Malcolm X

The Food Trucks Rally in Deep Ellum Tonight

The Deep Ellum Outdoor Market is hosting its first food truck rally tonight on Main Street between Malcolm X and Crowdus, which will be shut down for the event. The party lasts from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m., and a few bands will provide tunes, including My Wooden Leg and Hares on the Mountain. Brandon ... More >>

Bandele Tyehimba, Owner of South Dallas Gallery Pan African Connection, Has Died

Bandele Tyehimba, who, with his wife Akwete, owned Pan African Connection, a 23-year-old South Dallas art gallery and meeting space, died in his sleep Wednesday night. He was 58 years old. We wrote about Tyehimba and Pan African just a month ago; at that time, the Tyehimbas were recovering from a ... More >>

In the Studio With Play-N-Skillz

Photos by Roderick PullumBabyBoi and Skillz​Welcome to the first installment of In Session, in which nightlife photographer Roderick Pullum spends a little time with local producers in the studio.This week: Dallas duo Play-N-Skillz. Tucked away in historic Deep Ellum, on the corner of Commerc ... More >>

Deep Ellum's Ambrose Complex on Green Line Is Done Trying to Make Retail Spaces Work

​When The Ambrose and DART's Baylor University Medical Center Station on the Green Line finally, formally married three short years ago, Dallas Area Rapid Transit hailed it as the "consummate example of the new transit-oriented lifestyle." After all, the complex at Indiana and Malcolm X consisted ... More >>

Art, Revolution and Trying to Keep the Doors Open at South Dallas's Oldest African Art Gallery

A year and a half ago, the owners of Pan-African Connection Bookstore, Bandele Tyehimba and his wife Akwete, found out their building was being torn down and replaced with a dentist's office. They'd been at the location at the corner of Marsalis and Jefferson for more than 21 years. "I guess we were ... More >>

For Sale: R.C. Hickman's Photo of a Late, Great South Dallas Gathering Place's Neon Welcome

Photo by R.C. Hickman​Way back in July I stumbled across a cache of R.C. Hickman photos being sold on eBay. Some are long gone; I wound up with one, which, according to the Fort Worth-based seller, came from the legendary Dallas Star Post photographer's personal collection. Four months on many rem ... More >>

No, That Newish Deep Ellum Sign Isn't Gone For Good. It's Just Down for Repairs.

​A couple of readers have asked: What's become of that newish neon sign at the corner of Main and Good-Latimer? That's it at right, the wayfinder that offended Pete so much he decided to quit and head back east. Because it's gone, only a few months after its installation. Ah, fret not: Barry Annin ... More >>

And Now, "Artists Slammin' Cointelpro for Our Man Downtown John Wiley Price"

​That's the full title of the latest JWP protest being staged by the National Black United Front, not to be confused with the Judean People's Front or the Popular Front of Judea, who will return to the Pan-African Connection Bookstore across the street from Fair Park, scene of last month's overhea ... More >>

Just Remember, Downtown Will Be Short Parking Friday. But There Will Be Extra Parks.

Via.A PARK(ing) Day temporary park on Mission Street in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood​Come Friday downtown Dallas will be short around 30 parking spaces. They'll be spending the day instead as tea gardens and 50-foot-long "trails" and public reading "rooms" and teensy-tiny soccer fields and bo ... More >>

Just Added to Saturday's Rally for John Wiley Price, The Man Who Coined "Black Power"

Via.​Moments ago, Thomas Muhammad -- president of the Dallas chapter of the National Black United Front and organizer of Saturday's rally for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price -- sent word that a Very Special Guest has been added the list of speakers scheduled to attend Saturday. That wo ... More >>

An Eye for LIFE

Blue Mooney

Mozzarella Company: Pick up some Texas-made cheese that's totally makeout-worthy.

Alice Laussade​Mozzarella Company 2944 Elm St. 214-741-4072 Try: Prosciutto Mozzarella Roll I spent my Memorial Day just like everybody else: First I woke up and kissed the soil, high-fived my freedom and gave big ups to all the soldiers past and present who have fought to keep this country so g ... More >>

DCT's Most Valuable Player Swings For The Fences; T3 Tunes UP [title of show]; One Thirty Productions Presents Its Favorite Austin Playwright

M2S2 Prepares For Its Second Annual Offering

The folks at Life In Deep Ellum are pretty deep into the throes of preparing its second annual Mokah Music Summit and Showcase--or M2S2 for short. This year's free event, set to take place on Saturday, April 25, will feature 12 local acts, a performance from the students of Zound Sounds, and an art ... More >>

In The Old Club Envy Space, Yet Another Venue Prepares To Open In Deep Ellum

The former home of Club Envy. The future home of 2826. Don't look now, but there's yet one more new live music venue set to open up in Deep Ellum come summertime. At 2826 Elm Street, right down the road from the still-relatively new The Lounge on Elm Street at the intersection of Elm and Malcolm X, ... More >>

Obama's Dallas Beachhead -- And the Food Ain't Bad, Either

Get Unified

Kwanzaa's first day sees several celebrations

Yo, Don't Have Kittens

Origin of Innocence

The New World boldly reclaims the Pocahontas tale from Disney

Best Rooftop Party

The Bone

Going Deep

The Cowboys want to move back to Fair Park--so, there goes the neighborhood?

Come Together

Kwanzaa is about living a good life, not filling a stocking

Under Control

Two years later, the Strokes are still on Fire

Letters

Too Damn Scary Virginia Speaks

Queen of Pain

Julie Taymor and Salma Hayek paint a spectacular portrait of Frida Kahlo

On Their Own

Slowride isn't waiting around for Dallas to finally pay attention

A Good Idea, But...

The Granada Theater as a live music venue only works in theory

Butthole Surfers

November 16

Scene, Heard

Butthole is back

The Negro Problem

Spike Lee's new racial satire starts out strong but loses its way

Clash of the Titans

Bruckheimer's latest speaks loudly about race, but says nothing

Floats, not like a Butterfly ...

Stinks like bad TV

Jerry rigged

Bruckheimer's Coyote Ugly pours a lethal cocktail

Soul food

A complete and well-balanced arts meal

That summer of '77

Murder, mayhem, and a whole bunch of hate

Night & Day

May 14 - 20, 1998

The "g" word

An uneasy mix of stereotypes and commerce helps prompt Deep Ellum's cruising ban

Night & Day

March 19-25, 1998

Events for the week

Letters

Letters

X marks the spot

A plan to rename Oakland Avenue for Malcolm X raises cries of racism in Deep Ellum

Events for the week

Fantastic voyage

Spike Lee's Get on the Bus takes us to amazing places

Events for the week

Time inspired

Clockers is a searing sordid exorcism for Spike Lee

Cat man dues

The Van Peebles' Panther is a sincere but self-defeating stylistic exercise

Shooting blanks

Melvin and Mario Van Peebles' Festival-capping historical drama Panther is a muddled mess

Generations

From the director of El Norte comes a modern classic about family, history, and survival