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Paul Michael Summer figures he was 30 before he learned how to ride a bicycle. Oh, he knew how to pedal one well enough before then. Like many people his age—he's 59...
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Around we go: He doesn't have Governor Rick Perry's awesome, awesome hair. He doesn't have Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's statewide name recognition. Plus, he's a Democrat in...
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I have been a reporter all my working life, half of that time for daily newspapers, so who knows what volume of fish-wrap I must have ground out over the years, how many tens...
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Ray Johnston got out of the hospital in Dallas last weekend.
Don't bother with the cards or flowers or well wishes, because he's gone. Just like that. By the time you read...
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Dear Mexican: I live in a little village in England in a house that's 200 years old, just down the hill from a tiny church that's so old that it was actually built before God...
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What's crazy about Thanksgiving is that it's like the third hit of your snooze button in the morning—time is running out, and the holiday reminds you of how close we are...
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With each successive release, Cursive seems to further cement itself as an increasingly important band while quietly moving away from the emo label it had been saddled with...
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The new album by Cleveland duo mr. Gnome, Heave Yer Skeleton, is a surreal rock listen.
Largely recorded at the Los Angeles studio of Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh...
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Lately, some of the shows popping up on Dan's Silverleaf's concert calendar have seemed a little out-of-step and more lo-fi, ambient and/or indie-trendy than the typical folk,...
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Craft is the Forrest Gump of Dallas restaurants.
Not that the sophisticated space on the W Hotel's ground floor is in any way slow or befuddled by events, just undeterred by...
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The Road, Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning, post-apocalyptic survivalist prose poem—in which a father and his 10-year-old son traverse a despoiled landscape of...
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Adam Richman, host of Man Vs. Food on the Travel Channel, makes a living going from city to city to take on eating challenges. "Challenges?" you may ask. "You mean challenges...
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If you're anything like me, you weren't alive in the '60s. You never shook hands with President Kennedy or attended (the original) Woodstock, and touch-tone phones totally...
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My mom, who grew up in Texas and spent summers in North Carolina and Georgia, considers herself well-versed in Southern cooking--or "cookin'," as it's called around here. I was...
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Ever been to First Monday Trade Days in Canton? No? Wait, let me guess: It's too far. It's outside. Whatever. Wussies get a major break when the Grapevine Convention Center,...
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If you watched the Disney Channel in the late '80s, you might remember Cannon Movie Tales, which were low-budget musical versions of fairy tales filled with famous faces: Helen...
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I do it. You do it. I bet even your grandma does it. No, not that! Geez. Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm talking about SSCS--secret shame celebrity stalking. Yes, I get...
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I spent some time trying to figure out what an iconic photographer of celebrities and the dejected (Gary Bishop), a Brooklyn-based digital stop-motion animation artist (Yui...
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On the real first day of Christmas--Black Friday--your true love shouldn't give you a partridge in a pear tree. He or she should give you something much more romantic, perhaps...
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Is there an antagonist crueler than Cruella De Vil? Probably. But she's near the top of that list. She wears puppy skins, for goodness' sake! And that was a faux pas even in...
