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Feature
The Man Who Would Be King
Freddy Haynes seemed a shoo-in to lead the NAACP. Then Obama's ex-pastor came to town.
By Jesse Hyde
Published: June 12, 2008
On a Sunday morning not long ago, in a part of the city mostly ignored and forgotten, they gathered to honor him. The cars started streaming down Wheatland Road at daybreak,...
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News
A Man Thing
One answer to keeping black Dallas teens in school: more school
By Jesse Hyde
Published: June 12, 2008
On a recent Tuesday night, community organizer Kevin Mondy stood before a group of parents and teenagers at the Thurgood Marshall Recreation Center in South Oak Cliff to...
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You Said It
The Gang's All Here|That's the Ol' Pepper|Checkout Time|The Real Deals
Published: June 12, 2008
"Bushwhacked," by Jim Schutze, June 5 The Gang's All Here Hear, hear to Jim Schutze's "Bushwhacked." Finally, someone in the local news industry understands the way Dallas...
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Buzz
Rethinking Pink
By Patrick Williams
Published: June 12, 2008
Rethinking pink: Time again for a Buzz pop quiz. What's the precise, quantitative difference between a liberal—or progressive, as we pinkos prefer to call ourselves these...
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Schutze
Hardballs
DART comes up a billion bucks short, no worries. DART gets sued by a taxpayer for $5,000, watch the lawyers fly.
By Jim Schutze
Published: June 12, 2008
Sorry, but every once in a while life just hits you over the head. Dallas Area Rapid Transit finds out it's short a billion dollars on its construction budget. No big deal....
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Sports
Lost and Found
After beating his drug addiction, Rangers inspirational sensation Josh Hamilton is bearing down on an MVP
By Richie Whitt
Published: June 12, 2008
As first impressions go, this one sucked. On a dreary Saturday in late January, a couple hundred baseball fans packed a theater at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington to listen to...
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Ask a Mexican
Ask A Mexican
Ice cream and swimming while clothed—is there a connection? Probably.
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: June 12, 2008
Dear Readers: The Mexican has previously published only one Best Of column in his nearly four years living under his cousin's identity in this country, but I must pull this...
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Music
Coming Together, Falling Apart
This past week was a big one for Booker T. Washington High School—and an abysmal one for local hip-hop
By Pete Freedman
Published: June 12, 2008
You know who went to my high school? Karl Ravech, host of ESPN's Baseball Tonight. Or so rumor has it. To be perfectly honest, I'm not even sure it's true. But the sports...
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Music
Who is Mr. Sensitivity?
Eric Hutchinson and Corey Smith want you to know that they feel your pain
By Darryl Smyers
Published: June 12, 2008
The fact that women prefer sensitivity to sexuality is well documented. After all, it wasn't that long ago that Woody Allen was People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. Classic...
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Critics' Picks
Ryan Bingham, Southern Drive, Dedringers
Thursday, June 12, at Granada Theater
By Pete Freedman
Published: June 12, 2008
Ryan Bingham would probably fare better if he didn't call Austin home; Lord knows there's a crap-ton of Americana, alt-country and folk artists traveling around...
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playlist
My Morning Jacket
Evil Urges (ATO)
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 12, 2008
The first few tracks of My Morning Jacket's fifth studio album, Evil Urges, sound like a cruel put-on, with lead singer Jim James adopting the Prince-inspired falsetto he first...
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Bsides
Faith No More
Evangelicals Frontman Josh Jones lives a sunny non-Evangelical life
By Daniel Rodrigue
Published: June 12, 2008
Over the phone, Josh Jones doesn't whisper and then suddenly break into fits of maniacal laughter like he does on Evangelicals' first two gloom-pop albums. It's a bit...
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North of the Dial
North of the Dial
By Dave Sims
Published: June 12, 2008
We're all pretty Radiohead-obsessed," says Grassfight's Nathan Forester, and certainly the opening bars of "Rhodendron," from his group's French Shemes EP, with its spare,...
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Dish
Spooked Grill
By Mark Stuertz
Published: June 12, 2008
Gui rests on history. This cubed structure on McKinney Avenue has slowly morphed, traversing cultures with global hybrids—some eventually dumbed down for your...
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Hash Over
Rose Names
By Mark Stuertz
Published: June 12, 2008
It's a crossbreeding of a chef and a Tennessee Williams play that morphed into a 1955 film starring Burt Lancaster. It's called The Rose Tattoo Grille & Wine, and it's set to...
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Cheap Bastard
Cheap Bastard
By ALICE LAUSSADE
Published: June 12, 2008
Dollar Stores in the same shopping center: 2 Thrift stores in the same shopping center: 1 Other people with me who ordered the same food and had the same reaction:...
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Film
The Not Terrible Hulk
In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 12, 2008
In recent days, Universal's been running a TV spot for The Incredible Hulk that gives away what should come as no surprise to any fanboy worth his action figure collection: the...
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Night & Day
Easy Painter
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: June 12, 2008
Apparently if you believe some modern art aficionados, "painting is dead," to which Chicago artist Howard Fonda says "suck on these brushstrokes, fools!," or something to that...
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Night & Day
Ya Got Trouble
The Music Man arrives in Hurst
By Merritt Martin
Published: June 12, 2008
I remember a high school production of The Music Man when I was a backstage assistant. All of the sets were built atop rolling platforms that were positioned during blackouts...
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Night & Day
From Fab to Drab
Go Bird-watching at Borders
By Jesse Hughey
Published: June 12, 2008
Sarah Bird, author of chick-lit classics Virgin of the Rodeo, The Boyfriend School, Alamo House and The Flamenco Academy, is getting all, like, symbolic or something with her...
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