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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
