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The Grapevine Legoland Booted a Mom and Her Son Over This Naked Tinker Bell Tattoo

A Royse City mother is claiming discrimination after being kicked out of the Grapevine Mills Mall Legoland for her body art, and she's using social media to win support from noted activists Travis Barker, Yelawolf and, of course, Busta Rhymes. As Mr. Rhymes would say, here's the scenario: On Sunday ... More >>

Kids Make LEGO Robots, Solve the World's Problems

LEGOs can be built, smashed and reconfigured in an unlimited amount of ways. Their creative potential is infinite, much like a child's imagination. When the two pair up on Saturday for the FIRST LEGO League robotics competition just imagine what they'll achieve. The students were given a goal: ident ... More >>

The Legoland of the South

LEGOs can be built, smashed and reconfigured in an unlimited amount of ways. Their creative potential is infinite, much like a child's imagination. When the two pair up on Saturday for the FIRST LEGO League robotics competition just imagine what they'll achieve. The students were given a goal: ident ... More >>

LEGO My Dallas-Fort Worth Landmarks

Photos by Danny Hurley​Yesterday, our Danny Hurley was among the media members granted sneak-peek access the Grapevine Mills LEGOLAND Discovery Center, which officially opens Wednesday. I'm not saying Danny's influenced by the work of a certain then-6-year-old photographer, but without a doubt the ... More >>

Sonofa ... DISD Says No School Friday

​I brought the boy into the office today. We had no choice -- even he was getting cabin fever, and better Unfair Park HQ than another day staring down his LEGOs. But now this from 3700 Ross:Breaking news: Dallas ISD schools will be closed on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. Administrative offices will be ope ... More >>

Remember When Borders Sold Books?

The Preston Royal Borders looks less like a bookstore than an art installation these days​I needed a book yesterday and happened to be driving by the Borders in Preston Royal, which did not have said book. Or many books, for that matter. There were, however, bins full of discounted tchotchkes, ais ... More >>

Dallas Observer Names Nine Dallas Artists as Finalists in Its First Annual Masterminds Award

The Preston Royal Borders looks less like a bookstore than an art installation these days​I needed a book yesterday and happened to be driving by the Borders in Preston Royal, which did not have said book. Or many books, for that matter. There were, however, bins full of discounted tchotchkes, ais ... More >>

Meet the Dallas Filmmakers, Musicians and Novelists In Need of a Kickstart

​Merritt was just on Kickstarter, funding a friend's project, when she decided to peek at the Dallasites in need of dough from the "crowdsourced fund-raising service." She forwarded along this most eclectic and interesting list, among 'em: "Batman Rebuilt" co-creator Caleb Christopher needs two gr ... More >>

Pard's Truth

​Merritt was just on Kickstarter, funding a friend's project, when she decided to peek at the Dallasites in need of dough from the "crowdsourced fund-raising service." She forwarded along this most eclectic and interesting list, among 'em: "Batman Rebuilt" co-creator Caleb Christopher needs two gr ... More >>

A New Model of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park ... This Time Done in LEGO! And: With Jedis!

Click to embiggen this model of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park​Joanna Singleton, who handles PR for the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, was kind enough to send us this photo of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park fabricated, as you can see, out of LEGO bricks. (I like it better than the actual thing myself.) ... More >>

Original Sin

Click to embiggen this model of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park​Joanna Singleton, who handles PR for the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, was kind enough to send us this photo of the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park fabricated, as you can see, out of LEGO bricks. (I like it better than the actual thing myself.) ... More >>

This Makes That Giant Dirk Nowitzki Bobblehead Doll Looks Positively Artsy

Danny Hurley​I see Clusterflock lifted one of Danny Hurley's picture from our Festival of Balloons slide show -- can't imagine why they chose this one. Oh, yes I can: "Dirk Nowitzki's balloon nose looks like male balloon genitalia. Thank you for providing tonight's nightmare." Poor Dirk. First thi ... More >>

A Glorypark-ing Garage. Two, Actually.

​Below you'll find the lawsuit an architectural firm and a construction company filed today against Tom Hicks, Steiner Associated and pretty much everyone in the upper management at the Texas Rangers over the so-very-dead Glorypark development, which was to devour 75 acres next to the Ballpark i ... More >>

What's On Your Christmas Wish List?

