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The Unborn

By Nick Pinkerton
For as long as it forges ahead without explanations, The Unborn works in its way, as a series of snap-cut gotchas introducing each new contestant in its pageant of cold-sweat set-pieces. Often, this involves starlet Odette Yustman approaching some obscured, inevitably terrifying figure from behind very...very...slowly. Yustman plays Casey, a...
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The King and I

By Richie Whitt
Debbie Downer body language. Broken pinkie. Disappointing results. The SI Jinx at work? I'd like to call out Sports Illustrated's Peter King for turning tail on your Dallas Cowboys. Way I remember it, once upon a time King picked the Cowboys to make it to this season's Super Bowl. (Of...
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Character Actor

By Jennifer Elaine-Davis
Tracy Morgan is a complex character, a comedian who seems to exist somewhat seamlessly with his alter ego, 30 Rock's Tracy Jordan. Morgan's portrayal of Tracy Jordan on the critically acclaimed sitcom is a performance so natural that it hardly receives any notice at all. While Tina Fey and Alec...
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City of Dallas on Red-Light Camera Ruling: Doesn’t Affect Us, No Way.

By Robert Wilonsky
First thing yesterday we noted 192nd Civil District Court Judge Craig Smith's ruling in the red-light camera case in which a plaintiff claimed Affiliated Computer Services doesn't have the legal right to act as a law-enforcement agency. This morning, we received a statement from Frank Librio, spokesperson for the City...
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Black Tie Dynasty Steps Past Its Haters

By Pete Freedman
There was a time, oh, about two and a half years ago, right around the release of the band's debut album, Movements, when it was cool to like Black Tie Dynasty. And why not? Frontman Cory Watson, drummer Eddie Thomas, bass player Black McWhorter and synth man Brian McCorquodale had...
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Fruia’s Tre Amici

By Dave Faries
Does Dallas need another steakhouse? Well, it's not as if we've really added one, as Fruia's Tre Amici merely fills in a gap vacated by Rick Stein's—covering, fortunately, some of Stein's bordello red paint scheme in the process. But the massive new restaurant's opening brings up a more interesting debate,...
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How I Loves Ya|Best Year of Their Lives

"Night and Day," December 25 How I Loves Ya I understand that Jesse Hughey was trying to be funny in regards to his blurb in the Night & Day section regarding the Backdoor Comedy Club's New Year's Eve show. What he failed to realize is that it's impossible to show...
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Grandest Canyon

By Noah W. Bailey
As the days get shorter and the cold fronts arrive with greater frequency, we often find ourselves longing for a trip south. We could play it safe and head for the beach, or--if we truly had our druthers--we could chase adventure on Mexico's legendary Chihuahua-Pacific Railroad (Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacifico),...
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Whitt’s End

By Richie Whitt
*I seem to be fresh out of cash, but I'll betcha some leftover Christmas fruitcake that the Cowboys don't win in Philly Sunday. A team that leads the league in penalties, can't get in sync on something as simple as the center-quarterback snap, and allows the longest back-to-back running plays...
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Jonestown Coliseum Taking Prisoners, er, Applications

By Richie Whitt
     The Dallas Cowboys have already sold 85 percent of the tickets to their new stadium in Arlington.   Go ahead, act surprised. But, deep down, did you really think Jerry Jones would have trouble selling out his new Jonestown Coliseum?   I didn't.   I went to Circuit City last week...
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Bloc Party

By Michael Roberts
Transitioning from overhyped buzz generator to perpetual powerhouse ain't easy, even for figures as charismatic as the Bloc Party men, and the strain shows on the Brits' third LP. "Ares" is the sound of a band trying too hard, albeit with assists from some pretty interesting elements: screaming sirens, kinetic...
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Ten Years In A Hole (In The Wall)

By Dave Faries
Like most worthwhile "hidden gem" ethnic eateries we dream about, Thai Noodle and Rice is nondescript, a dive next to the Shop n' Go on North Fitzhugh near I-75. And fortunately, the shabby exterior seems to promise something good, worthwhile--very different than overfused and overpriced pan-Asian fare served everywhere these...
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Texas Rangers’ Up and Comers

By Richie Whitt
"They treated us like we suck,and we're the ones who've supported them through all these losing seasons." They come bundled in coats, wrapped in hope and stuffed with gullibility. An annual rite of another cold, bleak winter, 5,000 stubborn baseball fans arrive at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington last Saturday for...
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Gang Gang Dance, Rainbow Arabia, Sydney Confirm

By Ray Cummings
Brooklyn's Gang Gang Dance isn't beholden to any particular style or scene; this foursome brews its own inimitable sonic pilsner. And into its (world) musical crock-pot goes Middle Eastern themes, acid techno, cracked synth-pad and guitar-struck runoff, and frontwoman Liz Bougatsos' exotic yelp. The band's new album, Saint Dymphna, shrugs...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Wallowing in a Pitt of Hokum

By Scott Foundas
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious—a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man born in the twilight of life and gradually regressing toward dawn that has been adapted into a two-ton, Oscar-season white elephant. Directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Eric Roth, Benjamin Button...
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Meddling Maverick

By Richie Whitt
Just when you think Mark Cuban has mellowed, he shows a pulse. And just when you think he has tired of his tribulations, he shows some heart. The Dallas Mavericks' owner—hip-deep in stock controversy and baseball snubbing and a fresh fine from the NBA—struggles these days to give his basketball...
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Green River Ordinance Signs With EMI/Virgin

By Pete Freedman
Fort Worth's Green River Ordinance, not to be confused with Mark Arm and Stone Gossard's recently reunited Sub Pop band, will release its major label debut early next year on EMI/Virgin, according to a press release from EMI music. Out Of My Hands, the follow-up to the band's independent 2006...
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SEC Claims Cuban Engaged in Insider Trading in ’04

By Robert Wilonsky
From the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning: "The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it filed insider trading charges today against Dallas entrepreneur Mark Cuban in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas." The suit -- which can be read in its entirety here -- alleges...