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Feature
Pumped Out
Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed
By Bob Burtman
Published: October 26, 2000
A Month before he closed his Texaco service station at Forest Lane and Webb Chapel Road, Greg Kraft surveyed the array of honors lining his office wall--Texaco Excellence...
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Music
Seller's Market
Jimmy Eat World doesn't have a record label, a distributor, or a care in the world
By Matt Schild
Published: October 26, 2000
Ask anyone involved in the underground rock scene what the future portends, and there's a good chance they'll sing the praises of emo, post-rock, post-hardcore, or whatever...
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Dish
Sugar and Spice
Sweet and stylish
By Larra Ann Keel
Published: October 26, 2000
Sugarcane is rampant in Cuba. The primary agricultural commodity in that country has, over the years, pushed other vegetation out of existence. Land once covered with palm and...
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Film
Witch Is Which?
Blair Witch 2 blurs fact and fiction, but the truth is, it ain't scary
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: October 26, 2000
Although it must have been a no-brainer to make a sequel to The Blair Witch Project, it was hard to imagine an intelligent follow-up to a film that culminated in the apparent...
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Night & Day
School's Out
This substitute doesn't make the grade
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 26, 2000
School's OutGoodbye, farewell, adiós, Freaks and Geeks; we shall lament your departure no more and content ourselves instead with Tuesday-night reruns on the Fox Family...
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Stage
Blinded Me With Science
DTC's Air Pump extracts laughter--and tragedy--from the human genome project
By Jimmy Fowler
Published: October 26, 2000
British playwright Shelagh Stephenson worked extensively creating monologues for radio and television broadcasts on the BBC until one of her pieces--the harrowing Find Kinds of...
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Feature
Death in the Desert
Gary Patterson flew to El Paso for a job interview--and never returned. It took nearly two years for the Texas Rangers and Waco police to unravel the bizarre web of lies and treachery that led to his disappearance.
By Carlton Stowers
Published: October 26, 2000
"Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. There is no such thing as concealment..." --Ralph Waldo Emerson PROLOGUE The search had been under way for three days in...
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Music
Your Bruises
Death Cab for Cutie is just trying to stay healthy long enough to pay for a broken windshield
By Mikael Wood
Published: October 26, 2000
Death Cab for Cutie are welcoming winter with open arms. Witness: Within the last few months, singer Ben Gibbard got hit by a car while riding his bike. Guitarist Chris Walla...
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Hash Over
Roly-poly Fish Heads
Chefs are taking detours
By Mark Stuertz
Published: October 26, 2000
Lombardi Mare, Alberto Lombardi's seafood extravaganza, has had a shift in the head. Executive chef Tony Knight has departed, or is departing, or might not completely depart,...
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Film
A Couple Yards Short
The gang's all here in this familiar-but-fresh tale of a bad guy scared straight
By Bill Gallo
Published: October 26, 2000
Any moviemaker who ventures into the sewers of New York City corruption will find Sidney Lumet's wet footprints. In films such as The Pawnbroker, Serpico, and Q&A, this...
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Night & Day
A Cut Above
Cutting Edge Haunted House
By Mark Hughes
Published: October 26, 2000
A Cut AboveThe wide-eyed, hyper-alert, sweaty-palm appeal of horror has not been mine to enjoy. A haunted house named Brigantine Castle on the New Jersey shore took that away...
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Stage
A Clean, Close Shave
Here's a debate worth watching
By Carlton Stowers
Published: October 26, 2000
I thoroughly enjoyed Pegasus' Southwest premiere of Sound-Biting, not for original thoughts on the contemporary, poll-driven political process but because of enough...
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News
Flood Relief
A proposal for public potties in Dallas builds steam
By Jonathan Fox
Published: October 26, 2000
Some city leaders hope to flush out downtown Dallas' void of pedestrian activity and tourist facilities by installing a very non-Dallas innovation throughout the central...
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Music
That's Not Me
Damien Jurado will be the first to tell you: He's not his tragic, razor-sharp songs
By Mikael Wood
Published: October 26, 2000
"It's like my mind is this constant movie," Damien Jurado says on the phone from his home in Seattle, a few hours before he heads to work at a local daycare. "My mind is always...
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What's Cooking
Bugs Add Flavor
How to pass a restaurant health inspection with a gentlemanly C
By Dave Faries
Published: October 26, 2000
Roasted crickets taste a bit like popcorn. Really. Mealworm-infested pizza isn't bad, either--according to a Texas A & M entomology class in which students undergo a...
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Film
Beasts of Burden
Drunken Horses, and the children who must lead them over rocks and mines
By Bill Gallo
Published: October 26, 2000
The stark simplicity of A Time for Drunken Horses, one of the few films that have slipped out of post-revolutionary Iran to the West, does nothing to obscure its emotional...
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Arts
Plush Comes to Shove
A new alternative gallery gives the status quo a heave-ho
By Annabelle Massey Helber
Published: October 26, 2000
Tinkerbell, or one of her ilk, has been to Plush, Randall Garrett's new alternative art gallery on South Akard Street that's attracting all sorts of people, real and imaginary,...
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News
All Quiet on the Eastern Front
Did a business deal with Bell Helicopter doom a resolution to recognize the Armenian genocide?
By Miriam Rozen
Published: October 26, 2000
Some 85 years have passed since untold numbers of Armenians died in Eastern Turkey at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, but the historical fact of that genocide has caused...
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Across the Bar
Scene, Heard
A good idea...in theory
By Zac Crain
Published: October 26, 2000
The alternative venue at the moment is the Elbow Room on Gaston Avenue, just on the cusp of Deep Ellum, previously thought to be little more than a beer-and-billiards joint--a...
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Burning Question
Hot Cars and Big Money
What's it like to be a restaurant valet in Dallas?
By Dave Faries
Published: October 26, 2000
Sometimes Jeremy Parker slides behind the wheel of a Lamborghini Diablo. More often he drives a Mercedes. But in rare moments of juvenile flair he bops around in a bright...
