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You Said It
Letters
Where's the Proof? Just a Bad Judge
Published: April 19, 2001
Where's the Proof? Witch hunt: I read Jim Schutze's article about Dallas police Chief Terrell Bolton ("Dump Bolton," April 12), and Jim seems to actually believe the chief is...
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Music
Easy as A-B-C
In DJ Jerry Thomas, shoulda-been hits have a champion. And a future.
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: April 19, 2001
Like DFW Airport is to travel, the ubiquitous ABC Radio Network is an international hub for standardized radio formats. And like DFW Airport, and unbeknownst to the listening...
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Dish
Middle-Class Italian
A circular drive and fountains aren't the only amusements at Ruggeri's new digs
By Mark Stuertz
Published: April 19, 2001
It isn't hard to see why Tom Ruggeri sought to move his 15-year-old restaurant from the nook on Routh Street and Cedar Springs to across the street in the Quadrangle. After...
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Film
Pi in Your Face
Director Darren Aronofsky makes films that resemble himself: smart and abrasive
By Scott Timberg
Published: April 19, 2001
As a kid in Brooklyn, Darren Aronofsky used to steal into Manhattan, taking the D train across the East River to sneak into movies such as A Clockwork Orange and Eraserhead....
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Night & Day
There's a "Can" in Cancer
Some of us might call it bad luck; he thinks of it as "25 minutes of new material"
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 19, 2001
Robert Schimmel, talking from a hotel room in Las Vegas, is a smorgasbord of medical procedures: At this very moment, the stand-up's on painkillers because of yesterday's root...
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Stuff
Custody Battle
Marvel Comics isn't going to give up Captain America without a fight
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 19, 2001
Joe Simon doesn't read comic books anymore, and not because he's an 87-year-old man with far better ways to spend his time. The former and, perhaps, future comics writer and...
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Feature
2001 Dallas Observer Music Awards
Narrow margins remind us that everyone's a winner
By Zac Crain, Bret McCabe, Jessica Parker, Shannon Sutlief, Robert Wilonsky and Mikael Wood
Published: April 19, 2001
It never works: Trying to pick a winner before the race is over, calling the election before every pencil mark and mouse click is accounted for, tabulated. (Insert your own...
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Hash Over
Fish Flushed
Baking Fish leaves its Paramount locale
By Mark Stuertz
Published: April 19, 2001
Fish restaurant, the nationally lauded downtown seafood spot that businessman Steven Upright and chef Chris Svalsen launched some four years ago in what was then the Paramount...
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Film
Green Thumbs
Tom Green's directorial debut is occasionally hilarious but sloppily executed
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: April 19, 2001
If you don't like Tom Green, there's no point in going anywhere near Freddy Got Fingered, as it won't win you over. If you don't know much about Tom Green but are curious, you...
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Night & Day
Top Dogs
Canine disc says a lot about our pet-centric culture
By Mark Hughes
Published: April 19, 2001
Sports are a good way to measure a culture. Cricket, for example, reflects the English culture that developed it. In the same way, football (Australian-rules style, natch)...
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Fair Game
Showtime
Fifty wins was cute and all, but now the Mavs will only go as far as Juwan takes them
By John Gonzalez
Published: April 19, 2001
The game is still fresh. Plastic beer cups and wax popcorn bags litter the floor while 18,000-or-so fans strut their way to the nearest Reunion exit, beaming. Some steal one...
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Feature
The Race Race
In the battle for the District 6 council seat, the dark horse has a white face
By Jonathan Fox
Published: April 19, 2001
The candidate points disapprovingly at discarded crack vials littering the stoop of an East Oak Cliff convenience store. Then he reaches into his stylish black suit and gives a...
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Stage
Act of Passion
Echo Theatre explores the gaps of identity in Stop Kiss
By Jimmy Fowler
Published: April 19, 2001
Playwright Diana Son, who contributed some of the best material to last season's TV show The West Wing, is a woman who wears her hair very short and eschews makeup. In...
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News
Mean Green
What do you get when you cross the Zapatistas with Dr. Dolittle? The Animal Liberation Front
By Joe Pappalardo
Published: April 19, 2001
HUNTSVILLE--Stampy the nervous beagle weaves through the metal chairs, braving a tangle of feet and ignoring the hands that sporadically descend to pet him. The dog finds his...
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Buzz
Buzz
Sauce for the goose
Compiled By Patrick Williams
Published: April 19, 2001
Sauce for the goose: Steady now. This is tricky. Buzz is going to sermonize about civility while trying not to look like the biggest hypocrite since evangelist Jimmy Swaggart...
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Filler
Parting Ways
Molly Ivins leaves the Star-Telegram's staff, but not its pages
By Eric Celeste
Published: April 19, 2001
She laughs often, a big whooping holler that makes you feel stupid for taking this interview and this story and your life so damn seriously. It's what makes her well-known,...
