The latest issue of local fanzine publisher Clyde Gentry's Chinese movie guide Hong Kong Film Connection hits stores November 23. It includes reviews of every Hong Kong movie on video or coming soon to stateside theaters; an update on the latest career moves of the Asian Steve McQueen, Chow Yun-Fat;...
This is how Captain James Tiberius Kirk dies: he jumps across a broken bridge to retrieve a device--whose function is too complicated, and frankly too unimportant, to describe in any detail--the bridge gives way, and he falls into a ravine. Yes, Captain Kirk, the man who cheated death a million...
To know what basketball is, you must live, eat, drink, sleep, and sex it; let other people play it. For a select few, it isn't a game but a way of life, an identity, a dream of escape from abject poverty. Those who can realize this dream are the ones...
thursday november 24 Turkey Trot, Save the Turkey, and Baby Doll's Thanksgiving: The organizers of the 1994 YMCA Turkey Trot advertise it as "Dallas' Way To Begin Thanksgiving," which implies that most of us are in better physical shape than we really are. For 27 years now the Turkey Trot,...
Mai Phom opened the first popular Vietnamese restaurant in Dallas. She deserves a medal. Those were the days when ethnic food meant Mexican food, unless it meant Szechuan. Now Vietnamese is practically mainstream and even has at least one almost upscale representative. Mainly, it has become habitual; many of us...
Huntville, Texas Well, big-city politics has once again reared its ugly head, and I note it is once again at our expense. I refer, of course, to the new sports arena. The articles written by Laura Miller ["Arena Wars," October 13 and October 20] have been both informative and infuriating...
Sheesh. Sest lah vye, Mabel. I'll say one thing for the results of Tuesday's plebiscite: it is sure as hell going to be interesting for the next couple of years. What an utterly fabulous cast of characters. Strom Thurmond, 92, chairman of Armed Services. Jesse Helms, chair of Foreign Relations...
"His Majesty," Oscar Wilde purrs to an expectant King Edward VII, "is like a warm stream of bat's piss. So strong in his sentiments and flowing in his expression." Monty Python fans will no doubt remember this (paraphrased) line from the classic sketch in which Wilde, Shaw, and other celebrated...
One has to wonder what Robbie Robertson thought. Robertson has long stayed away from performing on television, but there he was on David Letterman's Late Show last Thursday, performing the haunting "Ghost Dance" from his new album Music for "The Native Americans," backed by a band that featured Rita Coolidge...
What is this Inner Child dealie? What are people talkin' about when they say they need to "get in touch with my Inner Child"? I've been hearin' this for several years now, and ever time I hear it I sit there like a goombah, pretendin' I know exactly what they're...
thursday november 17 Phyllis Schlafly vs. Sarah Weddington: What causes a democracy's national mood to shift from left to right, liberal to conservative? While many politicians on both sides like to appear accessible by defining themselves as moderates resting squarely in the center, the moderate voting bloc doesn't change the...
Throughout the fall, the Krasniqis diligently abided by the court order. Krasniqi rented an apartment and attended a sexual offender's group treatment program run by Chester Grounds, a staff psychologist with DHS. Grounds said in court that Krasniqi originally admitted in group that he had sexually abused his children, including...
Most of the houses in this quiet, middle-class Richardson neighborhood look alike --wide, one-story, brick homes with small, manicured front lawns. The home of Sam and Kathy Krasniqi has one distinguishing feature: rain or shine, several pairs of men's and women's shoes can be found lined up on the porch...
Stephan the Red In the last few months, Dallas-bred fantasy novelist Stephan Grundy has been the subject of plenty of ink, from a cover story in Dallas Observer (July 21) to reviews in Publisher's Weekly and the fantasy magazine Locus of his first novel, the Norse epic Rhinegold--a number-one bestseller...
Bad memory chip? The East Dallas reader of The Dallas Morning News thought what she was reading seemed familiar--suspiciously familiar. Veteran News editorial-page columnist Ann Melvin was weighing in on the debate over whether books on computer will someday make the paper-and-ink version obsolete. Absolutely not, Melvin opined, in a...
At the end of an afternoon spent together, John Nitzinger takes his interviewer aside and says, in a rare quiet moment, that "God has wiped the slate clean." He is standing outside the door of his Fort Worth apartment, looking just slightly older than his 46 years, wearing a black...
Stone alone Keith Richards once said Bobby Keys' greatest problem in the early '70s was that, for a while, the Lubbock-born sax player deluded himself into thinking he was a member of the Stones' inner circle. Richards and Keys were great pals, drug buddies from way back whose passion for...
Fifteen minutes into a thoughtful, often painful discussion of the music of Ween--one that goes into influences and intent, touching on technique and style and the influences of Leonard Cohen and Prince--the man known as Gene Ween lets out a loud sigh. "Hey, you're sitting here making me analyze Ween,...
The 1994 Dallas Video Festival is as eclectic and erratic as the medium itself. The good stuff is some of the best you'll see anywhere in any medium, and the bad stuff is damn near unwatchable. But that's what makes this Festival so invaluable, not just to the audiovisual scene...
While sitting through Dreams of Equality and Thinking Like a Woman: the Life and Times of Mary Kay Ash, two locally produced movies scheduled for opening night of the Dallas Video Festival, I couldn't help wondering: at what point, exactly, did the passion go out of Cynthia Salzman Mondell and...
Four years ago, a New York-based wine company met with Federal Trade Commission officials, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the U.S. Surgeon General. The subject was a fortified wine called Cisco that was posing serious health risks--particularly to teens. The company, Canandaigua Wine Company, was under fire...
Everyone has to keep up with the latest information in his field. Doctors have to learn about lasers, teachers have to learn about guns, mothers have to learn about Power Rangers. (The white one is named Tommy.) And food writers have to go to tastings. The palate needs constant education...
