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41. News

    Want to work for the Dallas Observer?

    Published: July 31, 2008

    The Dallas Observer has an immediate opening for a full-time restaurant critic. We want someone who is passionate about food, knowledgeable about the restaurant industry and is...

42. Critics' Picks

    Fair to Midland, The Feds, Oso Closo, The Timeline Post

    Saturday, August 2, House of Blues

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: July 31, 2008

    Rarely will one find a bill of metal-related shenanigans better than what will take place at the House of Blues this particular night. Local progressive art metal heroes Fair...

43. playlist

    Home Grown: Kessler

    I Know Your Voice (YMA)

    By Darryl Smyers

    Published: July 31, 2008

    Like so many who ply their craft under the seemingly all-inclusive banner of emo, the members of local rock quintet Kessler appear to have it all: tasteful clothes, high...

44. Film

    Costume Ball

    Provocateurs Catherine Breillat and Asia Argento put their stamp (or tattoo) on 19th-century France

    By J. HOBERMAN

    Published: July 31, 2008

    Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy Jules-Amédée Barbey...

45. Film

    Corpse Fried

    The Mummy franchise has seen better days

    By Vadim Rizov

    Published: July 31, 2008

    I was 13 when Stephen Sommers's 1999 remake-in-name-only of The Mummy came out—just about the ideal age. Sommers is definitely some kind of junk-addled auteur, and if The...