Email Author Shannon Sutlief

2005 Stories by Shannon Sutlief

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published May 26, 2005

  Thursday, May 26 If the Van Cliburn Foundation really wanted people to care about the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano... More >>

• Mix Tape

  published May 19, 2005

  My mom is such a trendsetter. Before fancy upscale boutiques were selling wallets and purses covered in it, she was using duct tape to fix... More >>

• Odds & Ends

  published May 12, 2005

  Que Sara, Sara: Sara Radle lost this year's Dallas Observer Music Award for best female vocalist to Stacy and Sherri Dupree... More >>

• Women's Lit

  published May 12, 2005

  Communism and feminism went hand in hand, like, say, George W. Bush and porn star-turned-sexual activist Annie Sprinkle frolicking, hands clasped,... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published May 5, 2005

  Thursday, May 5 We're certain this week will be the best one of the entire season of the Dallas Arboretum's summer concert series by the lake... More >>

• The Swing of Things

  published April 28, 2005

  As a prospective student at the University of North Texas, I thought of Denton as a college kid's paradise, a Lord of the Flies-like place... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published April 21, 2005

  Thursday, April 21 Anyone who's been to an import store or visited Target's short-lived Global Market collection is familiar with... More >>

• A Welcome Experiment

  published April 7, 2005

  "Was I supposed to wear white socks?" Shane Culp is concerned because he is wearing black socks. So is Aaron Graves. That puts the sock ratio... More >>

• True Stories

  published March 31, 2005

  Most people realize that tabloid photos aren't real. There is no Bat Boy, and World's Largest Cat is not riding shotgun in an RV with Elvis... More >>

• ZZZZ

  published March 17, 2005

  ZZZZ describes itself as “a Tim Burton soundtrack on speed.” That’s fitting; the Eastern European rhythms, sax riffs and hushed, conspirator... More >>

• Mystery Solved

  published March 17, 2005

  Pasquale Scaturro says this is the most dangerous thing he's ever done--and the closest he's come to dying. For most people, that could describe... More >>

• Day of the Double Agent, The Octopus Project, Pilotdrift

  published March 10, 2005

  The questions of the night: "Is Pilotdrift as amazing as Good Records says?" and "How did they get to tour with the Polyphonic Spree?" Everyone,... More >>

• Bettie Serveert

  published March 3, 2005

  "Don't give up on me," sings Bettie Serveert's Carol van Dyk on the first song of Attagirl, the Holland band's latest release. The vague... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published March 3, 2005

  Thursday, March 3 Anyone could take the photos that A.B. Wishart does--because he just shoots the world around him, showing details,... More >>

• Cavedweller

  published February 24, 2005

  Cavedweller is the brother of Denton art-rocker Fishboy. But musically Cavedweller is the Sentridoh to Fishboy's Folk Implosion, the introspective... More >>

• Aqueduct

  published February 10, 2005

  Aqueduct is where indie rock meets mainstream pop. The band (in the studio, it's mainly Tulsa jack-of-all-trades David Terry, although other... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published February 10, 2005

  Thursday, February 10 We never meant for it to happen. It just did. One week, we were flipping the channels. The next we were rushing... More >>

• Astronautalis

  published February 3, 2005

  Andy Bothwell looks like just another tow-headed, vintage-T-shirt-wearing college guy you might see weaving through Deep Ellum, looking to score... More >>

• Life More Ordinary

  published February 3, 2005

  For less than $15, anybody can buy a disposable camera, take 24 shots and pay someone to develop them in an hour. Instant art. It's understandable... More >>

• Clair de Lune

  published January 27, 2005

  Clair de Lune is a study in contrasts. Controlled fury. Beautiful cacophony. Sentimental anger. All of which proves that bands can draw from punk,... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published January 27, 2005

  Thursday, January 27 It's a one-night-only, going-out-in-style all-nighter for one of Dallas' biggest rock stars. OK, so it's a... More >>

• Super Group

  published January 20, 2005

  Bill Komodore. Linnea Glatt. Vincent Falsetta. Allison V. Smith. Frank Tolbert. Benito Huerta. Pamela Nelson. Brian Fridge. Ann Stautberg. Greg... More >>

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  published January 13, 2005

  Thursday, January 13 Like cats and babies, we have a fascination with sparkly things. A healthy one, though; there's been no hiding in... More >>

• Female Trouble

  published January 6, 2005

  Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is a book that everyone is supposed to love--women and men, little and big, bookworms and those who... More >>