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Love is a Killer

The brutal murder of Adrianne Jones has left Mansfield teens feeling dazed and betrayed

By Ellise Pierce
Oct 17, 1996

It is nothing but an open field, a nondescript place beside a row of battered mailboxes along Seeton Road near Joe Pool Lake. But for months, it has been a site of pilgrimage for Adrianne Jones' friends. They have visited the field dozens of times since Jones' brutal murder last...
Not Ready for Prime time

The Bobby Jack Pack Show lurks in the shadows of cable access, threatening its creator with low-rent success

By Ellise Pierce
Aug 15, 1996

It's 5 a.m. on a Wednesday. Bobby Jack Pack opens his eighth can of Dr Pepper and slips it into a mint-green coozie. It's still a few hours before Bobby--who keeps the hours of a B-movie vampire--will go to sleep. And today, Kelly Higgins, his writing partner, has shown up...
Why Dallas Can't Dance

Ballet Dallas may finally succumb to years of self-inflicted mediocrity

By Ellise Pierce
Jun 22, 1995

Canned classical music falls lifelessly amid the rows of empty red velvet seats of the Majestic Theatre. And as the curtain opens to reveal a stage set that looks like it was borrowed from a high school drama department, the applause is weak. As weak, some would say, as the...

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