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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
