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Feature
It's Dr Pepper Time!
As least for those bootlegging the sugar-sweetened stuff out of Dublin, Texas
By Robb Walsh
Published: June 5, 2008
Ask any Dublin Dr Pepper bootlegger what the fuss is all about. They'll tell you that the top-shelf, premier cru of Texas soda pop is selling for eight bucks a six-pack in some...
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News
Phony Heroes
Fakers find they can easily get license plates reserved for military heroes
By Glenna Whitley
Published: June 5, 2008
Once a month or so, a small group of old warriors gather for lunch at Dunston's Steakhouse on Harry Hines Boulevard. They don't look extraordinary, and they won't talk about...
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You Said It
Unpayable Debts|Found Boy of Sudan|Rule of Law
Published: June 5, 2008
"Terrain of Grief," by Megan Feldman, May 22 Unpayable debts As our "better angels" would have it, I was drawn on this Memorial Day to the "Terrain of Grief" cover of the May...
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Buzz
Words of Wiz-dumb
By Patrick Williams
Published: June 5, 2008
Words of wiz-dumb: Here's an interesting bit of polling news reported by political Web site Daily Kos: Democrat Rick Noriega has pulled within 4 points of...beg your pardon?...
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Schutze
Bushwhacked
Let's just say Bush gets charged with war crimes. Will Dallas be guilty by association with his library?
By Jim Schutze
Published: June 5, 2008
Peter Lesser, the lawyer, does this abbreviated history of Dallas' image in the world. It goes something like this: "Bump on a log, assassination. Bump on a log, Dallas...
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Sports
Fourth and Long
As lawyers battle over what caused his coma, former Cowboy Ron Springs battles for life
By Richie Whitt
Published: June 5, 2008
The publicity has died. But quietly, meekly, barely—Ron Springs lives. That is, if you call this living. Lying in a vegetative state at Medical City Hospital in Dallas...
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Ask a Mexican
Bigots Here, Bigots There, Bigots Everywhere
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: June 5, 2008
Dear Mexican: First, it was the Native Americans, then it was the blacks, then the Japanese. For a while, Muslims. Now, I fear that American prejudice will soon overwhelm...
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Music
Junior Circuit
There exists a world much like our own where emo pop-punk acts reign supreme over the Dallas music scene
By Pete Freedman
Published: June 5, 2008
In a bizarro world, in the Dallas of an alternate, and perhaps better, universe, The Lash Outs' "The Kids Don't Wanna Dance" is the city's breakout hit of the summer. A bouncy...
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Music
North of the Dial
By Dave Sims
Published: June 5, 2008
George Neal likes the characters in his songs to suffer. Chalk it up to a streak of aesthetic sadism if you will, but for the better part of the last two decades, it's a...
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Music
Ain't No Mountain High
The musicians behind Mount Righteous' feel-good amp-less ensemble aim to get you on their level
By Pete Freedman
Published: June 5, 2008
There are 11 of them. Well, not right now, actually. At this very moment, only nine of Mount Righteous' members have gathered in the driveway of bass drum player Joey Kendall's...
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Critics' Picks
The Cure, 65daysofstatic
Friday, June 6, at American Airlines Center
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: June 5, 2008
Thanks to an endless flood of import singles, live albums and re-releases, it's hard to believe that The Cure's next album, which is due in September, is only the gloom-rockers...
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playlist
Shearwater
Rooks (Matador)
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 5, 2008
It's not exactly surprising that Shearwater vocalist Jonathan Meiburg moonlights as an ornithologist—after all, he thanks four birds by scientific name in the liner notes...
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Bsides
Cord Changes
When The Helio Sequence's Brandon Summers lost his voice, he discovered his band's new sound
By AJA PECKNOLD
Published: June 5, 2008
When Helio Sequence performs live, it's hard to believe sometimes that it's only two people making all that noise. Especially now. Now, vocalist/guitarist Brandon Summers'...
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Dish
Review: Cafe R&D
Café R&D serves up pretty, tasty dishes, but where's the meow mix?
By Elaine Liner
Published: June 5, 2008
The prettiest dishes at Café R&D aren't coming out of the busy open kitchen; they're posing around the oval stretch of bar, or curled into the deep booths at martini...
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Cheap Bastard
Review: Fish Bone Grill
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: June 5, 2008
Crabs cheersing beer on the menu directly under "juniors get 1.00 off any lunch item" count: 2 A/C unit out count: 1 So, what are you supposed to do when you simultaneously...
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Film
Review: The Foot Fist Way
Tae kwon do comedy The Foot Fist Way stars a truly cringe-tastic Danny McBride
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 5, 2008
The Foot Fist Way has been trying to break into theaters since clawing its way down film-fest row, beginning at Sundance in '06. It took Will Ferrell and his comedy life...
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Night & Day
Sleazin' Out
The Dallas Bar motions for a satire
By Andrea Grimes
Published: June 5, 2008
Anyone who's ever been on the wrong end of an attorney's bill (to wit: not the money-receiving end) has wondered: What precisely am I paying for? Sometimes you know right off....
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Night & Day
Texas Two-Step
By Jesse Hughey
Published: June 5, 2008
What makes a Texas romance different from any other romance? Old-fashioned values, cultural ignorance and other Lone Star stereotypes. A Texas Romance concerns a widow courted...
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Night & Day
Look Sharp
The EOS has its Eyes on you
By Mark Hughes
Published: June 5, 2008
We're being watched. Observers are constantly scanning our planet from space. Collectively, they are called the EOS, and they monitor everything. The EOS, or Earth Observing...
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Night & Day
Lost and Found
Loss of Time is on Kaufmann’s side
By Danna Berger
Published: June 5, 2008
I don't lose time. When hours leap from my schedule like old shoes from the roof of a car, I can see right where they are--mocking me and inaccessible. Time is a relative...
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