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Fifty yards from the Fair Park Midway, and mere spitting distance from the landmark Texas Star Ferris wheel, sits a squat, putty-colored building. Modest signs first lead...
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Bluesy singer-songwriter Keb' Mo' (street vernacular for Kevin Moore) has reached critical mass with his second OKeh/Epic album, Just Like You, setting the stage for a...
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The Kozy Kitchen's label says it's "The Home of Delicious Desserts" and that's true, but you can't overlook that it also is the home of delicious breakfasts, because this is...
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No two films should be more dissimilar than Girls Town and The First Wives Club, which open this weekend in Dallas movie theaters. Girls Town spent most of 1996 as a hot indie...
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friday
september 20
Wallace & Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation: Packaged together into one feature-length program are nine award-winning shorts from the...
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The critical disdain into which playwright Edward Albee sunk from the late '70s through the early '90s isn't the surprise of his career. That he ever enjoyed the relatively...
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The sculptor's fortress rises above a South Dallas neighborhood that has long since gone decrepit. His home is an island, surrounded by a sea of busy streets.
It is walled...
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Passion, not diplomacy
Adore or despise her, Madonna has surprised us once again. We're not talking about her pregnancy here, but her recent incarnation as a big-wigged...
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Some places in this country--New York; San Francisco; Chicago; and Krebs, Oklahoma, come immediately to mind--have always had great Italian food. And not just great Italian...
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Last week I decided it was time to update my personal ad. I think it had something to do with Wanda Bodine telling me that I was "the kind of scumball that no sane woman would...
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Alasan Mansaray sees opportunity everywhere, be it in shopping malls or at gas stations. Wherever he sees people, Mansaray approaches. "Hello," he says, his manner friendly....
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Quirky, man, quirky
Merkin Wig
Riddle Me This
Doilie Records
Smirk
The Sutcliffes
Skiffle Beat Records
Ambling through a smorgasbord of distinct sounds can be...
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American Buffalo, with Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Franz parrying with playwright David Mamet's razor-sharp dialogue, promised to be the sleeper tour de force of the season. The...
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KFC: Korrupted Football Coaches?
In these dark days of cynicism and profiteering, we always figured that if there was one thing that couldn't be bought--a moral constant,...
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It's a Thursday night at Grinder's and of course it's humid out on the java joint's patio, where a pair of young fellas perform music in the back. One does most of the...
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Cracking the door
Thank you for publishing Ann Zimmerman's piece ["Mesquite grilled," September 5]. For the first time in many moons, I see an actual case of [Mesquite's]...
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Elements of style
Melting in the Dark
Steve Wynn
Zero Hour Records
Beautiful Freak
Eels
Dreamworks Records
Sometimes you gotta shake things up--have Frosted...
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It was clearly Nicole Lott's first time at Dallas City Hall.
This was obvious from the look in her eyes--that unmistakable deer-in-the-headlights look--that I detected when...
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Do you want to know a secret? I've had it up to about here with the Beatles.
It's been more than six months, and the foofaraw surrounding the 35th anniversary of the Fab...
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When we ran an item taking Sting to task for his ware-peddling at his recent Starplex show, we were unaware that the deeply thoughtful Brit was battling a terrible condition:...
