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    November 9, 2011

    Bass Great Chuck Rainey, the Soul of Steely Dan, Is Recovering in Bedford Following a Stroke

    ​An old friend who knows of my lifelong love affair with Steely Dan sends this note I somehow managed to miss: Chuck Rainey, the band's more-or-less bassist from Pretzel Logic in '74 to Gaucho six years later, suffered a stroke Friday night. Susan Rainey, the second Mrs., writes on the official we ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 16, 2010

    Santa Shreds

    ​An old friend who knows of my lifelong love affair with Steely Dan sends this note I somehow managed to miss: Chuck Rainey, the band's more-or-less bassist from Pretzel Logic in '74 to Gaucho six years later, suffered a stroke Friday night. Susan Rainey, the second Mrs., writes on the official we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Listomania: Eight Jewish Musical Icons To Celebrate On This Final Night of Chanukah

    ​When the sun sets this evening, the final night of Chanukah will commence, ending an eight-day spree of phone calls from nagging Jewish mothers and the always pleasant gifting and receiving of holiday socks. Also coming to its unfortunate annual close? The (adorable) singing of the Chanukah praye ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 15, 2009

    Bruce Vilanch For the Win

    ​When the sun sets this evening, the final night of Chanukah will commence, ending an eight-day spree of phone calls from nagging Jewish mothers and the always pleasant gifting and receiving of holiday socks. Also coming to its unfortunate annual close? The (adorable) singing of the Chanukah praye ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 9, 2008

    Lipstick on a Pig

    Drag treatment turns Legends' saggy script into knockout comedy; Doubt leaves suspicions in the air

  • Film

    March 27, 2008

    Entering Its Second Year, AFI Dallas Avoids the Sophomore Slump

    Drag treatment turns Legends' saggy script into knockout comedy; Doubt leaves suspicions in the air

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2008

    AFI Dallas Fest Sneaks a Peek with Hunter S. Thompson, Ellen Page and Helen Hunt

    Drag treatment turns Legends' saggy script into knockout comedy; Doubt leaves suspicions in the air

  • Home Entertainment

    June 14, 2007

    Beat the Crowd

    Drag treatment turns Legends' saggy script into knockout comedy; Doubt leaves suspicions in the air

  • Home Entertainment

    November 9, 2006

    Burning the Yule Log

    Drag treatment turns Legends' saggy script into knockout comedy; Doubt leaves suspicions in the air

  • Music

    November 2, 2006

    Tom Waits

    Orphans ( ANTI-)

  • Calendar

    December 9, 2004

    Rock 'n' Run

    Marathon men and women of White Rock

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2004

    Twirl Girls

    Dallas' American beauties

  • News

    February 6, 2003

    Big D

    Raja Bell plays defense like most of his Mav teammates play offense

  • Calendar

    September 13, 2001

    TV or Not TV

    At least there's less junk this year

  • Music

    September 6, 2001

    Kind of Blue

    When Norah Jones left Dallas, she had no idea she'd end up living the jazzer's fantasy

  • Film

    April 12, 2001

    Dirt Farmer

    Sandler and Spade continue quest to dumb down America

  • Music

    January 25, 2001

    Carrie Borzillo

    Nirvana: The Day By Day Eyewitness Chronicle Thunder's (Mouth Press)

  • Culture

    December 28, 2000

    Blow Up the Box

    TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched...and watched

  • Film

    December 14, 2000

    Mel Sells Out

    What Women Want is a better movie than this two-hour Nike advertisement

  • Calendar

    November 2, 2000

    Crazy Like Fox

    The future of Fox

  • Calendar

    September 28, 2000

    Angel, Low To The Ground

    Fox hits another iceberg

  • Calendar

    May 4, 2000

    So real, it hurts

    Sandra Berhard is still here

  • Film

    March 2, 2000

    White-trash receptacle

    With a sneer and a wink, Drowning Mona plunges us into a fresh deluge of idiotic Americana

  • Film

    January 27, 2000

    Valley of the dull

    Susann biopic isn't Great, not by the longest shot

  • News

    January 27, 2000

    Goodfella

    Playing a high-rolling mobster, Norm Berger was a convincing undercover agent for the IRS and FBI. Then the government accused him of pocketing some of the proceeds. As Norm would say, "Ya gonna love this one."

  • Culture

    December 2, 1999

    The best Bette

    Stop the presses: Gay man raves about the Divine Miss M

  • Music

    July 29, 1999

    Stacks of wax

    Adventures at the bottom of the music trade

  • Music

    September 10, 1998

    Frustrated

    You got the Knack a long time ago, but Doug Fieger thinks you need it again

  • Music

    May 29, 1997

    Bar chords

    Harry Dean Stanton sings--but then, he always has

  • Film

    April 17, 1997

    Signs of the times

    Paul Mazursky's art lies in his topical films about the modern American landscape

  • Calendar

    April 17, 1997

    Events for the week

    Paul Mazursky's art lies in his topical films about the modern American landscape

  • Music

    November 14, 1996

    Roadshows

    Paul Mazursky's art lies in his topical films about the modern American landscape

  • Culture

    October 17, 1996

    This dog won't hunt

    Sylvia begs for more meat

  • Film

    September 19, 1996

    Attack of the harpies

    Girls Town and The First Wives Club celebrate female vengeance

  • Film

    April 20, 1995

    USA Film Festival Schedule

    Girls Town and The First Wives Club celebrate female vengeance

  • Music

    December 8, 1994

    Chestnuts and lumps of coal

    Bennett, Buttholes, and John Tesh--these are a few of our favorite, and least favorite, things

  • Film

    December 8, 1994

    My father, myself

    Ingmar Bergman enlists son Daniel to direct his haunting memoir Sunday's Children

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