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Shapeshifter
Sawyer shows off at Holly Johnson
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: July 3, 2008
Sculptor Margo Sawyer's work takes inspiration from the work of Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl movement (Not just a Jack White-led garage rock trend, turns out) and can be...
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Oh My Gouache
The Conduit hosts an artistic trifecta
By KAITLIN INGRAM
Published: July 3, 2008
What do gouache, assemblages and ebullient figures have in common? Well, at least one thing: I have no idea what any of them are! But if you're an artistic person, I'm sure you...
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Artful Outpour
By Spencer Campbell
Published: July 3, 2008
It's often assumed that art is arbitrary pretension. Some look at Jackson Pollock and then at a monkey handling a brush and see no difference. These people might have a case...
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Moving Myths
Take in the work of Humberto Saenz
By Mark Hughes
Published: July 3, 2008
While politicians deal with immigration using talk about building fences, artists try to bring fences down. Who's right? Who knows, but while one makes policy, the other...
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Jumbo Screen
Ring up the funds for the DCT
By Jim Schutze
Published: July 3, 2008
Want to see an odd, possibly interesting 1962 movie about circus life, based on a play by Ben Hecht, who wrote Front Page and played a role in the creation of Israel? Sure you...
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It's Dream Time
By Merritt Martin
Published: July 3, 2008
Immigration these days, especially in this great state, is a loaded subject. People are passionate about the pros and cons, who is living in the house next to them, who's...
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Ghost In The Machine
Ghostbar celebrates its 2nd and the 4th on the 3rd
By Pete Freedman
Published: July 3, 2008
I don't think I'm pretty enough to hang at Ghostbar. Not with the likes of Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. Nor, I assume, the guy this event's press release calls "the Brad Pitt of...
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A Fourth Of Fun
Lone Star Park offers serious fireworks
By Glenna Whitley
Published: July 3, 2008
Fast horses, gambling, fireworks and the chance to win a new car. Sounds like Wheel of Fortune when Vanna's showing her cleavage. On Thursday and Friday celebrate Independence...
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A Father's Day
The Modern screens a tear-jerking memoir
By Katey Margolis
Published: July 3, 2008
The Modern in Fort Worth continues its Magnolia at the Modern series this weekend with And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007). From director Anand Tucker (Shopgirl), the...
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Midnight Special
Inwood goes with a late night double feature
By Rich Lopez
Published: July 3, 2008
I have issues when it comes to the midnight movie thing. Movies with bugs, muscle cars or big-breasted chicks are worthy of the campy timeslot -- not former Hollywood...
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Ultimate Damon
By Spencer Campbell
Published: July 3, 2008
It's really tough to say anything negative about Matt Damon. Like a docked seaman, Ben Affleck has ripped through any willing movie since Good Will Hunting debuted, while Damon...
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Tom Jones
By Andrea Grimes
Published: July 3, 2008
Laydeez, raise the terror alert to red and don your protective gear. Local authorities have identified a serious threat to your panties. Look out for Tom Jones, suspected...
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Alphabet Tunes
Brought to you by the letter Q
By Jesse Hughey
Published: July 3, 2008
With a cast that includes people and plush puppets, Casa Mañana's upcoming production, the 2004 Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, is obviously inspired by Sesame...
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Up With People
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: July 3, 2008
A self-proclaimed bibliophile, I'm a champion for the tangible text--eBooks are a cop-out and most book-to-film adaptations just plain blow. The only time something beats out a...
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Stage
Magnum Farce
Another Noises Off? Yes, but pants-dropping time at Stage West lacks many of the play's big laughs
By Elaine Liner
Published: July 3, 2008
A good production of a good play about a bad production of a bad play is the tricky part of staging Noises Off. Michael Frayn's three-act inside joke about the delicate nuances...
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Feature
Vintage Tex-Mex
By Robb Walsh
Published: July 3, 2008
Caro's 205 N. Garcia St. Rio Grande City 956-487-2255 Since 1937 and Caro's 3505 Blue Bonnet Circle Fort Worth 817-924-9977 Since 1954 What to get: Tostadas and puffed...
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Critics' Picks
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Sharon Little
Monday, July 7, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: July 3, 2008
Music's certainly seen its share of odd-couple collaborators, from David Bowie and Bing Crosby to Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue. But no pairing has felt so strangely...
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playlist
Sigur Rós
Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust (XL)
By Michael Roberts
Published: July 3, 2008
Sigur Rós's latest is positively festooned with danger signs: first album to be mainly recorded outside its home base of Iceland; first to feature a track sung in...
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Bsides
Corporate Affairs
With so many major company-sponsored shows stopping in town this month, we're starting to wonder just how far this trend might go
By Cole Haddon
Published: July 3, 2008
Sports teams have, for some time now, willingly pimped their reputation out to anybody for a buck—cough, American Airlines Center, cough—and now, it seems, rock...
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Film
Beyond Gonzo
Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will—a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 3, 2008
"In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome." So wrote Hunter S. Thompson of the Hells...
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