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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
