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Skirting The Zoning Laws

By Jim Schutze
Dirt skirts. Understand dirt skirts, and you understand the Earth. Some weeks ago I received e-mails from an esteemed neighbor warning me of an important City Hall issue having to do with "dirt skirts." I wrongly assumed we were talking about our perennial East Dallas problem with prostitutes. Dirt skirts,...
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Review: The Goodbye Girl

By Elaine Liner
With The Goodbye Girl, now playing at Theatre Three, it goes like this: Buy your ticket, sit down, wait four songs and fall in love. That's exactly how long it takes for Dallas actor Gregory Lush to make his first entrance. And when he comes onstage and starts singing, dancing...
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Resolutions

By Jim Schutze
One of my New Year's resolutions is to be a better person. Another is to do a better job cleaning up after the dogs in my backyard. Whichever comes first. The dog thing I can do. The better person plan is in conflict, I must admit, with some of what...
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The Dallas Cowboys’ Dumbsday Defense

By Richie Whitt
Dear Reporters, Because of the magnitude of yards and high volume of points surrendered by our defense this season, we will not be talking about our unit or the other unit. We will be taking all questions immediately following Sunday's game against the Minnesota Vikings and second-year quarterback Tarvaris Jackson,...
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DEEP Roundup of Clubs Under Review

By Chelsea Mueller
Kettle Art’s Frank Campagna was kind enough to forward me the Deep Ellum Enrichment Project MySpace blog that updates the status of the Specific Use Permit requests under review for many Deep Ellum clubs and bars. I have some more to say about this, kids, but it requires some reporting,...
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Minus the Bear, Helio Sequence, The Vipers

By Michael Alan Goldberg
What's your favorite two-piece act? The White Stripes? Death From Above 1979? Donny and Marie? After this show, it might be the Portland duo Helio Sequence: singer/guitarist/harmonica player Brandon Summers and drummer/keyboardist Benjamin Weikel. On the pair's 2004 album, Love and Distance, main man Summers revealed he'd gotten over his...
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Matt Pond PA, Jesca Hoop

By Rhena Tantisunthorn
The track "Halloween" on Matt Pond PA's last album, Several Arrows Later, could have been the apt pinnacle for this band that has often been called "autumnal." In the anthem-like refrain, Pond laments, "Pardon the intrusion. Could we leave before it gets bad? I might smash up all the windows...
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Who’s the Boss?

By Robert Wilonsky
Local restaurant owners and other employers worried about being forced to fire large numbers of workers can rest easy, at least for the moment. A California judge yesterday granted a temporary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to crack down on employers who have illegal workers on the...
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Oakley Hall

By Chris Parker
Pat Sullivan may have left Oneida behind to form Oakley Hall, but he didn't abandon their garage-psych experimentation, only recast it in Americana. The result is something like Blue Cheer mugging Jerry Garcia in the bathroom while Crazy Horse watches the door. It's twang that's not afraid to get its...
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Blaqk Audio

By Jonah Bayer
It's no secret that AFI's Davey Havok and Jade Puget have an affinity for electronic music, as evidenced by Puget's programming credits on the last two AFI discs. With CexCells the duo takes its synthesizer obsession to the next level, though, with results that range from sublime to serviceable. The...
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Best Theater Director

René MorenoActors love working with him and die-hard theatergoers know that when René Moreno is directing, chances are the results will be intensely entertaining. Comedies, dramas, musicals—the guy has a deft touch with every genre. This past season saw him helming Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Addison’s WaterTower Theatre and Preston Jones’ Lu Ann […]
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$30,000 Millionaires: Douchebags in the Mist

By Andrea Grimes
After weeks of painstaking research and late-night expeditions that had turned up next to nothing, I was finally on the verge of a breakthrough. I found myself standing, nearly motionless, in the dark, warm environment that I'd identified as the native habitat of the creature I'd been trying so hard...
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Steal: Boy/Girl, Kimya Dawson

By Chelsea Mueller
Boy/Girl 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21. Good Records (1808 Greenville Ave.). Free. L.A.'s aptly named duo Boy/Girl hate comparisons to the White Stripes, and it's understandable why: Aside from the gender breakdown of the band, the similarities are few. Sure, the girl (Lisa Cusack) plays drums while the boy (Eric...
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Mute Math’s Kevin Meany Adds It Up

By Olivia Flores Alvarez
DJ Shadow was like the Mozart of sampling," Mute Math's keyboardist/singer Paul Meany says earnestly. The New Orleans musician says Shadow sparked his musical interest as a teen and continues to influence Mute Math's experimental rock sound. "There was a little record DJ Shadow put out called Endtroducing," he says...
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Black Tie Dynasty Bring Constant Pop Fluidity

By Chelsea Mueller
In a perfect world, incredible bands with outstanding live shows and ceaseless work ethic become superstars of their own merit. Black Tie Dynasty is creating this world, one day at a time. In the cloistral confines of a black couch in a hallway at Arlington's Universal Rehearsal, we dig deeper...
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Domingo Garcia’s Back — So, Ya Know, Look Out, Irving!

By Robert Wilonsky
By now, you probably know that all hell is breaking loose in Irving. And not only is the Mexican Consulate in Dallas taking action, begging Mexicans to stay out of the suburb, but so are a host of local activists, including two-time mayoral candidate and former state Rep. Domingo Garcia...
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Idolator takes a swing at music blogs

By Jonanna Widner
...Does that mean Idolator is punching itself? I normally don’t read Idolator because I think they are snotty jerks. But tomorrow my cover feature on Interweb phenoms Ghosthustler comes out (ah, yes, I can already hear the swelling collective groan from little d music obsessives), and much of the story...
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Sanctuary Isn’t Simple for Dallas’ Homeless

By Jim Schutze
It has been decades since Ron Cowart was a grunt in Vietnam or a SWAT cop on the streets of Dallas, but he still has the bearing. Now head of the city's homeless outreach team, he is more gray about the ears than when we met a good 20 years...
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Best Campfire

Lee Harvey'sWhere else in Dallas can you stand around a campfire—or lounge on a nearby hammock, for that matter—while listening to live music with a bottle in your hand? Standing in the wide, rustic yard in the dark, it’s easy to pretend you’re in the Texas Hill Country or even back at summer camp, except instead […]
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Bettye LaVette|Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

By Michael Roberts
Retro soul's got to be damn fine to justify its existence, since the stuff it's modeled on is readily available for listening pleasure and embarrassing comparisons. Fortunately, the latest from Sharon Jones and Bettye LaVette qualify thanks to vocal authenticity and musical settings that offer inventive takes on the old...
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American Toxic

By Todd Spivak
Dennis Davis thought maybe his family was cursed. In early 1998, his uncle Don developed an aggressive skin cancer that devoured his face. Several months later, his brother Dale died suddenly at age 46 from stomach cancer. A few weeks after that, his granddaughter Makayla was born with severe birth...
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Cry Me a River|Terrible Thom

Cry Me a River Don't listen to the 47 percent who say they are going to move to Seattle or wherever ("Cool Dallas," by Jim Schutze, November 15). I have said the same thing on about 647 different occasions. Actually I am in school in San Antonio right now, and...