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1. Feature

   The Ice Man

   Diamond broker Bryan Wilson Taylor is so smooth, people say he can charm the horns off a billy goat. If he tries to sell you anything, run.

   By Rose Farley

   Published: November 14, 1996

   Most con men flourish in anonymity and forever seek fresh territory. Roll into town, filch bingo money from a few grandmothers, then split before the heat comes down. Never...

2. Music

   Out There

   By Matt Weitz

   Published: November 14, 1996

   Classic rock Being There Wilco Reprise Records The drum rumble that starts off this two-disc set and soon turns to feedback suggests Wilco certainly isn't lagging...

3. Dish

   Hot Dish

   By Mary Brown Malouf

   Published: November 14, 1996

   The dry, sweet fragrance from the sheaves of dried lavender and the long bowl of lavender buds in the entry are your first impression of Lavendou, the charming Provencal bistro...

4. Film

   Crime doesn't pay

   Desperate men take desperate measures in Palookaville and Ransom

   By Arnold Wayne Jones

   Published: November 14, 1996

   As Palookaville begins, three wayward city boys--Jerry (Adam Trese), Sid (William Forsythe), and Russell (Vincent Gallo)--chisel their way through the outer wall of what they...

5. Night+Day

   Events for the week

   By Jimmy Fowler

   Published: November 14, 1996

   friday november 15 Twilight of the Golds: There are a whole lot of hot-potato topics that get tossed around in Jonathan Tolins' drama, The Twilight of the Golds, and you...

6. Stage

   Women trouble

   11th Street paves a bumpy, bright road for Desdemona

   By Jimmy Fowler

   Published: November 14, 1996

   Feminist literary critics have tap-danced on the grave of every dead white male in the Western canon of letters...except for William Shakespeare. Willie the Shake has by and...

7. Feature

   60,000 naked men

   When the Promise Keepers revival rolls into town, every soul in sight gets exposed

   By Jimmy Fowler

   Published: November 14, 1996

   "Pornography," Randy replies. It is rather more than I expect to hear, having interviewed a half-dozen men on the floor of Texas Stadium during the Promise Keepers rally....

8. Music

   Musical conquistador

   Dallas' Grover Wilkins uncovers the lost music of old Spain

   By Laurel Ornish

   Published: November 14, 1996

   Grover Wilkins hadn't intended to make musical history. He was happy with his life: conducting avant-garde 20th-century music in Pittsburgh and in Paris, France, and getting...

9. Dish

   Delighting in the details

   Picardys is much more than shrimp--or even seafood

   By Mary Brown Malouf

   Published: November 14, 1996

   All day, plaza shoppers and shop proprietors had been asking Don Lindsley and Angus MacKay, "What time are you going to open?" All day, 6 o'clock was the answer given, but at...

10. Film

    Joe Bob Briggs

    Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

    By Joe Bob Briggs

    Published: November 14, 1996

    Did you see where the Canadians blew up a decommissioned warship so that it would settle at exactly the right place on the bottom of the ocean? They wanted it to be right next...

11. News

    Never mind

    The public can have some say on the site for a new cultural center. But not too much.

    By Kaylois Henry

    Published: November 14, 1996

    For more than a year, elected officials have agreed that Dallas needs a Hispanic cultural center. After all, Hispanics are the fastest growing segment of the city's population,...

12. Music

    Street Beat comb-over competition

    Published: November 14, 1996

    There is nothing new under the sun, as God once dictated to somebody; no one knows this better than the hapless members of the Publicist Tribe who must call up those who serve...

13. News

    Buzz

    By Glen Warchol

    Published: November 14, 1996

    Unlovely Rita Memo to Dallas' meter cops: Don't mess with geeks bearing high-tech equipment. It seems that Dallas' parking enforcement corps has been having a field day...

14. Music

    Roadshows

    By Josh Alan Friedman

    Published: November 14, 1996

    Professionalism never sounded so good Marshall Crenshaw opened last year's performance in Deep Ellum with the offhand greeting "Hello, we're professional rock musicians." He...

15. News

    Zero tolerance

    Voters dump the Wise County attorney for going easy on recreational pot users

    By Holly Mullen

    Published: November 14, 1996

    Wise County Attorney Stephen Hale thought his decision to routinely dismiss cases of misdemeanor pot possession made perfect legal and moral sense. But it turns out the voters...

16. Music

    The Agnelli and Finch conspiracy

    The temporary addition of former Washington Square makes for a Brave New Combo

    By Matt Weitz

    Published: November 14, 1996

    Lauren Agnelli--known to most for her association with neofolkie groundbreakers the Washington Squares--imparts a New Yorker's sense of forward momentum; one of her favorite...

17. You Said It

    Letters

    Published: November 14, 1996

    Roof-raising good time Just wanted to set you straight on your information campaign about our thriving little metropolis of Grand Prairie, 'twixt big dirty D and Cowtown....

18. Music

    Out Here

    By Matt Weitz

    Published: November 14, 1996

    Shooting star Chandelier Musings Comet Dedicated Records Those who wander the demo-strewn caverns of Local Band Hell soon learn not to trust much of what crosses...

19. Music

    Messing up in public

    Ray Davies gets the kinks-- but not the Kinks-- out of his career

    By Rob Walker

    Published: November 14, 1996

    In its September 11, 1964, issue, the British pop magazine New Musical Express featured an article on the Kinks underneath the headline "This week's chart-toppers." Each member...