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30 Years In, Meat Puppets Are Still Going

From his home in Austin, Curt Kirkwood, founding member of legendary indie rock band The Meat Puppets, sounds mellow and contented, a far cry from when he was leading his band through its tumultuous days in the '80s and '90s. Even though he's getting ready to tour with a recent...
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Mavs-Nuggets Game 5: How ‘Bout Some Live Blogging?!

Since we're too skeered to be in Denver's volatile Pepsi Center tonight, noted Mavs expert Mike Fisher and I decided it'd be a good idea to watch the game "together". Just the four of us: Him, me and our computers. The result: Live Mavs-Thuggets Game 5 in-game blogging commencing right here on this...
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Gimme Your Music, Gipsy

Who can resist a concert with rhythms that leave your heart and lungs trembling hours afterward? The Gipsy Kings will bring their epic beats to the Meyerson this Tuesday. Come armed with a tall pair of heels and a spicy dance partner. After more than 20 years of playing together,...
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Download: DJ Marvel’s No Request, Vol. 3 Mixtape

Over on his highly entertaining blog at Fresherthan.com, local DJ Fishr Pryce, who himself is promising a new mixtape in the coming days, has posted a link for readers to download the newest mix from local spinner DJ Marvel, who holds a residency over at Henderson Avenue nightclub Glo. The...
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LehtMoJoe Lets It Ride For His Debut CD Release Show

Grand Prairie native Vincent Sliva knows there's a good chance you have no clue who he is. And he's perfectly OK with that. Because, for one, super-producer Mark Ronson—the man behind Amy Winehouse's powerhouse 2006 release Back to Black, among many other U.K. hits in recent memory—knows his work. Digs...
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Kim Lenz Is Back And Better Than Ever

Rockabilly's trappings are encased in the amber of '50s culture, but that doesn't mean its attitudes have to be. Or, at least, that's Kim Lenz's perspective, something the red-haired rockabilly siren demonstrates with It's All True!, her third album and first release in a decade. The record bleeds a sass...
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Camp Cowboys Top 10 Observations: Day 1

Pass along your questions or suggestions of who/what you'd like a report on and I'll watch it at tomorrow's practices. Thursday is the first day of two-a-days. Who knows, we might even see pads. 10. So much for the new-and-improved-and-tougher Wade Phillips. The Cowboys worked out for two hours in...
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(500) Days of Summer: Standard Love Story Gets Tossed in a Blender

On the surface, (500) Days of Summer really is no different than, oh, let's say The Proposal, in which Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock spun box-office gold from romantic comedy's refrigerator fuzz. Former music-video maker Marc Webb's feature debut is as conventional as any made-for-cable rom-com, down to its soft-indie-rock...
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Blockbuster Reports Drop in Total Revenue and, Worse, Same-Store Sales

All week, Wall Street has been anxiously anticipating Blockbuster's first-quarter results, which were released moments ago. Analysts didn't expect good news from the Dallas-based company, whose efforts to reinvent itself we've documented at great length in recent months. And the news is indeed mixed, at best: From Elm Street HQ...
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Brave Combo Celebrates 30 years of Rockin’ Polka

Even after 30 years as the leader of legendary area polka act Brave Combo, Carl Finch sounds like he's just getting started. "Every year, there seems to be some kind of new carrot dangling in front of this band," Finch says from his home in Denton. "Some sort of new...
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President of Paul Quinn College on the Loss of Accreditation: “It is Not Time to Write Paul Quinn’s Obituary.” Students Say: “It Sucks.”

President Michael Sorrell of Paul Quinn College earlier this afternoon addressed a room full of anxious students, alumni and curious reporters regarding news that Paul Quinn College has lost its accreditation. The news broke yesterday after Sorrell received a phone call from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools "to...
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Deep Ellum Blues, But In a Good Way

View Larger MapThis morning I took a peek at the City Plan Commission's agenda for today in the hopes of getting better grasp on the current state of the University of North Texas Dallas Area Plan, at least as presented during the morning briefing by Peer Chacko in Long Range...