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2001 Stories by Bret Mccabe

• Fire Starters

  published June 28, 2001

  It's a little before 1 p.m. in Portland when Jise, one of the MCs in the Arsonists, answers the phone in his hotel room. There's a fog in his... More >>

• Out & About

  published June 28, 2001

  Kathie Lee Gifford must be fuming. Pay some Honduran kids to earn an honest living cranking out clothes for Wal-Mart back in 1996 and you're... More >>

• David Candy

  published June 28, 2001

  Will Ian Svenonius ever stop? The kicking and screaming former instigator of the fight-this-generation youth revolt of Nation of Ulysses felt... More >>

• The Iceman Cometh

  published June 28, 2001

  Ever since man has been able to commit images onto moving pictures he's been imaging what it's like to leave the earth behind for heavenly... More >>

• Out & About

  published June 21, 2001

  Like the Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan and the Afghan Wigs' Greg Dulli, former American Music Club songwriter and vocalist Mark Eitzel has a... More >>

• Out & About

  published June 21, 2001

  "I'm going to be playing with the Ed Soph Trio down there," saxophonist Joe Lovano says from New York of his upcoming performance at the... More >>

• Confess Yourself

  published June 14, 2001

  Were there any justice in pop culture, turn-of-the-century French artists, writers, musicians and poets would be able to return from their graves... More >>

• Out & About

  published June 14, 2001

  What happens on December 21, 2012, has--according to the Mayan Calendar--taken a 5,125-year cycle to recur. On that date, a very rare conjunction... More >>

• Out & About

  published June 14, 2001

  That Bill Callahan's musical pseudonym comes from an opaque cloud of carcinogenic pollution stirred up by the luxuries of modern living tells you... More >>

• Out & About

  published June 14, 2001

  When New Orleans dirty south B-Boy Mystikal left Master P's No Limit franchise and returned to Britney and boy-band bopping Jive's world... More >>

• Camera Obscura

  published June 14, 2001

  During the pre-production of Lolita, enigmatic director Stanley Kubrick made an extremely rare print appearance in the Winter 1960-'61... More >>

• Out & About

  published June 7, 2001

  Before 1999, the riddle "What is the sound of young punks making new wave?" lay somewhere on the unspeakable scale between "Does anyone really... More >>

• Out & About

  published June 7, 2001

  Even though the power-tool bludgeoning of Jim G. Thirlwell's music may have some contemporary cohorts, it's his peculiar brand of lyrical... More >>

• Her Twentieth Century

  published May 24, 2001

  A quick glance at Dorothy Antoinette La Selle's "Santa Cruz Summer" can mistakenly lead you to read something into her work that's not... More >>

• Out & About

  published May 17, 2001

  Joan Jett has worn her rocker uniform and her tough-girl snarl that betters even Elvis' confident lip curl for so long now that it makes you... More >>

• Out & About

  published May 17, 2001

  Unless you've ever had your clock cleaned by a drag queen, don't think for a moment that you know what it's like to be Handsome Dick Manitoba.... More >>

• Off Camera

  published May 10, 2001

  Almost everyone can name some scene in some movie that left such a profound impression on the mind's eye that it caused him or her instantly... More >>

• Dynamic Duo

  published May 10, 2001

  Though it's only about 93 miles as the crow flies from Toronto, Ontario, to Rochester, New York, it's a straight line that runs primarily... More >>

• Out & About

  published May 10, 2001

  Wanna start a fight? Walk into any alt-minded, college-radio-friendly, independent record store in America during its peak after-school hours and... More >>

• Not Necessarily New

  published May 10, 2001

  South of Interstate 30 is an area that most Dallasites associate with one thing, lofts: those curSrently hip, so-called urban, overpriced... More >>

• Youth in Revolt

  published May 3, 2001

  If the thought of keeping up with the latest and greatest in underground rock, combing through second-hand record stores until you develop... More >>

• Reel People

  published April 26, 2001

  A meeting of the Dallas Observer minds found us arriving at a happy--and unusual--consensus: Yes, there's some good stuff playing at the 31st... More >>

• Out & About

  published April 26, 2001

  If the thought of a "jam band" sends shivers down your spine because it immediately brings to mind the twirling masses that started following... More >>

• 2001 Dallas Observer Music Awards

  published April 19, 2001

  It never works: Trying to pick a winner before the race is over, calling the election before every pencil mark and mouse click is accounted... More >>

• Untamed Lion

  published April 5, 2001

  If Ken Burns' recent epic documentary, Jazz, has had any lasting effect on the state of contemporary jazz, it's ensuring that the face... More >>