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Feature
Seductress of the Saints
Inside the mind--and suitcase--of Sandra Bridewell, religious charlatan
By Glenna Whitley
Published: December 9, 2004
The pretty lady hobbled onto the plane. Her thin frame was wrapped in a worn black coat; she had one foot in a medical boot. She stuffed the coat in an overhead bin, revealing...
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Music
Catch the Tree Wave
Old Ataris playing music? Singing with a dot-matrix printer? For this duo, it's all perfectly natural.
By Sam Machkovech
Published: December 9, 2004
It looks like the end of the world in here. Technological debris is scattered all around--stacks of computer cases, cables that would stretch for miles if hooked end-to-end,...
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Dish
Eating a Life
With George Restaurant's austere environs, the food is even more alluring
By Mark Stuertz
Published: December 9, 2004
"Food is life." Promo materials for George Restaurant attribute the above quotation to George Brown, the lauded Dallas chef who just opened his own restaurant in the spot that...
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Film
Faker's Dozen
A rare superior sequel, Ocean's Twelve entertains with cinematic sleight of hand
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 9, 2004
If you've already decided to see Ocean's Twelve, it's probably best not to read much about it. Unlike its predecessor, a remake that clung to a hoary heist formula, the sequel...
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Night & Day
Frida's Frames
See the real Frida Kahlo, unibrow and all, at PDNB Gallery
By Merritt Martin
Published: December 9, 2004
As icons go, surrealist painter Frida Kahlo has become as recognizable as the Virgin Mother or Ché. Her face peers out from jewelry, bags, clothing and décor of...
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Arts
The Mongrel Cur of Art-chitecture
The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art unleashes a feisty mutt
By Charissa N. Terranova
Published: December 9, 2004
To bastardize something is not usually a good thing. Bastardization--or crossbreeding, as one might have it--signals the trivializing or making hackneyed of an idea or object...
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News
Guilty Look
Plus: Been There, Done That; Show Us the Money
Published: December 9, 2004
Guilty Look In Dallas, chatting on a street corner can get you in trouble To hear Edgar Simmons tell it, he stopped his car to talk to a friend, and the cops thought he was...
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Music
Rockin' Around
Holiday gifts for the music lover in your life
Published: December 9, 2004
Personally, I'd like an iPod mini. One of those cute suckers, just $249 and the perfect gift from any aspiring local artist wanting to "get ahead." (I prefer pink, by the way.)...
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Burning Question
Blanking the Slate
What’s a weekend with the Burning Question crew like?
By Dave Faries
Published: December 9, 2004
Oh, boy. Over the past several years people often wrote in urging us to dine on organ meats, find a cocktail we couldn't stomach or sit down to haggis and scotch. This week's...
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Film
Dorkula
Blade confronts the ultimate vampire, and geeks everywhere rejoice
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: December 9, 2004
They walk among us. They resemble people, approximate our words and actions, present themselves more or less as human. And yet they are more--a different species, with their...
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-By-Day Picks
By Shannon Sutlief
Published: December 9, 2004
Thursday, December 9 The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has caught the Christmas fever. Screw peace on earth and good will to men. They want bigger; they want better. And they...
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Artbeat
Capsule Reviews
Our critics survey the local art scene
Published: December 9, 2004
Constructions & Architecture This show makes what might otherwise seem like the incongruent forces of art and architecture seamless and fluid. This gathering of things,...
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Buzz
Dear Santa
A certain state representative needs some coal in his stocking
By Paul Kix and Patrick Williams
Published: December 9, 2004
It's early, but Buzz wants to make a Christmas wish. No, not for world peace; we're not that ambitious. What we want is to be able to watch more than 30 minutes of television...
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Across the Bar
Drinking the Kool-Aid
In which the author joins MySpace. Finally.
By Sarah Hepola
Published: December 9, 2004
Last weekend, I joined MySpace. It wasn't easy. For weeks people had been telling me about the Web site, the latest trendy wasteland for college kids and computer nerds, but...
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Hash Over
Ferré Chef: Cheerio
Plus: Standard Snafu; Drink This
By Mark Stuertz
Published: December 9, 2004
We're mostly hostile to Dallas versions of Italian cuisine. It's all so...Stouffer's. But we had sappy soft spots for Rick Robbins of the slowly bled Eccolo and Kevin Ascolese,...
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Night & Day
Perfect Vision
Selections from the Barrett Collection astound even the jaded
By Annabelle Massey Helber
Published: December 9, 2004
Skepticism suits Dr. Edmund P. Pillsbury. It informs his professional acumen; it sharpens his impressive intellect. It feeds his wry sense of humor; it counter-balances his...
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Encore
Capsule Reviews
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Published: December 9, 2004
Dallas Christmas Festival Everything about Prestonwood Baptist Church and its Dallas Christmas Festival is big and broad, from the cast (more than 1,000) and running time...
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Schutze
Slow Ride
Try getting to Toronto on DART light rail some day
By Jim Schutze
Published: December 9, 2004
"What am I, the Flying Dutchman?" I'm sitting on this DART train wondering. Outside I see a flat rolling moonscape, crumbling cinder-block walls, ranks of dusty 18-wheelers, an...
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And Another Thing
Odds & Ends
Battling for Ozzfest, rockin' for the girls, and some jolly Christmas-song trivia
By Sarah Hepola
Published: December 9, 2004
If you haven't been watching The Battle for Ozzfest--and unless your Monday night is as lame as mine, I assume you haven't been--here's an update: We're seven episodes into the...
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Urban Experience
Fairy Good
Tea and nutcrackers
Published: December 9, 2004
12/12 Ballet gets a big boost this time of year--like when a scrawny male dancer determinedly hoists his flabby-tushed partner high up on his shoulder. The Nutcracker is an...
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