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Yo, Mavs, The End’s Not Near

By Robert Wilonsky
Yeah, I know. The end is near. The Mavs packed their white flags and vacation itineraries on the flight to New Orleans yesterday. They are six-point underdogs against the Hornets tonight and, according to NBA history, have about a nine percent chance of rallying from down 3-1 to win the...
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No Child Left Behind. Yeah, O.K.

By Robert Wilonsky
High-stakes testing doesn’t result in better education, at least not among minorities -- it just leads to a disproportionate number of African-Americans, Latinos and ESL students dropping out of Texas schools. That’s one finding in a new report released today by Rice University and the University of Texas. The study...
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How Another Innocent Dallas County Man Spent 23 Years in Prison

By Robert Wilonsky
Thomas McGowan The most stunning thing about the Thomas McGowan case, as mentioned below, is “how normal it is,” says Jason Kreag, staff attorney with The Innocence Project of New York. Kreag just arrived in Dallas so he could appear with McGowan at a hearing tomorrow afternoon in the courtroom...
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Enter Stage Right

By Elaine Liner
Scene 1: Enter the prince It's the first hour of the first day of rehearsal for Dallas Theater Center's first production of its 50th season. The show is The Who's Tommy, the sprawling rock musical based on a 1969 concept album about a "deaf, dumb and blind kid" cured by...
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Sued and Expelled: The Battle Over the Battle Over Evolution

By Robert Wilonsky
One of the first rules of the movie business is: Make sure you aren't, ah, borrowing someone else's work in order to finish yours. It's called a "rights clearance," and, yup, it's frustrating and financially debilitating, but it's also a necessary evil -- no matter how many times you claim...
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Wright On, Bishop Jakes

By Julie Lyons
Bishop T.D. Jakes Dallas’ Bishop T.D. Jakes has launched his own blog, and he steps right into the fray with a lengthy post about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy. True to form, Jakes avoids political hard lines and instead gives insights designed to provoke the consciences of blacks as well...
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Quick‘s Big Thing Awards Show Wasn’t Very Big

By Pete Freedman
I guess you could say I spent last Thursday night behind enemy lines. Except it wasn't really a hazardous situation. There was no threat of danger. Also: very little sneaking around. And definitely no Owen Wilson. Still, I felt out of place. I was attending Quick's inaugural Big Thing music...
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Hard-Hearted AG|Sober Judgment

"Family Court Judge Sheds Light on Unfair Child Support Practices in Texas" by Megan Feldman, April 3 Hard-Hearted AG This story boils my blood. My wife was a child support officer for the attorney general for several years. She has told many stories about men paying support for kids fathered...
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Evangelicals, Headlights, Gentlemen Auction House

By Pete Freedman
The Cavern offers you some serious South by Southwest bang for your buck with this Austin-bound line-up. The Evangelicals, of Norman, Oklahoma, don't seem to actually be evangelical—they're not preaching, and we're OK with that—but they are boasting some serious backing for their sound in the form of an 8.1...
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Dirt Finds New Ground

By Darryl Smyers
Being the director of your own music school can have its positive results outside of work, especially if you front a band in your spare time. "I make music all day long with children and adults, and the enthusiasm from that energizes me to jam all night," says David Hall,...
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Goldfrapp

By Merritt Martin
The last track ("Monster Love") of Goldfrapp's fourth full-length claims, "Everything comes around/Bringing us back again," and it's so very true for Allison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp. On Seventh Tree, the pair transitions from TV-commercial mavens back to the lush soundscape/soundtrack composers they were on Felt Mountain—but with...
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Denton Music Deserves Our Attention

By Pete Freedman
About a month and a half ago, I took my first-ever trip to Denton. Mainly, I just wanted to see what all the big fuss was about. There was a lot I didn't understand. I mean, sure, it's a college town, so it's bound to attract creative types and young...
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Online Turnoff

By Gary Hodges
Developers seem to believe that their first-person games are required to include online modes. Blame it on the few narrow-minded gamers (and critics) who constantly hammer away with that boneheaded message. At best, it's a strange logic of inheritance: Since the earliest first-person shooters were playable online, every first-person game...
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Reliving Last Weekend’s Local Music Explosion

By Pete Freedman
OK, I'll just come out and say it: Last weekend kicked some serious ass. Between Good Records' eighth birthday/National Record Store Day celebration on Saturday and the Mokah Music Summit & Showcase (M2S2) on Sunday, anyone with a little up-and-at-'em in their step could've caught 30 or so of the...
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Evangelicals, Headlights, Gentlemen Auction House

The Cavern offers you some serious South by Southwest bang for your buck with this Austin-bound line-up. The Evangelicals, of Norman, Oklahoma, don't seem to actually be evangelical—they're not preaching, and we're OK with that—but they are boasting some serious backing for their sound in the form of an 8.1...