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Off the coast of Galicia, a rocky province in northwest Spain, a storm was brewing. Captain Luis Dopico, aboard the tiny Carmen Belen, towed a line of 2,000 hooks through the...
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Trey Johnson didn't say much when he took the stage at the Sons of Hermann Hall, just launched into the music--catchy roots-rock with a twinge of the high and lonesome. The...
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The main concern was bones. Carp bones. Scrolling down the prolific menu at Shanghai Restaurant (brief menus and fortune cookies never appear at the same restaurant), I became...
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Some acts of courage command everyone's respect--the firefighter's return to a burning house to rescue a child, the infantryman's sacrifice of self for a wounded comrade, the...
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It's time for that annual exam. Put on the backless, scratchy paper examination gown. Giddy up those ankles onto the icy cold stirrups. Now scoot closer. No, closer....
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It was only a few days ago that Shane Carruth, software engineer-turned-filmmaker, was ready to walk away from the money on the table and keep his movie--78 minutes' worth of...
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Amid protest signs and peace songs and the animated anti-war crowd that had gathered Saturday in Crawford stood Robyn Curtz, a teenager who was worried about her mother. In...
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Wheel Skills
Twenty-three of the best basketball players without shoe contracts will gather in Atlanta this week for the 2004 National Wheelchair Basketball Association...
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It could be said that Linda Hollar is good for morale. For 25 days in 1971, Hollar did her duty on the U.S.O. tour of Vietnam, visiting the boys on the battlefield during the...
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Last October The New York Times called Texas "a patchwork of dizzying gradations of wetness." In Plano, those gradations are apparently so disorienting that residents there...
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There have been copious books written about architect Louis I. Kahn, whose monumental creations were like ancient Roman buildings transplanted into some near-distant future....
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Thursday, February 12
As we tick off entries in our checkbook register, we cross-check them with the lovely invention that is the online statement. In trying to create a...
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OK, now we're confused. What else is new? Buzz essentially has only three states--confused, pissed off and asleep. Right now, we're vacillating between the first two, thanks...
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Nothing says "I love you" like fork-tongued thrash metal. That's why, just in time for V-Day, we bring you the romantic saga of Dallas-based Damageplan, the new noise gods on...
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Highwaymen is much like its villain, a former automobile insurance man who cruises the nation's freeways in search of young women to run down in order to create his own...
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So-called patrons of the arts might think they're the bees' knees, but we think kids know better. Sure, museums have their charm, but they aren't half as fun as the things...
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Poignant ugliness pervades The Life, the tuneful musical about prostitutes and pimps. The show is now onstage at the Trinity River Arts Center in an eye-popping regional...
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Oh, wow. How very Dallas. A certain set of downtown leaders can't get exactly what they want on the Trinity River project or on downtown development schemes, so now they want...
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It's not the band. They are little more than a bar band with a Texas accent. An extremely skilled one, mind you, but yeah, there it is. It's not the melodies. There are only...
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With 50 First Dates, it seems as though Adam Sandler is trying to compile a greatest-hits film, cobbling together the stuff that worked in his previous films in hopes that...
