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Feature
A Girl Named Suicide
Texas' Valerie Mahfood--last seen getting clobbered by Laila Ali--could change the pretty face of women's boxing
By Rose Farley
Published: November 28, 2002
When the tuxedo-clad announcer, in his best let's-get-ready-to-rumble voice, bellows the name Valerie "The Wolfe" Mahfood, a chorus of boos fills the desert air outside the...
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Music
DJ Rap
Paul Oakenfold contemplates the needle and the damage done
By Justin Hampton
Published: November 28, 2002
Within the dance-music community, everyone will admit to the towering influence of Paul Oakenfold over the industry's direction and sound--some more grudgingly than others....
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Dish
Horton Heard What?
Find out Who's Who at Romano's latest venture
By Mark Stuertz
Published: November 28, 2002
Not everything Phil Romano touches turns to gold. We Oui slipped off the landscape on a trail of French kitsch greased with red lipstick. Lobster Ranch got caught in a chowder...
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Film
Half-full Frontal
Perhaps the DVD of Solaris will fill this promising film's emotional holes
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: November 28, 2002
The smart sci-fi fan knows that, technically speaking, Steven Soderbergh's Solaris is not a remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's film at all, but rather a newly filmed interpretation...
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Night & Day
Bunch O' Crap
The Bradys stage a coup in Washington
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 28, 2002
Since airing two hours of absolutely nothing wouldn't do much for Fox's ratings or ad revenue on this first night of Hanukkah, the net's done the next best, by which I mean the...
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Stuff
Richter's Scale
Andy Richter deserves to control the universe, if only Fox would let him
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 28, 2002
Andy Richter, the man who for seven years proved himself the rare late-night television sidekick worthy of being labeled equal partner, is not given to saying nasty things...
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News
By the Book
A DART police officer helps crack a murder case, only to lose his job
By Carlton Stowers
Published: November 28, 2002
It was almost midnight when the banged-up Dodge Neon began weaving from one lane to another along North Central Expressway, traveling so slowly that it was impeding the normal...
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Full Frontal
A Shot in the Dark
Plus: Tourist Trap
Published: November 28, 2002
In a second-floor room of the Hotel Lawrence, which stands in the shadow of Dealey Plaza and the former Texas School Book Depository, they gathered last weekend to buy their...
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Music
True Believer
Cody Chesnutt's lo-fi album is a raggedy, sprawling, beautiful mess. Think he cares?
By Dan Reines
Published: November 28, 2002
Cody Chesnutt couldn't be more sincere. It's a typically hot July night in Hollywood, and he's onstage at the Knitting Factory, halfway through "Up in the Treehouse," a...
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Dish
Noodle Doodle
Noodles Kitchen is high on ambition but short on detail
By Mark Stuertz
Published: November 28, 2002
The name Noodles Kitchen is a jarring composite of a plural and singular noun. It sounds more like a culinary lair for a Dick Tracy nemesis than a peddler of doughy strands....
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Film
Ahoy, Oh Boy
Treasure Planet reveals an embarrassment of riches
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 28, 2002
It's doubtful Robert Louis Stevenson imagined his Treasure Island populated by cyborgs and scored to Goo Goo Dolls outtakes; and one has to wonder what the author would have...
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Night & Day
Foldin' Time
Leland Faulkner welcomes you to his World
By Michelle Martinez
Published: November 28, 2002
Chaos theorists have suggested that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil might cause a tornado in Texas. Well, we can't say for sure if the same goes for paper butterflies,...
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Schutze
Big-Ticket Laura
No fix for potholes, but big parks for the fat cats
By Jim Schutze
Published: November 28, 2002
Look, I'm a Laura Miller fan. I was thrilled when she got elected mayor. Her victory was a sea change. But lately I've been a little seasick. I know you've been watching the...
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Across the Bar
OK Karaoke
XPO Gold! gives its vocalists a chance to shine
By Zac Crain
Published: November 28, 2002
Mark Ridlen hates karaoke. He begrudgingly bought a karaoke machine two years ago because he was tired of having "some anonymous drunk" mess with his equipment when he was...
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Burning Question
Border Wars
What's the difference between Mexican and Tex-Mex food?
By Dave Faries
Published: November 28, 2002
Call it Shakespeare in modern garb. Over the past several years, Hollywood presented us with Othello set on a high school basketball court, Hamlet wandering the aisles of a...
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Film
Sorrow's Child
Atom Egoyan gets personal with the Armenian genocide in Ararat
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: November 28, 2002
Being of the minority who did not worship Schindler's List (vital message, tedious movie), it's easy to feel skeptical of the preachy delivery of Ararat, which concerns not the...
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Gonzalez
Offensive Foul
Bruce Coslet's offense has had two good games out of 11. He's done well, ah?
By John Gonzalez
Published: November 28, 2002
Bruce Coslet is a quick learner. Really, he is. But not for the reasons you might think. The lot of you are probably still high from Sunday--a meaningless two-point win over a...
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Critics' Picks
Mudvayne, Taproot
December 3
By Mikael Wood
Published: November 28, 2002
Need a shot of pure Midwestern rage this week, but can't find anyone willing to go see 8 Mile for the eighth time? Take your tortured ass down to Deep Ellum Live on Tuesday...
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Short Cuts
Glorious Feeling
Singin' in the Rain returns, happy again
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 28, 2002
At the University of Texas at Austin, this was the first offering screened in introductory film classes; if the professor, a man whose knowledge of cinema history was surpassed...
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Buzz
They Blinded Buzz with Science
The Texas Freedom Network keeps a watch on the state's textbooks
As told to Patrick Williams
Published: November 28, 2002
The good news, according to the Texas Freedom Network, is that more people than ever paid attention to the debate over school social studies textbooks that recently concluded...
