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Trouble in River City in Lyric Stage’s Vanilla Music Man
Meredith Willson's 1957 musical The Music Man, now at Irving's Lyric Stage, feels as summery as an ice cream social. If only this production came in more flavors than vanilla. The quaint ode to small-town life circa 1912 falls flat if its angelic Iowans aren't threatened with perdition by a devilish Harold Hill. Flim-flammer Hill hops off a train in River City to sell instruments ...
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At the Van Cliburn Competition Perfection Is Subjective
It's important to take a moment of stillness before you do something amazing. You have to stop and collect yourself because people are watching you, and you need to put that reality out of your mind. You have to center yourself and remember that the only thing that matters is you and the ball in your hand or you and the keys in front of you. Huangci was the first of 30 talented young ...
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Loves No Accident In Gruesome Playground Injuries
The lifelong connection between the two characters in Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries begins when they are 8, meeting in the school infirmary. Kayleen has tummy troubles. Dougie has just ridden his bike off the roof, splitting his forehead. Thirty years and many accidents and illnesses later, the pair finally will realize that their fate is to be together - as painful as that ...
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Whos Left Behind When a Soldier Commits Suicide
Becca Morrison is sitting in her new house, a two-story place in a quiet, half-finished Grand Prairie subdivision. The house is large and airy and immaculate, not a speck of dust or a rug corner out of place. The table is set for six, though she's not expecting company. The countertop is lined with her paintings, a hobby she took up after Ian's death. She's 26 now, with dark ...
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Tucson names Texas educator as new superintendent
The district's governing board voted 4-1 Tuesday to appoint Heliodoro Torres Sanchez to lead Tucson schools after John Pedicone announced his resignation in ...
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Appeal seeks halt to Texas womans execution
Kimberly McCarthy on June 26 would be the first woman put to death in the U.S. since 2010 and the 500th prisoner executed in Texas since the death penalty resumed in ...
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Mailman accused of taking money from gift cards
McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- Federal authorities say a South Texas mailman has been arrested for opening customer mail and stealing money contained in gift ...
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Woman drives car into laundromat Wednesday morning
CORPUS CHRISTI -- A woman drove her Dodge Dakota truck into the front wall of a building Wednesday morning after she stepped on the gas instead the ...
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Corpus Christi City Council to decide street fee next week wants one in place Jan. 1
Where in the article did it say convenience stores would have their fee eliminated? And why would we want to even consider a charge for plastic bags? If you and Nelda are so worried about them just ban them ...
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Crisp Immigration reform imperiled by politics
This Aug. 5, 2008, file photo shows the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building Phoenix. The United States Senate is in the early stages of debate on an immigration reform bill; passage is far from guaranteed. As many as 300 amendments to the bill are on offer, and some of them might be ...
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Coburn Treasury keeps stalling congressional request for full listing of conference costs
The Treasury Department has yet to provide Congress with a full list of employee conferences and their costs, despite repeated requests from Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Treasury officials say they're being delayed because of multiple requests from different congressional committees, admitting "confusion," but Coburn isn't buying it. "This 'dog ate my homework' ...
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Snakes on a plane Texas man smuggles 7 live serpents
TYLER, Texas Samuel L. Jackson would have been cursing up a storm. An East Texas man has pleaded guilty to smuggling snakes on several planes from South America to the United States. During a court hearing Wednesday in Tyler, William Lamar pleaded guilty to importing wildlife taken in violation of foreign ...
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Diabetes-friendly recipe Fresh tomato and basil pasta
CORPUS CHRISTI -- FRESH TOMATO AND BASIL PASTA Yields 6 to 8 servings INGREDIENTS 1 box Dreamfields Angel Hair 2 tablespoons olive oil 5 cups coarsely chopped tomatoes (see note below) cup chopped fresh basil 4 cloves garlic, minced -- Salt -- Coarsely ground black pepper -- Shredded Parmesan cheese (optional) DIRECTIONS 1 Cook pasta according to package directions. ...
