Email Author Shannon Sutlief

2005 Stories by Shannon Sutlief

• Human Nature

  published November 10, 2005

  Atmos Energy expects to raise customers' bills by 60 to 90 percent this winter; TXU wants to raise its bills by 24 percent by January. It's... More >>

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  published November 3, 2005

  Every few years, 90.1 At Night's Paul Slavens charms local music fans with a special movie-related concert that would make even Cameron Crowe... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published November 3, 2005

  Thursday, November 3 We'd like to think that if we were stuck in a cabin in the woods during a snowstorm with no electricity, no phone, no... More >>

• Dead Like Them

  published October 27, 2005

  Dead Like Them Drink one glass of wine per day--no more, no less. Also drink cranberry juice, green tea, only bottled water, soy milk. Eat only... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published October 20, 2005

  Thursday, October 20 We love peanut butter, and we love chocolate. So it makes sense that we love those peanut-butter-covered-in-chocolate... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published October 6, 2005

  Thursday, October 6 If you know that if you give a pig a pancake, it's going to want some syrup (but definitely not a side of bacon), and if... More >>

• Dog Show

  published September 29, 2005

  Forget milk, soy, eggs and power bars. The real perfect food is the corn dog. One dog has a serving of protein (from that sweaty, shriveled chunk... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published September 22, 2005

  Thursday, September 22 Patti LaBelle is like the Mother Teresa of the VH1 Divas. Some are divas both on and offstage--Jessica Simpson, Mariah... More >>

• Home on the Range

  published September 15, 2005

  Both men are wearing long-sleeved, collared shirts and jeans, standing on the same ranch in Montana on the same day at the same time. But in many... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published September 8, 2005

  Thursday, September 8 Our first year of college, we faced many challenges: trying to avoid the Freshman 15 while living off grilled cheese... More >>

• Wrong Way

  published September 1, 2005

  John Waters, the self-proclaimed king of bad taste, filmed a 300-pound cross-dresser named Divine eating dog doo for Pink Flamingos and... More >>

• OK Go

  published August 25, 2005

  If fans want anything from their OK Go, it's not maturity. Up to now, their music was as fun to listen to as it was to watch, like in music videos... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published August 25, 2005

  Thursday, August 25 Next time a well-meaning but still highly irritating relative asks why we're almost 30 and still not married, we're going... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published August 11, 2005

  Thursday, August 11 Those old, heavy cast-iron skillets are good for more than smacking animated critters in cartoons. While Mom only hauls... More >>

• Rollin'

  published August 4, 2005

  There are some obvious questions you ask when buying a car: What kind of gas mileage does it get, what's the warranty, how's the crash test... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published July 28, 2005

  Thursday, July 28 Some movies alter the way we see daily life. Try not thinking of The Rocky Horror Picture Show when you meet a... More >>

• Willkommen

  published July 21, 2005

  Joel Grey--sweetly menacing with slicked-back hair, red doll-like lips and a tiny black suit--ruled the Kit Kat Klub like a sexed-up, slightly... More >>

• She's Got Skills

  published July 14, 2005

  The instructional video on how to be a female DJ has a fairly stereotypical cartoon protagonist: She has flowing blond hair, pouty lips,... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published July 14, 2005

  Thursday, July 14 In the 1950s, real men could sing and dance. Real men appeared in musicals about saving inns for their former bosses by... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published July 7, 2005

  Thursday, July 7 Strange phenomena of ordinary life: Our cat will chase her tail only when perched precariously on the bathtub edge or the... More >>

• Your Friends & Neighbors

  published June 30, 2005

  We'll probably never know why alcoholic, womanizing, The Gong Show host Chuck Barris claimed to be an assassin for the CIA who ran missions... More >>

• Runway Renaissance

  published June 23, 2005

  What I normally think at an airport: Go, go, get out of my way, I'm in a hurry, parking took 30 minutes, I'm a mile from my terminal, I'm late to... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published June 16, 2005

  Thursday, June 16 People say the moral of Pinocchio is that honesty is always the best policy. We disagree. How about: Never... More >>

• Batter Up

  published June 9, 2005

  "Summer and baseball go hand in hand." That's Barbara Kovacevich's simple explanation for the baseball theme during this year's Addison Lone... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published June 2, 2005

  Thursday, June 2 Surely, we cannot be the only people who didn't love Sideways. It was good, but we're still buying Boone's Farm, and... More >>