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For many of us, growing up in our parents' shadows meant contending with the legacies of bankers or salesmen, doctors or lawyers. Mimi Clark Gronlund had larger shoes to fill....
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Diane once considered herself above other prostitutes. In nearly 20 years working highway truck stops, downtown street corners and even a brothel in Nevada, for the most part...
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An autumn storm soaks the streets and paints the outdoors a dull shade of gray, but inside the Fort Worth Convention Center the scene is all bright lights, pyrotechnics, and...
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Often when you see a work of art in a gallery, strategically placed and illuminated, its creation seems unimaginable. For nosy art-lovers and anyone who aspires to actually...
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I'm on my way to see a Delhi-born meditation guru who once worked for Gandhi and who specializes in the virtues of discipline and peace. Naturally, I'm late.
I slept...
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The plot of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks sounds oh-so-vagely reminiscient of The Graduate. "A widow decides to reawaken her ballroom dancing skills and finds a young man to...
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The whole sordid story began with a pile of concrete and a malfunctioning Bobcat.
On a hot, sticky Monday in mid-August 2006, crews in downtown Dallas were hard at work...
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I never saw Mamma Mia! onstage, but I did enjoy Meryl Streep's performance in the movie (which, since it was filmed in the Greek islands, is chock-full of amazing scenery that...
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It's a balmy morning in April, which to Anthony Tovar means only one
thing: crunch time. Instead of walking the halls of Sunset High School
in his usual happy-go-lucky way,...
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Now's the time of year when you suddenly notice it. That first day at the pool, all these months of being out of the sun and too lazy to meet your buddy for golf, tennis or a...
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Standing chest-deep in the hotel pool, Ron White felt foolish. Were the people on lounge chairs near the deep end watching him? Well, screw it. If he cared what a few...
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"Gimme Shelter," by Megan Feldman, March 12
Kids These Days
I picked up the Dallas Observer yesterday because of the artwork on the cover. I am a product of the 1960s and...
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Personally, I find the idea of running for office exhausting--it's something about the constant blow-drying, suit-wearing and speech giving. Yet surely there are young women...
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"Gimme Shelter," by Megan Feldman, March 12
No sympathy
Cowards. I enlisted before 9/11 and still knew what I was getting into. I have deployed twice, have been in college...
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Just 5 feet tall, with a baby strapped to her chest and a soft, faltering voice, Kim Rivera is anything but soldierly. Yet two years ago she was a Texas private in the War on...
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I"Going green" used to be considered a luxury, especially in a faltering economy. But as the Legislature convened last week amid a budget squeeze, a determined coalition of...
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I've always loved Mexican loteria cards. There's something about the way folksy, artistic kitsch and cultural iconography come together in a simple bingo game that just makes...
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Absurd as it sounds, he insists the culprit was a piece of plastic. Mark Orvik—small-town boy, high jinks master and improv imitator of sleazy rednecks, British barflies...
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With another phone line on hold and an ever expanding to-do list, Debbie Busch listened patiently to yet another bereaved parent who called Fort Hood's Gold Star Family...
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Year in, year out, Christmas traditions have a way of blurring together into one long series of tiresome light tours and forced viewings of The Nutcracker. Puppetry, on the...
