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Dallas-Based Texas Syndicate Leader Gets Life in Prison

By Robert Wilonsky
For a man about to spend at least the next 40 years of his life in prison, Roy Arredondo hardly seemed nervous. Arredondo, the reputed leader of a Dallas-based cell of the Texas Syndicate prison gang, was sentenced this morning in Dallas federal court to life for his role in...
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He Is The Warrior

By John Freeman
Long before he was famous for being a freaky, drunk-driving filmmaker obsessed with dead languages and gore, Mel Gibson was just another small-time Australian actor. He had enough rugged good looks and rugged acting chops to be cast as the title character in 1979's Mad Max. Unfortunately, when released in...
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Another Matter Entirely

By Jesse Hughey
It's about 11:30 p.m., at the tail end of an interview with most of The Theater Fire crew, when a strange mechanical sound approaches from down the street. Maybe it's the hour, or the traffic stop of an SUV that's taking a curiously long time across the street from the...
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The Romantics, Missing Persons and Tommy Tutone

By Darryl Smyers
Most every male who went through puberty in the early '80s had fantasies involving Dale Bozzio, lead singer for Missing Persons. With her flare for see-through plastic dresses and sexually charged vocals (complete with perfectly placed high-pitched squeals), Bozzio's erotic chutzpah more than made up for what she lacked in...
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Blazing a Trail

By Darryl Smyers
A few days before going out on tour, Alex Bhore, drummer for alt-country rockers The New Frontiers, wants people to know that his group is definitely from Dallas. "We play a lot more outside of Texas," says Bhore from his Waxahachie home. "The fact that we've been touring so much...
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Ask a Mexican

By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican: As a Mexican, I'm always ashamed of the fact that a lot of Mexican women just come to the United States to have babies and to use this country's welfare. I know a lot of them that just keep having children, and they do not pay a dollar...
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Tom Waits

By Jesse Hughey
Even if you don't own a single Tom Waits album, you know his immediately recognizable voice, the result of vocal cords made from 40-grit sandpaper soaked in bourbon and cured with cigarette smoke. You know his distinctive flat-fingered piano banging and the clamorous junkyard racket his band makes. You know...
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Stand and Deliver

By Pete Freedman
It was a Big Deal time slot: Lollapalooza co-headliners Wilco and Rage Against the Machine were scheduled to go on at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 2, only about an hour after The Toadies were scheduled to perform their own gig at the three-day Chicago festival. And, in a sense,...
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Clearing the Air

By Megan Feldman
Two years ago, Margaret Keliher faced electoral oblivion, but since losing her post as Dallas County judge in the 2006 Democratic sweep of county elections, she has managed to retool her role as an unlikely Republican champion of clean air and conservation. It's been almost a year since Keliher took...
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Not High on Prometa|Blaming the Wrong Screwups

"Fighting Fire With Fire," by Megan Feldman, August 14. Not High on Prometa I am a clinical researcher and an addiction psychiatrist practicing in Dallas. I think Ms. Feldman's article succeeds in pointing out some of the controversy surrounding Prometa but falls short in providing a balanced clinical perspective. The...
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Lame Duck Phillips?

By Richie Whitt
Relax, both coaches could be talking to Tony Romo again next season. I’ll serve up a smorgasbord of training camp insights later this morning, but wanted to get to the news of the day first. Contrary to the asinine sentiments of some columnists, this isn't guaranteed to be Wade Phillips'...
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Bomb Detector: SEC Goes After Irving-Based Maker of Stinker Sniffex

By Robert Wilonsky
Does this device look like it could sniff out "more than 90% of the explosives used worldwide"? Looks like the Securities Exchange Commission has finally sniffed out the stink bomb called Sniffex, a worthless and utterly useless product being sold by Irving-based Homeland Safety International in order to make a...
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Chin Music

By Richie Whitt
Bruised ribs. Stitched chin. Multiple penalties. Super start. In last Sunday's NFL season opener in Cleveland, the Dallas Cowboys were missing two of their top four receivers, their starting left guard and a Pro Bowl cornerback. They didn't, however, miss a beat. In their most dominant debut in 10 years,...
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How Can DISD’s Michael Hinojosa Still Love His Job—and Keep It?

By Matt Pulle
It's a chilly, gusty mid-November evening, and outside the headquarters of the Dallas Independent School District, 30 or so protesters have gathered. For two months now, they've called for the removal of Superintendent Michael Hinojosa after he announced that on his watch the district outspent its budget by tens of...
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Gustav Isn’t Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas

By Robert Wilonsky
National Weather Service About an hour ago, city officials gave local media members a tour of the Dallas Convention Center, in which Dallas expects to hold folks fleeing Hurricane Gustav, which is close to reaching Category 5 status as it approaches the Louisiana coastline. Only, the city keeps insisting in...
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Peter Murphy

By Darryl Smyers
He's about to turn 51, and Peter Murphy, the godfather of goth, still has that maniacal look to him, that flamboyant edge that set him and his band, Bauhaus, apart from the crowd back in the '80s. Forever remembered for "Bela Lugosi's Dead" (and his appearance in the David Bowie...
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Mighty Aphrodites

By Scott Foundas
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to endear itself to the happily-ever-after crowd or those who consider acts of infidelity punishable by impeachment. Leave it to Allen to make a romantic comedy in which all the...
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Selfishly, But Willingly

By Pete Freedman
Well, it happened again. Sarah Jaffe upstaged yet another touring act pulling through town. This time—just like the last time it had me scratching my head—it happened at The Cavern. And just as Jaffe had outshined Seattle's Sera Cahoone and Grand Archives then, in late June, she did the same...
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The Anti-Dittohead

By Sam Merten
When Jack Jett sits in front of the microphone on September 6 and hits the airwaves for the first time, he'll be trying to succeed in a market that might not be prepared for what he brings to the table. Jett has never done radio before and is trying his...