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The Finalist for UT-Arlington's Presidency Faces Scrutiny for How He Handled an Alabama Massacre

On Valentine's Day, the University of Texas System regents named University of Alabama-Huntsville Provost Vistasp M. Karbhari as the lone finalist to succeed James Spanioloas as president of the University of Texas at Arlington. Less than a week later, though, regents have decided their decision ne ... More >>

The Proposed Future of UNT-Dallas: More Online Classes, Less Research

Tomorrow afternoon, Mark Cuban, Mayor Mike Rawlings, and Harvard Business School guru Clayton Christensen will walk into a room with a dozen other civic, academic, and business leaders for the sixth and final closed-door meeting of the 21st Century Commission to finalize their vision for the future ... More >>

Rambo Romney Should Call for Restarting the Draft

Make us believe you mean it, Mitt. Bring back the draft. For the better part of a week, I have been reading all these thinly veiled suggestions by Mitt Romney that President Obama isn't enough of an ass-kicker in the Middle East. His aides have been telling reporters that a President Romney right n ... More >>

Ten Things We Learned from Last Night's Dallas ISD Forum at the Kessler Theater

In the spirit of last night's D-slash-TED-slash-SMU DISD Education Forum at the Kessler -- which asked each school board candidate one and only one randomly drawn question -- here are some rapid-fire observations from an evening that, while admirably efficient, was over not long after it started. 1 ... More >>

Wassail out the Wahzoo with Three Holiday Plays

A Christmas Carol, Greetings! and Dick Whittington deck the stages.

Last Night: Incubus and Young the Giant at Gexa Energy Pavilion

Incubus, Young the Giant Gexa Energy Pavillion September 29, 2011 Better than: sitting at home playing a bongo shirtless... by myself.Everyone driving up to Gexa Energy Pavillion last night was greeted with an impressive light show. Not only was the iconic Texas Star Ferris Wheel illumina ... More >>

Praying to JC for JWP: Attending the South Dallas Rally for John Wiley Price

Photo by Brantley Hargrove​At Kirkwood Temple C.M.E. Church last night, 120 or so congregants petitioned an Ecclesiastical Court on behalf of a decidedly earthly cause: that of embattledDallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, the target of a sweeping FBI probe. Matrons fanned themselves ... More >>

In Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Bridesmaids From Hell Heat Up Contemporary Theatre

Plus: A dead soldier brings Second Thought to life in Dying City.

Sue Sue, Sue-dio: The Ten Most Interesting Lawsuits In Music History

​The finger-pointing game has begun in the wake of this year's Electric Daisy Carnival.  Although any legal repercussions in regards to the festival that took place this weekend have yet to be determined, we're keeping our eye on the whole thing -- mostly because, let's face it, music and leg ... More >>

Coalition Pushes For Nolan Estes's (Temporary) Return as Dallas ISD Superintendent

Nolan Estes​As Patrick noted Tuesday, the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees has narrowed down its short list of interim superintendents and hopes to name Michael Hinojosa's temporary replacement by no later than Monday. And while newly installed board president Lew Blackburn w ... More >>

Ed Okpa on the Trinity River Toll Road And Why He's Never Mentioned in The Dallas News

Edward Okpa​Since last week's piece in The News about David Kunkle, Ron Natinsky and Mike Rawlings's thoughts on the Trinity River toll road is behind the pay levee, allow me to summarize: Natinsky's still very much for it; Kunkle's ain't at all interested, and Rawlings is taking the ol' wait-n-se ... More >>

The City Still Wants to Widen Old Central Downtown. But Unhappy Property Owners Say the Price is Very, Very Wrong.

The city's plans to expand César Chávez Boulevard still call for the demoltion of 2226 Elm, which is one of the oldest buildings in downtown.​No doubt you've forgotten all about plans to widen and two-way The Expressway Formerly Known As Central downtown -- a plan that's been around since '05 b ... More >>

Mexican Macro-economics

Barack Obama and Our Most Athletic Presidents

​Wasn't exactly Cortland Finnegan vs. Andre Johnson, but The Prez got into a scuffle last Friday. On the basketball court. With an elbow. Barack Obama received 12 stitches to a cut on his lower lip after an errant elbow during a pick-up game by Rey Decerega, the Director of Programs for ... More >>

Inside Job: This Meltdown Memoir Will Make You Seethe.

