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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
