Walt Whitman

Events for the week

Rhyme and Reason

Leaning House Records puts a new slant on poetry

School's out

Walt Whitman Community School in Oak Lawn is America's first private high school for gay and lesbian students. Despite some grim personal stories, the kids are all right.

Letters

Walt Whitman Community School in Oak Lawn is America's first private high school for gay and lesbian students. Despite some grim personal stories, the kids are all right.

Gay is great

The Only Thing Worse would be if Terry Martin stopped acting

Out There

The Only Thing Worse would be if Terry Martin stopped acting

Got a Woody

With Mermaid Avenue, Billy Bragg and Wilco turn a myth into a man

Night & Day

August 6 - 12, 1998

Forget Me Not

In his debut novel, Plano's Stefan Merrill Block makes peace with a family curse

Literary Licks

See Tongues Dance at the Undermain

Will Oldham's Trouble With Hollywood

See Tongues Dance at the Undermain

Mod God In the Details

Robert Bechtle finds a universe of order in car doors, roof lines and lawn chairs

Manhattanism

The new season in New York's Chelsea galleries offers a mad mixture of artful objects, photo-optics and cinematic play

Out and About

These films do ask, do tell

The Rookie

Pete Hunter grew up in Atlantic City casinos, so he knows he's a long shot to make it in the NFL. Then why does he seem like a sure bet?

The Awful Truth

The malaise of one suburban teen is made vivid in the disturbing first feature film L.I.E.

Local Yokels

Photographer Ann Stautberg walks the razor's edge of a good regional artist

Blink

Unbuckling the Bible belt

The Dallas Theater Center's World Premiere, Give It Up! Asks The Audience To Give Up More Than Two And A Half Hours To Its Redbull-buzzed Idiocy

Unbuckling the Bible belt

Another Time And Place

Unbuckling the Bible belt