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Feature
Lethal Rejection
Jeanette Popp still mourns her murdered daughter. Now she's become a compelling voice in the debate over the death penalty. Guess which side.
By Mark Donald
Published: December 12, 2002
Ever since her daughter's funeral, she had been stalked by the same nightmare: Nancy is in the Pizza Hut in Austin, stripped naked in the washroom, shoved to her knees on the...
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Music
White Riot
Jewish potty mouth MC Paul Barman makes a brilliant hip-hop oddity
By Randall Roberts
Published: December 12, 2002
We are white. We long to be funky. We want elasticity; we want the rubber knees, the fluid flow, the boiling blood, the innate understanding of the rhythms we pine to create....
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Dish
Hoochie Koo Hibachi
Allen restaurant pairs sushi with rock and roll
By Mark Stuertz
Published: December 12, 2002
Hibachi Rock's vestibule is crammed with Japanese dolls, and Polaroids paper the wall. A manager says these photos were shot some three years ago when this Allen restaurant...
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Film
Jenny From the Crock
Lopez, playing a Maid, can really put the "back" in backlash
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 12, 2002
Maid in Manhattan, in which Jennifer Lopez goes from pauper to princess, comes not from a screenplay but from a handful of self-help books and fairy tales and fashion magazines...
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Night & Day
Up the Junction
Let's hear it for the Boys and Berenger
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 12, 2002
Tom Berenger achieves the impossible with his portrayal of Paul "Bear" Bryant in the made-for-ESPN The Junction Boys: He's even more unlikable than he was in Platoon, in which...
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Stuff
End of the Road
Trio is the network where great shows go to die, and so much more
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 12, 2002
Notes from a network executive's forthcoming biography, pilfered from the desk of an editor at a major publishing house. This was hard to read, as it was scribbled in crayon on...
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News
Time of Their Lives
A new movie honors the tough lessons taught by a Bear
By Carlton Stowers
Published: December 12, 2002
In the recent pre-dawn promise of Arkansas' first ice storm of the season, sports author/journalist Jim Dent bundled himself, put his work on a new book aside and embarked on a...
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Full Frontal
Season's Greetings
Misdelivered cards end up somehow in our mailbox
Published: December 12, 2002
It's not easy being a mail carrier this time of year, schlepping about with tons of holiday cards, sale fliers and tins of fruit cakes and summer sausage. Sometimes the poor...
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Music
Bah Humbug
Why I hate Christmas albums
By Zac Crain
Published: December 12, 2002
I began hating Christmas albums around the same time I figured out there was no Santa Claus: a long time ago and well before my parents knew any different. In both cases, I...
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Hash Over
Mongol Horde
Genghis Grill plans to get around
By Mark Stuertz
Published: December 12, 2002
Henderson Avenue nightlife necromancer Tristan Simon--whose Cuba Libre Cafe and private club called Sense have been generating more buzz than a two-speed nose hair trimmer--has...
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Film
Miller Time
Arthur Miller's daughter Rebecca comes into her own with Personal Velocity
By Bill Gallo
Published: December 12, 2002
Each of the beautifully made vignettes that make up Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity glimpses a young woman caught at a crossroads, faced with an important decision and about...
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Night & Day
Holiday Bizarre
Plush has gifts for everyone--as long as they like toilet rolls and boogiemen
By Annabelle Massey Helber
Published: December 12, 2002
Perhaps the erudite among you don't live paycheck-to-paycheck, even in this economy, but we do. Our December paydays aren't cooperating with Christmas shopping this year,...
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Schutze
Just Shoot Us
How else to explain the idea for messing with the Kennedy Memorial?
By Jim Schutze
Published: December 12, 2002
Architecture, I don't know. Good taste, not my department. But I think I am capable of recognizing a really bad media butt-kicking when I see it coming, and this idea of...
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Across the Bar
Chomsky Marches On
Group signs with Aezra Records
By Zac Crain
Published: December 12, 2002
When Chomsky played The Door on November 23, singer-guitarist Sean Halleck announced that it was officially the group's final show supporting last year's Onward Quirky...
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Film
Dead Weight
Kathryn Bigelow gets Water-logged with too many plots
By Bill Gallo
Published: December 12, 2002
Consider life's unbreakable rules. Send Mom flowers on her birthday. Keep your fastball down. Never order lasagna in Des Moines. Don't go sailing with people you can't stand....
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Stage
God Help Us, Everyone
Scrooged over at Plano Rep, cool Yule treats at GZTC and Quad C
By Elaine Liner
Published: December 12, 2002
Cross Noises Off with Waiting for Guffman and you get Inspecting Carol, Daniel Sullivan's two-act comedy now playing to well-deserved laughs at Plano Repertory Theatre. This...
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Gonzalez
The Big O
For the first time in years, "offense" isn't a dirty word for the Stars
By John Gonzalez
Published: December 12, 2002
It could be that Brenden Morrow's head hurts, which might explain why the thoughts come slowly, even a little unwillingly. It would certainly figure. His face is decorated with...
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playlist
Sigur Rós / Godspeed You! Black Emperor
() (MCA) / Yanqui U.X.O. (Constellation)
By Mikael Wood
Published: December 12, 2002
If you think incensed player haters restrict their animosity to large-living hip-hop stars, mentally unstable R&B songbirds and Fred Durst, you obviously haven't gotten a swig...
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Short Cuts
Beat It
Only band fans need stand in this Drumline
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 12, 2002
Like the similar, funnier Bring It On, Drumline is intent on proving that marching band participants are genuine athletes. Fair enough: The boot camp-style physical training...
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Buzz
Try, Try Again
Back to the appeals court
As told to Patrick Williams
Published: December 12, 2002
Back in the last century, when Buzz was in college learning all the important things an aspiring newspaper person needs to know--how to glom onto free drinks and food, how to...
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