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Pentecostal Preacher Sherman Allen Turns Out to Be Reverend Spanky
The Fort Worth preacher is accused of beating, threatening and assaulting women for more than 20 years
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Obama and Me
It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial
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Texas' Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop
Harvesting peyote is legal for only three people, and all of them live in Texas
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Why is Hillary Neglecting Delegate-Rich Dallas County?
While Obama has events going on throughout the city, Clinton is nowhere to be found
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Obama and Me (62)
It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial
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Melodica Festival Self-Indulgent, But Still Positive for Dallas (51)
If a festival happens in Exposition Park and only the built-in crowd shows, does it make a sound?
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Ole Oops (58)
Popular prosperity preacher sues ABC and Trinity Foundation
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Pentecostal Preacher Sherman Allen Turns Out to Be Reverend Spanky (21)
The Fort Worth preacher is accused of beating, threatening and assaulting women for more than 20 years
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Why is Hillary Neglecting Delegate-Rich Dallas County? (18)
While Obama has events going on throughout the city, Clinton is nowhere to be found
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When Two Become One
Kamadeva and Psyche need some love
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Landscape Badass
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Red All Over
Eneroth brings Sweden stateside
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Ain't That America?
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From the Top
Stalk some art in Fair Park
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And This Glimpse of Jessica Simpson Will Not Cost You $75
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Meet the Woman Who Has Royally Pissed Off Tom Hicks
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Video: South San Gabriel at Granada Theater
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Over The Weekend: Centro-matic, All-Con, Texas Guitar Competition
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Good Friday: Centro-matic, Beach House, Pleasant Grove, Sean Kirkpatrick
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Like Ella, this one-woman biographical musical, directed by Phyllis Cicero, allows for lots of songs, interspersed with personal monologues about the men that got away. Dallas actress and cabaret diva M. Denise Lee may not look a lot like Billie Holiday, but she gets to the essence of the legendary singer from the first note of “Strange Fruit.” Set in 1959, the show takes the audience into a smoky Philly dive where Lady Day was slumming for drinks and tips. She’d lost her right to sing in swanky Manhattan clubs after a felony narcotics charge and was just months from losing her life to cirrhosis of the liver. (On her death bed, she was arrested again and died with a mere 70 cents in the bank.) Lee is as strong an actress as she is a singer, so she taps into Holiday’s weary sadness, particularly in the show’s haunting second act. Lee bends those notes in and out of the key, just like the lady with the gardenia in her hair. Great little show that showcases Lee’s splendid vocals.
Full review at: First Ladies of Jazz
Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.; Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. Starts: Feb. 7. Continues through Feb. 17, 2008
