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The Ten Greatest Texas Punk Bands

With D.R.I. coming to Trees last night, we at DC9 thought it might be opportune to look at some of the legendary punk bands that have claimed Texas as their home. These days, D.R.I. is better known as a metal act, but when they began life way back in 1982, Kurt Brecht and crew were a classic hardcor ... More >>

Stuck at DFW? Bummer. Here Are Your Eight Best Bar and Bites Options

Total bummer about American Airline's computer glitch out at D/FW Airport. The bad news is your stuck in the awkward space between nowhere and home (or, even worse, vacation!). The good news is, you have some food and beverage options to pass the time. Funny thing about the airport bubble, it's sort ... More >>

Why Did Chris Kyle Call Himself an "American Sniper," and Why Were We Cool With It?

The killing Saturday of former Navy Seal Chris Kyle at a gun range near Fort Worth prompted a call to my office phone from a retired Dallas police officer. He was upset by use of the word "sniper" to describe Kyle's specialty as a soldier, pointing out that "sniper" was never used to describe Americ ... More >>

Gangster Squad's Cop-Turned-Screenwriter Faces the Thin Blue Line Edit

We White Folks Are Apparently Very Bummed Out About No Longer Being America's Majority

Damn. Now I'm all in a twist. There are three separate stories in The New York Times today dealing directly or indirectly with my people. White people. I think I need some kind of a do-over on that whole "my people" question. Let me explain. First there's a story quoting Census officials saying tha ... More >>

Price is Wrong

How John Wiley Price spun money he didn't have into real estate gold.

The Divide: Nuclear Meltdown

Movie viewers will envy the dead in this post-apocalyptic nightmare.

Korean Shamrock Owner Accused of Racism Could Improve His Luck by Talking

​Still can't get past the lawyer for the owner of the boycotted Shamrock gas station I wrote about yesterday. Busy. Says he'll call me back later. I called him this morning to say I still need to hear the owner's side. Here's my problem. Yesterday the lawyer wouldn't or could not get the owne ... More >>

Whitt's End: 6.17.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Jason Terry's voice is still hoarse from all the partying and cigars, but yet we're already peeking at 2012. Problem: The Mavs aren't a team built for the future, but rather the here-'n-now ... More >>

Yvonne Craig on Long, Strange Journey From Oak Cliff to the Ballet Russe to the Batcave

​Should you need me 'round 3 today I'll be moderating a Q&A at the Plano Centre with Nichelle Nichols, former singer with the Duke Ellington Band, star of the James Baldwin play Blues for Mister Charlie and -- oh, right -- Star Trek's original Lt. Uhura. Nichols is here for that Sci-Fi Expo ce ... More >>

Cowboy Down: Murdered Southern Arizona Rancher Rob Krentz's Family Talk About His Life and Death

Why Do Arizonans Hate Mexicans So Much?

Bang, Bang, He's Dead

Looks Like Hector's Naughty Chef May Make It to Television After All

Blythe Beck It's been well over a year since Blythe Beck, executive chef at Hector's on Henderson, made mention of The Naughty Chef, a proposed TV series featuring Beck as, well, the naughty chef. But today, an update: NBC Universal-owned Oxygen -- home to such shows as Deion & Pilar: Prime Time ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”

Miracle at Santa Anna

No matter the runtime and budget, Spike Lee's World War II drama is an epic bore

Empire Strikes Back

Mongol paints a historically hazy but kick-ass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan

AFI Dallas: Visiting With The Visitor

Will Jason Kidd's Return to Dallas Beget Utopia or Armageddon?

Manolo Blahnik's Feet Hurt

Mighty Heart, Mightier Spotlight

Angelina Jolie kidnaps Daniel Pearl's movie

Our top DVD picks for the week of June 12

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 8

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 30

Scared Stiff

Wayne Kramer's latest casts a Paul over the proceedings

Messin' With Texas

The Alamo gets what it always needed--a happy ending!

Bush Comes to Shove

Like America's current leaders, Viggo and Hidalgo try to "enlighten" the Arabs with Western justice

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Patriot Acts

Three actors, two hours, 700 years of old jokes in Complete History of America (abridged)

Hell on Earth

In the first battle of the Vietnam War, they were Soldiers and then some

Rich Man, Poor Man

Dallas architect Tom Stanley crafted buildings that endure on city skylines across the country, but his fortune and family wouldn't survive their own shaky foundations

Southern Fried

Those wacky Southern women return--again--in the trite Impossible Marriage

Enter the drag

Shanghai Noon goes way out West, but not far enough

Southern cross

Gothic, God, and the working class meet in Buck-Nekkid

Short takes

The Prozac don

The boss of movie bosses skewers himself in the hit-and-miss Analyze This

Poor man's prime

Dunston's smokes out affordable steak

Your fiends and neighbors

Clay Pigeons pokes and pries at country discomforts

Smoke gets in your eyes

Smoke Signals drifts away into a haze of ham-fisted storytelling

Boonies kitsch

Theme-soaked La Hacienda Ranch is worth the drive to Frisco

Letters

Might vs. right

Boys and their toys take charge in Courage Under Fire and Independence Day

Revenge of the bourgeoisie

DTC's ambitious Sternheim Project roasts the rise of the middle class

Strike up the band

The Capitol's American melting-pot menu makes it cool to be a patriot

Super fry

Babe's chicken is as good as you'll get 'round these parts

Love letters

Pauline Kael's For Keeps is a diary of a strange and passionate affair with movies

Death by metaphor

Battery increases the current until the audience begs for mercy.

Fly paper

As a treatise on sexual harassment, Disclosure falls flat. But as entertainment, it's hard to resist

Events for the week