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Why do Americans Whine So Much?

Citing Carlos DeLuna, Protesters Call on Dallas DA Craig Watkins to Abandon the Death Penalty

Rick Halperin, head of SMU's human rights program, has been saying for years what became nationally recognized this week: "Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man," to borrow a headline from the Atlantic. Halperin has spent his career doing the academic equivalent of banging his head against ... More >>

Dallas ISD Names Mike Miles, Reform-Minded Military Vet from Colorado, Lone Finalist for Superintendent Job

Prediction: The next few weeks may not be a ton of fun for Mike Miles. Miles, the superintendent of Harrison School District Two in Colorado Springs, was named the lone finalist for the top job in Dallas ISD at a meeting this afternoon. The board, which voted 8-0 (with Carla Ranger abstaining), now ... More >>

Healthy Families Eat Together (Or Stab Each Other With Forks)

The classic American family dinner: no cell phones, texts, tweets or tubes. Just smiling kids dreaming of the day they can blow this boring scene.​If you're serious about keeping your kids off dope and out of liquor cabinets, researchers at Columbia University's National Center on Addiction an ... More >>

Online Courses, DISD's "Vision for the Future"

​Speaking of the Dallas Independent School District ...This morning, The New York Times -- or, more to the point, The Times via its new-found relationship with the Texas Tribune and, in this instance, a partnership with the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Columbia University -- l ... More >>

Inside Job: This Meltdown Memoir Will Make You Seethe.

Take a Little Piece of My Heart: Why Mexicans Love Body Parts.

Vampire Weekend Doesn't Suck.

Willa Ford to Make Her Triumphant (Far as You Know) Return to the Movies

Patrick MichelsMike Modano and Willa Ford at the Dallas Observer Music Awards back in July​Speaking of the local film business ...Willa Ford's an awful nice lady from my limited experience spent with Mr. and Mrs. Mike Modano, but I've seen little of her film work; this, for example, is all I've se ... More >>

Civil Offense

Giraldo breaks from trials to stand up

"Fathead" Newman's Granddaughter Reveals Plans for Two Dallas Memorials

Talibah Newman, David "Fathead" Newman's granddaughter, tells Unfair Park today that on Sunday at 2 p.m., there will be a memorial service in honor of the saxophone great, who died Tuesday night in New York following a long bout with pancreatic cancer. The service will take place at the Warren Avenu ... More >>

Praise Be, SMU Gets a Grant to Restore Historic Blood of Jesus

The announcement came three weeks ago, but I just noticed on SMU's Web site that National Film Preservation Foundation has given the university a generous donation so it can do the Lord's work -- in this case, preserving a pioneer filmmaker's work about, well, the Lord. The G. William Jones Film and ... More >>

Man of Steel Insists He's Not About to Fly Outta Dallas for NY Opera Gig

Whitney Lawson George Steel George Steel just got here -- if that. Just four months ago, he was introduced as the general director of the Dallas Opera, following his celebrated tenure as executive director of the Miller Theater at Columbia University. But long before his new home at the Winspear O ... More >>

Polygamy and Me

Seven months have passed since the polygamist raid in Eldorado, but for one mainstream Mormon, the effects linger

Trinity River Audubon Center Is For the ... Well, They've Got Birds There

New York Mag's Just Jealous Dallas Got George Steel and They Don't

Remembering Jerry Wexler

A friend recalls the legendary record man

Entering on a High Note

Dallas Opera sings a different tune with an innovative new leader and a home away from Fair Park

Dallas Opera's New Man of Steel Talks With His Mouth Full

Dallas Opera's Very Hip, Very Happening New Man of Steel

Vampire Weekend Backlash at SXSW

The hype factory had everyone ready to hate on Vampire Weekend before the band arrived in Austin

First Place for The Second Line

To Vampire Weekend Or Not To Vampire Weekend?

Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend (XL)

Ask A Mexican

KTVT-Channel 11's News Director Is Out on His Regent Ducas

Playing Rough

Party games push the fear factor in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Don't Tell Glenna Whitley You're a Vet if You Ain't. Because She Knows. We're Lookin' at You, Brian Dennehy.

Going Too Far

Excessive mileage takes its toll on studio whizzes the Walkmen, so how come their new album is their best yet?

Death Warmed Over Again

A family's crisis feels a bit too familiar in Imaginary Heroes

Full of Grace

Laura Linney shines as a divorcée who goes for Topher

City Limits

If you're young and female, New York Minute is your movie

Long Live the Poison Pen

There are two kinds of critics: those who criticize, and those who don't

Dream Weaver

Spider-Man slings pop mythology for the masses

Spirits in the Sky

Jason Pierce is still floating in space, but he's got his feet in the orchestra pit

Terrorist's Cookbook

A manual tells terrorist recruits how--and why--they should wage unholy war

Scene, Heard

Chomsky unveils its latest efforts

His good name

Former FBI honcho Oliver "Buck" Revell fights against conspiracy buffs who accuse him of mass murder

American bye

Don McLean's career didn't end with "American Pie" -- or did it?

Home movies

Deep Ellum Film Festival debuts

Look back in confusion

Buzz remembers the year that might have been and proves that not only the winners write the history

Wizard of os

Candidate R.D. Rucker explains the joy of sex and the problems of an elected judiciary

Late in the evening

The legacy of Simon and Garfunkel still shines true

Oh, Mother

The Daytrippers loosens the family ties that bind

Events for the week

Secondhand Rose

Streisand's fun-house Mirror warps her strengths into rare weaknesses

Observer names Lyons editor

Half there

Circle Theatre's Better Half Dead fails to convince

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Events for the week