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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
