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Nantzy Boy
By Spencer Campbell
Published: May 22, 2008
What is it about conservatives writing books about their father figures? First Tim Russert wrote Big Russ and Me, and Clarence Thomas published My Grandfather's Son. My theory...
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Ennis Fun?!
The National Polka Festival hits the big 4-2
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: May 22, 2008
Two words: polka festival. Either you're already rollin' your eyes, or you're hearing the music and envisioning a kolache in one hand and a Pilsner Urquell in the other. This...
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Fair Art
ARTFEST rounds up the oohs and aahs
By Mark Hughes
Published: May 22, 2008
What do you get when you put more than 200 artists in one place displaying, demonstrating and selling their creations? A paintball tournament without the balls. No, that's not...
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Roll Call
By Katey Margolis
Published: May 22, 2008
I don't need much ammunition to rationalize going out for some sushi. But now RA Sushi has given us all a bona fide reason to pig out on maki. From Sunday to May 31, 100...
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Rock St-art
We KLUV our art shows
By Andrea Grimes
Published: May 22, 2008
I'll say three names, and you tell me what they've got in common. Or don't, because if you do, you're going to be the creep talking back to the alt-weekly paper, and the dude...
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The Jellicle Choice
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: May 22, 2008
There's this cool cat I know--Byron. At least that's the name that the family uses daily--I'm not privy to his other two names, after all. He parades around our shared...
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Fair Jordan
Leslie shows off his Pink Carpet
By Rich Lopez
Published: May 22, 2008
I may never understand Leslie Jordan's career. Somehow, the little Southern gay man has turned those four qualities into a successful lifelong stint that never goes away....
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Huerta Solo
By S. Anne Durham
Published: May 22, 2008
Benito Huerta's art runs the gamut in both style and medium. From ancient cultural experience to new perspectives, Huerta uses paper, board, canvas and metal sheeting as tools...
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Double Chuck
He's Osgood as he wants to be
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: May 22, 2008
From Hillary's recent self-deprecating sniper-fire jokes to McCain's farcical announcement on The Daily Show that The Office's Dwight Schrute would be his running mate to...
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The Great Beyond
See some aliens in 3-D
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: May 22, 2008
Every few years someone in Hollywood decides to put out a film in 3-D, hoping to recapture a little of that 1950s magic, when well-groomed youngsters thought nothing of wearing...
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Diamond Demi
See a heist flick at the Modern
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: May 22, 2008
If there's one thing we love it's a good heist movie, whether it's Ocean's Eleven, The Thomas Crown Affair, Inside Man, Kelly's Heroes, A Fish Called Wanda, Home Alone or uh,...
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Women's Work
Native American icons receive notoriety
By Danna Berger
Published: May 22, 2008
"Superior old world craftsmanship" doesn't make me think of men sweating over European or Chinese workbenches. I picture my Native American ancestors. Some estimate that 40...
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Oh, It's Nothing
The Public Trust displays the fruits of relay
By KAITLIN INGRAM
Published: May 22, 2008
Relay races are risky. You're putting your future (and sometimes potential cash money) in someone else's hands, and unless those hands are extremely capable, you're gonna get...
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The Empire Hangs
By Merritt Martin
Published: May 22, 2008
Presidential campaign, what? Everyone has an opinion on who should be our next leader, what they should focus on, where they should pull out from, who they should appoint as a...
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Dog Days and Nights
Theatre Three grabs the stage by the collar
By Merritt Martin
Published: May 22, 2008
You can call A Dog's Life, by Sean Grennan and Leah Okimoto, a "howlingly funny new musical" all you want, Theatre Three. I'll bet you $10 that I'll bawl my way through the...
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Snoop If You Want
Truth is revealed in materialism
By Jesse Hughey
Published: May 22, 2008
University of Texas psychology professor Sam Gosling wrote about the revolutionary idea that you can tell things about people by the things they keep. Oh really, professor? So...
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Unmentionables
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: May 22, 2008
Calling a play Intimate Apparel is a pretty, uh, ballsy move. With a name like that, you have every right to expect a stage production full of bustiers, garter belts and banana...
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La Frontera
By Jesse Hughey
Published: May 22, 2008
The Texas/Mexico border is a geologically and culturally diverse area inhabited by "ambiente fronterizo," people who have combined the two country's cultural ideas. Border...
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Dream A Little Dream
Macomber wants to give you 10 grand
By Andrea Grimes
Published: May 22, 2008
Twenty Wishes, Debbie Macomber's new novel, is all uplifting because the characters in it make a list of the "wonderful things they hope to experience." As a promotional...
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Train I Ride
See a doc 16 coaches long
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: May 22, 2008
When you think of "graffiti" and "trains," you probably imagine some subway station tagged to hell, but rail graffiti is a tradition that goes back to a time way before...
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