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Music Picks: Lance Lopez, Riverboat Gamblers and More

By DC9 at Night Writers
It's the quietest week of the live music year, with everyone nursing a New Year's Eve hangover and preparing for the spring album release bonanza. You can still find plenty to keep your nights full, though, with a hometown show from blues titan Lance Lopez and some promising punk. Riverboat...
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Surprise! Texas GOP Candidates Don’t Support Gay Rights — or Do They?

By Patrick Williams
Every week or so, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, nicotine-addicted, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. So The Associated Press last week reported the results of a survey it sent to the top Republican candidates for statewide office, including Texas Attorney General...
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Dallas Cops Are Writing Half as Many Tickets as They Did Five Years Ago

By Eric Nicholson
Driving in Dallas sucks for a lot of reasons (traffic, terrible drivers, humongous potholes, et al), but overzealous traffic cops aren't one of them. This isn't just the anecdotal experience of a guy who, having been ticketed three times in five months as a teenager in Richardson, discovered similar infractions...
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Bonchon’s Korean Crispy Goodness

By Scott Reitz
To most Southerners, the mere mention of fried chicken conjures very specific flavor and tactile expectations. There are brines, almost always of buttermilk, which lead to juicy flesh. And there is seasoned crust, in thick and thin versions, with nubs and ridges that hopefully cast off excess oil to remain...
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Darkman: Celebrating Sam Raimi’s Descent Into Utter Madness

By Sherilyn Connelly
No matter what else he does, director Sam Raimi has two unassailable fan favorites under his belt: 1987's Evil Dead 2, and the 1992 trilogy-capper Army of Darkness. (His first film, 1981's The Evil Dead, is more "respected" than "loved" by the fans.) Released between those two films, Raimi's 1990...
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Tearing Down I-345 Is Not as Crazy as It Sounds

By Jim Schutze
UPDATED JULY 28 2014: Tearing Down I-345 Idea Is Starting to Get Interest From Important Rich People ORIGINAL POST The idea is to blow up, tear down, erase, make go away an entire elevated freeway at the eastern end of downtown Dallas. Chechen rebels couldn't do better than that. But...
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Community Returns — and Feels Like Community Again

By The Mixmaster
Follow @VoiceFilmClub !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); Subscribe to the Voice Film Club podcast Story by Chris Packham Community returns for season 5 on January 2 with a two-episode block that plants its feet on the study room table and regrounds the characters after a fourth season of viewer discontent and lost purpose...
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iLove, American Style

By Stephanie Zacharek
The terrible reality of modern life is that even beautiful young people on a first date can't go a whole evening without checking their phones. We need to be potentially connected to every possibility at all times; just allowing the present to happen has become increasingly foreign. That's the idea...
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Watch the Fun Fun Fun Fest Taco Cannon in Action: GIF

By Kiernan Maletsky
Among Fun Fun Fun Fest's many strange little wrinkles and amenities, the Taco Cannon stands alone. Sometimes, its appearance would be listed on the schedule, but sometimes it would just appear, at the end of a set, always soundtracked by the Mortal Kombat theme song. Its posse would appear, in...
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How Dallas Became a School of Rock Hub

By Christian McPhate
It sounds like tormented spirits screaming through the amplifiers as the guitarists play through the grinding riffs of "South of Heaven" by Slayer. They are fast, loud and soulful, as if generations of thrash musicians were inspiring them. Picks ignite strings that reverberate in rapid succession. Fingers run across the...
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Texas’ Ground War on Obamacare

Carol Hardaway woke in the morning and padded over to her 8-month-old son's crib. A towheaded blue-eyed boy peered up at her, smiling, enveloped in one of her old T-shirts. "Are you ready to get up?" she asked. She reached down into the crib and wrapped her hands around his...
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Kanye West Yeezus Tour Postponed Indefinitely [Update: It’s Back!]

By Vanessa Quilantan
Update: Kanye's LED pyramid has been righted. He's just announced the modified tour route. Several cities have been rescheduled, a few have been cancelled altogether, but Dallas is right where it was before: December 6 with Kendrick Lamar as support. Original post follows... Shortly after Kanye West cancelled the Yeezus...
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The Six Best Things I Ate in Los Angeles, Including a Top-Five Burger

By Scott Reitz
Traveling gives you some perspective, especially when you deeply invest yourself in one city's food scene. But I sometimes wonder if the excitement you experience while exploring a new destination has a way of coloring what you eat. Every blister on a pizza crust seems heightened, eggs gush with golden...
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Coffee and Sugar — Friends or Foes?

By Liz Goulding
People take their coffee very seriously, or at least take their coffee ritual very seriously. For me, coffee is a part of the rhythm of my life. Drinking coffee is my first order of business every morning without exception. I begin looking forward to that first sip of coffee in...