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Pentecostal Preacher Sherman Allen Turns Out to Be Reverend Spanky
The Fort Worth preacher is accused of beating, threatening and assaulting women for more than 20 years
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Obama and Me
It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial
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Texas' Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop
Harvesting peyote is legal for only three people, and all of them live in Texas
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Why is Hillary Neglecting Delegate-Rich Dallas County?
While Obama has events going on throughout the city, Clinton is nowhere to be found
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Obama and Me (63)
It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial
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Melodica Festival Self-Indulgent, But Still Positive for Dallas (51)
If a festival happens in Exposition Park and only the built-in crowd shows, does it make a sound?
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Ole Oops (58)
Popular prosperity preacher sues ABC and Trinity Foundation
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Pentecostal Preacher Sherman Allen Turns Out to Be Reverend Spanky (23)
The Fort Worth preacher is accused of beating, threatening and assaulting women for more than 20 years
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Why is Hillary Neglecting Delegate-Rich Dallas County? (18)
While Obama has events going on throughout the city, Clinton is nowhere to be found
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When Two Become One
Kamadeva and Psyche need some love
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Landscape Badass
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Coffee Boy
David Sheff signs at Satrbucks
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Red All Over
Eneroth brings Sweden stateside
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Ain't That America?
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Leppert's Big Downtown Plans -- And They Don't Include a Reunion Casino
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Harkin, Is That Picture For Sale?
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If Only Eliot Spitzer Had Met This Former Dallas-Based "Former Independent Escort" First
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Overheard: SXSW Thursday Afternoon
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Motorhead at SXSW
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In Which We Learn That Vampire Weekend Is Totally Worth Our While
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Centro-matic, South San Gabriel, Robert Gomez
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Big Red Rooster, Psycho Blues, The Ropes, Braker Lane
Thursday, March 6, at The Aardvark, Fort Worth
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Mike Doughty
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Record Hop, The Great Tyrant, Red Monroe
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National Features
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Phoenix New Times
Canine Crusaders
That drug-sniffing dog up ahead? He may not be your best friend.
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
The Muscle Men
Thanks to a string of Florida "anti-aging clinics," baseball's steroid scandal isn't limited to superstars.
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Miami New Times
Picked On
Farm workers earn nada in America's green-bean capital.
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Village Voice
"Why I'm No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal"
An election-season essay from one of America's greatest playwrights.
By David Mamet
Green With Envy
The Irish Festival returns to Fair Park
By Jesse Hughey
Published: February 28, 2008
For a couple weeks leading up to St. Patrick's Day, many Caucasians aren't just white—we're Irish! In the wake of Black History Month, we long to have a culture worth celebrating, even if the only thing we know about our heritage is that Irish people drink Coors Light with green food coloring until they get sufficiently pissed and start picking fights. Filling that need this weekend is the North Texas Irish Festival, featuring music and dancing, kids' activities and even a Scottish Village. But despite all that supposedly authentic Celtic culture, I think it's appropriate that this year's North Texas Irish Festival is sponsored by the ambassador of shamrock culture that is Bennigan's, which offers true Irish fare such as Southwest Egg Rolls and boasts of serving "the coldest Guinness in town" despite the brewer recommendation to serve it at 42.8 degrees. The 2008 North Texas Irish Festival is 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Fair Park in Dallas. Tickets are $10 to $15 or $30 for a three-day pass and free for kids 11 and younger. Call 972-943-4616 or visit ntif.org for more information.
Fri., Feb. 29, 6-11 p.m.; Sat., March 1, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m.; Sun., March 2, 11:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m., 2008
