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We Have Ourselves an Instant Classic

By Richie Whitt
This time Witten kept his helmet on. And gave the Cowboys a late lead. Still 2:57 remaining, but the biggest play of the game just may be Donovan McNabb’s second-thought fumble. The Cowboys really haven’t had a clue of how to stop McNabb all night. But with his team leading...
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Last Night: The Magnetic Fields At The Majestic Theatre

By Brittan Dunham
Magnetic Fields Majestic Theatre October 13, 2008 Better Than: Pretty much anything else I’ve ever seen at the Majestic. Just as Magnetic Fields front man Stephin Merritt told the Observer last week, his band does indeed put on a quiet show, and in the right atmosphere that is certainly not...
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Blockbuster Wins Some, Loses a Lot

By Robert Wilonsky
On his blog last week, Carl Ichan noted that it was his idea to install Jim Keyes as chairman and CEO of Blockbuster and that Keyes "has saved approximately $100 million in operating costs over the past year, a laudable result." Keyes has also managed to increase the Dallas-based company's...
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Battle Royale

By Brittan Dunham
If you can label up-and-coming director Zack Snyder anything, it would be a visual storyteller. Or, more accurately, a visual story re-teller. He has tackled some of the most impossible re-tellings, from his feature film debut, a remake of the classic zombie flick Dawn of the Dead, to his upcoming...
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Triple Threat

By Merritt Martin
You want to get people interested in the artwork you create? Become a master of difficult mediums. Take painter Brad Ellis. The man works with encaustic for crying out loud. Yeah, that's pigmented hot wax, in laymen's terms...and it's freakin' hard to just slap some of it up on a...
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Full Speed Ahead: Council Hoping to Get Dirt Flying on Hotel By April

By Sam Merten
As the mayor and city council keep marching forward with the convention center hotel project despite an upcoming vote in May -- and it’s safe to assume the anti-hotel folks wouldn’t have turned in the petitions so early if they weren’t 100 percent sure that at least 20,000 would be...
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North of the Dial

By Daniel Rodrigue
Before enemies climbs the steps onto Hailey's stage, Ryan Gillbert struts around the club clutching his guitar looking like a young, Don't Look Back-era Bob Dylan, while frontman Joshua Sinai puffs on a Djarum clove cigarette and chats with his mohawk-sporting girlfriend. Sometimes, before a band plays a single note,...
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Dallas’ Victory Park Struggles to Deliver a Win

By Matt Pulle
In October 2007, Dallas businessman Ross Perot Jr. was featured in a USA Today story about the unlikely rise of urban living in Texas. Photographed on the balcony of the towering Ghostbar, at the apex of the posh W Hotel, Perot looked confident as he discussed why developments such as...
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The Rap Up: The Beat Behind Damaged Good$

By Pete Freedman
Hipsters are gonna crazy for Damaged Good$. (Taylor Emanuelson) It's not everyday that you get two born and bred Texas dudes cranking out psychadelic, futuristic tracks the way the guys in Damaged Good$ do. If you had to compare them to anyone, think Andre 3000 with a bit of Kanye...
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You Betcha: Week 5

By Richie Whitt
The Redskins hate the Cowboys about as much as I hate losing to The Man. Which puts us both in a real pissy mood this week. I have more bad news for Washington: The Redskins are going to lose Sunday. Furthermore, its town is a hotbed of Cowboys’ fandom. So...
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Ratatat

By Pete Freedman
Even if you can't remember explicitly listening to a single Ratatat track, you've heard the New York City-based instrumental duo's music. Aside from boasting a name that—let's face it—is just fun to say, the duo's songs have been licensed every which way imaginable: on television shows (CSI, My Gym Partner...
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If You Attended UTD Between 2000 and ’03, You May Wanna Read This

By Robert Wilonsky
The University of Texas at Dallas today put on its Web site this notice referring to a computer security breach that "could have resulted in the exposure of personally identifiable information of 9,100 individuals" -- including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers. Says Dr. Jim Gary,...
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Last Night: The Cardinals At Nokia Theatre

By Pete Freedman
The Cardinals Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie October 11, 2008 Better Than: Watching Saturday Night Live--which is what I would have been doing had Mr. Adams and company cancelled this show, as they did in Kansas City and Tulsa Thursday and Friday. Despite all the Internet hand-wringing over the possible...
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How Tim Rogers Ruined My Day

By Sam Merten
As Observer editor Mark Donald, fellow staff writer Megan Feldman and I exited our car and headed to the elevators in the parking garage at the Belo Mansion yesterday afternoon, we bumped into staffers from D Magazine. It was my first opportunity to meet Adam McGill and Zac Crain, and...
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The Cowboys’ Goals at Mid-season Are a Little Less Super

By Richie Whitt
When—not if—the Dallas Cowboys lose to the Giants in New Jersey on Sunday, the NFC East race will slip officially out of their reach. At 5-4 and trailing the defending Super Bowl champs by three games with seven to play, owner Jerry Jones will attempt to shrug it off and...
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Downtown Dallas at the Crossroads

By Robert Wilonsky
It stands at the end of a short, out-of-the-way dead-end street a few blocks from City Hall: 508 Park Ave., where a man and a guitar more or less invented rock and roll 72 years ago. The building is vacant and decaying, but not alone. On a recent Saturday afternoon,...
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Why?, Mount Eerie, Fishboy

By Matt Gewolb
Jangle-rap? Pop 'n' roll? Rock-hop? Whatever the label, Oakland's Why?, the delightfully subversive trio led by Yoni Wolf, raises the bar for innovation yet again with Alopecia. The follow-up to 2005's Elephant Eyelash, it finds Wolf and company (joined this time around by Andrew Broder and Mark Erickson of Fog)...
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Janiva Magness

By Darryl Smyers
The old adage is that folks who excel at playing the blues are the ones who have lived the blues. Coming from Los Angeles (by way of Detroit), Janiva Magness is a blues/R&B diva that has more than paid her dues over three decades of recording and performing. And, perhaps...
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Chargers 31, Cowboys 17 vs. Terrell Owens Hearts Kenny G

By Richie Whitt
He's on T.O.'s iPod? Who knew? Aw, come on. You didn’t really think I was going to dissect a preseason game didja? Okay, maybe just a little. Felix Jones has an intriguing burst. Mike Jenkins is instinctive, if not technically polished. Pacman Jones' performance better be his worst of the...