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It is nothing but an open field, a nondescript place beside a row of battered mailboxes along Seeton Road near Joe Pool Lake. But for months, it has been a site of pilgrimage...
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Everything Sucks
Descendents
Epitaph Records
Call it charisma. Or attitude. Whatever it is, it is essential to the role of frontman. Milo Aukerman has it, but when he...
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Al Dente has been one of the most popular restaurants on Lower Greenville for years, repeatedly named in one people's poll or another (including ours) as The Best Italian...
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Some of us remember that there are really two Tom Hankses--Saint Tom and his Evil Twin. Saint Tom won back-to-back Oscars for his charming, bloodless performances in...
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thursday
october 17
The Legalization of Marijuana: A political correctness not born of the American left has surrounded the debate over how to deal with drugs and drug...
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Long before movie special-effects wizards combined animatronic models and animation to make animals talk, the stage endowed our fellow mammals with a human voice--and more...
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Everything, really, was quite perfect. The Women's Council of The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden was gathering last month in the historic DeGolyer House for its Fall...
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Mr. DJ, won't you please play
a real country song?
Where's your conscience?
What's the problem?
Speak up and say what's wrong
--Dale Watson,
"A Real Country...
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One of the drawbacks of eating out professionally is that you necessarily forgo one of the prime delights of restaurant dining--having a home away from your own. The real...
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This First Wives Club stuff is gettin' scary, isn't it?
What's the rallying cry of First Wives Club? "Don't get even--get everything!" Right?
Every married man's worst...
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Getting bigger all the time
With the rerelease of the classic film Giant, culture critics are re-examining the Texas Myth. Most are lamenting that the wild-cattin' Texas...
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The front room and the darkroom behind--on the street side of photographer James Bland's house in the heart of Oak Cliff--are unusually neat for one of the archivists of a...
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Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Jerez, Navarra, and Tias Baixas may not be as familiar as Russian River, but they should be. Spain is one of the great wine-producing countries of the...
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For a few years now, I've been praying to the talent gods to give me the strength to keep liking James Foley movies. When Foley first began directing 12 years ago, his films...
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It wasn't long ago that Alphonso Solomon was considered a rising star among black business owners in Dallas, a walking testament to the notion that ambition and business savvy...
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David Newman's Oak Cliff home contains a living-room wall of fame--the "Fathead National Museum"--adorned with his 28 album covers in chronological order. They date from 1959's...
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In The Dallas Morning News, politics is no joking matter. Dallas cartoonist Buddy Hickerson learned that lesson the hard way when his quirky, irreverent cartoon, The Quigmans,...
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Satellite of Love
Although much has been made lately about Christian music and the mainstream success the genre has enjoyed, most of the songs found there still fit into two...
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Nothing but the truth
To Laura Miller--great work on "Combat zoning" [September 19]. You and the other great writers at the Dallas Observer go underground to tell the real...
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Be here now
Return of the Funky Worm
Johnny Moeller and Paul Size
Dallas Blue Society Records
Walk in the Sun
Sue Foley
Discovery Records
What is it about the...
