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2000 Stories by Shannon Sutlief

• Dallas Stars

  published December 28, 2000

  Without question, 2000 was a good year for local music, as familiar faces and genuine surprises delivered the rock and didn't take it back. From... More >>

• Out & About

  published November 16, 2000

  The Rock*A*Teens' latest album, Sweet Bird of Youth, opens with "Car and Driver," a deceptively sweet tale that, soon enough, turns into a... More >>

• Power Broker

  published October 5, 2000

  Every time I move, I make the same promise to myself: This time I'll clean out all drawers and cabinets, tossing out Tupperware bowls without... More >>

• Piano Forte

  published September 14, 2000

  My first guitar had strings that looked like colored fishing line and a white plastic body emblazoned with a photograph of Luke, Bo, and Daisy... More >>

• Polly Wanna Dishwasher

  published September 7, 2000

  From We Are the World to the Tibet Freedom Concerts, musicians have been selling their pet charities along with records, concert T-shirts,... More >>

• All's faire

  published August 24, 2000

  All's faireFor years we've harbored an idea for the perfect costume for a Medieval fair (or faire, as many aficionados prefer to call it): The... More >>

• Lear jets

  published August 17, 2000

  It's said that people spend the first half of their lives looking toward the future -- imagining who they'll be, what they'll do, what they'll be,... More >>

• Bear in Mind

  published August 10, 2000

  Toy aisles are like Hollywood -- every year there are more young faces and fewer of the old ones. There's the new blood: Arthur, the Teletubbies,... More >>

• Trick's a treat

  published August 3, 2000

  Words like "amazing" and "wondrous" have been so overused that now they're just a tad more meaningful than "neat" or "cool." The boss' new haircut... More >>

• Free Will

  published July 27, 2000

  It's a shock when you reach adulthood and realize that you're not yet done with Shakespeare, that you didn't leave him padlocked in your... More >>

• One fish, two fish

  published July 20, 2000

  Kim Rody's Fishart paintings likely feel right at home at the Dallas Aquarium in Fair Park. Around them swim the fish, shrimp, turtles, and... More >>

• Easy as Pi

  published July 13, 2000

  I'm stuck in the waiting room of a car-repair shop. My only companions are a humming cola vending machine, a gurgling coffee maker, and a blue... More >>

• Dino-might

  published July 6, 2000

  The kids were playing in three areas--the excavation site, fossil-rubbing station, and dinosaur book-and-toy table--when the adults disappeared... More >>

• Dream team

  published June 22, 2000

  In the late '70s, it was fashionable to predict that, by the year 2000, humans would be populating the moon. Man had first set foot there late in... More >>

• Out Here

  published June 15, 2000

  [DARYL] Communication: Duration (Urinine Records) Months ago,... More >>

• Jewel of the Nile

  published June 15, 2000

  For something that is nothing more than a big, fat fib, the curse on King Tut's tomb has remarkable staying power. Death shall come to those... More >>

• Crimes seen

  published June 8, 2000

  Photographs taken at crime scenes have become big business. Before television cameras rolled on Courtney Love's running mascara, photographs of... More >>

• Momma's boy

  published June 1, 2000

  Dating habits are not hereditary. If they were, Brett Leveridge's first novel would be called My Mom Was a Big-Time Playa and So Am I... More >>

• Schreck it out

  published May 25, 2000

  Audiences raised on Freddy flicks and Jason slasher movies won't be scared by Nosferatu--Symphony of Horrors. They're callused,... More >>

• Jinkies, it's art!

  published May 18, 2000

  It's probably happened to everyone. I've watched something so hilarious, so brilliant, so truly a piece of comic genius that I have to share it... More >>

• Buzz

  published May 11, 2000

  Mr. Conflict Give credit to Don Venable, the gadfly-turned-trustee-turned-gadfly again. He may have been... More >>

• Out Here

  published April 27, 2000

  Tripping Daisy Tripping Daisy (Good Records/Sugar Fix... More >>

• DOMA 2000

  published April 20, 2000

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• Nocturnal confessions

  published April 20, 2000

  When I awoke from a dream a few mornings ago still hazy and feeling lost, I wondered, "Did I really just defend the Spice Girls when the police... More >>

• Game boy

  published April 13, 2000

  ngel Munoz meets only one of the demographics of the gamers in his Cyberathlete Professional League. He's male. He's not Anglo, and, at 40 years... More >>