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Yearly Archives: 2006

Getting Older, Cooler, and Hotter

For some folks, the big 5-0 is tragic. (Don't they know that 50 is the new, um, 45?!) For local country-western singer-songwriter Bodie Powell, those...

Body Double

Only recently has the word “prestigious” come to mean “acclaimed” or “renowned.” The Prestige wastes no time explaining the word’s earlier meaning, whence comes...

Auctioning Off a Dream

Furniture movers were supposed to show up on a recent morning and haul off Lynda Farr Arnold’s remaining possessions, but the guys never arrived....

Great ‘Beauty’

Texas Ballet Theater takes a giant leap into the classics with four performances of Tchaikovsky’s colossal Sleeping Beauty this weekend in Bass Performance Hall....

Casual, Classic

The newly opened Valentina’s Grill is the rebirth of Joe’s Italian Restaurant with the same owner, Laurie Cinecio, and chef, Gjergj Delia, serving up,...

Darling New Neighbors

Listening to music is usually a subjective experience, but certain rules and boundaries apply to performing it. Songwriting is not for the weak of...

Broken Social Scene

Broken Social Scene creates propulsive, dreamy, raw experimental rock, and just happens to have 10 band members. The Canadian collective’s most recent, eponymous full-length...

Body Double

Only recently has the word “prestigious” come to mean “acclaimed” or “renowned.” The Prestige wastes no time explaining the word’s earlier meaning, whence comes...

If I Were a Queen

Sofia Coppola’s third film, Marie Antoinette comes trailing bad buzz from Cannes this past summer, where a largely French crowd greeted it with boos...

La Onda del Sur

Looks like Salvadoran cuisine is the new black - at least for Chow, Baby, who loved everything about La Campiña Salvadoreña (1115 E. Pioneer...