Okay, walk east on the sidewalk in front of San Remo (the one on Frankford Road) and you'll come to the Rice Boxx. It's just a Chinese take-out, but since I happened to know it was designed by some talent, and since I also knew it was owned by the...
In 1995, Dallas' rich musical heritage continues with a new breed of musician--some are young, some old, some natives, some transplants, some keepers of the flame, some creating their own brand of noise. But like the musicians who preceded them--such Dallas music legends as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Red Garland, Aaron...
BEST ACT OVERALL: Reverend Horton Heat ALBUM RELEASE (1994): Liquor in the Front, Reverend Horton Heat (Interscope Records) LOCAL MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR: Andy Timmons ROCK, ALTERNATIVE ROCK/POP: Toadies MALE VOCALIST, SONGWRITER: Todd Lewis of Toadies NEW ACT: Old 97's MOST IMPROVED ACT: Vibrolux FEMALE VOCALIST: Kim Pendleton of Vibrolux...
Linda Koop worries that Roderick will miss his stuffed animals. For the past three months, Koop has offered Roderick, a sweet-natured boy just shy of three, a couple of furry critters as bedmates each night. Koop is 31 and unmarried, a real-estate agent selling multi-million dollar homes in the Park...
Warnings are a big topic these days--when the world is such a hazardous place, and we can't seem to be trusted to take care of ourselves anymore. I read in the paper a week or so ago that because of a tragedy involving children and balloons, a watchdog group is...
Bodice rip-offs If things seemed a little, well, hotter around the Dallas-Fort Worth area earlier this month, there may have been a good reason. The 13th Annual Romantic Times Booklovers Convention, Book Fair and Romance Festival was being held at the Tarrant County Convention Center. Texas, it seems, has the...
All about Eve Displaying its characteristic gumption in the fight against ignorance, the News on March 14 reported the Richardson Public Library's refusal to display an oil painting of a bare-breasted Eve. The painting, titled Eden, was included in the selections by the Richardson Civic Art Society for an annual...
Big fish in a stagnant pond The following thoughts were prompted by David Pasztor's recent article on Wendy Lee Gramm ["Take my wife--please!" March 30]. How loudly to yell at football games and whether to eat at Burger King are probably as stimulating as intellectual debate gets in the Economics...
Censorship in cyberspaaaaace! (Why is it that computer issues lend themselves to horror comic book headlines? "Tiny Mummies in Cyberland!") Aside from fear of technology (one of the most sensible phobias of our time--did anyone ever ask a fly if it needed eyes on its wings?), I think we're stuck...
Baseball's annual Hall of Fame game was hours over. All the other reporters had left the little press room in the back of the Hall. But this one, after computer problems, was trudging through to the exit in partial darkness, with only a bunch of guys like Ty Cobb and...
I guess it should come as no surprise that Pump Boys and Dinettes, the current feel-good musical offering at Theatre Three, was a box-office hit in New York. But I'm perplexed about why it's gotten the critical attention it has. I am not an elitist. I like to be entertained,...
Welfare music Bill Wyman of the Chicago Reader can often be overheard proclaiming the Bottle Rockets the best band in America, and as the band was finishing its set on the final night of the South by Southwest Music Conference, he was shouting his reasons one more time above the...
There's one good thing about Tuesdays: hot duck fat. Le Char-donnay serves confit of duck every Tuesday, and if the week looks long, I suggest you stop in for lunch or dinner and take comfort in confit. To prepare confit, a country specialty of Burgundy, you cook the duck meat...
The latest issue of the Dallas-based bimonthly fanzine Hong Kong Film Connection (which only recently went national) is on sale now at an independent or Asian-owned video store near you, and it includes plenty of thoughtful, well-researched articles worth mentioning here. They include a wrapup of 1994 Hong Kong box-office...
Flashbulbs and teen squeals announce Pauly Shore's arrival at Planet Hollywood in the West End. Amid a journalistic sea of TV and still cameras and a small cluster of mostly young fans, the 27-year-old former MTV VJ and star of numerous slapstick movies--the latest of which, Jury Duty, opens April...
This week I'm wondering why those fat, cow-faced husbands on "Oprah" never defend themselves. You know the guys I'm talking about? They bring out some chunky, ticked-off Jenny Craig dropout with a lab experiment on her head resulting in Blonde Meltdown, and she says, "Oprah, I found out he was...
In a terrifying barroom sequence about 15 minutes into Once Were Warriors, a stark melodrama about the lives of Maori tribesman living in the urban slums of New Zealand, Jake Heke (Temeura Owen)--a pumped-up, alcoholic patriarch of a troubled Maori clan who looks like Robert DeNiro on steroids--watches as a...
thursday april 13 Alan Dershowitz: Being a civil libertarian in America at a time when politicians and talk-radio morons are demanding a quick emotional fix for our national malaise can be a thankless job...unless, of course, you're a civil libertarian who also happens to be one of the highest-paid defense...
The whole population of this neat-as-a-bandbox (what is a bandbox?) little restaurant was facing the rear wall to watch a green parrot pivot on its perch to reach a morsel of food, reaching, reaching...till finally it overreached itself, capsized, and fell off its perch. Who ever saw a bird fall?...
It is perhaps just as well that Portishead, which was to make its American debut here April 16 at Deep Ellum Live, canceled its Dallas gig just a few days ago. The Island Records publicist explains the cancellation this way: "The band decided to play two shows in Los Angeles...
Nick Nolte's craggily handsome face, steely eyes, and whiskey-and-cigarettes voice are the epitome of ravaged old-movie grandeur. But in his heart, he's always been a character actor, not an icon. Although resourceful directors have managed to use him that way--notably Walter Hill in 48 HRS. and Extreme Prejudice and Karel...
Mike Marcotte is a very busy man. This was especially obvious on the afternoon of December 9, a day when I was having absolutely no luck getting in touch with him. Marcotte works for the city of Dallas. Once the virtually anonymous director of the Dallas Water Utilities department, Marcotte...
