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Passion Pit Puts Its Mind over Manners

Michael Angelakos' speaking voice is nothing like you'd expect. "If I sound really weird," he says by phone from his Cambridge home, "it's because I have really bad allergies right now." But that's not it. No, it's more the fact that he doesn't sound like a woman, which is the...
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Thuggets 1, Mavwimps 0

Mike Fisher - DallasBasketball.com With his team trailing only 90-82 and eight minutes remaining in Sunday's Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference semifinals against the Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks' point guard Jason Kidd sailed a cross-court pass for ... nobody? Lisa Salters? John Elway? Who knows? The ball whistled past Ryan Hollins and...
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Whitt’s End: 5.01.09

And then one day, just to keep his readers on their toes, the demented blogger stood Whitt's End on its head ... *For those inclined toward auditory masochism, I'll again be the analyst for Time Warner Cable/Metro Sports Channel 185's upcoming telecasts of the Texas Brahmas minor-league hockey playoff games. Game...
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Dude Food: Tacos Chano’s

Tacos Chano's934 W. Jefferson Blvd.214-948-1846Dude Factor: 6, or "Cheap Floor Tiles" on a scale of 1 ("Montezuma's Revenge") to 10 ("Cheap Prescription Meds")One of my favorite things about visiting Mexico is haggling over the price of souvenirs. There's nothing like the rush of taking home a belt buckle marked $10...
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Mudvayne, Nonpoint, In This Moment

It used to be that Mudvayne was always the runner-up to Slipknot for "most theatrical nü-metal band." But now that the Illinois four-piece has abandoned its costumes, makeup and stage names, what's left? Quite a bit, actually—even after frontman Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbett moonlighted as members of Vinnie...
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Eli Young Band

In eight years, the Eli Young Band has graduated from neighbors in the University of North Texas dorms to a major-label country act whose star is on the rise. Steady touring earned the Eli Young Band a sturdy regional following, and a friendship with Miranda Lambert eventually introduced them to...
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Best Or Worst–But Why?

Many, many years ago an acquaintance of mine recommended the Eddie Murphy disaster Best Defense. Not sure why--even Murphy dismissed (or 'dissed,' as we said back then) the flick publicly. But this friend considered it a decent movie.Personal taste in film can vary, of course. But we encounter the same...
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Chewing the Fat: Or Not Chewing The Fat–Same Thing Either Way

Books about dieting and weight loss. Geez, the shelves are packed full of some expert's latest "scientific" finding, or maybe a "re-discovery" of what humans are supposed to eat in the wild (nuts, berries and kuchikami at parties). The one thing all the books share in common is a claim...
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Chewing The Fat: Pour Technology

It's St. Patrick's Day...or soon will be, anyway. Or, wait--we just had it on Saturday, right? So by now you've read a dozen stories about the mythologized "perfect pour" of Guinness . To hear someone going on about it at the bar sounds anal retentive at best (and pretentious at...
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Are You Too a “Bewildered and Angry Flier”?

The Wall Street Journal this morning examines airlines' inconsistently, almost arbitrarily enforced rules and regulations -- you know, the kind that result in "bewildered and angry fliers." As a prime example, the paper checks in with a frequent flier who found himself subject to the whims of an American Airlines...
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Agave Tex-Mex: Good, Bad and Ugly

There will be good Tex-Mex and rumors of good Tex-Mex. Mostly rumors, though—at least in the Dallas area. It's a sad fact: apart from some fabled taquerias and a few notable exceptions, Tex-Mex restaurants in this part of the world survive on mediocre cooking and the forbearance of diners. They...
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10 Questions: Amity Thomas

Every couple minutes, a little ping from the computer tells food writers another email from some public relations person somewhere has arrived. Yes, we complain about the pestering. But without Thomas and her ilk, news of grand openings, upcoming events, menu changes and the like would be slow to filter...
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Bonus MP3: The Semifinals — “Yr Fists”

In my review of the debut EP from local rockers The Semifinals in this week's print edition of the Observer, I applauded Andrew Strickland and crew's efforts fuse cute Emo with some old-school post-punk a la Gang of Four--and the results are pretty damn cool. Here's "Yr Fists," the best...