Email Author Shannon Sutlief

2003 Stories by Shannon Sutlief

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published December 25, 2003

  Thursday, December 25 The inaugural use of our just-turned-17 drivers license was to see Hagfish at Trees, and it was a defining... More >>

• Out of This World

  published December 18, 2003

  There are many symbols for this time of year. There's the Nativity for religious Christmas, and Santa and Rudolph for secular Christmas. A menorah... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published December 11, 2003

  Thursday, December 11 It's a Wonderful Life's famous quote, "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings," should... More >>

• Desert City Soundtrack

  published December 4, 2003

  Lest you think Desert City Soundtrack's album Funeral Car might contain a few rays of sunshine peeking through the dark clouds, the first... More >>

• Hey! Ho! Let's Go!

  published December 4, 2003

  It's every rocker girl's wet dream: She meets her beloved rock star, gives him the songs she wrote for him, sings one with him and becomes an... More >>

• Count the Stars

  published November 27, 2003

  Guilt is a powerful motivator. We feel it whenever we spin Count the Stars' Never Be Taken Alive, the baby-faced, just-past-jailbait New... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published November 27, 2003

  Thursday, November 27 We'll let you in on a little secret. The Fort Worth Zoo is open on Thanksgiving Day from noon to 4 p.m.... More >>

• Island Records

  published November 20, 2003

  Think Tiki music, and you'll think young. You'll think hip. You'll think 20-something guy who buys his vintage flower-print shirts at Ahab Bowen... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published November 13, 2003

  Thursday, November 13 Some people quote The Simpsons; other people do Reality Bites. We've got Morrissey. But this time... More >>

• Eye of the Beholder

  published November 6, 2003

  New York performance artist Annie Murdock is the daughter of Robert Murdock, the former curator of contemporary art at the Dallas Museum of... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published October 30, 2003

  Thursday, October 30 To us, Halloween's scare factor has nothing on El Da de los Muertos celebrations. While All Hallow's Eve offers... More >>

• Now and Then

  published October 23, 2003

  Many of the 1960s protest singers used those warbly voices to spread their opinions. But rather than convincing, we've always found them so... More >>

• Drop In

  published October 23, 2003

  Of all the things Timothy Leary was famous for--experimenting with LSD, being asked to leave his professorship at Harvard, getting arrested for... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published October 16, 2003

  Thursday, October 16 If someone had asked us just a few days ago what "throatsinging" was, we'd have claimed it was when someone can... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published October 2, 2003

  Thursday, October 2 Without high school marching band, we might never have known the glory of "You Can Call Me Al" and "Crocodile... More >>

• Batter Up

  published September 25, 2003

  Four years ago, we never would have imagined that corn dogs could have been any less appetizing than they are in their natural state. There's that... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published September 18, 2003

  Thursday, September 18 We like to think of Would I Lie to You? as the Jewish version of Tootsie. But instead of... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published September 4, 2003

  Thursday, September 4 Our favorite board games from childhood involved brightly colored mats and cute little place markers. We loved... More >>

• Higher Learning

  published July 31, 2003

  We always imagine juvenile jail to be like either the orphanage scenes in Annie or like Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock. Basically,... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published July 24, 2003

  Thursday, July 24 We actually like it when people from other countries think Texans all ride horses, own ranches and wear cowboy... More >>

• Shake Down

  published July 17, 2003

  Our problem with Romeo and Juliet has never been muddling through the now-obsolete Elizabethan dialect. Nor is it the overacting... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published July 10, 2003

  Thursday, July 10 Bela Lugosi will always be Count Dracula. He was even buried in the cape he wore in the movie. But some critics say... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published June 26, 2003

  Thursday, June 26 Grapevine will be a mad, mad, mad, mad world this weekend, minus the buried treasure, stoic police detective and,... More >>

• Out and About

  published June 19, 2003

  A film festival with queens, bears and fairies? Think it must be time for the cartoons and Grimm tales of the KidFilm fest again? Catch up on the... More >>

• Life is a Cabaret

  published June 19, 2003

  A burlesque show isn't just stripping with rhinestones, pleather thongs and Kid Rock tunes. To quote contemporary cabaret girl Miss Kitty Crimson,... More >>