Browsing Issue: Wednesday, January 17, 2007

News: Feature: Word One of the best poetry slam teams in the country is from ... Cowtown? By ANTHONY MARIANI photos by Vishal Malhotra News: Letters: Paeans on Payne News: Metropolis: Hands-On Customer Service More questionable policing goes in the basket at a local Wal-Mart. By JEFF PRINCE News: Second Thought: Groovy National Product If we dropped the drug fight, we’d only be losing one war at a time. By E.R. BILLS News: Static: Bucking the Old Guard Music: Featured Music: West Berry Breakdown A country-punk band in the heart of indie-rockdom? Holy Moly, indeed. By CAROLINE COLLIER Music: Hearsay: The Next Big Thing Music: Last Call: Alt-Hip-Hop? Music: The Show: The Cut*off By Jeff Prince Film: Film Reviews: Idiocracy Forest Whitaker reigns supreme over the flawed The Last King of Scotland. By KRISTIAN LIN Film: Film Reviews: Yes, Maugham The lead actors save The Painted Veil from being just another pretty picture. By KRISTIAN LIN Eats: Cafe Reviewed: Stop, in the Name of Grub Load up on A Taste of Soul’s creamy dinner rolls, and you’ll be rollin’ down the street. By JIMMY FOWLER Eats: Chow, Baby: Got to Have Friends Calendar: Night and Day: Calling 940 Arts: Gallery: UNT Faculty Exhibition Arts: Stage: A Dream Not Deferred One of Ed Smith’s earliest professional aspirations was to run an African-American theater — now he’s at one of the best. By JIMMY FOWLER