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1. Feature

   Obama and Me

   It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial

   By Todd SpivaK

   Published: February 28, 2008

   It's not quite eight in the morning, and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage. Months...

2. News

   Black Widow Pleads Guilty

   Sandra Camille Bridewell finally faces judgment, though not for what some had hoped

   By Glenna Whitley

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Looking as pale as a ghost, her once raven-black hair now gray, Sandra Camille Bridewell shuffled into a federal courtroom in North Carolina for a hearing on Monday. Wearing...

3. You Said It

   No Joy for This Ode|Rope-a-Doped|We Want McGovern!|Spanky Gets Spanked

   Published: February 28, 2008

   No Joy For This Ode Richie Whitt's ode to Steve Orsini ("Mustang Maniac," February 14) left me confused. I teach at SMU and serve on the faculty senate, and can assure both...

4. Buzz

   German Engineering

   By Patrick Williams

   Published: February 28, 2008

   German engineering: Like many, Buzz is confused by the Democratic Party's process for selecting a presidential candidate. You'd think it would be simple—voters vote,...

5. Schutze

   DowntownDallas Crowd Can't Find the D-Spot

   By Jim Schutze

   Published: February 28, 2008

   How much do I know about hip? Extremely little. If I found a dead guy by the side of the road, I might say, "This man is not hip." That's how bad it has to be for me to...

6. Sports

   Will Jason Kidd's Return to Dallas Beget Utopia or Armageddon?

   By Richie Whitt

   Published: February 28, 2008

   "Jason isn't the guy who could take us to the next level. Management wasn't comfortable putting the franchise in his hands." —Mavericks interim general manager Frank...

7. Ask a Mexican

   The Dark Horse?

   Mexican attitudes on black and white is a gray issue

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: February 28, 2008

   Why won't Mexicans vote for a black man? —Hillary Hater Dear Readers: Dozens of ustedes have sent the above question since the Iowa caucuses, forwarded mainstream media...

8. Music

   Melodica Festival Self-Indulgent, But Still Positive for Dallas

   If a festival happens in Exposition Park and only the built-in crowd shows, does it make a sound?

   By Pete Freedman

   Published: February 28, 2008

   At its best, this past weekend's Melodica Festival was inspiring and, well, surprisingly engrossing. At its worst, it was inaccessible, self-indulgent and pretty boring. Now,...

9. Music

   Crushed Stars Frontman Deals With Unemployment, Recognition

   Todd Gautreau releases his best work to date

   By Darryl Smyers

   Published: February 28, 2008

   For an unemployed father of twin 7-year-old girls, Todd Gautreau seems relatively cheerful and calm. Maybe that's because his band, Crushed Stars, has just released its third...

10. Critics' Picks

    Mute Math, Alanis Morissette, Matchbox Twenty

    Friday, February 29, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

    By Jesse Hughey

    Published: February 28, 2008

    I can't in good conscience recommend paying for this show, as that would mean supporting two acts whose masses-pleasing mediocrity helped define the reprehensible and...

11. playlist

    Gary Louris

    Vagabonds (Rykodisc)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Golden Smog and Jayhawks alum Gary Louris has a genius for crafting heartbreaking-yet-inspiring pop songs. At his best, on Jayhawks tunes such as "Save It for a Rainy Day,"...

12. Bsides

    Trying to Understand Justice's Gaspard Augé

    Augé does his best to grant us an interview. We try out best to understand him.

    By Pete Freedman

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Warning: Parts of the following interview were lost in translation. Blame any number of determining factors—wavering cell signals, a weak intercontinental phone...

13. Dish

    Review: BayGrill in Frisco

    A long way from the shore, Frisco's BayGrill does fish (mostly) right

    By Elaine Liner

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Takes some nerve to open a restaurant in the westernmost flatlands of Frisco and call it BayGrill. It doesn't even have a bay window, this bistro, much less proximity to a body...

14. Cheap Bastard

    Review: Mecca Restaurant

    By ALICE LAUSSADE

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Doors held open for me count: 2 Temperature of restaurant: 30 below zero with a slight chance of "holy crap my nose just froze off of my face" So, yesterday my stomach and I...

15. Film

    Will Ferrell Fouls Up Semi-Pro

    Will Ferrell's umpteenth sports comedy is only half bad. His half.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Semi-Pro's much better than Blades of Glory, which wasn't nearly as good as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, which was a little better than Anchorman: The Legend of...

16. Night & Day

    Landscape Badass

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: February 28, 2008

    J.M.W. Turner could paint the shit out of anything——fires, a battle scene, seascapes, some sunlit mountains…you name it. After all, he was "one of the greatest...

17. Night & Day

    Space Ghost

    Art gets noisy at Light & Sie

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Artist Terence Hannum may hail from Chicago, but from the sounds of things he'd be just at home at Denton's House of Tinnitus, reveling in noise. Hannum's Web site features two...

18. Night & Day

    Get Small

    Li'l Abner visits Plano

    By Andrea Grimes

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Oh, how the Li'ls have grown bigger and badder over the years. From 1935-1977, Al Capp's classic Li'l Abner cartoon featured a bumbling man-child prone to long trips. More...

19. Night & Day

    Educational Giants

    By JENNIFER MEDINA

    Published: February 28, 2008

    I spent most of my high school years living under the delusion that I would one day be Mrs. John Linnell. I mean seriously, who doesn't love a floppy-haired goofball with an...

20. Night & Day

    Pub Trivia

    Learn to taste what you're drinking

    By Mark Hughes

    Published: February 28, 2008

    Is it looking like it might just be you and a twelver of light beer tonight? Got nowhere to be in the morning? Well, Trinity Hall Irish Pub at Mockingbird Station is hosting...