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Feature
Fighting Fire With Fire
Does an unproven treatment that combats drug addiction with drugs promise more than it can deliver?
By Megan Feldman
Published: August 14, 2008
His nightly transformation began with a twinge. Then, gnawing and relentless, it consumed him. At 45, "Steve" was a hard-charging sales manager who'd snagged two promotions in...
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News
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
War is hell on marriages, and military divorces aren't easy either
By Megan Feldman
Published: August 14, 2008
In 1999, attorney John Carney received an unusual phone call. An American soldier, dialing from Japan, said he was having trouble finding a lawyer to handle his...
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You Said It
Ozzy Love|Burning Bridge
Published: August 14, 2008
"The Ozz-Man Cometh," by Pete Freedman, August 7 Ozzy Love I've been to a number of Ozzfests in the past, and I can truly say that there is nothing better in the summer...if...
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Buzz
Is It Over Yet?
By Patrick Williams
Published: August 14, 2008
Is it over yet? Because any election in which Paris Hilton becomes an issue—and offers a better energy plan than the two candidates—can't be over too soon, Buzz...
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Schutze
Low-Bid to No-Bid
Don't have a clue how DART could bust its budget by a billion bucks? Here's one.
By Jim Schutze
Published: August 14, 2008
Aha. Finally got my documents from Dallas Area Regional Transit. Think I may be on to something. Last November DART announced it was suddenly almost a billion dollars short in...
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Ask a Mexican
Ask a Mexican
No one ever got rich popping out babies
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: August 14, 2008
Dear Mexican: As a Mexican, I'm always ashamed of the fact that a lot of Mexican women just come to the United States to have babies and to use this country's welfare. I know a...
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Music
Stand and Deliver
WIth No Deliverance, The Toadies revert to the bare bones of their past
By Pete Freedman
Published: August 14, 2008
It was a Big Deal time slot: Lollapalooza co-headliners Wilco and Rage Against the Machine were scheduled to go on at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 2, only about an hour after...
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Music
Crazy, But That's How It Goes
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love Ozzfest
By Jesse Hughey
Published: August 14, 2008
The night before Ozzfest, I was regretting that I'd agreed to write about it for this week's music column while Dallas Observer music editor Pete Freedman was on vacation....
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Critics' Picks
Eyedea & Abilities
Thursday, August 14, at Hailey's, Denton
By Chris Parker
Published: August 14, 2008
This Minneapolis duo has been a team since their teens, when DJ Abilities left home and Eyedea's mom put him up in their basement, where their partnership flourished. Eyedea...
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Bsides
Shoe Strung
A Place To Bury Strangers isn't shoegaze. Or is it?
By Shae Moseley
Published: August 14, 2008
Since several influential, tastemaking blogs anointed A Place to Bury Strangers as "New York City's loudest band" last year, the buzz around the band's self-titled debut album...
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Dish
The South Rises Again
Screen Door swings both ways, melding traditional Southern cooking with modern cuisine
By Mark Stuertz
Published: August 14, 2008
Screen Door bills itself—in the parlance of some of the finest whiskeys—as a blend, a melding of modern culinary wisdom with decades of tried-and-true grit from the...
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Cheap Bastard
Galindo's
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: August 14, 2008
Beer posters with boob girls on them count: 3 Creepy, anthropomorphized jalapeño with gloves on the menu count: 1 Known scientific fact: Mexican food is tasty shit. And...
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Film
Mighty Aphrodites
Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces—and some other stuff—in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: August 14, 2008
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to endear itself to the...
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Night & Day
Head East
The Asian Film Festival has promise
By John Freeman
Published: August 14, 2008
Dallas is lucky to have the Asian Film Festival. Your average moviegoer still thinks of Asian films exclusively in terms of kung-fu and samurai flicks. Don't worry--there will...
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Night & Day
The Blues Period
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: August 14, 2008
Painting portraits of your favorite musicians is a time-honored way of paying homage to the artists you love. But more often than not, it's not that compelling as art. Sure,...
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Night & Day
Leaving Tracks
These students are making a mark on art
By S. Anne Durham
Published: August 14, 2008
Lots of high school students draw, but too often, those great works of art never go beyond doodles on notebooks, scribblings in worksheet margins and (shhh...don't tell)...
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Night & Day
A Bang-Up Show
Two peeps play everyone in history
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: August 14, 2008
Suppose two guys want to make a Broadway musical about the history of the planet from the beginning of time through the present day. Well, first they'd need some major...
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Night & Day
Wardrobe Melodies
Crawl inside Theatre Arlington's Narnia
By Megan Feldman
Published: August 14, 2008
Ok, I'll admit it. When I was around 10, I ventured into the closet, my heart set on a magical transportation to Narnia, C.S. Lewis' fantasy world full of mystical creatures...
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Night & Day
Elder Stateswomen
See just how Ms. Texas Senior America stacks up
By Andrea Grimes
Published: August 14, 2008
Despite appearances, the Ms. Texas Senior America Pageant, sponsored by Mature Texan magazine, is not a beauty pageant. How do we know? Because the Web site says so. Sure,...
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Night & Day
The Chosen Arts
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: August 14, 2008
Imagine you're a Russian Jew coming to live in America in 1909. Odds are you might wind up in New York City, though there are certainly other places you might logically unpack...
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