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Feature
Knocked Out
Amy Shackelford told Dallas police she was drugged and raped. She needn't have bothered. They didn't.
By Glenna Whitley
Published: December 19, 2002
Like a corpse in a horror movie, Amy Shackelford shot straight up in bed, going from comatose to wide awake in seconds. In those moments she realized she was naked. She leaped...
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Music
GN'R Whys
When the wheels fell off the Axl, it was business as usual
By Bill Holdship
Published: December 19, 2002
Precisely why Guns N' Roses' North American tour came to an abrupt end last week, days before it was scheduled to hit the American Airlines Center on December 19, may be a...
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Dish
Bump in the Road
You'll be drinking faster than you eat at Wahoo Grill & Cantina
By Mark Stuertz
Published: December 19, 2002
Like the burger and onion ring, Tex-Mex has become a tavern staple, and it's no surprise why. It's salty, which generates the thirst that generates the cash from drink sales....
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Film
Meaner Streets
Martin Scorsese looks at the roots of New York's violence, with mixed results
By Bill Gallo
Published: December 19, 2002
Martin Scorsese's latest epic of the streets, Gangs of New York, means to show us how a great metropolis was forged in the mid-19th-century cauldrons of unbridled greed, ethnic...
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Night & Day
Photo Op
Substitute children get their day with Santa, too
By Patrick Williams
Published: December 19, 2002
Here's a rough estimate of how a standard 24-shot roll of film is typically used in our household: Pictures of feet, walls, ceilings, etc. taken by accident: five Pictures of...
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Stage
Elf Esteem
Tart humor and hot voices in Addison; sour notes spoil in Addison; sour notes spoil the songs at Theatre Three
By Elaine Liner
Published: December 19, 2002
Before writer David Sedaris became America's favorite chain-smoking, gay ex-patriot raconteur, he worked one memorable holiday season as "Crumpet the elf" at Macy's on 34th...
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News
Party Time
Even in defeat, local Dems find a little Christmas cheer
By Mark Donald
Published: December 19, 2002
It wasn't just another obligatory holiday party, the kind of work-related seasonal gathering only made palatable by good liquor and plenty of it. On December 7, most of the...
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Music
Jam Sandwich
With the uncommonly good Electric Circus, Common is more than a contender
By Mikael Wood
Published: December 19, 2002
Electric Circus, the new album by the Chicago-bred rapper Common, is a late contender for hip-hop album of the year: It's a wildly textured, lovingly drawn tapestry of urban...
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Dish
Seeing Red
Green Pepper touches on fare from Japan to Vietnam
By Mark Stuertz
Published: December 19, 2002
Like most contemporary Asian outlets, Green Pepper is replete with high-tech touches, subtle though they are. Plastic chairs in black and yellow surround dark tables. Walls...
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Film
Orc Chops
The action's much meatier in Jackson's second Rings film
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: December 19, 2002
Fantasy is at its best when it ennobles our reality, and at the movies this year no fantastic adventure towers above The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The second...
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Night & Day
Be Like Mike
The Mavs and The Wizards rock the Mikes
By Eric Celeste
Published: December 19, 2002
Everyone has a favorite Michael Jordan story. Except me. I am one of the world's few basketball fans who believe Jordan is overrated. Yes, I think he was the greatest player in...
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Stage
Good Nut to Crack
Ballet Arlington's staging of Tchaikovsky's Christmas classic is The Nutcracker to beat
By Leonard Eureka
Published: December 19, 2002
Regulars at TITAS Command Performances are well-acquainted with the husband-and-wife dance team of Lucia Lacarra and Cyril Pierre. On two occasions the former San Francisco...
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Schutze
Who Controls the Cops?
Because of racial gridlock, the answer is nobody
By Jim Schutze
Published: December 19, 2002
Today's pop quiz: How do you accuse the police department of anti-black racism, when the chief is the city's first black chief and most of his senior staff are...
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Across the Bar
Idol Chatter
Before she was a "star," Kelly Clarkson was already in the studio
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 19, 2002
Last week, the Star tabloid and New York Post, ahem, "reported" that Burleson native and American Idol Kelly Clarkson wasn't the "doe-eyed amateur she appeared to be" when she...
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Hash Over
Driving Pyles
Star Canyon creator helping develop new restaurant
By Mark Stuertz
Published: December 19, 2002
Celebrity chef Stephan Pyles, who has spent the past few months drafting and spit-polishing the food-service operation for Hotel Zaza and its restaurant Dragonfly (and has just...
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Film
Schmidt Happens
Nicholson disappears into a wondrous movie about quiet desperation
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 19, 2002
It's easy to presume About Schmidt isn't much of a movie, since its protagonist, Warren Schmidt, isn't much of anything. He's portrayed by Jack Nicholson, but the actor is...
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Arts
Long Live the Poison Pen
There are two kinds of critics: those who criticize, and those who don't
By Christine Biederman
Published: December 19, 2002
I was about 12--the age of my own daughter today--when my parents made a decision that scars me still. It was the early '70s, and like millions of Nixon voters, they were...
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Buzz
Flame Out
Oak Cliff restaurant saga comes to an end
Compiled By Patrick Williams
Published: December 19, 2002
Maybe Robert Ramirez should have named his new Oak Cliff restaurant the Twilight Zone. Ramirez's efforts to open the Twilight Café, a bizarre saga that resulted in an...
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Full Frontal
Drug-free in '03!
And 149 other things I swear I'll do next year
Published: December 19, 2002
Although the new year is a few weeks away, as an early Christmas gift, we offer this list of resolutions. We know you don't need these--you're thin, beautiful, rich, smoke- and...
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playlist
Mudvayne
The End of All Things to Come (Sony)
By Jeff Liles
Published: December 19, 2002
I hate pretentious album titles that try to sell you Impending Doom. Are these guys fortunetellers? What do they know that we don't? If we're all gonna die soon, anyway, why...
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