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Feature
Homefryin' with Fred Baron
Dallas' largest plaintiff's firm, Baron & Budd, cultivates friends, punishes enemies and beats allegations it prompts clients to lie and win
By Thomas Korosec
Published: March 29, 2001
Perhaps you remember this cheating scandal. Three and half years ago, a junior lawyer from Dallas-based Baron & Budd accidentally handed an opposing lawyer an internal memo...
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Feature
Houses Divided
A fight over public housing pits working-class East Dallas homeowners against their poorer neighbors in a battle tainted by claims of racism
By Jonathan Fox
Published: March 29, 2001
Alex Ramos wants to stop the "shafting" of his community. The long-time resident of Old East Dallas' Fitzhugh-Capitol neighborhood, who grew up and now lives here with his...
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Music
Blues Valentine
Tom Waits for no one--except guitarist-singer John Hammond
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 29, 2001
By 1974, John Hammond had played with damned near every great bluesman who ever lived: Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Duane Allman, Charlie Musselwhite, Mike Bloomfield, John Lee...
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Dish
Unalloyed Success
Despite its moniker, Steel is surprisingly warm
By Mark Stuertz
Published: March 29, 2001
Steel is the super-hard result of a hellish fusion of iron with carbon. It's a curious name for a restaurant that seeks to stand out from the crowd of "Asian fusion" offerings...
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Film
Animal Instincts
Someone Like You takes a good idea like "adult romantic comedy" and lifts its leg all over it
By Andy Klein
Published: March 29, 2001
Amid the plethora of films starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Mena Suvari, Chris Klein and Jason Biggs, it's nice--in theory, at least--to see a contemporary romantic comedy like...
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Night & Day
Stranger Than Fiction
A UFOlogist invades Dallas
By Mark Hughes
Published: March 29, 2001
UFO investigators have a tough time coming up with anything concrete to support their claims, especially when objects come and go in multiple dimensions and the only witnesses...
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Stage
Birds of a Feather
Critic, pimp and bloodsuckers meet in the Undermain's production St. Nicholas
By Jimmy Fowler
Published: March 29, 2001
A few years back, when Edward Albee spoke at the Dallas Museum of Art, he set aside a very special few minutes to heap vitriol on the profession of theater criticism and those...
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News
Walk the Walk
Can shoe leather and signs change immigration law?
By Jonathan Fox
Published: March 29, 2001
Paul Kerr knows how to assemble a big crowd. As a longtime activist and director of the Center for Human Rights, a Dallas-based immigration advocacy group, he's credited with...
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Music
Music: Response
You may only know him from Madonna's Music, but Mirwais has been around for years
By Daniel Durchholz
Published: March 29, 2001
Madonna has called him "a genius" and "the future of sound." So how does Mirwais Ahmadzai, who produced much of the Material Mom's latest effort, Music, and now has released...
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Hash Over
Hash Over
Metro D
By Mark Stuertz
Published: March 29, 2001
Joseph Tillotson, owner of the Barley House, Eastside Grill and Muddy Waters, has just signed a lease for space at 1525 Main Street, one of the oldest (circa 1890s) buildings...
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Film
Semi Recall
The lean, mean Memento makes the most of its simple but shallow gimmicks
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: March 29, 2001
Justice may be blind, but vengeance, it turns out, has a very short memory. So it goes in Memento, the much anticipated "puzzle" movie from Christopher Nolan (Following),...
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Night & Day
Second to None
The famous Second City alumni may be missing, but their wit isn't
By Shannon Sutlief
Published: March 29, 2001
When writing about The Second City, the famed Chicago-based improv comedy and satire empire, it's easy just to talk about the company's famous alumni. But no matter how many...
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Stage
Two-dimensional Art
Theatre Three disappoints with its production of Yasmina Reza's bleak comedy
By Jimmy Fowler
Published: March 29, 2001
It's inevitable that Theatre Three's production of Art would be greeted with high expectations by those of us who saw the December 1999 touring production that Dallas Summer...
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Buzz
Buzz
Sticks and stones
Compiled By Patrick Williams
Published: March 29, 2001
Sticks and stones: Give ol' Al Lipscomb credit. The former city councilman may have been on the take, but at least he was always polite, a gentleman, even on his way to the...
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Across the Bar
Scene, Heard
Just in case you missed it
By Zac Crain
Published: March 29, 2001
In case you missed it--and judging by the crowd jimmied into the newly reopened Trees, not many did--The Toadies celebrated the release of Hell Below/Stars Above on March 20...
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Burning Question
You Say Potato
Why can’t we get plain old mashed potatoes anymore?
By Dave Faries
Published: March 29, 2001
Other than a few odd moments of confrontation--Fred and Ginger bickering over pronunciation, Dan Quayle "correcting" a grade school kid's spelling--the potato (sorry, Dan)...
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Film
Dr. Yes
The gorgeous excess of Spy Kids sets the right tone for its surreal fantasy
By Andy Klein
Published: March 29, 2001
As its title suggests, Spy Kids is an action fantasy aimed primarily at the preteen/early-teen audience. For all its thrills--and it has plenty--it's strictly a PG...
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Arts
Face Value
The Kimbell's portrait-filled retrospective offers little beyond biography
By Christine Biederman
Published: March 29, 2001
Renee Gimpel, art dealer, diarist and connoisseur of the human comedy, knew almost everyone in the art market during the tender years of the 20th century and left us wickedly...
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playlist
Tortoise
Standards (Thrill Jockey)
By Jessica Parker
Published: March 29, 2001
The first discordant moment of Standards, the latest album from Tortoise, signals a new direction for the Chicago instrumentalists. Actually, it's as if Tortoise has not only...
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Stuff
He Scores
Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 29, 2001
Ennio Morricone can tell you stories about each of his 400 children--where they were conceived, what they mean to him, why each one remains so singular and special he cannot...
