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By Michael Chamy, Zac Crain, Dave Lane, Jeff Liles, Shannon Sutlief and Robert Wilonsky Published:
April 18, 2002
Almost 7,000 people voted in this year's Dallas Observer Music Awards, and while I have absolutely no numbers to back it up, I'll go ahead and say I'm fairly certain it's the...
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The lot at the corner of Fry and Oak streets in Denton, next door to Voertman's bookstore and across from the Cork Screw, still sits empty. There are a few trees and bushes,...
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It's futile eating spaghetti with chopsticks. The procedure might seem doable at first. After all, there are countless examples of Asian noodles that have a striking...
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The perpetrators of the new Sandra Bullock vehicle, Murder by Numbers, could be hauled in on any number of charges, including plagiarism and child abuse. But their most obvious...
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Astronauts don't get nervous. Like firefighters, police officers and Mariah Carey's publicist, they exhibit unblinking courage when most mortals would cower. Such fearlessness...
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On a Friday night in March, it was hard to tell where to look: at the flickering movie screen, where The Band was wrapping up a 16-year career with a farewell concert, or at a...
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It hit him when two weeks had gone by and he hadn't won a single race. "When am I gonna win?" Marlon St. Julien, one of Lone Star Park's all-time leading jockeys, would ask...
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"Every time, I get nervous," says rapper Gift of Gab at soundcheck for a February performance at L.A.'s Wiltern Theatre. "Like, two minutes before I go on. Every time." Across...
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Noodles Ave. has a slightly ratty feel to it. Not that this counter-order-deliver-by-number-table-service is actually a ragamuffin dressed up in colorful ethnic garb. It's just...
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Say this about World Wrestling Federation Entertainment head honcho Vince McMahon: He knows what his fans want. Few movies have ever been as specifically tailored to an...
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When Art Spiegelman's Maus first appeared in 1972, it contained no references to Jews or Nazis but left no room for misinterpretation: It was a Holocaust tale, told with...
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Quick, quote a famous line from Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Don't worry. Nobody can. Among the Bard's works, this five-act tragedy is one of the least quotable, and it is...
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The city council debate on the Palladium and City Center-Madison development deals downtown will rise or fall on an issue that has little to do with downtown but everything to...
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When Hunter Brown was a kid back in Georgia, he used to listen to records in his room and try to play along on the guitar.
It's a necessary rite of passage for all...
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A sign on the door says that Patrick Esquerré and his crew were locked out of Café Patrique in Mockingbird Station. But not, it appears, before he got most of the...
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Women who exchange descriptions of their sexual encounters are certainly no more appealing than men who boast in locker rooms, but they seem to get more free passes. If, in the...
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Let's play Big City Newspaper Editor. I'll ask a question, and you try to answer it correctly--in other words, answer it the way a man in charge at, say, The Dallas Morning...
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In 1998, around the time Painted From Memory--his team-up with Burt Bacharach--hit stores, Elvis Costello gave up on the idea of playing rock and roll, or so he said. But he...
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It's almost as if foreigners have a different word for everything.
Really, it's the fact that "beer" sounds like "alus" in Lithuanian, "sor" in Hungarian and "Budweiser" in...
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An 18th-century battle of the sexes that contains a radiant performance by Mira Sorvino as a princess whose complicated scheme to win the man she loves finds her juggling three...
