Diana, a Renaissance woman. Baker par excellence, farrier, seamstress, and dietitian. Vegetarian. Bakes the cakes and cookies for Street's Famous Sandwiches because she knows Gene's mother. What better recommendation could there be? --Mary Brown Malouf Street's Famous Sandwiches, 4246 Oak Lawn, 526-2505...
Get loaded Like most Texans, you've probably been wrestling with those sensitive, personal questions that you're just too embarrassed to ask: When can I shoot to kill? How old do my kids have to be to "bear arms?" and Is there anywhere that I can't carry my gun? Help is...
In a tiny office at the end of a sterile, white corridor that stretches across the fifth floor of the University of Texas at Arlington's Life Sciences Building sits a white-bearded professor who says he has developed the decisive weapon in the war on crime. Using arcane secret formulas and...
Life in the ant farm The Indian in the Cupboard. What the hell were the producers thinking of when they thought to go with that title? You don't see Hollywood making movies called "The Jew in the Cupboard," or the Chinese, or the Mexican. What's the deal with miniaturizing an...
Editorial error On Wednesday, June 7, the weekly column by Henry Tatum, associate editor of The Dallas Morning News editorial page, appeared as usual, accompanied by his photograph, on the paper's "Viewpoints" page. It was typical Tatum. A former City Hall reporter and 25-year News staffer, Tatum, 52, had written...
At Valley Ranch, David Lang is sitting barefooted in front of his locker, which sits next to Emmitt Smith's locker and Emmitt's empty sweaty shoes. It is good that the shoes are sweaty because that means Emmitt is healthy, and all that is loved more than God and family in...
Editor's note: Beginning this week, P.B. Miller, a longtime Dallas Observer contributor, takes over our regular Stage column. Nora FitzGerald, our previous columnist, has relocated to the Washington, D.C. area. Before she passed, Eurydice-like, from these pages, Nora FitzGerald asked me to visit several area theaters she had been unable...
Although he doesn't claim to know everything about the Denton music scene, Wanz Dover likes to say he's trying. Clad in a well-worn My Bloody Valentine shirt and dark jeans, the tousle-haired leader of newly formed band Mazinga Phaser talks eagerly about the Denton underground and its emerging space-rock trend...
Sleeps with angels Many of the observations about the woman known as Bjork--that she is a "pixie," "the girl who fell to earth," "the ice princess," a child in a woman's clothing--are totally surface. They are based upon the obvious observations: She has been captured in photographs as a woman...
There's a lot of discussion about what Deep Ellum needs. More residential space, more retail, better restaurants, fewer kids, a grocery store. What KJ and the donut lady decided it needed wasn't on anybody's list, but there's certainly not another one in the neighborhood: 24-hour coffee and donuts. The donuts...
Let's face it. What's the No. 1 reason for bar fights in America? It's the following words: "What are you looking at?" And we know what he's looking at, right? He's looking at a female. And the female is with a guy. And any other guy who looks at, talks...
About 30 minutes into Clueless, an utterly disposable new teen comedy starring MTV-spawned glamour gal Alicia Silverstone as a spoiled Beverly Hills princess, I started to picture myself as the protagonist of a post-apocalyptic science fiction movie. I'm playing a hardbitten journalistic loner, a cross between Mad Max and Andrew...
At first, adults might not see the delightful kid-flick Babe as an intelligent, even brave film. The film's clever combination of stunts by live animals and incredibly expressive animatronic puppets makes you suspicious, a little fearful it might become an ordeal of gimmicks. The story unleashes a barnyard full of...
That carefree blond mop atop a paste-white, square face graced by dual ellipses of tortoise shell; that rigid frame; those nimble hands; these mark the presence of Ed Begley, Jr., one of the more reliable supporting actors in Hollywood. He etched himself onto our minds during his five years with...
thursday july 27 Taste of Deep Ellum Tour '95: With their long series of art and music festivals, it seems obvious that the powers behind Deep Ellum are trying to allay fears that the neighborhood is headed toward tourist-trapsville. Although it may be one of the first places Dallas hosts...
The last time I wrote about Dakota's was several years ago, for another publication. I remember on that particular weeknight visit that I was just about the only woman there--the whole restaurant was populated by pinstripes, with a very few power powder puffs with jabots on theirs. But on my...
"Oh hi, Arthur." What else was there to say? The waiter and I went way back. No point in dragging out the wig and shades now. It's one of the dangers of attempting to review restaurants anonymously in the town where you grew up--you run into yourself coming and going...
The Indian in the Cupboard is an oasis of calm amid the glitzy din of summer. It rarely shouts when it can whisper. Like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the stories of the Arabian Nights, it's strange and complicated and contradictory. Working from a kids' novel by...
I'm gonna start selling this new flag. It has 49 stars and 12 stripes on it. This is gonna drive the cops crazy, not to mention the Newt Nuts who are about to clutter up the Constitution with a don't-torch-the-flag amendment. Just think. We can load up about a thousand...
On July 28, the most expensive movie of all time, the Kevin Costner sci-fi epic Waterworld, will sail into a multiplex near you. That's why you can't open a newspaper or magazine or turn on the TV these days without encountering yet another retelling of its cursed production. The features...
thursday july 20 Moving The Fire: Removal of Indian Nations to Oklahoma: There is nothing more haunting about the infamous "Trail of Tears"--the U.S. government's brutal relocation of American Indian tribes to Oklahoma in the 19th century--than the fact that so many settlers left their belongings behind but brought with...
It is one of the stranger sights in South Dallas: each day, when the weather is fair, 125 teenage girls stream out of the Ambassador hotel and cross the street into Old City Park. The girls are dressed almost identically, in navy blue smocks and skirts and crisp, lace-collared blouses,...
