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This Week In Dallas Music History: Leap Frogging Through History With The Toadies

The beginning of history as we know it​In this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we look back at an infographic we here at the Observer published to chart the career arc of The Toadies, following the release of their seminal record Rubberneck and through the production of their at-the- ... More >>

What Would Diana Eat?

Tea, Totally

Five Wonders of the World

Lucky 13

Follywood

A B-actress, computer mayhem and families feudin'! Making a movie with your rich friends is just courting disaster.

To Di For

The Panther City Players sniff England's rose

Painting as Petting Zoo

Candace M. Briceño's sewn surfaces are touchy-feely

Nintendo Wizards

Senses are overloaded

at And/Or, the new gallery

on the block

Up in Arms

Evita has her moments, and some style, at Lyric; Alabama Sky bright at Jubilee

Money for Nothing

A fund aimed at boosting South Dallas is hammered by deadbeat borrowers and city hall neglect.

Reach Out

AIDS Outreach Center has family fun and a family fund-raiser

For Love of the Game

Kevin Costner doesn't make friends. He makes movies, dang it.

Tango and Cash

Chicago dances its way through the origins of the celebrity crook

Emma Goes to France

Amélie serves up a daring, moving take on Jane Austen's best-loved heroine

Drag King

Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved

Mommy's little angel

Marshall Ball can't talk. So he listens to God. Everyone else listens to Marshall.

Monument to an ego

Why is multimillionaire Scott Ginsburg building one of the world's most expensive restaurants in Dallas? Because he can.

Rubberneckin'

Leap-frogging through history with the Toadies

Iron butterfly

At a Toad's pace

No, the Toadies haven't broken up. They're just taking their own sweet time

The thrill is back

John Frankenheimer reclaims his suspense-film crown with Ronin

Les enfants terribles

Stage West's brat pack makes The Misanthrope sizzle

Go figure

Enigma is a dazzling puzzle of utter befuddlement

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad

Parting shots

As Laura Miller rides off to tilt at political windmills, we recall some of her choicest words

Swiss Misses

A tempest in a teacup over azaleas erupts into a class war in Dallas' Swiss Avenue Historic District

Events for the week

Soul food & crackers

How two black Dallas men learned to love the lily-white Republic of Texas--especially the part about phony checks and payment-free plastic

Bread and Circuses

When food legend Julia Child came to Texas spreading her gospel of good eating, no one was spared. Not even Big Tex

Bad planning

Commission chairman's departure leaves panel in weaker hands

Under the covers

How could Duran Duran make a comeback when it never went away?

Who ya gonna call?

City Hall's top brass use taxpayer-provided mobile phones to call sweethearts, power brokers, and Pizza Hut.