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1. Feature

   Texas' Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop

   Harvesting peyote is legal for only three people, and all of them live in Texas

   By Russell Cobb

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Mauro Morales picks his way through mesquite trees and prickly pear cacti. The 65-year-old cautiously steps around a thicket of tasajillo, or rattail cactus, just down the road...

2. News

   Amateur Fight Night Has Promoter Sparring With Texas

   The state and promoter Ben Jackson are battling over what constitutes combat

   By Megan Feldman

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Two burly men face off in the ring, fists up and feet moving fast. Sweating under the lights, they duck and dodge blows and throw punches while the speakers blare and the...

3. You Said It

   Free Man Walking|Stuffed Stuertz|Back Off a Bit|We Are Devo

   Hey, Mark, for God's sake—just give us the time. Accurately, please.

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Free Man Walking This ("The Man Who Fell to Earth," by Megan Feldman, February 7) is one of many stories that have been heard, and many more, I imagine, shall be heard. We can...

4. Buzz

   Making Book

   By Patrick Williams

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Making book: As a young senator, John F. Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage, about various courageous characters who had served in the Senate. Buzz hasn't read it, but we...

5. Schutze

   Mayor Tom Leppert Needs to Walk the Ethics Reform Talk

   If the mayor wants to raise the ethical bar at City Hall, he won't have far to reach

   By Jim Schutze

   Published: February 14, 2008

   In this world anybody can propose ethics reform. Jeffrey Dahmer can propose ethics reform. I can propose ethics reform. And everybody supports it. Duh. The big stop-the-presses...

6. Sports

   Steve Orsini Has SMU Buying Into Big-Time Sports

   SMU's AD is crazy enough and savvy enough to produce happiness on the Hilltop

   By Richie Whitt

   Published: February 14, 2008

   How's this for a daunting job description? • Lure successful, high-profile head coaches to a small, private university that has minimized sports for 20 years. •...

7. Ask a Mexican

   Do Legal Immigrants Turn in Illegal Ones?

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Dear Mexican: My parents were Greeks who legally immigrated to the United States in 1920. When it became harder for Greeks to immigrate, they began to jump ship in New...

8. Music

   MySpace Stalking Dallas Music

   There are things you can learn on MySpace, and there are things you can't

   By Pete Freedman

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Before we get too deep into our budding relationship, Dallas—me being your new music editor here at the Observer and all—and before I start telling you guys just...

9. Music

   Remembering DJ Frantic

   The turntablist's friends and collaborators will remember him for his love of the craft

   By Jesse Hughey

   Published: February 14, 2008

   Fran "DJ Frantic" Erck's first club gig wasn't supposed to happen at all. He'd only started spinning records two years earlier, after he'd grown bored of his videogames and...

10. Critics' Picks

    The Paper Chase, Micah P. Hinson and Shiny Around the Edges

    Friday, February 15, at Sons of Hermann Hall

    By Jesse Hughey

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Hopefully you're smart enough to take one look at this lineup and know that you should have acquired your tickets to this thing already. If not, get on it. Chances to see The...

11. playlist

    Sheryl Crow

    Detours (A&M Records)

    By Merritt Martin

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Sheryl Crow used to put out a good bit of songwriting. Looking back at the dates, though, those gems come distinctly from 1996 and 1998. There is no bluesy "Redemption Day," no...

12. Bsides

    Getting Crunk With Liars Frontman Angus Andrew

    He also couldn't resist talking about Yoko Romo

    By Jesse Hughey

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Just months after opening for Interpol during its fall 2007 tour, Liars is back on the road, despite singer/guitarist Angus Andrew's painful back injury, which has the frontman...

13. Dish

    Review: Olenjack's Grille

    Olenjack's focuses its attention where it belongs—on food

    By Mark Stuertz

    Published: February 14, 2008

    You can see the curving steel beams rise like a bump in the distance, cranes hovering over them like mantises, the spine arching out of a wave. Olenjack's Grille rests in the...

14. Hash Over

    Burger Joint Love Shack Coming to Victory Park

    Chef Tim Love says nothing's worse than a crappy burger

    By Mark Stuertz

    Published: February 14, 2008

    There's nothing worse than a crappy burger. OK, maybe a crappy hot dog is worse because it's already made of crap and the crappy ones would have to be made out of something...

15. Cheap Bastard

    Review: Dowtown Corn Dog

    By ALICE LAUSSADE

    Published: February 14, 2008

    There are plenty of ways to get a good cheap lunch in Dallas. You can use the old, "I paid last time." You can sign yourself up for a homemade cold-cut guiltwich at Mom's. You...

16. Film

    Definitely, Maybe Digs Deeper Than Most Romantic Comedies

    While channeling Woody Allen, this film offers a dinged-up love story

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: February 14, 2008

    Sandwiched somewhere between the American Spirit commercials and the Clinton campaigning that make up Definitely, Maybe is a surprisingly rewarding romantic comedy—one...

17. Night & Day

    Red All Over

    Eneroth brings Sweden stateside

    By Merritt Martin

    Published: February 14, 2008

    We know what the inside of Swedish houses look like. We got the Ikea a few years ago and have made enough trips—actual and through that fabulous catalog—to know the...

18. Night & Day

    Good Points

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: February 14, 2008

    I don't know exactly when it happened, but at some point Sprint Nextel became a big player in the art game. Don't believe me? Then check out Cardinal Points/Puntos Cardinales:...

19. Night & Day

    Blue Pearl

    Didn't she make you feel...

    By Jennifer Elaine Davis

    Published: February 14, 2008

    There's a scene in any good documentary of Janis Joplin where she returns with a camera crew to her home town of Port Arthur, Texas, to attend her high school reunion. She's...

20. Night & Day

    Fantasy Land

    By Rich Lopez

    Published: February 14, 2008

    We should probably give Valley House Gallery a standing ovation for bringing Mark Messersmith's work to the locals. Landscapes in art are a yawn for the most part: They teach...