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1998 Stories by Juliana Barbassa

• Back in black

  published December 31, 1998

  Orson Welles' classic, The Lady of Shanghai, is the quintessential film noir. You have all the basic elements: the femme fatale, the unsolved... More >>

• Holiday Howl

  published December 24, 1998

  At this time of year, there are few places to hide from the seasonal attack of nonstop Christmas lights, bad lawn ornaments, and the too-cheery... More >>

• Go for the green

  published December 17, 1998

  For decades Dale Robinson has left his Lakewood home and headed over to Tenison Park, golf bag slung over his shoulder. Four times a week... More >>

• Last dance

  published December 10, 1998

  One minute, the woman in the clingy, curvy red and black dress makes the rounds as a waitress, taking drink orders from the tables of men at... More >>

• Talk the talk

  published December 10, 1998

  Thirty-five years have passed since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but people are still talking about it. While everyone is... More >>

• The virgin muse

  published December 3, 1998

  Sandra Cisneros writes about what she knows, in the words she grew up with. This daughter of a Mexican father and Mexican-American mother brought... More >>

• Getting scrooged

  published November 26, 1998

  He's back: that "squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner" Scrooge, whom Charles Dickens created and every theater... More >>

• Hot tango

  published November 19, 1998

  Given choreographer Paul Taylor's self-described "insatiable itch to communicate to the world at large," it was surely only a matter of time... More >>

• Stranger than fiction

  published November 12, 1998

  What better way is there to spend a chilly autumn evening than to curl up with a large box of popcorn and watch a good thriller? Genealogies of a... More >>

• Love, death, and flamenco dancing

  published November 5, 1998

  "Theater should be a grand poetic spectacle, the language given flesh and breath," Federico Garcia Lorca once said. Now celebrating the... More >>

• Dead air

  published October 29, 1998

  You can almost hear the silence at KKDA-AM (730) these days. "Soul 73," long hailed as the voice of Dallas' African-American community, is not... More >>

• Banned in Plano

  published October 29, 1998

  The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture is one of those interesting bits of the city that might pass unnoticed by those for whom downtown... More >>

• Laughing at Lolita

  published October 22, 1998

  Paula Vogel has guts. Writing about incest, child abuse, and a girl's sexual awakening without being melodramatic or making an audience cringe is... More >>

• Boys in black

  published October 15, 1998

  No question about it, Mark Lannoye stands out in a crowd. Even at Mesquite High School, with hundreds of other teenagers vying for each other's... More >>

• Double divas

  published October 15, 1998

  One of the hottest summers in recorded history seems finally to be subsiding, or perhaps just giving us a week's respite. In any case, there's no... More >>

• Trash heap of history

  published October 8, 1998

  Alexander Troup leaves you wondering at first. He talks a bit too fast, and his conspiratorial tone can make a listener wary. But once he... More >>

• The frightener

  published October 8, 1998

  Long before Stephen King made horror a national pastime, there was Shirley Jackson. Born in San Francisco in 1919, the author of the... More >>

• Candidate X

  published October 1, 1998

  Michael Capehart likes to talk. If given the chance, this 52-year-old Oak Cliff native will keep you riveted, his lilting voice filling a room,... More >>

• Alive and kicking

  published October 1, 1998

  Is feminism dead? When Time magazine's June 29 cover posed that question alongside a picture of TV's short-skirted, ditzy attorney Ally McBeal, it... More >>

• Glint of gold

  published September 24, 1998

  It's state fair time again, and parents all over the metroplex are bracing themselves for the yearly ritual of corny dogs, endless carnival rides,... More >>

• Chic Lalique

  published September 17, 1998

  As waves of turn-of-the-century nostalgia follow in the wake of Titanic, the unsinkable, ever profitable movie, trendees are showing newfound... More >>

• War wounds

  published September 10, 1998

  Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once described the U.S.-Mexico border as a 2,000-mile-long scar. The frontier, drawn at the end of the U.S-Mexico... More >>

• Bothersome Brecht

  published September 3, 1998

  Not long before he died, Bertolt Brecht asked a reporter to "write that I was inconvenient and intend to remain so after my death. Even then there... More >>

• Lunching Latino

  published August 27, 1998

  You work downtown. You're tired of the standard lunchtime fare. Eating at your desk just doesn't do it for you either. So you take a stroll, head... More >>