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Coastal Bend Environmental Science
Coastal Bend Environmental Science Summer 2013 Free Teachers Workshops. Coastal Bend Environmental ScienceJune 19-20Coastal Bend Environmental ScienceElementary Teacher Workshop- 18 CEUsJune 24-26Register for these workshops at ...
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InStep Dance Studios Broadway Dance Camp Part 1
InStep Dance Studios Broadway Dance Camp Part 1 is from 9 a.m. to noon June 17-21 at 5017 Saratoga Blvd. Spend the week learning a variety of Broadway dance styles from the dances of famous choreographers of musical theatre. We will create a Cabaret style performance to showcase all the dancers at the end of this fun filled week. Information: ...
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Gunman threat closes UTA
An alert was issued shortly before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday indicating that the man was headed to the campus. UTA police received the information from Dallas police. At that time, school officials noted that anyone on campus should stay indoors and anyone coming to the campus should stay ...
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Son of minister killed in wreck focuses on forgiving
Brian Jennings and three other people were killed in a multi-vehicle crash late Saturday night that Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department investigators are still trying to sort ...
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Maserati dealership zooming into Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — Dallas-based Park Place Dealerships marked the start of construction on a multimillion-dollar Maserati dealership in southwest Fort Worth by bringing four of the Italian carmaker’s finest models from its Dallas location and revving up the engines during a groundbreaking ceremony ...
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Slavery must never be forgotten
Just as many of you will never forget the oppression — indeed, extermination — of your fore-parents in foreign lands, discrimination in their new country or their constant battle for inclusion and acceptance in a place they came to call ...
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Get first look at new teaching hospital
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Your tax dollars will help pay for a major medical endeavor in Austin: a medical school for the University of Texas. Photos: Teaching hospital for University of Texas medical students The location of the teaching hospital will be next to the Frank Erwin Center and the existing University Medical Center Brackenridge, where officials unveiled the first renderings of the ...
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Telephone threat closes UT-Arlington campus
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- A telephoned threat about a gunman heading to the University of Texas at Arlington has led to the campus being closed and classes canceled as a ...
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Amnesty International USA Governor Rick Perry Must Halt Medellin Execution Immediately
Texas Goes 'Beyond the Pale if it Insists on Going Forward' With Execution WASHINGTON - August 4 - Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today urged Texas Governor Rick Perry to stay the execution of ...
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Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition and Environmental Defense Fund Reach Milestone Agreements With NRG Texas on Limestone Station Expansion
Environmental Defense Fund media contact: Chris Smith, 512.691.3451 TCACC media contacts: Frank J. Librio (Director, Public Information Office, City of Dallas) 214.670.3322 Frank Michel (Director of Communications, City of Houston) 832.393.0800 NRG media contacts: Meredith Moore 609.524.4522 David Knox (Texas) 713.795.6106 NRG Investor Relations contacts: Nahla Azmy ...
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Meet the newest Port of Corpus Christi commissioner
Knock me over with a feather if Nueces County Commissioners don’t appoint David Engel to the Port of Corpus Christi before this day is done. He is an excellent choice. So would have been five other ...
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Arlington OKs tax break for $20 million industrial project
Recycling carts: The City Council approved a contract amendment to give Republic Waste Services a $4.3 million one-time reimbursement for 65-gallon recycling carts being delivered to nearly 93,000 households. The payment will reduce the recycling fee increase scheduled to appear on residents’ water bills in July. The fee will drop from 94 cents to 51 cents a month. The monthly fee increase ...
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Is the student-beating teacher being used as scapegoat?
Without question, the shocking video footage of a Houston school teacher attacking and beating a cowering 13-year-old student shows something wrong and something that should never ever occur in the classroom. But recent revelations surrounding the events leading up to the incident, and the conditions at the school itself, seem to suggest that this teacher was pushed to the limit by a flawed school system, as well as her own lack of training to deal with the rigors of a stressful and provocative teaching environment.
On April 29th Sheri Lynn Davis attacked a student in her class, the footage has now gone viral on the internet and shows an incident that seems to represent a complete breakdown of the system. In the video the 13-year-old student is seen backed into a corner of the room with Davis standing before him in a position indicative of an imminent attack, the boy cowers down at which point the beating begins. Read more
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