Ivy League

At Lyric Stage, a Revival of Too Many Girls Worthy of the Show’s Loveable Lineage

Tina Fey's Great, but Admission Doesn't Have the Marks

Flower Mound Montessori School Says Rival Montessori School Stole Its Teachers, Students

The world of early childhood education is cutthroat. There are only so many hyper-concerned parents willing to shell out public college tuition for their 3-year-olds to get the type of preschool education that will propel them into the Ivy League. Used to be, you could slap the name "Montessori" on ... More >>

Michael Sorrell: The Prez

In this week's Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area's most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Paul Quinn College in South Dallas is empty, most of its students home for the summer, but ... More >>

Plano Bomb Suspect Guilty of Being a Terrible Writer

This morning, the DMN gives us more details (paywall) about the guy who allegedly tried to blow up a gas main in Plano but was instead taken to the hospital with shrapnel wounds. He now has a name, Anson Chi, a past conviction on a concealed weapon charge in California, and a bunch of neighbors who ... More >>

Cole Porter: Badass

Sadness, Loss as Bonham Elementary School Prepares for Consolidation

Today is the last Friday of the school year for Dallas ISD schools. For 11 schools in the city slated for consolidation after a school board vote, like the 89-year-old James B. Bonham Elementary, this Friday holds even more significance. Next week, after the students leave, the teachers will pack al ... More >>

GIVE UP PUNS FOR LIN-T

Moneyball: The Formulas Work

Baseball story blends stats with heart.

Rick Perry's Not Always Big on Science, But He Did Use It To Win Some Elections

​Even Rick Perry doesn't hate science all the time. His uneasy relationship with evolution and global warming notwithstanding, the Man Beneath the Hair understands that sometimes all that brainy shit with the white coats and clipboards can actually benefit him. And that's exactly what happened in ... More >>

Football's Jason Garrett is a Football Coach Who Coaches Football

And that's about all he wants you to know.

DISD Super Michael Hinojosa Officially Quits

​Leslie's at the Dallas Independent School District board meeting at this very moment, where the trustees will more than likely announce who will temporarily take Michael Hinojosa's place now that he's off to become a Georgia peach. Shocking -- they're in closed session. Ah, but speaking of: The d ... More >>

The Beaver: Mad, but not Madcap

This time Mel Gibson just plays crazy.

Can Dallas Cowboys fans forgive new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan for the sins of his father?

Inside Job: This Meltdown Memoir Will Make You Seethe.

A Talk with Kyle Rote Jr.: Dallas Tornado, Hall of Famer, Soccer "Missionary"

NASL Jerseys​Kyle Rote Jr. -- who, it was announced this week, is finally being inducted into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame as a "veteran," no kidding -- did indeed call me back earlier this week. Said I'd have better luck trying him later -- meaning, oh, 'round 11 p.m. or midnight, he'd b ... More >>

Fallen Leaves: Dallas Was Among Handful of Cities Getting New Edward Norton Movie This Week. Alas, Not No More.

​In the paper version of Unfair Park that hits stands today, you'll find a review of Leaves of Grass, written and directed by Oklahoma native Tim Blake Nelson and starring, in dual roles, Edward Norton. I liked it much more than our Jim Hoberman, who reviewed the movie about an Ivy League prof (No ... More >>

In One Day, Dallas Loses Two Cultural Figures: Kim Dawson and Ted Pillsbury

Mark GrahamTed Pillsbury in a 2006 photo taken when he went to work for Heritage Auction Gallery​Late last night word spread that Kim Dawson, the model-turned-modeling-agency brand name, died at the age of 85 after a long battle with Alzheimer's. Dawson, of course, is credited with having discover ... More >>

Winspear's August:Ossage County And Watertower's Laughter On The 23rd Floor Find Fun And Fury In Tempers Run Amok

Q&A: The Low Anthem's Jeff Prystowsky Talks Darwin, Fleet Foxes and Red Sox. (Also: Another Giveaway!)

The Low Anthem​Hailing from Providence, Rhode Island, the three members of The Low Anthem are all Ivy League-educated, classically trained musicians whose band is receiving a healthy critical and commercial buzz. The band's sophomore release, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, has drawn praise for its hig ... More >>

Harvard Beats Yale This sports doc definitely better than kissing your sister

What It Was Like: The Wheel, The Donkeys, Bishop Allen, Hymns, Daniel Johnston, The Wrens, Avett Brothers, Passion Pit

Pete Freedman Passion Pit takes to the tent at the Radio Room's patio.Spent the whole day camped out at the Radio Room for the great lineup booked to play the Brooklyn Vegan/Paste party there. Well worth it, too.  Act: The Wheel, a bare-bones folk duo from Denver.Where: Radio RoomWhat ... More >>

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

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

Girls on Girls: The Hottest Female Athletes According to Females

Okay, let's try something different. Something titillating. Since Observer staff writers Merritt Martin and Megan Feldman almost never get in a cat fight that spills over into the mud-wrestling pit, they instead want to entertain us visually-stimulated, testosterone-saturated dorks with their ... More >>

Dude Food: Cousin's Barbeque

Cousin's Barbeque Various locations I don't think a Texas barbecue place does itself any favors by boasting that it's a favorite of an Ivy League, blue-blood Yankee, but Cousin's Web site brags about serving George H.W. Bush. Had I known that before trying the food, I'd have been a tad skeptical. ... More >>

Grapes of Wrath

Oscar-Starved

See There, The Grass Ain’t Always Greener

Bugaboo Confidential

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

Red Bull

Familiar freckled face will give Cowboys offense wiiiings

Dem Apples Don't Fall Far From the Tree

Dining Tyranny

Are we choosing ourselves crazy?

Refuse to Lose

Musician Christy Darlington could have—and perhaps should have—quit years ago. So why didn't he?

Riding Coattails

Plus: The Snub; A Dog’s Life

Bishop Allen and The Deathray Davies

March 22

It's De-Lovely

With Anything Goes, Theatre Arlington makes a Cole Porter musical classic easy to love

The Back Page

I would tell you about the Big 12 tourney, but my stomach hurts

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

Burr, Not Chilly

With the rich, says Igby, always a little pity

Visions of Grandeur

Inside the Beautiful Mind of John Nash lies madness and magic

Terrorist's Cookbook

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

Legally Bland

Reese Witherspoon's talents are wasted in the muddy, unoriginal Legally Blonde

Frank Black and the Catholics

Dog in the Sand (What Are Records?)

Opposite of good

Fox tries to reheat a summer series

The Wrong Man

The case against Nickiolas Jolly fell apart within a month of his arrest for capital murder. But keeping an innocent man in jail 14 months is no big deal in this town.

Leaves us dry

Robert Christgau's collected essays read like the day the music died

Not bad enough

Deceiver suffersfrom blurred vision

Flunking out

187 is a blackboard bungle

Events for the week

Events for the week