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Garden State
By S. Anne Durham
Published: April 3, 2008
You're Texan from the top of your hat to the tip of your boots. Why should your garden blooms be less than Lone Star? There's more to Texas plants than the bluebonnet, and the...
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Midnight Magnificent
Seven stars light up the Inwood's screen
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: April 3, 2008
There's a scene in The Magnificent Seven that sticks with you. It's an ambush scene, where the heroes of the movie fall into a trap that nobody sees coming, and it's so...
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Working for a Living
9 to 5'ers take the stage
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: April 3, 2008
Oral historian Studs Terkel published the bestseller Working in 1974. Subtitled People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, the book features...
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Childish Charity
See the ponies run for the kids
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: April 3, 2008
I hate to say it, but I don't really do much "for the kids." I've never volunteered at a children's hospital or even knowingly contributed to a children's charity. It's not...
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Power Play
The DCT brings important fare to the table
By JARED BINDER
Published: April 3, 2008
What is it about Hollywood gossip shows that keep us watching? They're like eating whipped cream straight out of the container—tasty but not much substance....
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Play Ball
Another summer kicks off in Frisco
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: April 3, 2008
Wikipedia is my source of all sources, so when the idea of covering the Frisco RoughRiders came up, I went the wiki way. Sadly, there wasn't too much info, but then I realized...
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The New McCarthyism
By Jesse Hughey
Published: April 3, 2008
Javier Bardem's Oscar-winning portrayal of Anton Chigurh, No Country for Old Men's unstoppable killer, was one of the most chilling and memorable villains ever portrayed on...
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Never, Never Panned
Puppets fly at the Galleria
By Pete Freedman
Published: April 3, 2008
As a child named Peter, I was often accused of being a "pumpkin eater" and having a wife I couldn't keep. Both are completely false, I'll have you know. So I felt no remorse in...
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Fun For All
By Merritt Martin
Published: April 3, 2008
I'm a total wuss when it comes to camping. I get freaked out by bugs, and I sure as hell have never mastered the mid-forest squat 'n' piss (I don't care what you tell me,...
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Quarterback Sneak Attack
Second Thought combines pigskin and mayhem
By Rich Lopez
Published: April 3, 2008
Save for Friday Night Lights and We Are Marshall, there are just a few options left for good high school football drama. Well, that should read "cheesy, feel-good flick where...
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Ich comprenez usted
The Foreigner ain't from around here
By Jesse Hughey
Published: April 3, 2008
The plot summary for The Foreigner, a comic farce by the late playwright Larry Shue, has completely changed how I'm going to approach my next vacation. In the play, Charlie...
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Canvas Safari
Jennifer Morgan takes over the Belmont
By Megan Feldman
Published: April 3, 2008
I've always wanted to travel in Africa, but so far the closest I've come was last weekend, when I viewed friends' slides from South Africa, Zambia and Tanzania. There were...
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The Roof Is On Fire
Dante lets it burn in Addison
By Danna Berger
Published: April 3, 2008
Hell, we've all had occasion to desire a place where assholes got their just rewards—mired in helplessness, screaming with pain, heads being bitten off. In 1319 Dante...
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Memorable Debut
By Merritt Martin
Published: April 3, 2008
Stefan Merrill Block's debut novel, The Story of Forgetting, despite receiving a rave review from Publishers Weekly, makes me nervous. First, there's the separate but slightly...
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Song of Sandler
Do you really want to miss this?
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: April 3, 2008
The Wedding Singer is not a guilty pleasure for me. I don't feel the least bit bad about counting it among my all-time favorite films. Sure, I know there are better acted films...
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Banks On It
14th Street's show is wrapping homes
By Rich Lopez
Published: April 3, 2008
Whenever you come across those people that don't quite "get art" or how it can be a statement of something, refer them to Alisa Banks. Her works should be able to get it...
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Stealth Health
Barnes & Noble hosts the Sneaky Chef
By Glenna Whitley
Published: April 3, 2008
Moms with picky eaters snapped up her first Sneaky Chef cookbook and learned how to hide zucchini in muffins. But how to get meat-loaf-lovin' husbands to eat healthy? Missy...
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Snake Eyes at the Mardi Gras Motel
By Elaine Liner
Published: April 3, 2008
Steven Walters’ latest new work for Second Thought Theatre combines high school football, violence, sexual abuse and the death penalty for two hours of tense drama. Call...
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Richard III
By Elaine Liner
Published: April 3, 2008
Trust Kitchen Dog Theater not to do anything ordinary with Shakespeare’s second-longest play. For starters, director Ian Leson (who’s usually a lead actor for this...
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Stage
Theatrical Version of Neil Young's Greendale Leaves an Unpleasant Aftertaste
By Elaine Liner
Published: April 3, 2008
Rooted in his signature bluesy folk-rock and branching out into all sorts of other forms, Greendale has become Neil Young's musical kudzu. What started in 2003 as an "audio...
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