

4. Buzz

   Crises Management

   By Patrick Williams

   Published: October 9, 2008

   Crises management: The news breaks suddenly, spreading anger, fear and distrust. Massive miscalculations and shaky financial structures threaten imminent doom. Our leaders...

5. Sports

   The Mavericks' Faith In Jason Kidd

   For better or worse, the Mavs trust in the power of Bas-Kidd-Ball

   By Richie Whitt

   Published: October 9, 2008

   Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says a half-dozen players came to him at the end of last season, expressing a desire to play elsewhere if Avery Johnson remained the head...

6. Ask a Mexican

   What's a Wab, and Where's the Love for Guatemalans?

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: October 9, 2008

   Dear Readers: I don't like to rerun columns 'cause it makes me look like a lazy Mexican, but I realize that as my column invades foreign terrain (Chattanooga! Columbia, South...

7. Music

   The Magnetic Fields Turn Down the Volume

   Stephin Merritt uses Distortion to protect the Magnetic Fields from mothers everywhere

   By Elliott Johnston

   Published: October 9, 2008

   Concocting outré underground pop for more than a decade doesn't necessarily shield you from being unjustly mistaken for easily digestible by the mainstream press....

8. Music

   Bucking the Trend, a Record Store Launches in Deep Ellum

   With CD World's closing, Dallas' independently owned record store scene looks as bleak as ever. Or does it?

   By Pete Freedman

   Published: October 9, 2008

   There's no one here. Just Bill Wisener sitting in his normal spot behind the front counter of his South Lamar Street store, a DVD stuck on opening-screen repeat, a cigarette in...

9. Critics' Picks

   Cat Power, Appaloosa

   Thursday, October 9, at Palladium Ballroom

   By Falling James

   Published: October 9, 2008

   Cat Power kicks off her January-released CD, Jukebox, with a remake of John Kander and Fred Ebb's standard "Theme from New York, New York," but given the track's sultry, Stax-y...

10. playlist

    Snarky Puppy

    Bring Us the Bright (SiTMoM Records)

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: October 9, 2008

    Being named Best Jazz Act at this year's Dallas Observer Music Awards was just another addition to Snarky Puppy's already impressive résumé. Led by...

11. Bsides

    The Walkmen aren't as Dark as You Think They Are

    Singer Hamilton Leithauser wants to give his band's dark reputation the boot

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: October 9, 2008

    Somber, dark, sinister and gloomy are just a few of the adjectives most commonly used to describe the music of The Walkmen, one of New York City's most interesting indie rock...

12. North of the Dial

    Florene Thrives on its Members' Differences

    By Daniel Rodrigue

    Published: October 9, 2008

    Cupping his microphone in his hands, Aaron Mollet's hushed moans wash over the audience as the experimental lap-pop duo Florene starts its set at Dan's Silverleaf. The pair...

13. Dish

    Flavor Pulls a Disappearing Act at the Second Floor

    By Dave Faries

    Published: October 9, 2008

    What has yellow skin and writes? A ballpoint banana, of course. Stole that one from the classic 1966 version of Batman, the one where Penguin purchases a surplus nuclear...

14. Cheap Bastard

    Texadelphia Cuts the Mustard

    By ALICE LAUSSADE

    Published: October 9, 2008

    SMUchebag count: 6-8 Really good lemonade count: 1 I was so in the mood for some cheap wings and waffle fries the other day; so I drove my car on over to the Pluckers on...

15. Film

    Body of Lies follows the fight against terror into cyberspace

    Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy thriller we deserve

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: October 9, 2008

    A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most of all in cyberspace. Directed...

16. Night & Day

    Whiskey Laugh

    By Jesse Hughey

    Published: October 9, 2008

    Jameson Irish Whiskey's abortion of a comedy tour somehow managed to choose the four least funny overgrown frat-boy douchebags on Earth, with Bert Kreischer leading the charge....

17. Night & Day

    The Last Waltz

    Watch the final debate on the big screen

    By Dianna Wray

    Published: October 9, 2008

    During the last presidential debate in 2004, my shoe somehow flew across the room and missed the television screen at which it was aimed, hitting (and breaking) the antenna. It...

18. Night & Day

    Oh Brother

    Mark Grisham signs his book

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: October 9, 2008

    For every successful celebrity out there, there is often a lesser-known, sometimes slightly less attractive sibling to be found waiting in the wings. Chad Lowe, Don Swayze,...

19. Night & Day

    Oh Brother

    Mark Grisham signs his book

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: October 9, 2008

    For every successful celebrity out there, there is often a lesser-known, sometimes slightly less attractive sibling to be found waiting in the wings. Chad Lowe, Don Swayze,...

20. Night & Day

    Home With Laurie

    By Merritt Martin

    Published: October 9, 2008

    When music collides with performance art, the hope is always that nymph-like art rock icon Laurie Anderson is the mastermind. For more than three decades, Anderson has provided...