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1. Feature

   Can Nolan Ryan Save the Texas Rangers? Again?

   By Richie Whitt

   Published: March 13, 2008

   The Texas Rangers have demons. Demons they desperately need to exorcise, beginning in spring training at Surprise, Arizona. Most are self-spawned. All unwelcome. But the...

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   A Little Night Music

   The TCC turns out a concert opera

   By Rich Lopez

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Just who do those Turtle Creek Chorale singers think they are? They keep trying to push the conventional chorus concert to the edge by performing some elaborate concert opera....

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   Sides Live

   Carson biographer raises dough for Mayborn

   By Jesse Hyde

   Published: March 13, 2008

   By the time Kit Carson was 36 years old, he had hunted buffalo in the Great Plains, trapped beavers in the Rockies and gone deep into Mexico. He had been to the Grand Canyon,...

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   Smokin' Baptists

   By Noah W. Bailey

   Published: March 13, 2008

   At first I thought Smoke On The Mountain Homecoming was a play about Deep Purple's last reunion tour, but then I realized I was thinking of "Smoke on the Water." Turns out it's...

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   Sensual Flower

   By Merritt Martin

   Published: March 13, 2008

   What is it about flowers that is so damn sexy? Is it that hot pistil? That crazy nectar or those scented petals? Why is it that examining the sexual nature of...

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   Madame Mahler

   The lady is given her due

   By JARED BINDER

   Published: March 13, 2008

   Morrissey said it well, "To someone, somewhere, Alma matters in mind, body and soul." That someone is SMU's professor of art history, Dr. Alessandra Comini. In the latest of...

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   G.I.Joe Is Here

   By Jay Webb

   Published: March 13, 2008

   With almost daily casting news for the 2009 movie and a new batch of 25th anniversary action figures selling out on toy aisles, G.I. Joe mania is gaining steam, and the Great...

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   Jazz It Up

   Chet Baker is Lost at the Modern

   By Jennifer Elaine Davis

   Published: March 13, 2008

   I have, on occasion, been accused of being a music snob. Sure, I've spent most of the last five years on a crusade for a rare Bedhead 7-inch. And maybe I choked up when I heard...

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   G.I.Joe Is Here

   By Jay Webb

   Published: March 13, 2008

   With almost daily casting news for the 2009 movie and a new batch of 25th anniversary action figures selling out on toy aisles, G.I. Joe mania is gaining steam, and the Great...

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    Sides Live

    Carson biographer raises dough for Mayborn

    By Jesse Hyde

    Published: March 13, 2008

    By the time Kit Carson was 36 years old, he had hunted buffalo in the Great Plains, trapped beavers in the Rockies and gone deep into Mexico. He had been to the Grand Canyon,...

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    Jazz It Up

    Chet Baker is Lost at the Modern

    By Jennifer Elaine Davis

    Published: March 13, 2008

    I have, on occasion, been accused of being a music snob. Sure, I've spent most of the last five years on a crusade for a rare Bedhead 7-inch. And maybe I choked up when I heard...

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    Drama Lotto

    By Pete Freedman

    Published: March 13, 2008

    There's something to be said for the ability to take on a task and turn it around quickly. In the real world that gets you promoted. In the performance sphere, it gets you One...

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    Becks Comes Back

    Can we play Hoops around the Galaxy?

    By JENNIFER MEDINA

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Remember how totally lame it was last year, when Dallas' only sold-out game (thanks to Mr. Posh Spice) was a surreal experience in sports-watching? A sold-out,...

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    Thank It, Kindly

    Learn to be nice to your landscape

    By Jesse Hughey

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Do you need someone to tell you how to create an eco-friendly landscape? The people selling you a class on it sure think you do. I prefer to go with my gut when it comes to...

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    Drugged Dances

    The Inwood paints the screen red

    By Andrea Grimes

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Moulin Rouge! is the worst date movie of all time. Not because it isn't entertaining or because it doesn't appeal to a wide variety of movie-goers, because it is, and it does....

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    Trashy Times

    The Russ Martin Band tears up Nokia

    By JENNIFER MEDINA

    Published: March 13, 2008

    My afternoon drive home lasts all of about 15 minutes every day, but that 10 minutes is usually spent flipping between All Things Considered and the Russ Martin Show. One side...

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    Circle Around

    Intimacy is revisited at the Amon Carter

    By Rich Lopez

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Back in the 1940s, a small group of creative types called themselves the Fort Worth Circle Artists. Started by a mere four students from the FW School of Fine Arts, they...

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    Hot Dames

    The Lollie Bombs go cult

    By Mark Hughes

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Whether you're a douche, a thug, indie or goth everybody loves a lovely lady. So it's a can't-lose proposition when The Lollie Bombs hit the scene with Cult Fiction, a...

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    Strings of Red

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Le Violon rouge is a 1998 Canadian film aboot a haunted violin and its passage from owner to owner through the centuries. And this effin' violin gets around, man, landing in...

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    Bloomin' Vaqueros

    Don your hat and herd the doggies to the Arboretum

    By Patrick Williams

    Published: March 13, 2008

    Must...not...make...Brokeback Mountain...joke. Listen, Dallas Arboretum: You have one the coolest places in the city. Your annual Dallas Blooms festival, now in its 24th year...