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It was one of the hardest phone calls he ever had to make, a courtesy call all candidates running against incumbents are expected to make. But to phone District Attorney John...
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Dust, brutha
You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Fatboy Slim
Astralwerks/Caroline
Norman Cook's pure-pop pleasures do not last beyond...quick, now. You can listen to his...
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There are at least five indicators that tell you a new restaurant is not just another place to eat, but a major seismic event: 1) you need a reservation to get in on a Monday...
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Insofar as filmmaker Tony Gatlif's justly admired "Gypsy trilogy" is an exploration of his roots and a search for his nature--he was born in Algeria to Gypsy parents of...
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Kurt Kleinmann burns the candle at two ends--president of the Dallas Theatre League, whose Leon Rabin Awards are coming up November 2, and artistic director of Pegasus...
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The small, about-to-be-homeless company known as Teatro Dallas makes art that falls through the cracks between contemporary entertainment boundaries, not to mention the Dallas...
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Russell Doak Walker's home sits just a few doors down from Southern Methodist University, where his father's high school fame blossomed into magazine-cover myth 50 years...
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Ardent yearning permeated the big theater at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch one balmy evening in July. It felt like artistic homesickness. Walter Murch, the renowned film...
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In the booklet for his 1985 career anthology, Biograph, Bob Dylan mused on the differences between his rapturously received 1974 "comeback" tour and the contentious series of...
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Doolittle's does less
Doolittle's, the Addison eatery and Martini hole spawned last year by Deep Ellum Cafe partners Mike Sakuta and Patrick Davis, has been shaken,...
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The Jonathan Demme-directed Beloved runs nearly three hours, and it's a long haul. This adaptation of the 1987 Toni Morrison novel bursts with ambition. On one hand it tries...
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One of the hottest summers in recorded history seems finally to be subsiding, or perhaps just giving us a week's respite. In any case, there's no better way to celebrate what...
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The phenomenon of suburban spread has, despite its tendency to homogenize everything in its steamroller path, sparked at least one enriching trend. Buried deep in the hearts...
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Smells like Victory
What do Albert Einstein, Jesse Owens, and the freedom fighters of Tiananmen Square have in common?
Beats us. Maybe they all liked to shop at the...
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As witch movies go--even lighthearted, supposedly comic witch movies--Practical Magic is conspicuously lacking in supernatural phenomena. Director Griffin Dunne (Addicted to...
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The hero of The Mighty--the title character, in fact--is an eighth-grader known by the nickname Freak (Kieran Culkin). His might isn't physical--he's a small, frail boy who...
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thursday
october 15
Actor Stanley Tucci, star and co-writer of last year's sparkling Big Night, appeared on a recent episode of The Charlie Rose Show to discuss the...
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No question about it, Mark Lannoye stands out in a crowd. Even at Mesquite High School, with hundreds of other teenagers vying for each other's attention, the lanky sophomore...
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Early last week, Arnold Joseph Poovey held in his hands the compact disc that was going to rescue his name from the dustbin of rock-and-roll history. The disc, titled Greatest...
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Taking a page from Investigative Reporting 101, former City Councilman Bob Stimson, who is running a heated race for the District 4 County Commissioner seat against incumbent...
