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Shelly Martin was bone tired from the countless hours she spent at the bedside of her sick friend, but she figured she had better return to the hospital, and fast. For the...
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"Screw the Hives--Texas has the Gamblers!" yelled the girl beside me. It was early Sunday morning (or maybe late Saturday night), and Denton's Riverboat Gamblers were tearing...
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This exchange actually occurred between two members of the Burning Question crew after a night of research in which we visited The Meridian Room, The Old Monk, Candle Room and...
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Jersey Girl, the sixth film by writer-director Kevin Smith, is the least Kevin Smith-y film he's ever made, which will be welcome news to those exhausted by Smith's...
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Doing the marathon of Dallas and Fort Worth's seasonal gallery events is like eating at a buffet restaurant. You scoop up a smidgen, walk a bit, spoon over some more, round...
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Tom Hanks is who Tom Hanks is today because of something he did about 14 years ago. One afternoon, Hanks walked into his agent's office and told the man who takes 10 percent,...
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A fugitive from the law for more than a year, former SMU student Douglas Havard is alive and thriving in Hong Kong.
No, Spain.
Well, try Central Europe.
Rio de Janeiro?...
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Until 2003, springtime in Denton had meant the same thing for music fans. Come one Saturday each April, the streets at the northeast corner of the UNT campus would be blocked...
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New York magazine proclaimed it the new hanger. Is this a compliment? Hard to tell, especially when you consider ancestry. The hanger steak, a grainy beef cut that a flock of...
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The Ladykillers is the second film in as many years made by Joel and Ethan Coen to fill space between pet projects that seem to run off leash; it's their time-killer, if you...
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Thursday, March 25
We had no idea that opiates, smuggling and white slavery are the three pillars of comedy. Playwright Charles Busch and the Pocket Sandwich Theatre...
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"Do you have any idea what it's like being English?'' John Cleese asked in A Fish Called Wanda. "Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of doing the...
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You'll forgive Buzz if he's feeling a little sentimental this week. It seems all the good ones are leaving us too soon: Bob Edwards is leaving the hosting gig at NPR Morning...
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"You're kidding. They're really from Dallas?" asked a surprised bystander at the Polyphonic Spree show. The Spree's heritage is always a surprise to Austinites, who generally...
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"It's not dead." So says broadcaster Jim White, who has hosted the KRLD Restaurant Show for the past nine years. KRLD NewsRadio 1080 dropped the cleaver on the show last month...
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Viewers rightfully marvel at the colorful CG seascapes of Finding Nemo and the unique drawing style of The Triplets of Belleville, but when it comes to the actual stories told...
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We witnessed the arc of a real-life character over the past two decades. We first met Lady Diana Spencer in the media when she was a 19-year-old kindergarten teacher's aide in...
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The Genius of the French Rococo: The Drawings of Franois Boucher (1703-1770) and Bouchers Mythological Paintings The unfortunate thing about the beautiful is that it is all...
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Two weeks ago the mayor and the city council held a news conference slapping themselves on the back for a new law to fight apartment crime. They passed an ordinance putting...
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Blonde Redhead, the low-key juggernaut of no-wave, has put out three works (beginning with 1997's Fake Can Be Just As Good) that were wonderfully whole and edgy. Once...
