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There is some set of facts hovering just over the visible horizon having to do with whether Dallas City Councilman Al Lipscomb, 72, is in serious jeopardy of going to prison in...
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Reaping the reward
The Road
Mike Morgan and the Crawl
Black Top Records
Most local blues bands have repertoires so routine, so predictable, that hometown fans find...
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Traveling man
Highly mobile Dallas chef Avner Samuel has a new restaurant scheduled to open this week. Called Bistro A, his new venture in Snider Plaza will feature a broad...
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With I Love You...Don't Touch Me!, first-time filmmaker Julie Davis has made a low-budget movie about love and abstinence among under-30s that looks less to the films of her...
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Since 1993, Denton's Good/Bad Art Collective has made the unexpected part of its routine. From its one-night-only installation policy to its constant stretching of the...
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The caprice of totalitarianism burdened the thoughts of a 32-year-old Albert Camus when, in 1945, he staged a theatrical meditation called Caligula, or The Meaning of Death. He...
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Just now, Cool Storm is anything but. The two-year-old thoroughbred rages beneath his rider, a bundle of nerves wound tightly inside a fierce and beautiful half-ton frame. He...
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Leaders of the nation's most influential conservative religious groups didn't kick up much dust when they arrived in Fort Worth late last month for an unprecedented meeting...
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No Coda
Page & Plant
Walking Into Clarksdale
Atlantic Records
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have spent so many years shitting on their legacy (a little Coverdale/Page...
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A recent Wall Street Journal article explored the debauchery throbbing through New Orleans, a phenomenon illustrated by the Mardi Gras Marathon. Before the race, runners...
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From its very first frame, Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy whooshes us inside the rollicking, deranged world of 12-year-old Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens). Francie is a red-headed...
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Machine art. Interactive kinetic sculpture. Robotic performance art. Extreme technology art. Whatever you call it, it's usually violent, incendiary, and nihilistic. That's what...
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At the heart of Laura Miller's investigative report "Clueless" on Al Lipscomb in the May 30, 1996, Dallas Observer was Lipscomb Industries, a chemical supply company that...
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Slobberbone's were-you-there? set during last month's South by Southwest music conference in Austin wasn't a life-changing show--it was a life-affirming one. During an early...
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thursday
april 16
In our rush to get out this year's weak USA Film Festival schedule, we didn't have time to include last-minute info about major changes that involved...
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Free at last
Someone may have sent the managers of Regis Square Apartments a copy of the Constitution, with its pesky allowances for free speech and assembly.
Anyway,...
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For most anyone with a taste for real country music, Nashville is generally seen as the center of the Evil Empire--a place where Darth Brooks and his ilk are conspiring to...
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Throughout his career in Congress, U.S. Rep. Richard Armey has been known for his shoot-from-the-lip style, firing off barbs that often stung the Irving Republican more than...
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As Penelope Spheeris begins describing her documentary, she lets out a slight chuckle, as though the laugh will cushion the blow: "It's so depressing," she says of the film,...
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A connection with former Superintendent Yvonne Gonzalez doesn't seem to carry many advantages these days at Dallas Independent School District.
Take, for example, Marshall...
