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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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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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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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"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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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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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...
