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Ask a Mexican!

By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Readers, Contrary to what some of ustedes think, racist gabachos or self-hating Mexicans aren't my only fans. Many of our friendly neighbors to the Great White Norte also love the Mexican. In honor of my hometown Anaheim Ducks pounding on pussy Canadians to win the NHL Stanley Cup, I...
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Chains of Evidence

By Glenna Whitley
A half-hour after her boyfriend left her Irving condo on an icy night in January 1988, Marilyn M. heard pounding on her door. Thinking her boyfriend might have had car trouble, Marilyn opened the door and confronted a stranger who pushed his way into her home and dragged her to...
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Car Lust

By Gary Hodges
I was driving home from work the other day when it occurred to me that, despite being college-educated and reasonably intelligent, I have no idea how my car works. I know the gas goes in, because I do that part. But after that it gets fuzzy. When the mechanic's telling...
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Why Don Hill Might Not Make Up More Ground Tonight

By Robert Wilonsky
Our Man Downtown says: Don Hill's done. Why? Because most of the Southern sector votes have been counted, and it's likely Hill will drop from here on out, especially as Lake Highlands and East Dallas precincts keep reporting in. For instance, Max Wells' former council district, which is now Bill...
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Say What You Will, the Lady Can Preach

By Julie Lyons
Janice Mixon -- prophetess and, get this, former Dallas Police Department Officer of the Year. Which makes sense, when you think about it. Life is complicated. That's all I can say for certain after hearing one of Pastor Sherman Allen's prized "daughters" in ministry, Prophetess Janice Mixon, preach last Thursday...
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Actually, Yes, These Are Your Father’s Rangers

By Robert Wilonsky
A fool opined about how these new Texas Rangers would be constructed, and instructed, to win games not only by scores of 13-2 but also 3-2. Fool, meet gold. Er, copper. The teasing peep show we’ve seen the last eight years -- eye-popping blowouts negated by numerous close losses; gaudy...
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This Klutz Comes up a Winner

By Robert Wilonsky
We also wish we had a better photo of Tom Sime. Tom Sime, longtime theater critic at Dallas’ Only Daily till 2005 and a former Dallas Observer writer, has stumbled, at age 48, into a new career as a playwright. His play Klutz Theory just won Stage West’s first Texas...
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Right in the Kisser

By Rob Nelson
A true-crime yarn told largely by the criminal, with supporting testimony from his curiously forgiving victim, Crazy Love comes billed as a documentary. But it can't really be considered journalism—unless you count as journalism the sort of lurid tabloid exposé whose 100-point headline blurts, "ACID-ATTACKER MARRIES HIS VICTIM!" As New...
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LCD Soundsystem

By Chris Parker
James Murphy rescues intelligent dance music from the oblique, humorless IDM crowd, forging a canny, self-conscious blend of new wave nostalgia, skittering breaks and wry wit. (He did, after all, almost write for Seinfeld.) Murphy's second full-length release is more luxurious than his debut, apparently the result of spending even...
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Running up That Hill for the Last Time (sniff)

By Robert Wilonsky
Since it doesn't appear we'll have further need for this tremendous photo, here it is one last time. Stay strong, Don Hill. You are still No. 1 -- by which we mean, No. 3 -- in our book. Here's the first official statement from Don Hill, who -- with 570...
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David Vandervelde

By Noah W. Bailey
While recording his debut record, Chicagoan David Vandervelde spent two years holed up as an apprentice at Pieholden Studio, the Chicago recording space owned by former Wilco axeman Jay Bennett. Under Bennett's tutelage, Vandervelde produced and played nearly every instrument on the resulting album, The Moonstation House Band, a catchy...
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Demon Spawn

By Michael Roberts
When it comes to organized religion, Erkekjetter Silenoz, the guitarist/ songwriter for Norway's Dimmu Borgir, considers himself to be an equal-opportunity hater. "I think most people—at least our fans—know our stance against religion," he says, his accent as deep as a fjord. "It doesn't have to be Christianity, but as...
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Law Briefs

By Robert Wilonsky
In random legal news... We just received word that five women who were treated at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas for anorexia and bulimia filed a lawsuit today in state district court in which the woman -- each a patient in Presbyterian's Eating Disorder Program -- claim "the hospital and doctors...
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Redman

By Dan Leroy
It's hard to say what's more surprising: that Redman's sixth solo album is actually decent or that it even exists. The long-rumored Red Gone Wild seemed to be floating in the ether for years, along with all the ganja smoke from the New Jersey rapper's pothead flick How High. But...
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Looking on the Bright Side

By Megan Feldman
Nine days after Farmers Branch voters overwhelmingly approved an ordinance that would ban apartments from renting to illegal immigrants, a federal judge on Monday issued a restraining order blocking the law from taking effect on May 22. Since last August, the suburb has been consumed by protests, counter-protests, shouting matches...
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Superzero

By Gary Hodges
There's a unique challenge in designing superhero games: How do you make it fun to play a character who, by definition, is vastly more powerful than his opposition? Hulk encounters a purse-snatcher: Hulk smash! Hulk win! Hulk bored. With battles that one-sided, the thrill of being superheroic quickly wanes --...
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Stinko de Mayo

By Robert Wilonsky
And then, living at the other end of Funtown, are Your Texas Rangers. Nobody should be rooting harder for the Mavs than the boys who forgot how to hit a baseball. The longer they’re ignored, the better. Remember way back in April, when a goofball columnist doubted Sammy Sosa’s production...
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Pirates of the Council |Hardee Har |Past Tense |And Finally

Pirates of the Council Is it safe?: "The Good Laura"—perfect title for Jim Schutze's article (May 31) exposing Bill Blaydes' ruthlessness and Ed Oakley's incredible disregard for individual property rights. Folks, they can come after your property if they can do what Blaydes with Oakley's assistance tried to do to...
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See, We’re Not the Only Ones Writing About Sherman Allen

By Julie Lyons
Pastor Sherman Allen of Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Christ is accused of assaulting at least eight women. Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter Melody McDonald had an excellent piece yesterday on the sexual allegations against Pastor Sherman Allen of Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Christ, in Fort Worth's Woodhaven...