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McKinney, May 16, 2002, 1:33 p.m.
"McKinney, 911," answers a female dispatcher, sounding somewhat blasé. "What was the address of your emergency?"
"Yes, ah...I am...
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These days, Lisa Loeb is having her cake and eating it, too. Literally. Besides a new album in the spring and a nationwide tour with beau Dweezil Zappa, Loeb is also co-host...
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In a February article in the online magazine Slate, Columbia University Professor Duncan Watts exhumed the work of the late Princeton social psychologist Solomon Asch to...
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Maybe the most amazing thing about the big-screen version of Starsky & Hutch is how much smaller it feels than its predecessor, the William Blinn-created, Aaron...
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Waiting tables and parenting: two of the least appreciated jobs. So Debra Ginsberg deserves twice the sympathy. And gets twice the fodder for her new career, writing. For more...
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When a playwright writes a loaded gun into the first act, Anton Chekhov noted, it had better be fired by the fourth. Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks' 2002 Pulitzer-winning...
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About a year ago, Mike Murphy and his pal J.J. Miller were at his pad in Frisco shooting pool over a few cold beers and lamenting the state of politics. Murphy, who is now 30,...
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Janis Ian is no longer "Society's Child" and is decades past being "At Seventeen." Yet the artist who created such hit songs from the struggles and memories of youth is still,...
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At first glance, Hidalgo seems to be nothing more than an old-fashioned, flat-footed adventure epic plunked down on a vast stretch of desert and amply furnished with the usual...
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Thursday, March 4
We've often wondered if video artist Bill Viola found inspiration for his work The Crossing from watching football games in which a coach is doused in...
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Brace yourself, Buzz is feeling a bit George Will-ish this week, so we're gonna do some literary quotin' here. Our victim is George Orwell and his political fable Animal Farm,...
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Last Saturday, The Vanished held a press conference.
"Thank you for spending your afternoon with us," said lead singer Kevin Kirkwood, twisting around on his swivel chair...
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It is so very nice when a movie completely outstrips the expectations conjured by its trailer, as is the case with The Dreamers. At first blush, this tale of three passionate...
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Kevin Bouchard crawls on his belly like a reptile, struggling to get his flashlight hand up in front and squinting in the darkness. With decades-old dampness seeping into his...
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OK, time out, is it just me? Or is anybody else getting tired of the Scrubbing Bubbles routine from the mayor?
Mayor Miller, here's a page from your organizer: Get rid of...
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How the Get Up Kids ruined underground music for my generation in 200 words or less: Late in 1996, when this Kansas band released their first seven inches, ear-to-the-ground...
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FRI 3/5
Far be it from us to put a political spin on the giddy whoop-de-do surrounding St. Paddy's Day; but, hey, there are probably more terrorists and people hell-bent on...
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Top Dog
K. Todd Freeman, 38, and David Rainey, 44, starring in Topdog/Underdog at the Dallas Theater Center through March 21, have been playing the roles of brothers Booth...
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"Rock and roll. Period." That's how singer/guitarist Matt Riggle has described the fourth album in just over four years by his band, 41 Gorgeous Blocks. And it hits that mark....
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SAT 3/6
When Jean Van de Velde, victory in sight, blew the last hole of the 1999 British Open, even non-golfers gasped in horror. The poor guy ricocheted one shot off the...
