Email Author Annabelle Massey Helber

2001 Stories by Annabelle Massey Helber

• Shoe Business

  published May 17, 2001

  What is it about The Wizard of Oz that drives so many creative types to reinterpret L. Frank Baum's classic fable into something "fresh"... More >>

• First Things First

  published May 10, 2001

  Lately, it's been hard to throw a rock through a plate-glass gallery window or museum front door without having it bounce off the canvas of some... More >>

• Grudge Match

  published February 22, 2001

  Hindsight doesn't interest Gerald Peters. He didn't get where he is today by looking back or wrestling with "what ifs." It's more in his... More >>

• Pluck of the Irish

  published February 22, 2001

  Blake Ovard couldn't be more supportive of the Irish and Celtic heritage if he were a shamrock-emblazoned jock strap. For two years now, he and... More >>

• Lose It

  published February 15, 2001

  Never let it be said, concupiscent readers, that we don't have your best interests at heart. We slog and grind through the week, compiling these... More >>

• Face Time

  published February 8, 2001

  It's Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday, and Connie Connally's helpers have deserted her to rush home for the game. The men in her life--husband,... More >>

• Naughty Bits

  published February 8, 2001

  Fair warning: We're about to burn something into your brain that will stick with you for the rest of the day. First, start humming the Beach Boys'... More >>

• Latin Lover

  published January 25, 2001

  There are still a handful of dreamers in Dallas, and they're not all starry-eyed lottery players, or dot.com entrepreneurs, or the founders of... More >>

• In 'Mint Condition

  published January 25, 2001

  Before Sesame Street but during the heyday of Captain Kangaroo, legend has it, Dallas-area kiddies got their kicks while they ate... More >>

• Dancing Machine

  published January 18, 2001

  If you didn't spend the better part of puberty at a performing-arts high school, then any impressions you may have formed about such a creative... More >>

• Scrap Heap

  published January 11, 2001

  The first 15 minutes of our prepared childbirth course last summer was devoted to ice-breaking--that peculiar activity group leaders believe helps... More >>

• Handmade Booze

  published January 4, 2001

  Every couple of weeks or so, Gary Smith dusts off a folding banquet table from the back room at Centennial on Valley View in Addison, covers it... More >>

• Open House

  published January 4, 2001

  You have to wonder what's going on at Fort Worth's Yellow House Gallery, a recently expanded art space tucked into the light industrial... More >>