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Issue: May 22, 2008
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66 stories found - 1 through 20
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  1. Feature

    Families of Slain Soldiers Bond Together to Bind Their Wounds

    By Megan Feldman
    Published: May 22, 2008

    "Stacey, what do you see?" Sergeant Jonathan Markham asked his wife. He stopped the white Volvo. It was a sunny December day in 2006, and they'd been driving through Burleson...

  2. News

    Family Planning

    Lawyers in the FLDS case complain of state's one-size-fits-all approach

    By Jesse Hyde
    Published: May 22, 2008

    They came in twos and threes up the stone steps of the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo this week: rail-thin women in stiff cotton prairie dresses, their chins tucked...

  3. You Said It

    Looking For a Home|Rotten Apple

    Published: May 22, 2008

    "Bridging the Gap," by Naomi Zeveloff, May 8 Looking for a Home I appreciate the story and the informational side it seeks to provide. That being said, there is certainly a...

  4. Buzz

    Want to save an old hotel? Be our guest.

    By Patrick Williams
    Published: May 22, 2008

    Oh, all right already: Its outside smells like street-person pee. Its inside, when Buzz was in the bar years ago, looks like your parents' basement rec room. Its concrete and...

  5. Sports

    Mavericks' New Coach Promises Not To Be 'Ivory Johnson'

    By Richie Whitt
    Published: May 22, 2008

    I was totally prepared to be under-whelmed by the new Dallas Mavericks' head coach, Rick Carlisle. Micro-manager bordering on control freak. Unyielding commitment to defense...

  6. Ask a Mexican

    Ask A Mexican

    Laughter is a universal language; comedy isn't

    By Gustavo Arellano
    Published: May 22, 2008

    Dear Mexican: Why did the Mexican comedian Cantinflas never catch on in Hollywood? I thought he was supposed to usher in the Mexican wave of actors and movies that would help...

  7. Music

    Ozzfest 2008 is One Show Only...In Frisco

    Can the city withstand being the focus of speculation by thousands of metalheads?

    By Pete Freedman
    Published: May 22, 2008

    Last week, when the official word finally came out of Osbourne camp that this year's Ozzfest would be a one-day, one-off festival to be held in, of all places, here—or,...

  8. Music

    Fox News Akin To Southern Rap

    Anti-intellectual appeal and red-state focus are just the tip of what these two have in common.

    By Ben Westhoff
    Published: May 22, 2008

    If there's one thing the self-satisfied, liberal, tofu-munching, cappuccino-sipping, in vitro fertilization-using coastal elite hate, it's Fox News. The Rupert Murdoch-owned...

  9. Critics' Picks

    Alejandro Escovedo

    Friday, May 23, at House of Blues

    By Jesse Hughey
    Published: May 22, 2008

    Alejandro Escovedo's acclaimed 2006 album The Boxing Mirror ran the gamut of moods from melancholy to self-doubt, an appropriate response to his hepatitis C-related 2003 brush...

  10. playlist

    Duffy

    Rockferry (Mercury)

    By Marc Bliesener
    Published: May 22, 2008

    Duffy is like a kinder, gentler Amy Winehouse: Her blond hair, English-rose complexion and the lack of any real edge to her music ensures marketability. Witness the use of...

  11. Bsides

    Ladyhawk Frontman Admits Its Latest CD Is An Aquired Taste

    By Merritt Martin
    Published: May 22, 2008

    The recipe for recording a successful sophomore album begins with a bottle of cheap wine...sort of. In Ladyhawk's case, it starts with the band's beloved quick-fire sangria...

  12. North of the Dial

    Visual Artist Nevada Hill Creates Badass Album Covers and Posters For Denton Bands

    By Dave Sims
    Published: May 22, 2008

    If you've been to a show in Denton or seen a Denton band recently, there's a good chance you've also seen the work of visual artist and printmaker Nevada Hill. Hill's...

  13. Dish

    Review: Moroccan Lounge Medina Oven & Wine Bar

    By Mark Stuertz
    Published: May 22, 2008

    Medina Oven & Wine Bar is in Victory Park, so of course it is a restaurant with lounge-like accents. Nevertheless, there are no hookah pipes exhaling their fruity fume. There...

  14. Hash Over

    Urban Market Soon To Have a Mini-Me

    By Mark Stuertz
    Published: May 22, 2008

    Urban Market, the groundbreaking but bedeviled full-service grocer and café downtown in the Interurban Building (the 134-unit apartment high-rise fashioned out of the...

  15. Cheap Bastard

    Review: Zaguan Bakery Y Cafe

    We know little of Venezuela, but know we dig Zaguan's food.

    By ALICE LAUSSADE
    Published: May 22, 2008

    Padded ledges counting as seating: 4 Times my stomach punched me for not ordering fresh-squeezed papaya juice: 20 million I know three things about Venezuela: 1) It began as...

  16. Film

    Shots in the Dark

    Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

    By J. HOBERMAN
    Published: May 22, 2008

    CANNES, France—No need for dreaming here. Each Cannes Film Festival generates its own metaphors for a 10-day regimen of visions in the dark. It's impossible to forget,...

  17. Film

    Intruder in the Dust

    Its very own temple of doom, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull digs Indy into a deep hole

    By Robert Wilonsky
    Published: May 22, 2008

    Here's your hat, Indy, but, really, what's your hurry? Because 19 years after the Last Crusade that clearly wasn't, and 15 years after the old man joined Young Indiana Jones on...

  18. Night & Day

    Kid-Friendly Peas

    The Dallas Puppet Theater profiles a princess

    By JARED BINDER
    Published: May 22, 2008

    Back in the day, it was no easy feat to discover whether someone was a real princess or not. First of all, you had to place a pea on the floor. Then you covered the pea with...

  19. Night & Day

    Tanya Shocker

    By Daniel Rodrigue
    Published: May 22, 2008

    As any frequent peruser of dusty discount record bins knows, there are a handful of record albums that you're constantly flipping past. A few of the usual suspects, like...

  20. Night & Day

    What A Smash

    Gaylord Texan kicks off its fest with some loud Mouth

    By Andrea Grimes
    Published: May 22, 2008

    Let's say you really like pizza, but you don't like tomato sauce or cheese. So you order pizza without tomato sauce and cheese. If you're still calling that piece of bread with...

Issue: May 22, 2008
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66 stories found - 1 through 20
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