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Living lean

With its creative core back together, Doosu resumes course

By Howard Wen
Jul 3, 1997

Asked how he's feeling before he and his band, Doosu, hit the stage at Trees, Casey Hess--speaking over his shoulder as he bolts toward the men's room to relieve his bladder--says that he's relaxed. Later, in the club's backstage "green room," the adrenaline builds. Drummer Todd Harwell talks of how...
The 1997 Dallas Observer Music Awards

By Matt Weitz, Philip Chrissopoulos, Richard Baimbridge, Scott Kelton Jones, Rick Koster, Howard Wen, Alex Magocsi, Arnold Wayne Jones and Tim Schuller
May 1, 1997

I wandered around the Dallas music scene lonely as a freelance cloud, the Dallas Observer Music Awards were about as interesting to me as a medium-sized rock in a coffee can. Who cares what anybody else thinks? Ah, the carefree ways of callow youth. Now that I'm the Observer music...
Out Here

By Howard Wen and Matt Weitz
Feb 27, 1997

Slouching toward distinction Equus Plebeian Monarchs Carpe Diem Records Like another band on the local Carpe Diem label, Cafe Noir, Plebeian Monarch's music is a reconstitution of familiar melodies. But Plebian Monarch's Equus lacks what Cafe Noir--through its distinctly Old-World sound--presents: a truly new experience. Throughout most of the nine...
Eighth place in your face

Some sticky PR won't hold Slow Roosevelt back

By Howard Wen
Dec 19, 1996

The rain bombs out the street before Peter Thomas, and he wonders if the adverse weather will significantly affect the turnout this Saturday night. He and two bandmates, Aaron Lyons and Mark Sodders, stand under the overhang of the Dogstar, one of the few dives where a local band can...
Nothing But The Truth

James Halperin's book The Truth Machine calls for a utopia where infallible lie detectors make us better people from the president on down. Is it science fiction or prophecy?

By Howard Wen
Nov 28, 1996

Sometime in the early 21st century--when America is scourged everywhere by violent crime, and terrorist groups roam the world with biological weapons and suitcase-sized nuclear bombs--a computer programming genius and his Dallas-based company perfect the first 100 percent foolproof lie detector. Its use throughout American society--in law enforcement, the judicial...

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