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Better Than...
Find your level of Good at MFA
By JARED BINDER
Published: August 14, 2008
The grandchildren of Andy Warhol will soon display their goods at the Mighty Fine Arts gallery. Of course Polly Perez and Erik Tosten are not Warhol's descendants in the...
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Fur-Bidden
By Jesse Hughey
Published: August 14, 2008
Open letter to my daughter: Iris, I regret to inform you that you're forbidden to attend the All Pet Expo. You've already turned our house into a petting zoo. Your mother and I...
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Reading Pays Off
By KAITLIN INGRAM
Published: August 14, 2008
Parents always want their kids to be lawyers. And lawyers do make serious bank, it's true. But is money alone enough to fulfill that burning desire in your heart of hearts?...
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Waxing Nostalgic
Kettle Art showcases the good ol' days
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: August 14, 2008
This is going to make me sound like a pretentious shoegazing ass, but one of my favorite art pieces in my home is a Mazzy Star poster ripped off the wall of the Bomb Factory...
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Czech It Out
PDNB hangs out with contemporaries
By Merritt Martin
Published: August 14, 2008
The first thing I envision when I think of Czech art is the kolache. Oh, seriously. Those hunks of perfect, tender dough, the hollow in the middle cradling some perfectly sweet...
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Funny For Us
Farce times in Addison
By Merritt Martin
Published: August 14, 2008
You know, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. After getting out of my stone-columned enclosure right around lunchtime I was trying to retie my toga in that swooping...
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Drawing On The Past
The Women's Museum displays Allender
By Merritt Martin
Published: August 14, 2008
When we consider the idea of a political cartoon, we often think of a detailed drawing riffing on some error in judgement by one of our fearless leaders. Bill Clinton smoking a...
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Before The Rise
By Mark Hughes
Published: August 14, 2008
Did you know a pro athlete during college, a successful musician when he struggled unnoticed at an open-mic or a porn star when she was a Hooters waitress? That's cool. It's...
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Just Give The Words
Borders becomes a donation station
By Brittan Dunham
Published: August 14, 2008
Good old LeVar, the big brother none of us had. All he wanted was to open our minds with a book. Hit up your local Borders bookstore now through the end of August and you can...
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Sparks Of Laughter
Hal and his facial hair take the stage
By Andrea Grimes
Published: August 14, 2008
Hal Sparks is a man of many talents--rocking his man-itude on Queer as Folk, hosting Talk Soup and rocking out with his band Zero 1. He's even able to add personality to the...
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Selling Shakespeare
The MAC offers one night with The Merchant
By Patrick Williams
Published: August 14, 2008
The Merchant of Venice is a comedy? Oh, sure, that's easy for you to say, white bread. If you're Jewish or black--ol' Willie Shakespeare's play has some unflattering words...
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Moving Stills
The Modern screens MoMA's gems
By Brittan Dunham
Published: August 14, 2008
Someone (who was that?) once said "a picture is worth a thousand words." If still pictures happen at 24 frames-per-second in movies...well, you do the math. The Museum of...
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Stage
Bizarro World
Lesbian bull-riders, menopausal mamas and a not-so-sexy Stanley Kowalski—ah, the stuff of theater
By Elaine Liner
Published: August 14, 2008
In Zanna, Don't! every kid has two mommies. Or two daddies. Being gay is the norm, and heteros are closeted in the candy-colored, bully-free, over-the-rainbow world invented by...
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Critics' Picks
John Freeman's Going Away Thing with Baboon, Telethon, Gun Gun, The Hack and Slashers
Saturday, August 16, at The Double Wide
By Jesse Hughey
Published: August 14, 2008
It's time to bid adieu (again) to one of Dallas' music VIPs, as John Freeman once again leaves town. And sending off the Dutch Treat and former Sloppyworld owner is one of the...
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Heat Rave
Remember when summer was awesome? No? Well, Here are 10 great summers in music history to jog your memory.
By Cole Haddon
Published: August 14, 2008
Summer is in full swing—and, here in Texas, it's a long way from being over. Ugh. It's tough to say why we don't love the season like we used to. Don't get us wrong; we...
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Film
Apocalypse Whatever
Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 14, 2008
Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz parodies—a savage beast with a...
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Critics' Picks
Dave Matthews Band
Saturday, August 16, at Superpages.com Center
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: August 14, 2008
Want to make a hipster snarl? Just utter the following innocuous sentence: "Wanna go see The Dave Matthews Band?" Then watch the fun begin. The mere suggestion of attending...
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Critics' Picks
Cex
Sunday, August 17, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton
By Tom Murphy
Published: August 14, 2008
Rjyan Kidwell started up Cex in 1998, when he was just 16 years old. At 17, he launched the influential Tigerbeat6 label with Kid 606. By the time he was out of high school,...
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