Charitable counter-charge Speaking on behalf of the more than 1,000 volunteers in Dallas, we appreciate the opportunity to inform the community about the American Cancer Society and answer some of the questions raised in David Pasztor's article "Uncharitable Charges" [February 2]. Unfortunately, Mr. Pasztor's article failed to include the facts...
The earth moved at Dallas City Hall last week. But in more ways than you know. On Monday, Dallas lost the race to build an auto racetrack to Fort Worth. Which was a bad thing. On Friday, First Assistant City Manager Cliff Keheley--the City Hall veteran who has orchestrated much...
On a rainy day at North Loop Dodge in Tarrant County, a car salesman walks in with two huge bags from Sports Town. "Wanna baseball?" he asks the two people in the repair waiting room who are watching the episode of "Family Affair" where Mr. French almost has to marry...
Memphis is a city that has long thrived on tourism. After all, for many of the world's countless blues enthusiasts who annually plan trips to the United States, Memphis and New Orleans and Chicago are the only cities that matter. Memphis city officials strive so eagerly to please tourists that...
"Does anyone know if I won a Grammy last night?" Dave Abbruzzese wonders. He says this as an afterthought, in the middle of a casual conversation with producer David Castell as the two stand in the messy kitchen area of Castell's Garland recording studio. The night before, Abbruzzese and the...
There's a good reason why the new thriller Hideaway is proudly designated "A Film by Brett Leonard," a name few casual moviegoers would recognize, let alone regard with high esteem. Leonard, who directed the cyberpunk-revamped movie version of Stephen King's short story The Lawnmower Man, is a high-tech showman with...
Women are Now. Men are Later. Women wanna talk about it now. Men wanna talk about it later. Women wanna go out to eat Tonight. Men wanna go out to eat Tomorrow. Women wanna go to the beach when they Feel Like It. Men wanna go to the beach when...
In an age when virtually everyone has a prepared statement for the press--if not a calculated, image-reinforcing soundbite--it's surprising and refreshing to find an artist who's almost speechless when the time comes to discuss her craft. At first, it was a shock that Miranda Richardson, 1995 Oscar nominee for Best...
thursday march 9 In the Land of the Deaf: A recent Spy magazine essay pinpointed with deadly accuracy the career rewards many Hollywood actors and actresses reap when they portray a character with a physical impairment. While it seems there aren't enough such roles to go around for performers eager...
The restaurant with the romantic reputation has become even more so. St. Martins is one of the few late-night places that lets you meet the morning in sophisticated style. In addition to the selections from their regular menu available from 10 p.m. till 1:30 a.m., the kitchen is now offering...
Every Tuesday evening, several hundred profoundly disaffected citizens gather in the ballroom of a hotel near Dallas Love Field. Tax protesters, survivalists, anarchists, conspiracy nuts, and Biblical literalists, they are drawn together by a shared conviction. Some force beyond the Ramada lights--the government, bankers, Jews, maybe all three--is relentlessly closing...
If you've got a smooth, north-south stretch of two-lane blacktop in your neighborhood, you might want to enter it in the race to be the official "NAFTA Highway." You'll join a crowded contest to be the road that will carry billions of dollars worth of goods between Mexico, the United...
Death sentence Continuing in its tradition of giving its readers a twisted version of reality, the Star-Telegram did what not even Judge Lance Ito would dare try--it fired a jury. In this case, it was the celebrated Arlington 10, the group of "ordinary citizens" that the S-T had impaneled to...
Ware must go I want to commend the Dallas Observer and Laura Miller for the excellent coverage on this arena outrage ["Arena stonewalling," February 23] for which the taxpayers are being asked to subsidize the very rich trio of Ray Hunt, Don Carter, and Norm Green. There is no way...
Wheeee! In the mad, mad, mad, mad world of Nootsville, we're coming right up on a hairpin turn at 90 mph. No joke--a total 180 in the middle of the road at high speed, such high speed that no one seems to have taken the time to consider just what...
The truth awaits Channel 8's report on its stormy undercover foray into Sunset High School has been pushed back another week. Station news director John Miller told BeloWatch on Friday that Valeri Williams' story about security in the Dallas public school--originally scheduled for last week--has been slowed by "the editorial...
Therman Nobles wanted to go home. Instead, he was sitting in the underground parking garage at Dallas City Hall, behind the wheel of tire truck No. 901020, with the engine idling noisily. He sat with his arms cradled around the steering wheel, staring at a set of fire-engine red doors...
Theatre Three producer and director Jac Alder owes Jason Drummond a favor. It seems the young SMU student told Alder to check out the musical release of an unknown comedy, Lucky Stiff. Alder not only bought the music, he staged the play. And it will probably turn out to be...
Made in USA Sonic Youth Rhino Records Nice Ass Free Kitten Kill Rock Stars In the end, there isn't much to get with Sonic Youth. It's noise signifying noise, the songs an almost accidental result of what happens when you put guitars, bass, drums, and vocals in the same studio...
In the grand scheme of things, Negativland exists on the fringes of the fringes, out where the air is thin and the mainstream does not venture. For more than a decade, they have perfected the art of sampling, splicing together any sound they could snatch from the ether--pieces of music...
I have seen the future of local music, and its name is stupid. Slobberbone they call themselves, and it may be the worst name for the best young band to emerge from this town (Denton, actually, but I'll claim 'em) in a very long time. When they performed at Trees...
Soul power The CD booklet accompanying Digable Planets' late 1994 release, Blowout Comb, reads almost like a pamphlet you might be handed at a political rally, each page covered in messages and symbols and slogans. A prisoner from the California state penitentiary sends his "message from the belly" (as in,...
