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The Brunch Bunch
Let the kids jam at Sweet Tomatoes
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: June 5, 2008
One reason I don't want kids—having to get them ready every morning. I've seen the ordeal that parents go through every day, and my heart goes out to them. Many brunches...
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Tea, Totally
By KAITLIN INGRAM
Published: June 5, 2008
My new thing with iced tea is I drink it with absolutely no sweetener. No sugar, no Splenda, no Sweet'n Low, no Sugar in the Raw, no Equal...you get the idea. To me, it's got...
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Shamon, You Know It
By Andrea Grimes
Published: June 5, 2008
Michael Jackson turns 50 years old this year. I know what you're thinking: "But MJ doesn't look 50." And you're right. Because in order to look 50, our dear aging King of Pop...
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Tech-Tonic Plates
By Merritt Martin
Published: June 5, 2008
Prior to the announcement of the And/Or Show #17, I had never heard of Brooklyn artist Cory Arcangel. So I did some research…and I laughed my ass off. I checked out...
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Lens Lady
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 5, 2008
Photographer Nell Dorr was best known for her explorations of the relationships between mother and child, capturing enduring images of newborns and the women that spawned them....
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Get Big in Plano
By S. Anne Durham
Published: June 5, 2008
Business travelers have it rough, being in strange lands, sleeping in strange places for days or weeks at a time. But, NYLO Hotel in Plano eases the transition of the weary...
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Sarah Jessica Cosmo
Celebrate Sex and the City with a drink
By Megan Feldman
Published: June 5, 2008
There's nowhere like New York, especially if you're looking for a club full of hot Navy dudes in whites or a threesome with a nerdy couple. But hey, what the hell. If you're...
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The Comedy of Intelligence
Eddie Izzard brings well-educated laughs to the Majestic
By KAITLIN INGRAM
Published: June 5, 2008
You never forget your first time watching Eddie Izzard do stand-up. I remember watching the DVD of Dress to Kill years ago and wondering, what is the deal with this guy? He's...
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Kitchen Dog Feels Sick
It was a dark and germy night in the house…
By Merritt Martin
Published: June 5, 2008
So after washing my hands with what's probably antibacterial soap in our fully automated touch-nothing bathrooms here at Dallas Observer headquarters, I sat with my...
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Green Memories
"All right. All right. All right."
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: June 5, 2008
If I had a nickel for every time I've watched Dazed and Confused, man, I'd be loaded. My friends and I watched it over and over, incessantly quoting our favorite lines....
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Paw-Studded Spectacular
Pet Flix offers the tales of many tails
By Rich Lopez
Published: June 5, 2008
For those who can't get enough, another movie festival hits Dallas, but you might need a pooper scooper for this red carpet. The SPCA of Texas Pet Flix 2008 Film Festival gets...
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Tu Musica
The DSO rocks the Latino festival flare
By Jennifer Elaine Davis
Published: June 5, 2008
The United States, though special for many reasons (the invention of rap-rock being just one of the litany), is not known as a cultural mecca. We're in no way culturally...
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Live Isle
Gilligan and company shipwreck onstage
By John Freeman
Published: June 5, 2008
It's nice when you can take what some would consider a silly and substandard television show and elevate its artistic value by taking it into the lofty realm of musical...
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Night & Day
We Are Addison
See McConaughey coach football
By Spencer Campbell
Published: June 5, 2008
The city of Addison believes that We Are Marshall is one of your "favorite sports movies of all time." Fortunately for Addison, if you are a woman, aged 8 to 80, blind,...
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Stage
Doggie Style
Get a puppy upper from A Dog's Life at Theatre Three; all's well with Kitchen Dog's world premiere of Sick
By Elaine Liner
Published: June 5, 2008
The dog days of Dallas theater are upon us. With A Dog's Life at Theatre Three, we have the sweetest musical comedy of the season. Up the street at Kitchen Dog Theater is the...
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Game On
Castle of Shikigami III tests the bounds of Wii loyalty
By GARY HODGES
Published: June 5, 2008
John Edwards might see two Americas, but this simpleminded little game enthusiast is more preoccupied with America's two Wii owners. One is the Nintendo fan: the cat who bought...
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Critics' Picks
Dax Riggs, John Barrett's Bass Drum of Death
Friday, June 6, at Lola's, Fort Worth
By Jesse Hughey
Published: June 5, 2008
Oxford, Mississippi's John Barrett has one-upped The Black Keys and The White Stripes by stripping his blues-garage rock band down to a single member. Or is that one-downed?...
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playlist
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 5, 2008
On first listen to Fleet Foxes' debut, it's easy to think, "How in the world did Sub Pop manage to dig up another band that sounds even more like My Morning Jacket than Band of...
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Bsides
Swinging States
Mates of State manages to keep the drama out of its marital and musical bliss
By Darryl Smyers
Published: June 5, 2008
Being married to your bandmate isn't easy. Just ask Jason Hammel, half of the twosome that makes up indie pop act Mates of State. "I honestly don't know how people avoid...
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Film
Review: You Don't Mess With the Zohan
Adam Sandler returns as a Mossad baddie turned stylist, and the bubbies will love him
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: June 5, 2008
Behold Adam Sandler, in a passable Israeli accent and outsize codpiece, as Zohan the Mossad super-heavy: catching barbecued fish in his butt crack on a Tel Aviv beach,...
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