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Issue: March 13, 2008
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  1. Feature

    Can Nolan Ryan Save the Texas Rangers? Again?

    By Richie Whitt
    Published: March 13, 2008

    The Texas Rangers have demons. Demons they desperately need to exorcise, beginning in spring training at Surprise, Arizona. Most are self-spawned. All unwelcome. But the...

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    A Little Night Music

    The TCC turns out a concert opera

    By Rich Lopez
    Published: March 13, 2008

    Just who do those Turtle Creek Chorale singers think they are? They keep trying to push the conventional chorus concert to the edge by performing some elaborate concert opera....

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    Sides Live

    Carson biographer raises dough for Mayborn

    By Jesse Hyde
    Published: March 13, 2008

    By the time Kit Carson was 36 years old, he had hunted buffalo in the Great Plains, trapped beavers in the Rockies and gone deep into Mexico. He had been to the Grand Canyon,...

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    Smokin' Baptists

    By Noah W. Bailey
    Published: March 13, 2008

    At first I thought Smoke On The Mountain Homecoming was a play about Deep Purple's last reunion tour, but then I realized I was thinking of "Smoke on the Water." Turns out it's...

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    Sensual Flower

    By Merritt Martin
    Published: March 13, 2008

    What is it about flowers that is so damn sexy? Is it that hot pistil? That crazy nectar or those scented petals? Why is it that examining the sexual nature of...

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    Madame Mahler

    The lady is given her due

    By JARED BINDER
    Published: March 13, 2008

    Morrissey said it well, "To someone, somewhere, Alma matters in mind, body and soul." That someone is SMU's professor of art history, Dr. Alessandra Comini. In the latest of...

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    G.I.Joe Is Here

    By Jay Webb
    Published: March 13, 2008

    With almost daily casting news for the 2009 movie and a new batch of 25th anniversary action figures selling out on toy aisles, G.I. Joe mania is gaining steam, and the Great...

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    Jazz It Up

    Chet Baker is Lost at the Modern

    By Jennifer Elaine Davis
    Published: March 13, 2008

    I have, on occasion, been accused of being a music snob. Sure, I've spent most of the last five years on a crusade for a rare Bedhead 7-inch. And maybe I choked up when I heard...

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    G.I.Joe Is Here

    By Jay Webb
    Published: March 13, 2008

    With almost daily casting news for the 2009 movie and a new batch of 25th anniversary action figures selling out on toy aisles, G.I. Joe mania is gaining steam, and the Great...

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    Sides Live

    Carson biographer raises dough for Mayborn

    By Jesse Hyde
    Published: March 13, 2008

    By the time Kit Carson was 36 years old, he had hunted buffalo in the Great Plains, trapped beavers in the Rockies and gone deep into Mexico. He had been to the Grand Canyon,...

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    Jazz It Up

    Chet Baker is Lost at the Modern

    By Jennifer Elaine Davis
    Published: March 13, 2008

    I have, on occasion, been accused of being a music snob. Sure, I've spent most of the last five years on a crusade for a rare Bedhead 7-inch. And maybe I choked up when I heard...

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    Drama Lotto

    By Pete Freedman
    Published: March 13, 2008

    There's something to be said for the ability to take on a task and turn it around quickly. In the real world that gets you promoted. In the performance sphere, it gets you One...

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    Becks Comes Back

    Can we play Hoops around the Galaxy?

    By JENNIFER MEDINA
    Published: March 13, 2008

    Remember how totally lame it was last year, when Dallas' only sold-out game (thanks to Mr. Posh Spice) was a surreal experience in sports-watching? A sold-out,...

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    Thank It, Kindly

    Learn to be nice to your landscape

    By Jesse Hughey
    Published: March 13, 2008

    Do you need someone to tell you how to create an eco-friendly landscape? The people selling you a class on it sure think you do. I prefer to go with my gut when it comes to...

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    Drugged Dances

    The Inwood paints the screen red

    By Andrea Grimes
    Published: March 13, 2008

    Moulin Rouge! is the worst date movie of all time. Not because it isn't entertaining or because it doesn't appeal to a wide variety of movie-goers, because it is, and it does....

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    Trashy Times

    The Russ Martin Band tears up Nokia

    By JENNIFER MEDINA
    Published: March 13, 2008

    My afternoon drive home lasts all of about 15 minutes every day, but that 10 minutes is usually spent flipping between All Things Considered and the Russ Martin Show. One side...

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    Circle Around

    Intimacy is revisited at the Amon Carter

    By Rich Lopez
    Published: March 13, 2008

    Back in the 1940s, a small group of creative types called themselves the Fort Worth Circle Artists. Started by a mere four students from the FW School of Fine Arts, they...

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    Hot Dames

    The Lollie Bombs go cult

    By Mark Hughes
    Published: March 13, 2008

    Whether you're a douche, a thug, indie or goth everybody loves a lovely lady. So it's a can't-lose proposition when The Lollie Bombs hit the scene with Cult Fiction, a...

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    Strings of Red

    By Noah W. Bailey
    Published: March 13, 2008

    Le Violon rouge is a 1998 Canadian film aboot a haunted violin and its passage from owner to owner through the centuries. And this effin' violin gets around, man, landing in...

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    Bloomin' Vaqueros

    Don your hat and herd the doggies to the Arboretum

    By Patrick Williams
    Published: March 13, 2008

    Must...not...make...Brokeback Mountain...joke. Listen, Dallas Arboretum: You have one the coolest places in the city. Your annual Dallas Blooms festival, now in its 24th year...

Issue: March 13, 2008
Page: 1
74 stories found - 1 through 20
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