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Night & Day
There's Always Room For Othello
By Spencer Campbell
Published: May 1, 2008
In 2001, a Dawson's Creek version of Othello, called O, was released. I think old Bill Shakespeare would’ve loved it. A remix of Othello centered on high school basketball...
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Night & Day
44 After The 28
Remembering a trade of blue plates for civil rights
By Mark Donald
Published: May 1, 2008
Conventional wisdom (as well as the unconventional wisdom of Jim Schutze, who wrote a book about race relations in Dallas) has it that this city was never a hotbed of activism...
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Stage
Say Hello, Dolly! or Spend Tuesdays With Morrie
One's worth the price, one's not. Care to guess?
By Elaine Liner
Published: May 1, 2008
Few shows are so overdone as this one. Critics dread reviewing it again and again. Ardent theatergoers greet its title on a new season brochure with groans of disappointment....
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Game On
When Less Is Less
Prologue is a tantalizing — and overpriced — glimpse at the next Gran Turismo.
By GARY HODGES
Published: May 1, 2008
When the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I first hit theaters, some fans bought tickets for the movie it was presented with, watched the trailer, and then walked out —...
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Critics' Picks
Bonde Do Role, The Death Set
Thursday, May 1, at The Loft
By Darryl Smyers
Published: May 1, 2008
Reinventing an old warhorse like "Rock You Like a Hurricane" is no easy task, but Bonde Do Role, a hip-hop collective from Brazil, succeeds by keeping the beats heavy and the...
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Monotonix
Body Language (Drag City)
By John Nova Lomax
Published: May 1, 2008
Though a studio recording, the Tel Aviv-based Monotonix's Drag City debut EP Body Language is best appreciated as a memento of the delirious tumult this band puts on live....
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Bsides
Roger Waters Returns to Pink When in Need of Green
By Darryl Smyers
Published: May 1, 2008
When Roger Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985, he insisted that the band had dissolved due to irreconcilable differences. As with any divorce, that sort of language meant getting...
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Film
Preachy Liberal Guilt Dwarfs Any Good Intentions in The Visitor
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: May 1, 2008
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A lonely dwarf, a wisecracking Cuban-American and a grieving mother walk into each other's lives, laugh together, cry together, grow,...
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Critics' Picks
M.I.A.
Friday, May 2, Palladium Ballroom
By Pete Freedman
Published: May 1, 2008
2007 was a banner year for Sri-Lanka-by-way-of-London artist M.I.A.—Mathangi Arulpragasam, if you're nasty (or a showboat). With the release of her highly anticipated...
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Eleven Hundred Springs
Country Jam (Palo Duro)
By Darryl Smyers
Published: May 1, 2008
Years ago, when he was leading Lone Star Trio, Matt Hillyer was the cutest guy this side of Rhett Miller, a rocker in hick's clothing who deftly integrated rockabilly cool into...
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Film
Here Comes the Bride. Yawn.
McDreamy tries to win over his engaged gal pal in My Best Friend's Made of Honor Wedding
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 1, 2008
In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial "fornicator" slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love for longtime BFF Hannah...
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Critics' Picks
Mayfest featuring Doug Burr, 100 Damned Guns, The Gourds, Gin Blossoms and more
Thursday, May 1, through Sunday, May 4, at Trinity Park, Fort Worth
By Jesse Hughey
Published: May 1, 2008
The spring and summer festival season has arrived, bringing with it those surreal and inexplicable lineups you can only get when middle-aged civic boosters are tasked with...
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Stumptone
Gravity Suddenly Released (Works Progress)
By Jesse Hughey
Published: May 1, 2008
Though Stumptone calls Fort Worth home, it's easy to pick up on their Denton heritage. One listen to their long-awaited Gravity Suddenly Released is all it takes to hear how...
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