Hinty hint hint.​That question, of course, is a trick 'em, dick 'em way of telling you - psst! - here's what's on my list. What I don't want in my stocking this Christmas: Coal. A Snuggie. Tiger Woods' sloppy seconds. Swine Flu. Wade Phillips' resume. What has caught me eye this season - ot ... More >>

Can It

Hinty hint hint.​That question, of course, is a trick 'em, dick 'em way of telling you - psst! - here's what's on my list. What I don't want in my stocking this Christmas: Coal. A Snuggie. Tiger Woods' sloppy seconds. Swine Flu. Wade Phillips' resume. What has caught me eye this season - ot ... More >>

Putting On Yoda's Head They Are

Flickr user: Gadget VirtuosoDon't tell the 5-year-old living in the house, but we kinda forgot that over the weekend, they were building an 8-foot-tall Yoda at NorthPark Center in conjunction with the opening of the mall's LEGO store. Thankfully, "Gadget Virtuoso" was there to document the finish-up ... More >>

Today In Music News: No One Saw Notorious, U2 Streams Its New Single, LEGO Offers Mp3 Player...

Your daily dose of music news for Tuesday, January 20, 2009... Apparently the Notorious B.I.G. biopic wasn't the hit it was built up to be. Beat in the box office by a movie about a bumbling mall cop? Really? U2 is streaming its first single, "Get on Your Boots," from the forthcomi ... More >>

For that Special Someone on Your List, How About an AA Flight Simulator?

There's a small but interesting item of note on the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Facility Improvement Corporation Board's meeting agenda today -- and, right, whatever that is. Seems American Airlines is looking to unload one of its flight simulators. It's not for one of the big planes, th ... More >>

Go West

Kolaches and festivities reward a short drive

Blast Works Makes Blowing Stuff Up DIY-friendly

Kolaches and festivities reward a short drive

W.T. White Stats Teacher to Talk Up Video Games and Kids on NPR

Kolaches and festivities reward a short drive

The City Wants to Actually Own the Convention Center Hotel. Awesome.

Kolaches and festivities reward a short drive

Is Fort Worth-Based BNSF Trying to "Intimidate Its Critics"?

Kolaches and festivities reward a short drive

Goodbye Girl

Dallas, I love you, but I've found Austin

Sweet Salvation

Dallas, I love you, but I've found Austin

Nintendo Wizards

Senses are overloaded

at And/Or, the new gallery

on the block

Block by Block

It's hip to be square with Rusty Scruby and Janet Tyson

Gross Out

It's hip to be square with Rusty Scruby and Janet Tyson

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

It's hip to be square with Rusty Scruby and Janet Tyson

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

It's hip to be square with Rusty Scruby and Janet Tyson

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

It's hip to be square with Rusty Scruby and Janet Tyson

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

It's hip to be square with Rusty Scruby and Janet Tyson

Talkin' Trash

Earth Day needs schooling

Coming Down

A "routine" shuttle descent winds up stunning Space City

England's Dreaming

Get hooked on The Getaway

Crazy White Mother

From fake IDs to guns, Ecstasy and GHB, Doug Havard was one-stop shopping for Dallas' spoiled rich kids

The Dog Whisperer

Susan Blatz uses a kinder, gentler method to train dogs and the people who own them. Or is that the other way around?

Like, You Know

Floored offers a reminder that irony isn't just about bringing the funny

Machinations

The sun will explode in 5 billion years, and robots are humanity's best hope to escape. Three guys are working on a plan. In a garage. In Heath, Texas.

Head Aik

Hey, the mob's right: Troy is woozy and washed up--let's bring back Steve Pelluer!

No place like home

Thousands of Texans say they can do a better job teaching their children at home. But some local truant officers claim parents are using a massive loophole in Texas law to skip school altogether.

Glamour shot

Woody Allen dissects fame, art, and sex in Celebrity

Night & Day

July 30 - August 5, 1998

Little boy blues

Andrew Baxter Jr. may be a mere child, but the 11-year-old guitarist is no novelty

Manly men

Andrew Baxter Jr. may be a mere child, but the 11-year-old guitarist is no novelty

The corporate curator

Work got you down? Why not bring some art into your business?

Mia & Peter & Liza & Mazursky

The USA Film Festival offers an unapologetic orgy of movie delights

Buzz

The USA Film Festival offers an unapologetic orgy of movie delights

Events for the week

The USA Film Festival offers an unapologetic orgy of movie delights

Lost Art

Dallas' most compelling art museum is hidden away in an old East Dallas firehouse