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1. Feature

   Forget Me Not

   In his debut novel, Plano's Stefan Merrill Block makes peace with a family curse

   By Ben Westhoff

   Published: May 1, 2008

   With McMansions galore, a concrete-chic urban planning model and seemingly never-ending sprawl, Plano is many outsiders' vision of hell. But to Stefan Merrill Block, it's...

2. News

   White Rock Lake Neighbors Want to Know Whose Bright Idea It Was to Install Lights

   By Glenna Whitley

   Published: May 1, 2008

   After moving into his new contemporary home on a bluff overlooking White Rock Lake, Chip Northrup was riding his bicycle when he noticed 20-foot-tall light poles sprouting on...

3. You Said It

   Old Man River

   Published: May 1, 2008

   "No Nature for Old Men," by Jim Schutze, April 17 Old Man River So spend "10 hundred kabillion dollars" to sanitize the [Great Trinity Forest], put in trails, cut out those...

4. Buzz

   An Over-Wide Net

   By Megan Feldman

   Published: May 1, 2008

   An over-wide net: It's sure a good thing Congress failed to pass any sort of immigration reform. Why bother, when you can just arrest and deport any Jesus, Jose or Maria? Local...

5. Schutze

   Leppert and City Council Loyalists Retreat on Convention Center Hotel Plan

   By Jim Schutze

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Mayor Tom Leppert is still the pilot, but the plane is in stall. No rudder. No engine. Leppert and the whole city council gaze out at the silence of the clouds. He could pull...

6. Sports

   With the Addition of Pacman Jones, Valley Ranch Has Become a Halfway House

   By Richie Whitt

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Attention Jerry Jones: Michael Vick gets out of prison in 15 months. Rae Carruth will be only 44 when he's eligible for parole in 2019. Dwayne Goodrich is almost halfway...

7. Ask a Mexican

   Ask a Mexican

   Yeah, but can you imagine a macho Mexican man wearing a skirt?

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Dear Mexican: Consider the similarities between my people, the Celtic Scots, and yours, the Hispanic Mexicans. Both our people trace roots back to Spain. We sailed north to the...

8. Music

   Quick's Big Thing Awards Show Wasn't Very Big

   By Pete Freedman

   Published: May 1, 2008

   I guess you could say I spent last Thursday night behind enemy lines. Except it wasn't really a hazardous situation. There was no threat of danger. Also: very little sneaking...

9. Music

   Kelly and Kim Deal Faced Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle Together in The Breeders and With Addiction at Home

   By Rob Trucks

   Published: May 1, 2008

   Given that The Breeders release albums less often than February 29 appears on your kitchen calendar (this month's Mountain Battles makes just four Breeders albums in the last...

10. Critics' Picks

    Tapes 'n Tapes, White Denim

    Saturday, May 3, at Hailey's in Denton

    By Merritt Martin

    Published: May 1, 2008

    With Tapes 'n Tapes' sophomore full-length effort, Walk It Off, the band did and didn't hit the cursed slump. The album, at first listen, seems to be more of the same—a...

11. playlist

    Dizzee Rascal

    Maths + English (Definitive Jux)

    By Pete Freedman

    Published: May 1, 2008

    The stateside release of Dizzee Rascal's 2003 album Boy in Da Corner found the grimy, reggae-influenced London rapper in a precarious spot, forced to follow fellow Brit The...

12. Bsides

    Pharrell Williams Returns With His Old Friends in N.E.R.D.

    By Dan Leroy

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Name a pop music A-lister, and he or she has either worked with Pharrell Williams or probably wants to. Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z, Britney Spears, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg and Madonna...

13. North of the Dial

    Gutterth Productions Brings Top Dallas and Denton Bands Together Onstage

    By Dave Sims

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Truth be told, most musicians would be content to write songs, rehearse them and then walk directly to the waiting, sound-checked stage before a ready throng of appreciative...

14. Dish

    Review: Villa-O

    The "O" is for original and organic.

    By Mark Stuertz

    Published: May 1, 2008

    It's dedicated to the yearned for but often elusive O, subliminally, at least, judging by the comely scene coagulating around the sinuous bar—a cuff-linked wrist stroking...

15. Cheap Bastard

    Review: Coach's Burgers

    By ALICE LAUSSADE

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Months it's been open: 2 Trophies made into paper-towel holders: 20 If Coach's Burgers knows one thing, it's how to name a burger joint. In this town, it's tough enough...

16. Film

    Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a Thing to Marvel

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I mean the ones, like Batman's Bruce...

17. Night & Day

    Mustach-O-Retum

    By KAITLIN INGRAM

    Published: May 1, 2008

    When someone mentions sampling milk, all I can think of is that nasty scene in Napoleon Dynamite. I can't help it. Ick. Hopefully the milk sampling portion of the Got Milk?...

18. Night & Day

    Glory Days

    By John Freeman

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Stanley Kubrick's 1957 anti-war flick Paths of Glory was the first of his films to really showcase the potential of one of the cinema's greatest artists. This film virtually...

19. Night & Day

    Gardening for Dummies

    Get your green thumb in Fair Park

    By JENNIFER MEDINA

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Within the past year, I've managed to murder roughly a dozen plants; daisies, aloe and peace lilies (among others) have all fallen to the wayside in my pursuit of a green...

20. Night & Day

    Flower Power

    May is a bold month for the Arboretum

    By Merritt Martin

    Published: May 1, 2008

    Recent studies have proven that women may enjoy, but cannot actually be described as loving flowers until they enter the maternal state. The maternal state, however, is not...