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Wu-Tang Clan, Empire of the Sun and More to Play Breakaway Music Festival in Dallas

There's a new music festival coming to Dallas. Well, Frisco, technically: It wil held at FC Dallas Stadium. But there are plenty of reasons to make the trip for the inaugural Breakaway Music Festival. The lineup, which hasn't been finalized, includes Empire of the Sun, Wu-Tang Clan, Big Gigantic, Ju ... More >>

Miller Lite Intern Opportunity For Those Willing to Travel Cross-Country in a RV and Party With Stars

It's time to do some spring-cleaning on the old resume. Wipe the dust off with the sleeve of your shirt and maybe a little spit-shine for good measure, because Miller Lite has a new internship available that will catapult you up the corporate ladder. No, you won't bring home the bacon, but you will ... More >>

Mark Cuban: Of Course We're Better Off Than Four Years Ago, So Stop Asking

The Democrats are gathered in Charlotte for the quadrennial circle jerk in which they deliver bombastic speeches and anoint their presidential nominee. Last week, the Republicans did the same in Tampa. These respective echo chambers inevitably lead to an increase in the type of one-sided political b ... More >>

Let the Democrats Remember: The Wealth of the Nation Doesn't Come from Yachts

Pins and needles, waiting for the Democrats to open in Charlotte. I am so worried the Obama campaign might stumble on an editorial from The Dallas Morning News and actually read it. Well, not that worried. That would take a lot of stumbling. But what a shame if they did take the News' consistent ed ... More >>

Tom Morningstar Quit Music to Become Painter, but He Still Loves The Dallas Music Scene

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we get to know the people more behind the scenes in Dallas/Fort Worth local music. ​Tom Morningstar's art can be seen adorning the walls of a few Gaston-area spots of Deep Ellum: The Elbow Room, Big-E's Convenience Store (killers tacos there, by the way), ... More >>

Fastest Show on Earth

NASCAR's Ringmaster

More Layoffs at Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Print Media Rally Slow to Start

​As The Buggles famously sang in 1979, video, in fact, killed the radio star. As The Fort Worth Star-Telegram continues to share content with Dallas' Only Daily and slice positions and send talented writers out into the cold in 2011, it's apparent that the Internet is choking out newspap ... More >>

Q&A: Before Her Denton Show, Charlotte Kemp Muhl Talks Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Film Influences and Sean Lennon

Sean Lennon with Charlotte​Charlotte Kemp Muhl hasn't always been a musician. She's pretty new to it, in fact. For most of her career she's modeled, appearing on the cover of Harper's, and worked for Tommy Hilfiger, D&G, Maybelline and others. Until recently, the extent of her musical endeavo ... More >>

Sex And The City 2 Struggles Against Nature to Stay Forever Young.

On The Catwalk, Yeah

BCS Playoffs: Round 1

​With our alternative to the BCS offered up, nothing else to do than to let it play out. Food expert/football junkie Dave Faries, take it away ... Given its record in other matters, it's unlikely Congress can solve the BCS mess and put in place a viable playoff system. And it's very clear the ... More >>

The Princess and the Frog

Spider Meet Pigs

Busdriver, Abstract Rude

Friday, September 25, at The Cavern

Yeah, But What If Baseball Went To The European Football Table?

I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we're all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August ... September ... maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top ... More >>

Web On Strings

I Was A Teenage Sous Chef...

Yeah, another competition announcement.No one ever said "make 'em be sauciers and line cooks and such." Still, the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Dallas is encouraging mamas of high school seniors to push their kids into the service industry...Actually, the institute hosts a r ... More >>

In Dallas, Home Prices Are Straight Outta the Summer of 2005

The graphic accompanying the release of the October 2008 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices looks like a country in free fall -- home prices down some 20 percent from this time last year, sweet fancy Moses. Of course, locals will take cozy comfort in this paragraph from the morning news release ... More >>

Houston, We Have a ... Three-Game Winning Streak?

5-7 is looking pretty good right about now, huh? When you get a break from resurrecting the Cowboys, take a minute to not bury the Mavericks either. On the brink of a 2-8 start Monday night, the Mavericks last night beat the Rockets in Houston for their third consecutive victory. Even bett ... More >>

Mi Corazón

Big-Screen Sex and the City Is A Poor-Man's Knockoff

The Book on the NFC East

Hand Jive

A stumper with Risk Theatre's All of the Above; T3's Mack & Mabel sends bad vibrations

Rick's Cabaret Coming to Town. Sorry, Key Club.

Whip Smart

The new Castlevania lives up to its legacy

Feel My Rage

Doug Wright channeled his anger from growing up gay in the Park Cities into bizarre and brilliant plays

Lost in Translation

Ski Dallas!

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Little Orphan Trannies

Big hand for Quad C's puppet Rocky Horror; DTC marries into the myths of Wife

The Luce-y Show

With The Women, CTD tests the Clare-voyance of a 1930s single-sex comedy

Some Pig

Cute hams in DCT's Charlotte's Web; one actor hogs the stage in Shakespeare's Keeper

Friends in Need

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Whatever Happened to Lady Jane?

Fonda's humiliation is only one reason this Monster is such a dog

Seductress of the Saints

Inside the mind--and suitcase--of Sandra Bridewell, religious charlatan

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Count Your Blessings

Forgive the playoff loss, for the 'Boys have come a long way

Ad-libbing on Tokyo Time

Sofia Coppola and her cast get Lost in Translation

French Fried

My Wife makes the woes of a superstar's husband seem not so funny

Catch Those Tigers

Years of little or no regulation have made Texas a place where big cats prowl--and sometimes kill

Spy, But Why?

Charlotte Gray went to war, and all she came back with was this lousy movie

Happy Nappy Girls

Getting their hair straightened for the first time was a rite of passage. But a group of Dallas women has found freedom in reclaiming nappier days.

Gold Plated

Merchant and Ivory give us a beautiful but emotionally hollow tale

Reel People

It's about the artists, not the stars at the 31st annual USA Film Festival

Flying Blind

Airy dialogue twists Tongue of a Bird

Nerds of a Feather

In the competitive world of pigeon racers, it takes one fast bird to deliver the coo de grace

Buzz

Letters

Charlotte's Web

At the Routh Street Women's Clinic, Charlotte Taft created a controversial feminist enclave and waged war with anti-abortion zealots. Then she questioned her movement's gospeland it all fell apart