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JCPenney Is Being Sued For Loving Martha Stewart Too Much

Actually, JCPenney is being sued for "tortious interference," as its competitor Macy's tries to stop Martha Stewart Living from setting up shop anywhere at all besides Macy's. The lawsuit, filed today, puts a crimp in JCPenney's plan to create "mini Martha Stewart stores" inside its locations. Pe ... More >>

A Walking Wish List

If You Ever Wanted to Own Valley View Center, Well, Now's Your Big Chance

​The place: the north side of the George Allen Courts Building, below the overhang. The date: February 7. The time: between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.That's your invite to the foreclosure auction for Valley View Center, which, since August 2010, has been in the hands of LNR Partners out of Miami, who took ... More >>

New Owners of Former Macy's at Valley View Want to Fill Space With Retail of Some Kind

Prange Way/Labelscar​As we noted one month ago, the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce is coordinating efforts to repurpose Valley View Center, which has long been a shadow of a shadow of its former self. Bruce Bradford, the chamber's interim president, and city council member Linda Koop spoke of pl ... More >>

Last Night: American Idol Live at Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie

American Idol Live Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Better than: Watching paint dry. I think. ​I don't remember if there was ever a talent show episode on the original Beverly Hills 90210. But if there had been, I imagine it would have looked a lot like last night's sho ... More >>

So, They're Chopping Up Valley View ...

Click to embiggen the proposed divvying-up of Valley View Center per next week's plan commission agenda.​Rumors have long been circulating that something's up with Valley View Center. Not sure what, exactly; no one's returning calls (paging Greg Maloney). Even local commercial Realtors aren't exac ... More >>

Ten Picks for The #heatlockerroomplaylist

There's no crying in basketball. Unless we're talking about the Miami Heat.​ Those poor, poor Miami Heat players just can't catch a break. First, they lose the NBA Finals. Then they become the laughingstock of Twitter -- for the second time this week, actually. Back on Tuesday, you may recall, the ... More >>

Eat, Drink and Be Charitable

​The holiday season has a way of making even charity work a treat. Philanthropists around Dallas are letting you give back by giving to yourself. You just have to choose between s'mores, drink specials and cookies. The Thing: OMG S'mores The Cause: North Texas Food Bank Not like you need a le ... More >>

Dallas Libraries Forced to Find a New Working Model Amidst Staff Layoffs, Budget Cutbacks

​By now you've no doubt read all 624 pages of City Manager Mary Suhm's proposed FY2010-11 budget. Or at least heard: Library branches are losing staffers, which means those who stay will have to do more with less; the downtown outpost's specialty floors will stay dark all but 26 hours a week; and ... More >>

Food Festivals Like Taste of West Village Aren't Necessarily About Food

​Since news about Texas food tends to find its way to my inbox, I know way more than I should about Texas Roadhouse happenings. I don't usually find too much in the Roadhouse oeuvre that's worth sharing, but I was oddly riveted by a recent announcement regarding the restaurant chain's partici ... More >>

City to Refocus Its Attention at Southwest Center on Macy's, Which Is "Still Alive"; Penney's Owner Will Consider All His Options

​Back to Southwest Center Mall for a moment -- or, more specifically, the city's plans to keep the "dead mall," per the Urban Land Institute, alive. Karl Zavitkovsky kept the council's Economic Development Committee behind closed doors for almost an hour this morning, during which point it was men ... More >>

Ron Natinsky Wonders: If We're Gonna Save Southwest Center, Why Not Valley View, Then?

Sam MertenRon Natinsky​If nothing else, this'll be the last Southwest Center Mall item of the day -- only because there'll be nothing left to talk about till after the council returns from its summer recess. But Ron Natinksky, head of the city council's Economic Development Committee, called Unfai ... More >>

There Goes Scroogey Claus

There Goes Scroogey Claus

Here Comes Santa Claus

Project Recap: Lady Sings the Blues

(Louise) Black and blue, perhaps not a great color combination after all​Merritt Martin, your usual recapper, has let her personal life interfere with her TV watching schedule, so I have been drafted to fill in for her this week. With 10 designers remaining, and Heidi's ominous warning in previews ... More >>

Bargain Hunting at the City Store

Some of the amazing, ahem, finds at the City StoreI'm on a tight budget -- but, right, who isn't? So when my boyfriend suggested we check out the inventory of police-confiscated property for sale at a nearby warehouse, I jumped at the opportunity.The City Store, located off Stemmons Freeway on Irvin ... More >>

Will 2009 Be the Year Valley View Center Goes Bye-Bye? Hope Not.

Dallas's real estate market in 2008 in a nutshell: OK, then not. Which is more or less the analysis offered by GlobeSt.com today as it sizes up the year that was and sneaks a peek at the year that will be or won't, depending on folks' fortunes. Among the prophets lined up for the piece are folks fro ... More >>

Cowboys About to Get Farked Over

This morning, I sort of casually mentioned that Your Dallas Cowboys had come up with one of the worst ideas in the history of goodbyes: allowing fans to choose the last song ever played over the Texas Stadium public address system following the Ravens game. That's the ballot pictured above -- and, y ... More >>

Some Holiday Fare Is Fairer Than Others—and Funnier

Runway Magic

Fashion at the Park has drool-worthy designers

Hot Fun In The Summertime

NorthPark breaks out the face paint

Sangers? Gone. Foley's? Gone. Macy's? Yup, Gone as of Today

A Place Where Nobody Dared to Go, Till They Had To

Hip, Hip, Euripides

Kid Kabuki

Successful Mess

Little Katana dazzles with kitchen inventions

Elfin' Magic

Addison eats up a Crumpet

Jangled Belles

Holi-divas! premiere and Santaland revival make it the worst Noel at WaterTower

Elfin' Magic

Addison eats up a Crumpet

Radio Prairie

Racing for Boobs

Run a 5K for breast cancer

Island of Calm

Kona's tasty happy hour won't break the bank

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Down in Front

Oh, many '04 stage productions were mighty fine-- but sometimes the audience stole the show

Duff Love

Party like a star with MTV's Duff

Best Bling

Tiffany & Co.

Gill Kill

At Little Katana, you can buy a sword for $800. What? Or is it why?

He Talk Funny

David Sedaris is an American in Paris

Elf Esteem

Tart humor and hot voices in Addison; sour notes spoil in Addison; sour notes spoil the songs at Theatre Three

Knock on Collinwood

Back in the old neighborhood, buddies gather for a great con job

Best Local Theater

WaterTower Theatre

Anti Claus

If your name was Crumpet, you'd be angry, too

The Thing That Ate Downtown

Downtown’s real estate barons are terrified that Perot-Hicks’ slick Victory project could wreak havoc on their own tax-funded plans to fix the city’s core

Green Day

Warning (Reprise Records)

Fur flies

A Dallas-based anti-fur group is targeted in a free-speech battle

Night & Day

March 4 - 10, 1999

Pelted!

When an animal rights activist came up against Neiman Marcus, she had more than some dead fur to contend with