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Feature
Bolton's blues
Dallas' new police Chief Terrell Bolton walks through a minefield as he tries to reshape the department. His strategy? Wear combat boots.
By Miriam Rozen
Published: May 11, 2000
Randy and Sandy Magg's retirement party was not supposed to be controversial. The husband and wife, both police officers, had logged a combined 50 years of public service, and...
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Music
Some things he did
Roxy Gordon was "one of the great outlaw artist misfits" and so much more
By Jeff Liles
Published: May 11, 2000
To those who knew Roxy Gordon, the news of his passing on February 7 may have caught them a little off guard, but the official cause of death didn't come as much of a surprise:...
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Dish
Ten-gallon beret
Charolais is a steak house with a French kiss
By Mark Stuertz
Published: May 11, 2000
Naming a restaurant after a breed of cattle might seem like a perfectly reasonable thing to do in Texas, the No. 1 state in cattle production. But when you look at the...
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Film
Times four
Mike Figgis' Time Code offers an interesting experiment in viewing
By Andy Klein
Published: May 11, 2000
Digital video is poised to become a major factor in commercial filmmaking, and Time Code, the new feature from Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas), could be used as a commercial...
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Night+Day
A great Endeavor
New festival goes short and long
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 11, 2000
In the last hour, 23 people in the metroplex will have decided to start their own film festivals -- in a theater, perhaps, or maybe in their living rooms or in the back of...
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Stage
Sinking with the sharks
T3 insiders depart on a down note -- namely, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, or "Schmucks"
By Jimmy Fowler
Published: May 11, 2000
There appears to be quite a bit of flux in the Dallas theater scene now, with the ultimate destination for at least two companies still unknown. Right on the heels of the...
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Feature
Cyber bore
The DotComGuy gets loads of publicity just like this for being a zero
By Mark Donald
Published: May 11, 2000
April 27, 2000. Dateline Dotcompound. Somewhere in a secluded section of North Dallas, the DotComGuy, a Dallas techno-geek who has cut himself off from the world to live his...
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Music
Roadworn and weary
The Supersuckers get in the van to prove they're the greatest rock-and-roll band in the world
By Rob Patterson
Published: May 11, 2000
Two days into a tour that doesn't end until the middle of July, Eddie Spaghetti is in a room at San Francisco's Commodore Hotel, checking the place for anything he may have...
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Hash Over
Hash Over
UnShared Vision; Eagle poop; Solo sport
By Mark Stuertz
Published: May 11, 2000
UnShared Vision Looks like chef Robert Auston's laudable quest for the crapless 12-ounce steak has been thwarted. Last week I reported that Auston, founder of Ianos Trattoria...
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Film
Slow burn
Run Lola Run director favors depressive over manic in Winter Sleepers
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: May 11, 2000
Silence, you who will dismiss Tom Tykwer's lugubrious follow-up to Run Lola Run as a sophomoric step backward, because Winter Sleepers, shot before Lola in 1997, is a step...
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Night+Day
Muy moderno
Working-class Hispanics and opinionated vaginas mark this year's Festival of the Unexpected
By Jimmy Fowler
Published: May 11, 2000
With the rise of Latin Americans as formidable consumers and hotly pursued voters, the world premiere of former Dallas playwright Octavio Solis' Dreamlandia couldn't be more...
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Stage
Banter
New Theatre Company gets Capital
By Jimmy Fowler
Published: May 11, 2000
It's easy to compound details and build an ominous "trend" for a whole scene, but one sad development I can confirm in this space: New Theatre Company, which since 1994 has...
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News
Raising the roof
Dallas' PTAs send a message to school administrators -- listen to us
By Jonathan Fox
Published: May 11, 2000
Outside Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in East Oak Cliff, a concrete retaining wall is emblazoned with big red letters touting the slogan "Mighty Mustangs" and the credo...
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Music
Ice ice babies
Iceland expatriates Gus Gus are Reykjavik's answer to the Wu-Tang Clan...and KISS
By Sam Molineaux
Published: May 11, 2000
Second only to the party island of Ibiza, Iceland's capital Reykjavik has earned a reputation in the last few years as the world's hippest hangout. With 24 hours of daylight...
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Film
In the company of men
In The Big Kahuna,Kevin Spacey gets whatever good lines there are
By Andy Klein
Published: May 11, 2000
When stars get popular enough (or win enough Oscars), they begin to get to call their own shots: Thus we have The Big Kahuna, the debut release of Kevin Spacey's production...
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News
DECA decked
Deep Ellum Center for the Arts is closing its doors
By Annabelle Massey Helber
Published: May 11, 2000
Only one month after Stephen Elsaesser accepted the position of president of the board of the Deep Ellum Center for the Arts, he found himself helping his fellow board members...
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Street Beat
Check this out
Union Camp tries to change minds with a new name and album
By Zac Crain
Published: May 11, 2000
For the last half of the 1990s, singer-guitarist Chris Briggs, guitarist Jimmy Smith, bassist Jon Turner, and drummer Colin Carter played together in a band called Check. As...
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Film
Red Shoes 2000
Center Stage delivers bloody feet, sexy dancing, and a big dose of inspiration
By Jean Oppenheimer
Published: May 11, 2000
When asked to name the most erotic sequence they have ever seen in a film, people tend to pick moments like the love scene between Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland in Don't...
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Schutze
Paranoia will destroya
Judge Kendall's wife sends the black helicopters after Southlake's "Citizen of the Year"
By Jim Schutze
Published: May 11, 2000
Get this. A guy involved in city council politics in suburban Southlake, where U.S. District Judge Joe Kendall's wife is on the city council, calls the Southlake city secretary...
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Across the Bar
Across the Bar
[DARYL]'s Communication; Centro-matic is almost automatic; Captain Audio has The Cure; And more
By Zac Crain
Published: May 11, 2000
Scene, heard [DARYL] will celebrate the release of its debut EP, Communication: Duration, on May 19 at Club Clearview, sandwiched between Chomsky and Red Animal War. The band...
