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Feature
The Ozz-Man Cometh
After years of touring the nation, Ozzfest 2008 finds a home in Dallas' suburbs
By Pete Freedman
Published: August 7, 2008
In early April, Bruce Corbitt awoke from a late sleep to find a voicemail awaiting him. It was a stranger, a woman who had seen his band, Texas Metal Alliance, perform a...
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News
All He Can Be
After a bitter separation from Special Olympics, a Lewisville father keeps pushing his Unique Athletes
By Jesse Hyde
Published: August 7, 2008
It was a hot morning in July at the Lake Park Golf Course in Lewisville, and the teenager known as Tank had a choice to make. It was an 8-foot putt, breaking right to left....
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You Said It
Accentuate the Positive|Cesar Who?
Published: August 7, 2008
"The Caretaker," by Jesse Hyde, July 31 Accentuate the Positive I read with interest the story of Haseeb Chishty by Jesse Hyde. As the previous superintendent of the Denton...
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Buzz
Shocking
By Patrick Williams
Published: August 7, 2008
Shocking: Like many of you, Buzz recently received our electricity bill for July. Don't ask us how much it was; just picture a middle-aged man doing the bulging-eyes thing you...
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Schutze
Homeward Banned
City Hall says its new shelter has solved our homeless problem. But not for those who have been banished from it.
By Jim Schutze
Published: August 7, 2008
By any chance, were you ever one of those people from a church or synagogue or mosque or some other outfit that used to come downtown in a van and feed the homeless? I say,...
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Sports
Wading Through Doubt
Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips is guaranteed nothing beyond a talented team in 2008
By Richie Whitt
Published: August 7, 2008
Oxnard, California: This season will be Texas Stadium's last hurrah. The same fate shouldn't be reserved for Wade Phillips. It's all—well, mostly—caviar dreams...
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Ask a Mexican
Ask a Mexican
A ban on Spanish at work? Probably legal. Certainly dumb.
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: August 7, 2008
Dear Mexican: Where I recently started working, Latinos make up about 95 percent of the workforce. We are, however, prohibited from speaking Spanish. Our supervisor tells us...
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Music
Line 'Em Up
The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club vrooms into Deep Ellum, sparking hope in a new venue's owners
By Pete Freedman
Published: August 7, 2008
I'm not great with numbers, but I know that there was a pretty substantial line outside Club Dada on Friday night to see Black Rebel Motorcycle Club—four wide,...
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Music
Blazing a Trail
Believe it or not, The New Frontiers is a local act. Well, for now.
By Darryl Smyers
Published: August 7, 2008
A few days before going out on tour, Alex Bhore, drummer for alt-country rockers The New Frontiers, wants people to know that his group is definitely from Dallas. "We play a...
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Critics' Picks
Ariel Pink
Friday, August 8, at Hailey's Club, Denton
By Dave Segal
Published: August 7, 2008
Ariel Pink and his Haunted Graffiti crew have been racking up hipster cred and media acclaim for a few years now with seriously wacked lo-fi pop. And though his last effort,...
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playlist
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst (Merge)
By Nicholas Hall
Published: August 7, 2008
Oberst has the tendency to be heavy-handed with metaphor and with language in general, often reading like a hipper, more literate version of a 16-year-old's poetry journal. His...
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Bsides
No More Bull
After splitting from Matador, Early Man searchs for—and finds—a newfound credibility
By Richard Bienstock
Published: August 7, 2008
This year did not exactly begin on a high note for Mike Conte. In January, his band, Early Man, split from Matador, its label of three years, following a somewhat disappointing...
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Dish
Mi Corazón
By Merritt Martin
Published: August 7, 2008
A scene in 2003’s Lost in Translation depicts Bob (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) ordering shabu shabu from a menu that is basically a photo essay of...
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Cheap Bastard
JG's
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: August 7, 2008
Fuddruckers-esque decorations count: a million and seven Patio count: 1 Sonics within a 2-mile radius count: 5 It's summer, and it's not too late to fit into that bikini,...
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Film
True Bromance
Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 7, 2008
On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks and geeks who have made Judd...
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Night & Day
Little Boxes
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: August 7, 2008
When I was a kid, nothing sparked the flames of fantasy and adventure like a treehouse, a playhouse or a makeshift fort. I didn't care whether the fort was built around the...
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Night & Day
Motherhood for Dummies
Peel dishes tips at Barnes & Noble
By Jesse Hughey
Published: August 7, 2008
I haven't read Kathy Peel's latest book, Busy Mom's Guide to a Happy, Organized Home: Fast Solutions to Hundreds of Everyday Dilemmas, but I can tell from the title (and the...
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Night & Day
Queen Question
See the story of Helen Thomas
By Andrea Grimes
Published: August 7, 2008
If it's an American institution you're looking for, don't start with apple pie or the Smithsonian or Miley Cyrus. Ignore Chevy trucks, Toby Keith and Jack Bauer. There's none...
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Night & Day
Circles And...
See some cyclical art at Meridian Room
By Andrea Grimes
Published: August 7, 2008
When it comes to glorifying man-made means of transportation and feats of technology, the entire country of the United States of America serves as a pretty powerful altar to...
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Night & Day
Around the World In 60 Clicks
Share a global Kodak moment
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: August 7, 2008
Have you ever been, uh, dropping some kids off at the pool and thought, "Hey, I wonder how many other people are dropping kids off at the pool right now too?" Sure you have. So...
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