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Polygamy and Me

By Jesse Hyde
Evening falls on the Concho Valley. Along the highway, which is dotted with rusty oil derricks and gnarled mesquite, spring grasses peek out from the rocky soil. It's April 3, 2008, and few here know what is about to happen. Up on Rudd Road, a man steps from his bullet-riddled...
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If You Thought Things Were Bad at State Schools, It’s Probably Worse

By Robert Wilonsky
Mark Graham Last week’s cover story on abuse at state-run institutions for the mentally retarded generated both positive and negative feedback. Cecilia Fedorov, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (the agency that oversees state schools) called me last week to tell me she was “disappointed”...
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Doug Burr Offers Up A New Download Via Myspace

By Pete Freedman
Doug Burr (Brian Harkin) In this week's paper, Dave Sims uses his North of the Dial column to discuss the recording process for Doug Burr's upcoming psalms-inspired effort. And on this past Saturday night at AllGood Cafe, Burr (and friends) went ahead and performed the results from those sessions. But...
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The Mavericks’ Faith In Jason Kidd

By Richie Whitt
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says a half-dozen players came to him at the end of last season, expressing a desire to play elsewhere if Avery Johnson remained the head coach. Let's tiptoe out upon the limb and predict that Jason Kidd was included in the mutiny. Why? Because while...
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Hurry Up And Drink

By Jesse Hughey
The latest service to exploit singles' fear that they're incapable of finding love without some gimmicky introduction, HurryDate offers a series of four-minute "dates" packed into one desperate night. After each interaction--can you really call it a date?--you write down whether you want to see the other person again. HurryDate's...
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Sensory System

By Adriane Goetz
James Mulhern, guitarist/vocalist of What Laura Says Thinks and Feels, speaks of his first concert experience with pride. It was a Bon Jovi show; Mulhern was in the ninth row, and it was "pretty badass." The rest of the band, meanwhile, has no qualms about listing the "skin flute" as...
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Despite Rumors To The Contrary, Bend Studio Is NOT Shut Down

By Pete Freedman
Charlie Sexton croons for Bend's crowds. A little more on Bend Studio: After the fire marshal paid a visit to Bend Studio (and she's been busy lately, huh?) and tomorrow’s night’s Brooks Williams and Kat Eggleston show was moved to Uncle Calvin’s Coffee House, Uncle Calvin’s Web site erroneously reported...
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Texas Department of Public Safety Hearts Thom Yorke

By Pete Freedman
Me, I’m a big Radiohead fan. I couldn’t get tickets to the recent show here in Dallas, but I was fortunate to see them at the Woodlands the night before, which turned out to be one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t get much better than seeing...
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DISD’s Confederacy of Jerks

By Jim Schutze
If Obama can be president, is it OK for white people to be assholes again? And, of course, I don't mean it exactly the way it sounds. I'm worried about the Dallas school system. What I really mean is that it may be time for upwardly mobile middle-class and working-class...
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Dallas benefits, again, from being near Austin City Limits

By Pete Freedman
Hey, look! There's a big festival in Austin this weekend! Hey! Look at this too! Dallas is getting a nice little runoff from that action! Hmm... Sounds a little familiar, huh? Well, it should, dammit. Seems we run this same goddamn article twice a year. There are minor tweaks to...
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What’s in a Nombre?

By Jim Schutze
One of the names nominated for the renaming of Industrial Boulevard recently was Stanley Marcus Boulevard. Walk a quarter-mile in my shoes on this, will you? Marcus' name was one of several put forward by the public in a recent competition run by City Hall to find a new name...
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Home Prices Down (Slightly) in Dallas; So Too is Housing Stock

By Robert Wilonsky
Bust out the Excel for a peek at the May S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, out today; or just take away the takeaway, which is: Dallas's home prices are down 3.1 percent since May 2007, which is nothing compared to the national average of a 17 percent plunge spread amongst 10 major...
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Accentuate the Positive|Cesar Who?

"The Caretaker," by Jesse Hyde, July 31 Accentuate the Positive I read with interest the story of Haseeb Chishty by Jesse Hyde. As the previous superintendent of the Denton State School, I did not appreciate the implication that I resigned from my position because of the abuse of clients at...
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A Blatant Diss|Don’t Get Fooled Again

"César Chávez, Texas," by Jim Schutze, August 28 A Blatant Diss As a Texan, I must stand up for the principle that César Chávez is worthy of Dallas, and that renaming Ross Avenue is the one and only choice to commemorate such an important leader. It is a disgrace to...
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The Long Arm of the Law: Constable Jaime Cortes Talks Cesar Chavez

By Robert Wilonsky
Constable Jaime Cortes Twice in the comments affixed to Sam's Ross Avenue item from yesterday, folks mention that a constable was spotted along Ross trying to gather signatures for the Cesar Chavez Task Force. But even before we posted the item, on Wednesday morning a Friend of Unfair Park mentioned...
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Dallas Sues Texas AG Abbott Over An Observer Open Records Request

By Sam Merten
Back on February 20, I filed an open records request with the City of Dallas to get information about the convention center hotel project, along with any communications between Mayor Leppert and council members regarding Lynn Flint Shaw, the former DART board chair who was killed by husband Rufus less...
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Scenes from the Drilling Gallery

By Robert Wilonsky
The so-called Barnett Shale Gallery in the new Tom Hunt Energy Hall, from which they will not broadcast Shale.tv, sadly. After the jump, the world's longest press release, sent to media folks today following the unveiling of plans for the Tom Hunt Energy Hall at the Perot Museum of Nature...
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Status Woe

By Richie Whitt
September 26, 2007. Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington: "We made it real tough on ourselves with our start. But we weathered the storm. We never gave up. We played hard every game, and we'll be better next year for having gone through this adversity." The Rangers, en route to a...
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Calm Down, People. Jenny’s Not Going Anywhere Till October.

By Robert Wilonsky
Jenny Seriously, I hadn't intended on writing another Jenny the elephant item this week -- not even to point out this freshly minted Associated Press story about the zoo vs. sanctuary debate or to direct your attention to this ever-growing petition calling for her to be moved to The Elephant...
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Weight of Evidence

By Sam Merten
As a crime scene investigator, Dallas police Detective Roosevelt Holiday's job involved sifting through evidence to find clues to solve crimes. Before he was booted out of the crime scene unit nine months ago, the 26-year veteran officer claims he uncovered hints of a different sort of violation—rampant cronyism and...