It'll Never Fly Wilbur, Or How Leppert's Airport Money Grab Was Shot Down.

The New Dean at SMU's Dedman College Is Also the World's Foremost Godzilla Expert

​A Friend of Unfair Park points out that William M. Tsutsui started his new gig yesterday as the dean of SMU's Dedman College. OK, then.  But then I read the release and discovered that the Princeton-, Harvard- and Oxford-educated Tsutsui is "a specialist in the business, environmental and cu ... More >>

Manufacturing Dissent: Bush Institute's Cyber Dissidents Panel Gathers Friends of the Freedom Agenda

Patrick MichelsPresident Bush opens his institute's Conference on Cyber Dissidents: "The Bush Institute is going to be involved in the freedom movement."​The George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University won't be breaking ground till November, but its policy arm, the Bush Ins ... More >>

Teaching DISD Students About Money -- How to Keep It, and How to Make It

​Over the weekend, New York Times personal finance writer Tara Siegel Bernard visited with Sunset High School's Mathew Frost, an 11th and 12th grade American history and economics teacher giving his students a real-world look at how to balance the books. In other words, he's teaching to the actual ... More >>

From the Curriculum: Some Higher-Ed News and Notes from SMU and UT-Dallas

SMU will host a conversation with the director of the Academy Award-winning doc The Times of Harvey Milk next week at the Angelika​SMU sends words of a media and human rights symposium set for next week -- which includes a tribute to director Rob Epstein, two-time Oscar winner for co-directing the ... More >>

More Arguing Over Viability of Hypothetical Dallas-Houston High-Speed Rail Link

​Earlier this month, Harvard economic pro Ed Glaeser wrote a series of pieces for The New York Times's Economix blog in which he argued that a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston wouldn't be economically viable. (Keep in mind, this was all hypothetical, since the Obama administration's ... More >>

Food For Thought 6.8.09

When Bliss Raw Bar opened last month, it seemed to confirm that raw food had entered swirl of food trends considered acceptable by the mainstream. Although misinformation of the "anything raw is better than anything cooked" sort still exists, most raw foodists have settled on the idea that a diet h ... More >>

Bishop Allen, MT. ST. Helens, Vietnam Band, Singsing & Marmar

Wednesday, March 18, at House of Blues' Pontiac Garage

Stay Hungry, Live Longer: the Science Behind the Calorie Restriction Diet

An SMU biologist thinks the secret to the fountain of youth may be found by putting fruit flies on a diet.

The Torturer Talks

Chatting with Hostel Part II writer-director Eli Roth

Woe Is They

Conservatives need not apply

You, Snooze. We Lose.

Laura Miller and Alex Krieger Are "Astounded" and "Outraged."

Angela Hunt Proves It: The Mayor's Been Lying About the Trinity River Toll Road

The Man Who Helped T.I. Save Energy, Water...and A Lot of Money

Eye Candy

It's overpriced, it's gaudy and we have to put it on a credit card. Yep, that Calatrava bridge says Dallas all over.

Read This Post or We'll Shoot Your Dog

Jesus Wept

Anybody got a good anagram for "crap"?

¡Ask a Mexican!

Rivers Runs Dry

Weezer's sullen front man trades good songwriting for meditation. Such a pity, indeed.

Cell-bloc Voting

A new effort tries to unlock former felons' votes

Drop In

Come in, turn out, drop by for Timothy Leary's art

One Weak Notice

Only die-hard fans of Bullock and Grant need see this predictable comedy

Run, Domingo, Run

Looks like Domingo Garcia will coming to a ballot near you.

Bottle Rockets Downtown

A lawsuit complaining about election fraud could bust things wide open

Searching for the Great Man

Behind the important collector Paul Guillaume stood a very ordinary woman

American psycho-babble

From beerhalls to boardrooms, personality tests claim to be a window into the soul. Are they a valid tool, or just psychological window dressing?

Full o' bull

III Forks knows what makes a steakhouse great

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Soft touch in the head

Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting is all heart, no brain

Trendy health

The booming field of alternative medicine goes under the microscope in Dallas

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