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    May 3, 2012

    11 Shows To See This Weekend: Death Cab For Cutie, Justin Townes Earle and More

    Death Cab For Cutie, Youth LagoonThursday, May 3, at McFarlin AuditoriumDeath Cab For Cutie has been passing through Dallas for over a decade. This show promises to be different from any previous tours because the group will be joined onstage by the Magik*Magik* Orchestra, which will add rich sympho ... More >>

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    February 23, 2012

    Blaming City, Museum of Automotive History Pulls Out of Fair Park. City Says: Not Its Fault.

    ​One year ago, or close enough, Stephen Page gave us a tour of his Texas Museum of Automotive History in Grand Place at Fair Park -- its temporary home, we were told, but an appropriate one, given the space's estimable past as the site where the Ford Motor Co. had its exhibit during the Texas Cent ... More >>

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    November 28, 2011

    "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat" for Planet Shark at Museum of Nature and Science

    Sharks are a bit of an evolutionary marvel. If you have any doubts, seeing Planet Shark: Predator or Prey, The Exhibition at the Museum of Nature & Science will surely lock it down for you. The exhibit also confirms that, contrary to popular belief, there is far more media hype than shark attacks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Local Paleontologists Find New Dinosaur Species, Name It After Ross Perot. No, Really.

    Courtesy the Museum of Nature & ScienceRoss ain't no dinosaur. At least, he wasn't.​This just in from the Museum of Nature & Science: Paleontologists at the museum are set to introduce to the world a new species of the ceratopsid dinosaur Pachyrhinosaurus at the Society of Vertebrate Paleo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Blaming Move to Winspear and Poor Economy, Dallas Opera Cancels Katya Kabanová

    Photo by Patrick MichelsDallas Opera General Director Keith Cerny when he was introduced at the Winspear in April 2010​Back in April 2010, the Dallas Opera finally announced it had found someone to run the show: Keith Cerny, who was tasked with, among other things, finding contributors to the oper ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    After This Morning, the Perot Museum of Nature & Science Is $1 Million Richer

    The sixth graders do their thing.​This morning at the Museum of Nature & Science in Fair Park, a group of very small people in oversized white lab coats were intently pulverizing strawberries in plastic bags. "Smash your strawberry into as fine a mess as you can," urged their instructor, a con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Why Celebrate Beer & Bones? Because Dinosaur Parties Are Epoch!

    ​The Museum of Nature & Science (1318 S. Second Ave.) is hosting another Beer & Bones "after-hours" party.  -- not to be confused with a raging, post-bar sloshfest. Rather, the museum is staying open past its usual 6 p.m. close. The first Beer & Bones took place March 24 and fea ... More >>

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    June 2, 2011

    Say These Names Three Times Fast

    ​The Museum of Nature & Science (1318 S. Second Ave.) is hosting another Beer & Bones "after-hours" party.  -- not to be confused with a raging, post-bar sloshfest. Rather, the museum is staying open past its usual 6 p.m. close. The first Beer & Bones took place March 24 and fea ... More >>

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    March 24, 2011

    Toast the Bones

    ​The Museum of Nature & Science (1318 S. Second Ave.) is hosting another Beer & Bones "after-hours" party.  -- not to be confused with a raging, post-bar sloshfest. Rather, the museum is staying open past its usual 6 p.m. close. The first Beer & Bones took place March 24 and fea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Taking a Spin Around the Texas Museum of Automotive History Parked at Fair Park

    Danny FulgencioStephen Page surveys his Texas Museum of Automotive History at Fair Park.​More than a year ago we mentioned that Fair Park would be getting a new attraction: the Texas Museum of Automotive History, which would be parked in Grand Place -- the very site where the Ford Motor Co. had it ... More >>

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    October 14, 2010

    What Lies Beneath

    Danny FulgencioStephen Page surveys his Texas Museum of Automotive History at Fair Park.​More than a year ago we mentioned that Fair Park would be getting a new attraction: the Texas Museum of Automotive History, which would be parked in Grand Place -- the very site where the Ford Motor Co. had it ... More >>

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    September 30, 2010

    Puzzle + Games = Fun

    Danny FulgencioStephen Page surveys his Texas Museum of Automotive History at Fair Park.​More than a year ago we mentioned that Fair Park would be getting a new attraction: the Texas Museum of Automotive History, which would be parked in Grand Place -- the very site where the Ford Motor Co. had it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Inside the Numbers: How Fair Park Will Be Affected By the Proposed City Budget Cuts

    From the estimable photo archives of the late, great Nick DeWolf, from which we have more to share later today​As Andrea noted in her liveblog Monday, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway stopped down the council's Public Safety Committee meeting to rant against a different kind of crime: the end of firew ... More >>

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    March 4, 2010

    Big State, Big Screen

    From the estimable photo archives of the late, great Nick DeWolf, from which we have more to share later today​As Andrea noted in her liveblog Monday, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway stopped down the council's Public Safety Committee meeting to rant against a different kind of crime: the end of firew ... More >>

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    January 7, 2010

    A Night At The Museum

    From the estimable photo archives of the late, great Nick DeWolf, from which we have more to share later today​As Andrea noted in her liveblog Monday, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway stopped down the council's Public Safety Committee meeting to rant against a different kind of crime: the end of firew ... More >>

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    October 29, 2009

    Slithering Into Fair Park

    From the estimable photo archives of the late, great Nick DeWolf, from which we have more to share later today​As Andrea noted in her liveblog Monday, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway stopped down the council's Public Safety Committee meeting to rant against a different kind of crime: the end of firew ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    AFI Dallas Is No More. But Debuting Next Spring, the Dallas International Film Festival.

    Patrick MichelsMichael Cain, kicking off the 2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival on March 26 at the AMC NorthParkIn September 2006, some local cineastes were terrified to learn that Michael Cain was shuttering his mom-and-pop Deep Ellum Film Festival and spending a little less than $1 millio ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    The Pauly Shore of Science

    Biosphere 2 founder John Allen speaks in Dallas

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2008

    Scenes from the Drilling Gallery

    Biosphere 2 founder John Allen speaks in Dallas

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2008

    "Fair Park's Universe of Attractions!" And: "A World Within a World!"

    Biosphere 2 founder John Allen speaks in Dallas

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    June 5, 2008

    Look Sharp

    The EOS has its Eyes on you

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2008

    The Museum of Nature's Mayne Man

    The EOS has its Eyes on you

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2008
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    September 27, 2007

    Museum's Loaded

    Take us out to MNS

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2006
  • Calendar

    May 25, 2006

    Science!

    Einstein's genius blinds us

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