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Good Radio?
Indie rock finds a new home in Dallas' cluttered corporate radio landscape
By Pete Freedman
Published: June 19, 2008
Eric Landrum's a bit of an anomaly these days—he actually listens to commercial radio. And now he's making a push to get Dallas' most discerning listening audiences to...
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Film
Empire Strikes Back
Mongol paints a historically hazy but kick-ass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 19, 2008
You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny, old-school epic to make the CGI...
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Critics' Picks
Tom Waits
Monday, June 23, at the Palladium Ballroom
By Jesse Hughey
Published: June 19, 2008
Even if you don't own a single Tom Waits album, you know his immediately recognizable voice, the result of vocal cords made from 40-grit sandpaper soaked in bourbon and cured...
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Silver Jews
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 19, 2008
The liner notes to Dave Berman's sixth full length outing with his Silver Jews come complete not only with lyrics but with friggin' guitar chords. It's a strange touch, but an...
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Film
One Bad Mother
Dario Argento caps off his horror trilogy with horrific parody
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 19, 2008
A topsy-turvy Escherland exists where Dario Argento's The Mother of Tears is considered a twisted classic, and it is a magical place. Up is down, sour is sweet, sewer rat...
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Critics' Picks
Boston
Tuesday, June 24, at Nokia Theatre
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 19, 2008
On March 9, 2007, Paul Rudd walked into a room in the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin wearing a faded T-shirt bearing the iconic Boston logo from the band's 1976 debut—the...
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Film
As American as Overpriced Dolls
In Kit Kittredge, all it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: June 19, 2008
To my 10-year-old daughter, the term "American Girl" means "that store my meanie of a mom—unlike all the other, higher-quality moms—won't let me go near." Why...
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