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On his birth certificate, Dwight Martinek uses his legal name, the one that reflects his grandparents' Czech roots.
But on the streets of the East Texas town of Canton,...
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In its rush to modernize and colonize, this city destroys more of its musical past every day. The nearly completed Jefferson at Gaston Yards apartments now stand on the old...
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No matter where or when, the meal--a "dining experience," as we in the business call it--is judged according to a combination of three basic standards: the quality of the...
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Diabolique, the black-and-white 1955 French classic from director Henri Georges Clouzot, seems like a murder thriller, but it's much closer in tone to a ghost story. The...
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thursday
march 28
Soup's On: The media information for "Soup's On," the performance showcase sponsored by The Writer's Garret and Stone Soup Workshop, is titled...
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Leather dildos, oral sex, untamable erections.These are the kinds of objectionable subjects that right-thinking Americans want to bar from their homes via the mighty V-chip.
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Driving west on Highway 67, Victor Morales has the sun at his back and a St. Patrick's Day parade on the horizon. Early this Saturday morning, the grandson of Mexican...
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She had to sin to be saved
Signed to a major label before she was even voting age, Maria McKee was always doomed to take a fall. No one wants to hear your voice crack in...
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Last week, I was served a baby pig snout.
It's not often you're challenged by your plate and palate to that extent in Dallas because adventures in eating here are limited....
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First came topless dancing.
Then came table dancing. (This doesn't mean the tables dance, it means the girls dance on your table or at your table, even though sometimes the...
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Four years ago, Greg Vaughn's 13-year-old daughter, Holley, came to him with an age-old problem: the-night- before-the-term-paper's-due blues.
"You've got to help me," a...
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"I have to admit, there's a guaranteed future in dirty dishes, which there ain't in blues," Keith Ferguson concedes. "I seem to be the only one who regards himself as a...
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The wonderful thing about food is not just how it tastes, but what it evokes; there are, after all, certain foods and drinks that provide their own atmosphere. Orange juice is...
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As Antonia's Line begins, Antonia (Willeke van Ammelrooy) is 88, and fully aware that she will be dead by the end of the day. As a kind of final purification, she fondly...
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Vernon Johnson is leaving his $125,000-a-year gig as superintendent of the Richardson Independent School District at the end of March to become the chief executive officer at...
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The joke's on you
Thank God I'm Livin' in the U.S.A.!
Pump'n Ethyl
DSR Records
There's nothing Turner Van Blarcum isn't pissed off about. He's getting hammered by...
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School for scandal
As a guest-substitute language-arts and college-prep teacher at Townview Magnet Center ["The truth about Townview," March 14] for an extended assignment...
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Looking at him, standing in front of a roomful of college kids, there is absolutely no question that this is the Pied Piper of local higher education.
"Everyone with us?"...
