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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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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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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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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,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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-...
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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...
