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Great Mennew
No one has ever sounded like Gang of Four, and now that the band has returned, all pretenders should watch their arses.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
10-17-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dallas Morning News Should Cooperate With Policenew
Duncanville, Texas, police arrested a Morning News ad salesman on charges that he'd stolen advertisers' credit card numbers and then complained to other media that the paper was stonewalling the investigation.
Dallas Observer |
Jim Schutze |
10-17-2005 |
Media
Hydroponically Grown Marijuana Is Dallas's Other Farmers' Marketnew
The cultivation and sale of high-grade marijuana seems to be driving a shadow economy that supports some Dallas musicians while they wait for the Big Break.
Dallas Observer |
Anonymous |
10-17-2005 |
Science
Signing Away Indian Sovereigntynew
A contract between Station Casinos of Las Vegas, Nev., and an Indian tribe places the tribe in a position of perpetual subordination to the corporation.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
10-17-2005 |
Commentary
The Peoples Champ
Hip-hop's had its share of wiggas, but Paul Wall is an extreme case.
Washington City Paper |
Sarah Godfrey |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
You Could Have It So Much Better
Whether you think their sound is genius, a guilty pleasure, or junk, the boys from Glasgow throw all they've got into it, and it's tough not to appreciate their dedication.
Washington City Paper |
Anne Marson |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Green Street Hooligans
It's understandable that Elijah Wood should want to atone for being a hobbit.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
The War Within
American cinema has enjoyed a long love affair with the antihero, but the protagonist of The War Within may just take the cake.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Powell |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
The horrific death of 14-year-old Emmett Till is not an untold story -- at least not as presented by Keith A. Beauchamp's vivid documentary.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
SF Sorrow
Like Queen's Freddie Mercury and Rush's Geddy Lee, Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez should never have caught on with the sulky, skateboard-riding, and testosterone-charged.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Collective Efforts
The New Pornographers' problem is that true euphoria is hard to achieve and nearly impossible to sustain.
Washington City Paper |
Michael Crowley |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Collective Efforts
Could it be that nobody in the realm of smarty-pants indie rock has heard the one about too many chefs spoiling the broth?
Washington City Paper |
Michael Crowley |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
The Singing Defective
This is Hollywood's sorta-true version of Domino Harvey's story of a model turned bounty-hunter.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
The Singing Defective
In this film, the ideal '50s housewife goes beyond rearing her children and keeping a spotless home. She instantly defuses her spouse's alcoholic rages, with a quip, a bright smile, or, when things got especially tense, maybe a flung bowl of Jell-O.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Solitary Refinement
Amid a glut of onscreen romances that contain between 90 and 99 percent schtick, Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown mercifully varies the boy-meets-girl formula. Yet Crowe's latest homage to Crowe is overstuffed and blunt.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
