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Prog-Com
Sanches signs his C-and-C song fodder
By Merritt Martin
Published: July 31, 2008
My limited knowledge of comics remains confined to the vintage cartoons of Gorey and Addams, but The Armory Wars intrigues me. The brainchild of Coheed and Cambria frontman...
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Aspire Higher
Sehnsucht is a real beauty
By Merritt Martin
Published: July 31, 2008
Sehnsucht, a German "composite" word, loosely translates to "aspiration" or "longing" in English--at least, that's the closest we can come since there's no literal match. It's...
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Wild Bill
Frisell shows off in Cowtown
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: July 31, 2008
If you were to ask the average Joe on the street who his favorite guitar player is, you'd probably get an answer like "Jimi Hendrix" if you're lucky, "Dave Matthews" if you're...
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Hot Flash, Stage Left
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: July 31, 2008
I'm going to wager that there aren't going to be a lot of men at Menopause: The Musical. It's a subject that makes them a little nervous anyway (like tampon commercials and...
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Ballet Bites
Yum, yum, step. Yum, yum, turn.
By Andrea Grimes
Published: July 31, 2008
Line up at the buffet of news, kids, because we're about to serve you up a heaping entree of extended food metaphors! Ask your waiter for a tall glass of grammar, 'cause we've...
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Spiked Up
Get sand in your pants this weekend
By John Freeman
Published: July 31, 2008
When people think about volleyball, some may reminisce about that awesome game in junior high where they spiked the hell out of that ball. Others may get all nostalgic for...
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Pardo Me, Sir
By Andrea Grimes
Published: July 31, 2008
Comedian Jimmy Pardo is handsome and suave. He's appeared on That '70s Show and has a Comedy Central special. Sadly, Pardo has also been labeled a "comic's comic," which means...
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Hurry Up And Drink
Singles with ADD, please report here
By Jesse Hughey
Published: July 31, 2008
The latest service to exploit singles' fear that they're incapable of finding love without some gimmicky introduction, HurryDate offers a series of four-minute "dates" packed...
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Playing With Numbers
Go from Fellini to Irving in one night
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: July 31, 2008
It seems like there's nothing original anymore. Case in point: Nine, the Tony Award-winning musical closing Irving Community Theater's 2008 season. It's inspired by Federico...
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Get Tintype-Cast
Kendrick's cowboys are stabled at the Afterimage
By Patrick Williams
Published: July 31, 2008
According to the December 2007 article that first accompanied photographer Robb Kendrick's tintypes of modern cowboys, a typical horse-riding buckaroo can expect to earn around...
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Strange Fruit Project
By Jesse Hughey
Published: July 31, 2008
Big Daddy Kane is the headliner here, but make sure to show up on time for the local boys. "Soul Clap," from Strange Fruit Project's 2006 The Healing, is a perfect example of...
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Darkness Falls
See a triplet of indie theater gems at Stage West
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: July 31, 2008
At my high school, the drama club snuck whiskey into shampoo bottles on UIL trips and drank until morning in Holiday Inns. They weren't like the maligned theater kids you see...
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Jay Reatard
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: July 31, 2008
Remember the first time you heard the Pixies' classic "Where Is My Mind?" It condensed the euphoria of cutting anchor and sailing into the abyss into a four-minute pop song....
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Map Skillz
The Goonies makes us want to go on an adventure
By Sam Merten
Published: July 31, 2008
Outstanding performances in last year's No Country for Old Men and American Gangster along with a role as President George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's upcoming W. may have you...
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Night & Day
Roger That
Will Rogers comes back to life in Garland
By Merritt Martin
Published: July 31, 2008
Will Rogers entertained audiences spanning several generations before his untimely and nation-shocking demise in a plane crash. He was endeared to America through his natural...
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Stage
Valli High
Flawless Jersey Boys captures an era and captivates the audience; Nine also scores a perfect 10
By Elaine Liner
Published: July 31, 2008
Oh, what a night. A great big Broadway smash called Jersey Boys hits the Music Hall at Fair Park and suddenly everything is all right again. Soaring on tunes about love,...
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Critics' Picks
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Friday, August 1, Club Dada
By Pete Freedman
Published: July 31, 2008
Calling this booking a "coup" is like calling King Kong just another monkey. How about "complete and utter shocker"? That's closer: Club Dada'd be hard-pressed to hold more...
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playlist
Dr. Dog
Fate (Park the Van)
By Reed Fischer
Published: July 31, 2008
"Something that we've been trying to hone in on in Dr. Dog for a really long time is how to record musicians, not just parts," co-frontman Scott McMicken said earlier this...
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Bsides
Top of the Pops
For a guy who so ferevently tries to subvert the world of pop Music, Jay Reatard sure does write some good pop songs.
By Hobey Echlin
Published: July 31, 2008
Boredom has boosted Jay Reatard's career. The 28-year-old Memphis-based garage phenom, who has been banging out rough-hewn pop gems in his home studio for a decade in a dozen...
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Film
Young Adult Fiction
High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: July 31, 2008
Notwithstanding all the pundit-driven hot air about the horrors of being young in today's America, I'm willing to buy the argument that it's getting harder to survive those...
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