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One of the Saddest Stories You’ll Ever Read

Your bucket list should never include kicking the bucket. An 87-year-old World War II Navy vet was being honored for his generous blood donations out at Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend when an accident on the track resulted in his death. Don Krusemark was a passenger in a corvette...
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Don’t Bogart That Ticket

The cult (and pothead) classic Reefer Madness (1936) was originally titled Tell Your Children, but definitely do not tell your children to attend Ohlook Performing Arts Center's musical production of the tragic tale. The show includes adult humor, religious parody, drug use, suggested violence, sexual explicitness and more, so, yes,...
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Bolsa’s Bloody Good Brunch

Sunday brunch was likely a bigger deal than usual for the multitude of music-loving Dallasites who came out to the DOMA showcase this weekend in Deep Ellum -- the whole thing had the feel of a holiday street party, and the drinking was done with this in mind. Surprisingly, when...
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Keanu And RDJ Get Animated

Texan Richard Linklater's 2006 movie A Scanner Darkly looks unlike almost any other film, having been shot and originally edited like any live-action film, and then "animated" by computers, with lines drawn over lines already filmed to make everything and everyone look like a cartoon. The result is pretty amazing...
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Staff Trax: The Books, Coliseum, Die Antwoord and Low

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to...
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The Secret Handshake Comes to Grips With Adulthood

It's unavoidable: Eventually, you grow up. Your tastes change. Your priorities shift. Mostly, though? You become tired of the same old, same old. In turn, you want something new. In 2010, that inevitability has hit the local mall-punk scene—and hard, too. No longer featuring a cast of teenage brats looking...
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Idol Rich: “Blue Skies” Were Smiling on Casey James

American Idol opened its results show with the Top Five performing a medley of Frank Sinatra classics and the announcement that, next week, the remaining contestants would get the guidance of Jamie Foxx. Genre? Songs of the cinema. With Foxx, I would've expected vocal impersonations (what up, Faux Ray Charles!),...
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Sherilyn Segrest

The name might not sound familiar, but her voice might ring a bell. After providing vocals and keyboard for the critically acclaimed Deadman and a short stint with local darlings Telegraph Canyon, Sherilyn Segrest decided it was time to play her own songs—songs written on piano, which channel Emmylou Harris...
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Pro-Vodka Advocates Get Down With the Texas Vodka Throwdown

Serious bartenders may sneer at vodka, but there's plenty of the spirit distilled in Texas - and an enterprising Houston blogger is asking the public to determine which brand's the best. Seven companies are slated to participate in the Texas Vodka Throwdown in Houston on July 10, including Tito's, Savvy,...
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Hi Soccer or Bye Sucker?

The Dallas Cup will live on each Easter weekend as one of the world's most prestigious youth tournaments. FC Dallas will anonymously toil away in Major League Soccer. And Starbucks-slurping soccer moms in their minivans will still dominate our roads and bogart our athletic field parking lots every weekend. But with...