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Feature
The Way of the Gun
The untold story of why Lenell Geter was freed
By Carlton Stowers
Published: November 15, 2001
In those days before the cancer would spread and claim his life, longtime law enforcement officer Billy F. Fowler could recount old cases worked with recall that suggested...
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Music
Sam and Larry
The Winedale Tavern has an eclectic clientele. And at least one impostor.
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: November 15, 2001
I've always believed that the humble Winedale Tavern, a shotgun railroad bar on Lower Greenville, attracts the most democratic mix of humanity of any club in Dallas. Both the...
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Dish
Heavy Metal Nosh
The Mercury stands tall above its food court neighbors
By Mark Stuertz
Published: November 15, 2001
Perhaps the modern measure of a city's evolution, its maturity, its spastic lunges into sophistication, is the distinctiveness of its shopping mall food courts. Perhaps the...
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Film
It's So Wizard!
The magic eclipses the marketing of the big-screen Harry Potter
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: November 15, 2001
Lovely magic, this. An enchanting family classic. If you believe in magic, you'll love Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. And if you don't, you will, and you will. True,...
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Night & Day
Maul of Justice
Only the most dedicated fanboy will find much to like about the Justice League
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 15, 2001
'Tis the season of the superhero on television: A pretty-boy Clark Kent, sans "S" and spandex, stumbles his way around the WB's Smallville to combat the latest...
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Holiday Guide
Does a Bear Shop in the Woods?
Don't get malled. This year, do your business al fresco.
By Amanda Whitgarden
Published: November 15, 2001
Let the record reflect that I think malls are normally a swell place to shop. They are climate-controlled and convenient. Husbands can wander off in one direction, in search of...
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News
Days of Glory
Former high school football champs pass the torch to a new generation
By Carlton Stowers
Published: November 15, 2001
The yellow school bus rolled into the oncoming December darkness, headed toward Abilene, carrying with it a cargo of teen-age boys who just hours earlier had been celebrating...
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Music
Spirits in the Sky
Jason Pierce is still floating in space, but he's got his feet in the orchestra pit
By Mikael Wood
Published: November 15, 2001
Given the blissfully strung-out nature of the records he makes as Spiritualized--grandiose affairs in which the space-rock cosmos are studded with swirls of free-jazz skronk...
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Hash Over
Roughing It
Chris Svalesen is doing his best to keep 36 Degrees afloat. Now it's time to do your part.
By Mark Stuertz
Published: November 15, 2001
Former Fish restaurant chef Chris Svalesen is trying everything--anything--to bring cash flow into his 36 Degrees seafood restaurant. He's opened The Net Result, his fresh...
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Film
Dental Damned
In Novocaine, Steve Martin sticks his fingers into all the wrong places
By Bill Gallo
Published: November 15, 2001
It takes a nimble mind to mix light and dark, to wed humor with treachery, and in Novocaine newcomer David Atkins is not always up to the task. Neither is Steve Martin, who...
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Night & Day
Will Rock for Food
Here's a crash course on local music
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 15, 2001
Lord knows how many times the Deep Ellum folks have tried to "unify" such a disparate "scene" with "events" like the New Music Festival, during which more than 100 local (and...
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Holiday Guide
Online Shopping
Find your gifts on the Internet
By Amanda Whitgarden
Published: November 15, 2001
You really want to avoid the crowds and keep a low profile? Head to the Web. Eventually, the terrorists will hit here, too, but until they do, strap on your gas mask, put on...
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News
Road Warrior
Texas Motor Speedway needed property to build a road. Someone forgot to tell the landowner.
By Charles Siderius
Published: November 15, 2001
Luther "L.J." Lee looks out toward the interstate highway just north of Roanoke and to the Texas Motor Speedway beyond. As a younger man, he borrowed $25,000 to buy the land...
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Music
Independent's Day
Pete Yorn may have signed a big record contract, but he didn't stop doing it himself
By Mikael Wood
Published: November 15, 2001
Every so often a record comes along that, no matter how much you want to hate it, you can't help loving it. This year's best example of that is Is This It, the maddeningly...
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Film
Do the Wrong Thing
Former friends reckon with reality in Linklater's Tape
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: November 15, 2001
Tape, a film by Richard Linklater, isn't. It's high time for some cinematic clarification: If a project is shot on celluloid, with light searing images onto emulsion, then...
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Holiday Guide
Small Matters
Gifts for pets and children – basically the same thing
By Stephen Wang
Published: November 15, 2001
I am single and unencumbered. No children (that I know of). I considered getting myself a dog -- something cute and cuddly and useful at street festivals for luring women into...
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Schutze
The Opposite of True
How The Dallas Morning News spins the Trinity River project
By Jim Schutze
Published: November 15, 2001
If this job craters, I have a fallback skill. I can work for the CIA! I'm qualified to read the official newspapers of authoritarian regimes and ferret out what's really...
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Critics' Picks
Butthole Surfers
November 16
By Derrick Bostrom
Published: November 15, 2001
The last five years have been tough on the Butthole Surfers (who?). Their 1996 album Electric Larryland spawned the unlikely hit "Pepper," an odd blend of rap and grunge that...
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Film
In the Screening Room
For the Deep Ellum Film Festival, the third time's the charm
By Bill Gallo, Shannon Sutlief, Luke Y. Thompson, Gregory Weinkauf, Patrick Williams and Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 15, 2001
Two years ago, a colleague of Michael Cain's asked the founder and director of the Deep Ellum Film Festival just why the hell he named his fledgling fest after a part of town...
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Holiday Guide
Sweet Endings
A guide to entertaining the only company that can't lay you off
By Victor Longines
Published: November 15, 2001
For dessert, call Dani's Cakes (972-897-2406). Dani has been a pastry chef for more than 10 years, mainly working for corporate clients and by word of mouth. This year, she...
