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It took a two-week trip to Lebanon last spring for Sarah Logan to understand what she was getting into. Among the bullet-ridden buildings in the northern city of Tripoli, the...
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When Brent Best laughs, it sounds like the slide racking on a shotgun. Sounds that way when he coughs, too. Sometimes when he sings. Depends. It's a little worse than usual...
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Pub is a word derived from the term "public house," which is "an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises and often serving meals as...
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Rarely does a theme unify a film festival; such gatherings, for the most part, are glued together only by movies few have seen and movies few will ever see, the unwanted or...
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Four signs the show you're watching is among The Greatest Series in the History of Television: It's an ensemble comedy that often resembles a drama and airs without a laugh...
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A good deal of rogering goes on in Cloud Nine, Caryl Churchill's dark farce about sexual identity that's now getting a first-class production by Echo Theatre at the Bath House...
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Digging through somebody's trash is one of those reporting tactics that we at the Dallas Observer try to avoid, but this time the temptation was too great. The Tony Sanchez...
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Being Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta's list of characters has run the gamut, from tarnished baseball immortal Shoeless Joe Jackson to mobster-in-hiding Henry Hill to, well, whoever he...
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Beyoncé and her bootylicious sistren might claim survivor status, but time will tell. Twenty years down the line, when Ms. Knowles is Aimee Mann's age, will she still...
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Peter Tarantino, who with the help of his brothers tried to plant his sophisticated brand of Mediterranean cuisine near Fair Park with Tarantino's before that project was...
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So, you wish to know if Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is as good as the first Harry Potter movie. Is it as charming, visually gratifying, faithful to filthy-rich...
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"When I was a child, I spake as a child... but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
So the New Testament says, and like many passages in what Homer J. Simpson...
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Assistant Dallas City Manager Charles W. Daniels has not returned my phone calls concerning the potential of an explosive and toxic waste dump on city of Dallas property on...
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Week in, week out, we talk about what we think is right and wrong with local music, what needs to happen, what's happening too often. That kind of thing. This week, we thought...
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Who doesn't get a bit choked up when the first strains of "Impossible Dream" rise up during a production of Man of La Mancha?
There's just something compelling about those who...
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Writer-director Todd Haynes' loving re-creation of a 1950s-style Hollywood melodrama (think Douglas Sirk) is a puzzling affair. Watching Far from Heaven is like taking a trip...
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So is David Spence, who resigned this month from his seat on Dallas' plan and zoning commission after being reprimanded by the city's ethics panel, a bad guy or a good guy...
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There's nothing wrong with self-consciously lightweight pop records that seem to exist solely to spark a smile or a warm flutter in the abdomen--ever heard the Association's...
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If the title is a Jeopardy question, then the answer might be "How does Steven Seagal come across these days?" or maybe "How will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of The...
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The RapistWithering under denial: What an interesting contrast that Carlton Stowers painted between Gina Cotroneo and her rapist, Gary Faison ("Likely Suspect," October 31)....
