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Feature
No Trespassing
When teens vow not to have sex, the moral to their story isn't always clear
By Michelle Martinez and LEAH GERCHARIO
Published: December 18, 2003
The throng of teens mills around "the loft," a youth-group meeting area sparsely furnished with plastic chairs. They're preparing for an icebreaker game, a prelude to their...
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Music
Beasts of Burden
Todd Lewis and Taz Bentley want to make it, sure. Mostly, they want to make it last.
By Sarah Hepola
Published: December 18, 2003
By now you've probably heard the song. In a bar, perhaps, or while browsing in a CD store. Maybe you heard it on the radio, as I did. One day last week the song played on my...
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Dish
In Bloom
Though it's named after a dog, Iris is no mutt
By Mark Stuertz
Published: December 18, 2003
It sounds easy, but operating a successful neighborhood restaurant is tough: ingratiating yourself with a cadre of regulars, serving decent food, enticing nomads from foreign...
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Film
Upper Middle Earth
The Return of the King marks a zenith in cinematic potential
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: December 18, 2003
You know how it's often the ones we love whose flaws are most apparent? Well, when it comes to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, I am smitten. This film is a...
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Night & Day
Winter Wonderland
It's almost a Christmas miracle
By Sam Machkovech
Published: December 18, 2003
Every year, the barren, icy tundra of wintertime Dallas sparks fear in the hearts of metroplexians. Soon enough, we will have to brace for the utmost terrors caused by the...
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Stage
Open Toad
Kisses for a lovable Frog Prince; Arsenic and old jokes at Theatre Three
By Elaine Liner
Published: December 18, 2003
Dallas theatergoers can be aggressively vocal with their opinions. Some audience members open their gobs and offer audible reviews of a show while a performance is in progress....
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News
Cell-bloc Voting
A new effort tries to unlock former felons' votes
By Mark Donald
Published: December 18, 2003
Every weekday morning beginning at 7 o'clock, the gate of Huntsville's Walls Unit opens, just slightly. Returned to society are a dozen or so prisoners who have completely...
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Music
Big Boom Theory
The Crystal Method keeps the party going
By NATE CAVALIERI
Published: December 18, 2003
The Crystal Method is having a terrible time. The two guys who make up the group, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland, sit in the shadowy corner of a posh San Francisco restaurant,...
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Hash Over
Up the River
Plans not hot for a new Cool River
By Mark Stuertz
Published: December 18, 2003
Pool cues or bamboo sticks? Chopsticks or billiard chalk? These were once the riveting questions posed up the Dallas North Tollway. But plans to plop a Cool River Café...
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Film
Barely Passing
All's not Wellesley when Julia cracks a Mona Lisa Smile
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 18, 2003
The Mona Lisa Smile in question belongs, of course, to its star, Julia Roberts. Why? For no particular reason, actually. It's just what Italian professor Bill Dunbar (Dominic...
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-By-Day Picks
By Merritt Martin
Published: December 18, 2003
Thursday, December 18 Any fan of black-and-white photography has seen Edward Weston's bell pepper shot, "Pepper No. 30." Its seductive lighting makes what is to some simply...
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Buzz
Double Feature
Two theater companies vie for one audience
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 18, 2003
It was just a coincidence, but Ellen Cotter, the Manhattan-based chief operating officer of the Angelika chain of art-house theaters, happened to be in Dallas the very day...
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Across the Bar
Pleasantly Surprised
A Dallas fave looks forward to the release of a new album
By Sarah Hepola
Published: December 18, 2003
For the past few months, I've asked friends who know Dallas music the same questions: Can I bum a cigarette? And who are your favorite local bands? Right off, I noticed two...
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Film
Lucky in Love
The Cooler, somewhat unbelievably, asks us to swallow a Las Vegas fairy tale
By Bill Gallo
Published: December 18, 2003
William H. Macy's plain-vanilla features and hang-dog screen demeanor have served him well. Who could resist him as the clueless car dealer who hatched the disastrous...
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Night & Day
Out of This World
It's even more popular than Festivus
By Shannon Sutlief
Published: December 18, 2003
There are many symbols for this time of year. There's the Nativity for religious Christmas, and Santa and Rudolph for secular Christmas. A menorah for Hanukkah, and--according...
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Schutze
Spanish Fly
Dallas turns rape to romance with Calatrava bridges
By Jim Schutze
Published: December 18, 2003
So the Dallas City Council has spoken, and we are not going to devote our money or our energy to any kind of natural treatment of the river that runs through us. Instead,...
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playlist
[DARYL]
Uneven Surfaces (Idol Records)
By Sam Machkovech
Published: December 18, 2003
Talk about timing. Quite a few local bands have album releases pending for spring 2004, leaving many scenesters' hopes for indie-rock stocking stuffers in the coal pit. But...
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Film
Rémy, Hero
With The Barbarian Invasions, Denys Arcand's cinematic alter ego goes out with an emotional bang
By Bill Gallo
Published: December 18, 2003
Evidently, the French-Canadian writer-director Denys Arcand has a tremendous capacity for dividing the art-movie/film-fest crowd into enemy camps. Arcand's fans see him as a...
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Urban Experience
Last Supper
Send 2003 out with a bang
Published: December 18, 2003
12/20 It has come to this: During last week's poker game, my friend Shane and I found ourselves swapping recipes for, among other things, shrimp with grits, exotic chili and...
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Gonzalez
Bad Rap
When it comes to Danny Fortson, don't believe everything you hear
By John Gonzalez
Published: December 18, 2003
In sports, particularly among the media, rumors are like venereal diseases: There are a lot of them out there, and they're quickly and easily passed around. Who's a nice guy,...
