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Night & Day
Their Super Sweet 15
By Mark Donald
Published: July 30, 2009
Although intimately familiar with the bar mitzvah coming-of-age ritual in Jewish tradition, I've witnessed only one quinceanera--the coming-of-age ritual for 15-year-old...
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Night & Day
America's Game
By Mark Donald
Published: June 11, 2009
We figured the cult of celebrity had reached new depths of obsessive behavior in December after Scarlett Johansson blew her nose into a Kleenex on The Tonight Show With Jay...
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Night & Day
Revolutionary Reel
By Mark Donald
Published: June 4, 2009
It's not like I needed much help getting radicalized at UT in 1970, what with the Vietnam War, campus protests and a host of college indiscretions at $10 an ounce. But never...
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Night & Day
Treat Your Ticker
By Mark Donald
Published: May 14, 2009
The heart--beating, breaking, soaring, aching, the seat of the soul, the source of emotions, the nub of luv--is the inspiration for music, cinema, novels, theater and 5K races....
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Buzz
Craig Watkins is ready for his closeup
By Mark Donald
Published: April 30, 2009
Screen cred: Buzz couldn't help but wince a bit when we got the advance DVD copy of Dallas DNA, Investigation Discovery's new six-part series that adds to the growing legend...
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Night & Day
Ol' Gordy
Who doesn't love a little Lightfoot?
By Mark Donald
Published: February 26, 2009
Old. That's how I felt after I agreed to write about the upcoming performance of Gordon Lightfoot at Nokia Theatre. My feelings were exacerbated even further when I turned to...
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Night & Day
Beware the Pickleman
Crossing Delancey takes off at the Runway
By Mark Donald
Published: February 5, 2009
It's embarrassing--copping to the fact that the 1988 movie version of Crossing Delancey is something of a guilty pleasure for me. Amy Irving gives a wooden performance as Izzy,...
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Buzz
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Early Vote
By Mark Donald
Published: October 30, 2008
Until this election cycle, I never gave much thought to early voting. Considered it my civic duty to schlep my son and daughter to the polls on Election Day, queue up in long...
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Night & Day
Maneater
By Mark Donald
Published: October 16, 2008
Now, there is a Nancy Nichols who works at D magazine and writes about food and taught me a hell of a lot about hockey, once upon a time, but writing about...
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Night & Day
Playing Catch
By Mark Donald
Published: August 7, 2008
What is it about baseball that so connects father to son? Think Field of Dreams and that iconic moment when Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner)--who turned his cornfield into a...
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Buzz
What, Price justice?
By Mark Donald
Published: July 10, 2008
What, Price justice?: Three decades ago, I was a baby lawyer smitten with the notion of becoming a public defender. It seemed the pure practice of law, unfettered by the...
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Night & Day
Viva Lorenzo
Casa Mañana hosts a Fantastick Lamas
By Mark Donald
Published: May 22, 2008
For those who just couldn't get enough of Lorenzo Lamas in Falcon Crest, where he played playboy grandson Lance Cumson from 1981 to 1990, or his occasional guest appearances on...
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Night & Day
Huff 'n' Puff
See Arianna Huffington in…Plano?
By Mark Donald
Published: May 1, 2008
Some folks have no stomach for Arianna Huffington, who runs the popular news/commentary Web site The Huffington Post, and those folks are generally Republicans. Her...
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Night & Day
That's an Order
Tatse Addison, or you'll be sorry
By Mark Donald
Published: May 1, 2008
Maybe it's the absence of a preposition that makes Taste Addison 2008 (instead of Taste of Addison) sound mandatory rather than suggestive, but if these organizers think they...
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Night & Day
44 After The 28
Remembering a trade of blue plates for civil rights
By Mark Donald
Published: May 1, 2008
Conventional wisdom (as well as the unconventional wisdom of Jim Schutze, who wrote a book about race relations in Dallas) has it that this city was never a hotbed of activism...
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Night & Day
Girl In The Hood
By Mark Donald
Published: April 3, 2008
Never understood the mythological staying power of Little Red Riding Hood. Girl walks through woods to bring food to sick granny; girl meets wolf who would eat her but for the...
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Night & Day
Livin' LaVidas
See cultures clash at Theatre Three
By Mark Donald
Published: March 13, 2008
Been going to Theatre Three productions since I was big enough to say, "No, don't make me!," and I have never known why Theatre Three calls itself Theatre Three. Turns out, its...
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News
Why is Hillary Neglecting Delegate-Rich Dallas County?
While Obama has events going on throughout the city, Clinton is nowhere to be found
By Mark Donald
Published: February 21, 2008
Contrary to what the national media had you believing, the Democratic presidential primary did not end on Super Tuesday, and Texas is now in play. You figure it's time to get...
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Stage
Festival of Nomads
Homeless theaters prove they're worth watching at this year's FIT
By Mark Donald
Published: July 29, 2004
Many is the promising playwright who cuts his teeth on a one-act play or at least attempts one during those fondly remembered starvation years. Likely, some have three or four...
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Stage
Sandy and I
Dallas Summer Musicals takes something old and makes it old again
By Mark Donald
Published: July 8, 2004
Maybe it's a mistake bringing my wife and son to the theater, hoping Sandy Duncan can pull off the part of Anna Leonowens in Dallas Summer Musicals' production of The King and...
