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1. Feature

   Patrolling South Texas for Illegal Immigrants

   Border Patrolman Jorge Diaz left Mexico at 12. For 20 years, he's trolled the South Texas brush for illegal compatriots.

   By Megan Feldman

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Jorge Diaz spent years working the fields of South Texas, an earnest immigrant kid picking onions or melons alongside his family. Every month or so, the Border Patrol would...

2. News

   Sheriff Jim Bowles Redux

   Former Sheriff Jim Bowles wants another try at fixing the jail some say he broke

   By Sam Merten

   Published: January 24, 2008

   When former Dallas County Sheriff Jim Bowles made the last-minute decision to get in the race for his old job, it surprised almost everyone. After all, he left office under a...

3. You Said It

   Wah! Wah! Wah!|Living in the Past|Corrections for 1/17/08

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Wah! Wah! Wah! I too am totally disgusted with the showing last Sunday by our beloved Cowboys ("Giant Disgust," by Richie Whitt, January 17). I feel the season was a total...

4. Buzz

   Untouchable Hodge

   By Patrick Williams

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Untouchable Hodge: Well, crap. Gray January is upon us. We've said goodbye to pro football in Dallas, and Hollywood's writers are still striking, so a bleak horizon stretches...

5. Schutze

   DART Made a Billion-Dollar Goof

   New DART lines to cost $1 billion more than promised

   By Jim Schutze

   Published: January 24, 2008

   You know all those people you see riding the DART train? It costs you $3.66 every time one of them gets on a train. Maybe you're like me and believe it's worth it, within...

6. Sports

   Cowboys' and Mavericks' Premature Evacuations Disappoint

   Early playoff exits have Big D disappointed, devastated and downright dysfunctional

   By Richie Whitt

   Published: January 24, 2008

   What have we done to deserve this? I mean, other than subsisting as a shallow, materialistic glob of humanity more obsessed with fake boobs than genuine heart. Other than...

7. Ask a Mexican

   Why do Mexicans like the Doors?

   Heck, why does anybody?

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Dear Mexican: At a weekly Doors tribute band gig, I've noticed the majority of the crowd is Mexican. I swear, sometimes it seems like the crowd missed the exit to the Lupillo...

8. Music

   Sizing Up Sloppyworld

   Finding hope for Dallas' live music scene among Sloppyworld's DIY clutter

   By Jesse Hughey

   Published: January 24, 2008

   On a Friday afternoon one week after the Transoma Five reunion show, Sloppyworld is doing a fantastic job of living up to its name. It's dark and filthy, lit only by a few...

9. Music

   Soul Chanteuse Sharon Jones' Time Has Arrived

   She is the songstress Amy Winehouse wishes to be

   By Doug Wallen

   Published: January 24, 2008

   Sharon Jones doesn't sugarcoat her words. "I've been to six funerals [recently]. I've sung at four," she says. The 51-year-old soul singer has seen tough times lately, from her...

10. Critics' Picks

    Rogue Wave

    Saturday, January 26, at Hailey's in Denton

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Since releasing 2005's Descending Like Vultures, Rogue Wave has found itself the victim of circumstances that pretty much measure up to its name. There was the split with Sub...

11. playlist

    Mary J. Blige

    Growing Pains (Geffen)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: January 24, 2008

    With hip-hop increasingly a boys-only drug cartel, it's not surprising that the top urban hit makers are increasingly females in the R&B genre. Like Alicia Keys on her recent...

12. Bsides

    Imagining the Night David Lee Roth Rejoined Van Halen

    By Chris Gray

    Published: January 24, 2008

    FADE IN: INT. MGM GRAND PENTHOUSE SUITE, LAS VEGAS (NIGHT) The camera lingers on the full-length windows and panoramic view of the glittering Strip below before slowly panning...

13. Dish

    Review: Zen Sushi

    Straightforward, simple and delicious, Zen Sushi delivers without fussiness

    By Mark Stuertz

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Zen has something in it which makes it stand aloof from the scene of worldly sordidness and restlessness." —D.T. Suzuki, May 1953 What strikes you immediately is its...

14. Hash Over

    Reikyu Sushi is a Hip Hibachi

    By Mark Stuertz

    Published: January 24, 2008

    The day Mark Lee opened Reikyu Sushi in Mockingbird Station five years ago he had $500 burning a hole in his business account. That was after he blazed through an $80,000 dad...

15. Cheap Bastard

    Review: Joe's Burgers

    Sonic + beer = heaven

    By ALICE LAUSSADE

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Other places with the word Joe's in their name near Joe's Burgers count: 3 Watery ketchup packets received with my order count: 15 Sonic claims to be your "Ultimate Drink...

16. Film

    Untraceable Rehashes Other Torture Flicks

    Following the film's lame-brained argument, we're all to blame for this massively dumb movie

    By NATHAN LEE

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Regarding the irrelevance of Untraceable: First of all, torture is so 2007, and just because this drab little thriller with a flashy love of pain imagines itself a "critique of...

17. Night & Day

    Somehow Still Alive

    By GEOFF JOHNSTON

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Note to Velvet Revolver: You are not Guns N' Roses. Close, but no banana. I feel the need to mention this because your concert ticket prices (ranging from $67.50 to $125) would...

18. Night & Day

    Keeping It Kushner

    The JCC hosts a real deal Rabbi

    By JARED BINDER

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Rabbi Lawrence Kushner will be the keynote speaker at this year's Dallas Jewish LearningFest. His topic? The Difference Between Nothing and Zip: The Mystical G-D of the Jews....

19. Night & Day

    For the Birds

    See Compton's view of White Rock

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: January 24, 2008

    I just might be the laziest birder in Dallas. Sure, I've got the field guides, even a couple of feeders. But I just can't seem to get my ass up and make haste to the great...

20. Night & Day

    Turning Japanese

    Watch as the South meets the East

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: January 24, 2008

    I once saw an episode of MTV Cribs that featured Alanis Morisette hanging out in her Canadian loft, gleefully making a list of things that were ironic to her. The pad had an...