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Everybody knows David Brent. We've worked with, under or over someone like him, and it's nothing other than excruciating. He's the boss who points to a "Billy the Big Mouth"...
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We've always wanted to travel on a passenger train. A lifetime of watching Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, North by Northwest and Strangers on a Train (the list of Hitch's...
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Dana Carvey made an excellent point in his 1995 HBO special Critic's Choice. Gordon Sumner must have had serious balls to ask his friends to start referring to him as Sting....
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Thursday, May 29
Joni Mitchell says, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." So what if it's your mother's cemetery plot instead of paradise and a supermarket...
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Thursday, May 22
Casting a Spell: Winslow Homer, Artist and Angler has caused a whirlwind of traffic from both art lovers and fishing enthusiasts alike. In conjunction,...
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Marble shooting is so satisfying it's easy to become passionate or even obsessive about it. There's care taken to arrange the targets in a perfect formation after choosing the...
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"The Beam Walk," "Bed of Nails" and "Ball of Danger" all sound like they should be episodes of Buck Rogers. In fact, they are the situations that make up Risk! at the Fort...
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Thursday, May 8
The two raunchiest and yet completely enthralling autobiographies we've ever read: Klaus Kinski's Kinski Uncut and Lenny Bruce's How to Talk Dirty and...
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The last time we saw a dog fly was when we threw a Hebrew National at Carl Everett's head. Seriously, we aren't foolish enough to waste a good cell phone and be completely...
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Country music raised me. Sunday afternoons, watching tapes of Austin City Limits featuring George Jones and Merle Haggard with Dad, Willie on the console record player and a...
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Thursday, April 24
Parties are great and all, unless the gathering prompts one of our group members to network the entire time, leaving us in a corner with Ted in Accounting...
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By Zac Crain, Jeff Liles, Merritt Martin, Shannon Sutlief, Robert Wilonsky and Mikael Wood Published:
April 17, 2003
Thirty or so nominators, culled from the rank and file of the local music industry, decided what names made it onto the ballot for the 2003 Dallas Observer Music Awards....
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Thursday, April 17
MTV and reality do not a pairing make. We've never once had a wall-sized aquarium or a penthouse atop a Vegas casino. The network, though, does promote an...
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David Sedaris is no stranger. He's a regular on radio's This American Life, he's written best sellers, he's co-written plays, he's molded the minds of tuition-paying students....
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The big F: not freedom nor France nor finance nor whatever else is going through those sordid Dallas brains. They're talkin' failure, and maybe a comment or two on...
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One of the hands-down best privileges of being a kid: temper tantrums. Face first on the bed or floor (or surface of choice), tiny fists clenched, just wailing. To hell with...
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By Thomas Korosec, Cheryl Smith, Mark Stuertz, Charles Siderius, Patrick Williams, Merritt Martin and Matt Hursh Published:
April 3, 2003
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North Texas' reputation as a hothouse for budding jazz talent blossoms a little wider this weekend at the Third Annual North Texas Jazz Festival in Addison, a three-day...
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By Michelle Martinez, Patrick Williams, Rhonda Reinhart, Shannon Sutlief, Merritt Martin, Desirée Henry, David Wilson, Annabelle Massey Helber and Matt Hursh Published:
April 3, 2003
4/3
We tried to read Great Expectations twice before giving up and buying the Cliffs Notes. Charles Dickens just never really appealed to us. If you're of the same bent, or...
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Naked bodies and furniture go together about as well as teen-agers and sex. Which is to say the juxtaposition of subjects in Hidden Secrets is perfectly natural and still a...
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Alvin Ailey was 27 when he and a troupe of modern dancers performed for the first time in New York City, a far cry from Ailey's hometown of Rogers, Texas. About 45 years...
