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Certainly, I've known failure. In high school, the day I got cut from the varsity football team after the coach told me I had hands like feet; the night of the homecoming...
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Bad Livers
Industry and Thrift
Sugar Hill
The Gourds
gogitchyershinebox
Watermelon/Sire
The Gourds' Kevin Russell and the Bad Livers' Mark Rubin and Danny Barnes...
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Nuevo Leon hits Oak Lawn
Slipping into the Oak Lawn space that was most recently an offshoot of the Oak Cliff Italian restaurant Vitto, Nuevo Leon owners Luis Ramirez and...
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The Montreal World Film Festival runs for 10 days through Labor Day, and the Toronto Film Festival picks up a few days later and carries on for another 10. Twin colossi of the...
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Most often, the difference between photography and painting is in terms of realism and clarity, though artists gleefully shatter such obvious expectations. From Patrick...
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I can feel Dallas Theater Center artistic director Richard Hamburger sending mental waves in this direction and to all the other armchair artistic directors in Dallas: OK,...
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In litigation as in politics, fortunes turn suddenly. And since the case of Jones vs. Clinton lies at the crossroads of both, the relative positions of the two sides have been...
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For many bands, signing a major-label deal is like trying to date two girls at once: It hardly ever works, people hate you for doing it, and although the pitfalls are...
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!Fabulosa!, the new restaurant in the festive Centrum spot that was once Jungle Red, seems little more than an attempt to rescue its predecessor's decor from the scrap heap....
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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita still has the power to scare off people. Proof is the book's new movie adaptation, directed by Adrian Lyne and scripted by Stephen Schiff and...
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thursday
october 8
Even people who haven't been to the State Fair of Texas know what Big Tex looks like, standing tall and proud and jug-eared at the gates of the fair,...
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By the most superficial look at the site, one wouldn't think the idea is so bad. Certainly a 63,000-square-foot Albertsons would be more vital than four aging apartment houses...
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Hank Williams was a drunk, a mean drunk who died at 29 in the back seat of a Cadillac. He was a semiliterate plagiarist, a whoremonger, a brawler, and an egomaniac. He was a...
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Long before Stephen King made horror a national pastime, there was Shirley Jackson.
Born in San Francisco in 1919, the author of the wickedly creepy classic The Lottery...
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Alexander Troup leaves you wondering at first. He talks a bit too fast, and his conspiratorial tone can make a listener wary.
But once he draws you into the half-forgotten...
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Tupelo honey
Weird Tales
Golden Smog
Rykodisc
Wide Swing Tremolo
Son Volt
Warner Bros.
It's far easier to like Jeff Tweedy's songs than those written by his old...
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Old times best forgotten
First, City Councilwoman Laura Miller made people cry when she suggested the city might have something better to spend $50,000 on than a Veterans...
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It should be the stuff that Nashville's dampest dreams are made of: two strapping singin' and songwritin' brothers from a wild-west small town in Texas. Both grew up ranching...
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Those scary readers' picks
Reading the Observer's staff picks for the 1998 Best of Dallas issue [September 24] makes me not want to move away from here so much.
Reading...
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James Lavelle, the 24-year-old founder and president of England's Mo Wax Records, has an active fantasy life, and movies are his touchstone. The promotional items for Psyence...
