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Blown Over: Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast Struggle After Hurricane IkeForgotten and overlooked, Galveston residents try to put the pieces back togetherBy John Nova LomaxThursday, January 08Sean Penn did not patrol Galveston's streets in an airboat. Kanye West didn't offer unscripted barbs about George Bush's opinion of black people... More >> -
Buzz Reviews the News of 2008: Yes. It Was All Bad.Sex clubs in the 'burbs, teacher layoffs in the district, black holes in the commissioners court—Buzz makes perfect sense of 2008By Patrick WilliamsThursday, January 01Buzz's mother had three essential life lessons she attempted to impart to her son: 1) Shut up; 2) Show some respect; and 3) God help you if I... More >> -
Critical Mass: The Best Movies of 2008By SCOTT FOUNDAS, J. HOBERMAN, Jim Ridley, ELLA TAYLOR and Robert WilonskyThursday, December 25Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing?Whatever the case, when our often-contentious... More >> -
The Sound of One Audience Member ClappingResourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?By Jim RidleyThursday, December 25Michael Jacobs, a filmmaker based in San Francisco, is the director of a movie called Audience of One. It's a documentary about a Pentecostal... More >> -
Coming (At You) SoonJeffrey Katzenberg's cure-all for an ailing movie economy, in all three dimensionsBy Robert WilonskyThursday, December 25As far as Jeffrey Katzenberg is concerned, up to now there have been but two "revolutions" in the movie business: the mass introduction of sound... More >>
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The Agent From Iran
How a mother of two ended up in a plot to smuggle high-tech gear to the enemy
By Deirdra Funcheon
On November 29, 2004, Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan and her ex-husband, Mahmoud Seif, checked into Le... More >>
Denver
In life and death, tattoo artist Kauri Tiyme made her mark
By Alan Prendergast
For more photos of Kauri Tiyme, go to westword.com/slideshow.
The maid found her. It was close... More >>
Houston
Hurricane Ike's Wake
Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston and the Texas Gulf Coast struggle on in the storm's aftermath
By John Nova Lomax
Sean Penn did not patrol Galveston's streets in an airboat. Kanye West didn't offer unscripted... More >>
Kansas City
Six ways the city has wrecked a vital agency. Two projects that work anyway.
By Nadia Pflaum
Like most cities of its size, Kansas City gets millions of dollars in federal money to provide... More >>
Miami
The Agent from Iran
How a mother of two ended up in a plot to smuggle high-tech gear to the enemy.
By Deirdra Funcheon
On November 29, 2004, Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan and her ex-husband, Mahmoud Seif, checked into the... More >>
Minneapolis
An open letter to the man who raped my wife
A jolting tale of incest, rape, and the strength to heal
As told to Erin Carlyle
At about 10 a.m. on a weekday in mid-November, Bill sat down to write a letter. A steady rage... More >>
Phoenix
Hollywood Heartthrob: How a Lucky Break and a Lot of Cash Made the Band
By Niki D'Andrea
One Thursday last spring, Ted Myers was stuck in a cubicle, trying to figure out his future.... More >>
San Francisco
Baggage
The city's politicos made the enviros happy by banning plastic bags, but left us with more pollution and cost
By Joe Eskenazi
San Francisco is a city that enjoys being scratched behind the ears by an adoring world. And... More >>
St. Louis
Class Conscious: St. Louis educators are desperately seeking ways to get kids back in school
By Aimee Levitt
Lamont White was two months into his junior year at Normandy High School when he dropped... More >>
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Unfair Park
The Story of Shepherd Road
Thu Jan 8, 5:29 PM
View Larger MapI was at City Hall this afternoon, where I ran into City Plan Commission Neil Emmons, who reminded me, yet again, that there is no such thing as a slam dunk at City Hall. As it happens, that... More >>
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Cornerback Dwayne Goodrich: "The Cowboy Who Killed Those Kids" Former cornerback Dwayne Goodrich comes to grips with his hit-and-run of three Good Samaritans as he plans for life after prison
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Congresswoman Calls Out John Wiley Price for Shaking Down Development Deal Local pols back off a master plan that would have put the squeeze on a major southern Dallas development
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Buzz Reviews the News of 2008: Yes. It Was All Bad. Sex clubs in the 'burbs, teacher layoffs in the district, black holes in the commissioners court—Buzz makes perfect sense of 2008
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Trinity River Corridor Project Creeps On, 10 Years and Millions of Dollars Later
Thursday, January 08At the edge of the Commerce Street bridge, a sign at the city's Trinity Outlook encourages passersby to "watch our progress." But on this... More>>
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How I Loves Ya|Best Year of Their Lives
Thursday, January 08"Night and Day," December 25 How I Loves Ya I understand that Jesse Hughey was trying to be funny in regards to his blurb in the Night & Day... More>>
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Inside the DMN's Pro-Hotel Editorial
Thursday, January 08Batty: Three days before Christmas, The Dallas Morning News gave its former parent company, Belo Corp., an early gift by editorializing on behalf... More>>
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George W. Bush, Texas' Prodigal Son, Returns Given any thought to how you're going to react when you encounter George W. on the streets of Dallas?Thursday, January 08OK, just tell me this. How do we greet him? Say I'm in the plumbing aisle at Home Depot bent forward at the waist searching for a beeswax toilet... More>>
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How I Loves Ya|Best Year of Their Lives
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"Night and Day," December 25
How I Loves Ya
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