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Truckload of Candles
Celebrate Krishna's birthday
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: August 21, 2008
Mark your calendars, because God's birthday is coming up, and it's time for a celebration. No, I'm not talking about Jesus' dad. Rumor has it he's not really the partying type,...
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Mall Varmints
By Mark Hughes
Published: August 21, 2008
We think it's about time you taught your kids about the regional wildlife. No, we're not talking about a field trip to Greenville Avenue at 2:05 a.m. after all the bars have...
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Been Caught Stealing
EASL offers local artists life support
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: August 21, 2008
There's no health plan in art. I'm sure that there are some artists out there who have spouses or families that can put them on their health plans, and I bet there are probably...
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Aloha, Garland
The Plaza takes an island journey
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: August 21, 2008
Geography is something of a lost science. With air transportation a fact of life, however miserable, there's no destination on earth that's not accessible with a day or two of...
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Chin For Charity
Jay Leno brings the funny for Casa Jay Leno brings the funny for Casa Mañana
By Brittan Dunham
Published: August 21, 2008
He may be on his way out of The Tonight Show door, but Jay Leno isn't looking to settle down anytime soon. For starters, he's bringing those one-liners and witticisms to North...
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Chili Bowl
The Cowboys host the Texans
By Jesse Hyde
Published: August 21, 2008
What does the NFL preseason teach us? Not much. That's especially true this year, when we know the Cowboys are stacked in pretty much every position and are the odds-on...
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The River Wild
Garland floats out Agatha Christie
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: August 21, 2008
As far as honeymoons go, taking a steam ship down the Nile sounds like quite the romantic plan. But in Agatha Christie's play Murder on the Nile, the exotic trip of newlyweds...
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Women's Room
The DMH is having crazy VISIONS
By Merritt Martin
Published: August 21, 2008
For the "most popular women's event in the Southwest," VISIONS: The Women's Expo knows exactly how to target their audience. When it comes to bonding the ladies together,...
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Sime-onara
Tom Sime stages a farewell comedy
By Rich Lopez
Published: August 21, 2008
Talk about a wild ride. After 16 years as a theater critic, Tom Sime is now an award-winning playwright about to make the jump from Dallas to New York. Before he heads out,...
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The Great Tyrant
By Jesse Hughey
Published: August 21, 2008
The Great Tyrant can always be counted on for some coffin-dark rock. Vocal effects alternately give Beck voice-of-God depth and the guttural roar of a B-movie demon, and his...
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Mighty Morph-In'
By S. Anne Durham
Published: August 21, 2008
For those who prefer to eat, sleep and breathe their craft, there's nothing like the full-on immersion of an artist's residency. And as far as artist residencies go, we can't...
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All Grown Up
Paula and the boys got the Blues
By Merritt Martin
Published: August 21, 2008
Paula Nelson may not look like her daddy, the king of the Lone Star State's bio-herbal brigade and creator of some of the most legendary country ever, but she's got him in her...
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Cool As Ice
See Newman at NYLO
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: August 21, 2008
When someone mentions Paul Newman, I immediately think salad dressings, salsas and Ginger-O's, but then I picture him as Luke in the opening scene of Cool Hand Luke. Drunk and...
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The Big Return
Awilo Longomba dazzles Dallas
By Merritt Martin
Published: August 21, 2008
Due to travel issues, US Congolese KORA Music Award winner Awilo Longomba (Rhumba legend), has not performed or even stepped on US soil in three years. Until now. Finally,...
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Thanks A Lot
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: August 21, 2008
The story goes that Lucky Tubb's grandfather pulled him over to his deathbed and said, "Carry on the family name, and make me proud." If you're a fan of old-school country,...
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Haley Joel Haunting
See The Sixth Sense in Victory Park
By Brittan Dunham
Published: August 21, 2008
Once upon a time M. Night Shyamalan made a damn good scary movie. The Sixth Sense has it all: walking corpses (including a seriously creepy pre-DUI/-puberty Mischa Barton), a...
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Major Dudes
See the other Walter and Donny at Nokia
By Jesse Hughey
Published: August 21, 2008
If you're planning to go see the Dan o' Steel live, you'd do almost as well to find a set list from one of the band's recent shows, duplicate the song order on an iPod playlist...
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Going Gustav
The FWSO takes on The Mahler Cycle
By John Freeman
Published: August 21, 2008
The title "The Mahler Cycle" sounds like some low-budget 1970s science-fiction flick where a computer learns to program itself and creates a super-plague that only astronauts...
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Mike Rhyner's Wednesday
By Katey Margolis
Published: August 21, 2008
Rock and roll has so many genres and subgenres these days that nobody knows what it is anymore. Well, not nobody. Tom Petty knows. Yes, Tom Petty has always known what rock and...
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Critics' Picks
Steely Dan
Thursday, August 21, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: August 21, 2008
While parents have predictably freaked out over the social menace imposed by blues, jazz, secular R&B, rock 'n' roll, heavy metal, rap and techno, they never seemed to bat an...
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