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Feature
Anatomy of a smear
When people started asking why Dallas' finest were losing the war on slumlords, someone reached for the bag of dirty tricks
By Thomas Korosec
Published: November 18, 1999
Robin Page had been home from her job as an assistant Dallas city attorney for only a day when reporters began calling and showing up at her doorstep. That she would be their...
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Music
Hank's for the memories
Hank Williams III hopes that country gold comes in threes
By Zac Crain
Published: November 18, 1999
Shelton Williams was just another face in another crowd, an anonymous punk with safety pins in his clothes -- and occasionally, his skin -- playing in unknown bands with names...
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Dish
Value added
Abacus' total is greater than the sum of its parts
By Mark Stuertz
Published: November 18, 1999
Question one: Why Abacus? Why name a cutting-edge restaurant for an ancient calculator made of wood, wire, and beads? Longtime Dallas chef Kent Rathbun says he and partner...
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Film
Not to trot
It may look cool, but Sleepy Hollow cuts off its head to spite its story
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: November 18, 1999
"The spectre is known at all the country firesides by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow," writes Washington Irving in his original fantasy. Thanks in large...
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Night+Day
Flower power
By Christina Rees
Published: November 18, 1999
The first time I ever heard Georgia O'Keeffe disparaged, I was shocked: As recently as 1996, I was convinced, in the rote Southwestern tradition, that O'Keeffe was our region's...
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Stage
Bard on
Undermain's Pericles is a prince of a show
By Jimmy Fowler
Published: November 18, 1999
More often than not, I think Harold Bloom's a pompous ass -- except when it comes to his complaints about live Shakespeare, and then, he's spot on. In his book The Invention of...
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Feature
Dissed robes
On the prosecution-biased Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, justice isn't blind. It's dumb.
By Stuart Eskenazi
Published: November 18, 1999
Richard A. Anderson makes part of his living arguing cases before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, a nine-member panel of elected judges that is the state's supreme court...
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Music
Sister, I'm a poet
After two albums, Rainer Maria can make the time to take its time
By Shannon Sutlief
Published: November 18, 1999
Rainer Maria completes about one new song a month. On the surface, this sounds a bit slow, especially considering that the Madison, Wisconsin, trio has relocated to rural...
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Hash Over
Hash Over
Buck naked saint
By Mark Stuertz
Published: November 18, 1999
Dog bites Not long after Club Babalu owner Alfredo Hinojosa announced plans to transform the disheveled and shuttered Arcadia Theater on Lower Greenville into Liquid at the...
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Film
Enough is enough
The new Bond movie ain't that different from, oh, the last 18
By Andy Klein
Published: November 18, 1999
Poor old MGM -- the once-golden studio that has been battered and abused by ever-changing ownership and management for nearly three decades -- still has one sure-shot franchise...
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Night+Day
What the doctors ordered
By Shannon Sutlief
Published: November 18, 1999
Improv is for daredevil comedians. Getting up on stage without pre-written jokes is like walking the tight rope without a safety net -- or a rope. And using audience...
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Stage
Final bow?
New Theatre Company ends with something Absurd
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Published: November 18, 1999
The program notes for Absurd Person Singular, the latest show by New Theatre Company, are ominous, and they seem to confirm rumors that've been circulating since before Bruce...
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News
Judge shake-it-baby
Conservative Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller is landlord to a North Dallas topless bar
By Thomas Korosec
Published: November 18, 1999
A titty bar, $200 worth of beer and tequila shots, and a conservative Republican judge: a combo more volatile than atomic fission. The question is, Will the Texas GOP go...
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Music
Having his cake
Archer Prewitt's solo career takes on a life of its own with White Sky
By Aaron Steinberg
Published: November 18, 1999
Archer Prewitt is one of the hardest-working musicians in Chicago's fertile indie-rock scene. A few years ago, the guitarist-singer-songwriter-comic-book artist moved into the...
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Film
Mama's bad boy
Felicia's Journey is a thrilling, grim, and unexpected trip
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: November 18, 1999
Be forewarned: In the continuing quest to get people to pay attention to their films by any means necessary, the marketing wizards at Artisan Entertainment have been...
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Sketches
For the benefit of Mr. Max
The creator of iconographic '60s art is now an icon himself
By Annabelle Massey Helber
Published: November 18, 1999
They're not going to make it, judging from a quick glance at the clock and the degree of difficulty the dozen or so staff members at Florence Art Gallery are having. One of the...
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News
Thinned herd
Pioneer Plaza's drove of bronze cattle gets culled, and the artist is not happy
By Annabelle Massey Helber
Published: November 18, 1999
At first, independent Dallas tour guide Elaine Swartzwelder couldn't see anything wrong with the loping longhorns and the three horsemen that make up the Texas trail-drive...
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Street Beat
My Uzi weighs a ton
Uzigato is caught between rock and a soft place
By Zac Crain
Published: November 18, 1999
Most record labels are populated with frustrated musicians, people who didn't have the talent or the guts to stick it out over the long haul. Some just got tired of being...
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Film
Atom, smasher
Egoyan's films are all about the persistence of memory
By Jimmy Fowler
Published: November 18, 1999
There's a turning point when Felicia's Journey becomes a completely different movie from the one you've been watching, and if you're unfamiliar with William Trevor's 1994 novel...
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Blink
Blink
Commerce gets the cash
By Annabelle Massey Helber
Published: November 18, 1999
Commerce gets the cash It was slim pickins in the cash-awards category for the hometown artists, who will instead have to settle for getting their work into the McKinney...
