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Dallas Plans to Remove Robert Irwin's Long-Neglected "Portal Park Piece" From Downtown

By now, it's barely recognizable as a piece of art: an eight-foot-tall ribbon of rusted steel scrawled with obscene graffiti, running through an obscure stretch of grassland on the eastern edge of downtown. It fades into the background now, ignored by commuters and passersby. That wasn't the origin ... More >>

Love In

Should the United States return the Southwest to Mexico?

Give the Three Ross Ave. Underpass Proposals One Final Once-Over Before Tonight's Meeting

One of the three Ross Avenue underpass finalists, this one from Koryn Rolstad​For as long as I can recall, the city's been talking about making the Ross Avenue underpass at Central Expressway in the Arts District an art project all on its own. Tonight, it inches closer to reality: On your way home ... More >>

MasterMinds: Matthew Posey, Joel Hester and Karen Blessen Are Winners in Our Inaugural Creativity Awards

NEA's Mayors' Institute Awards City Design Studio $100,000 For "Cultural Remapping"

​Some of the winners of the 21 National Endowment for the Arts grants handed out Thursday know precisely how -- and where -- that money will be spent. In Los Angeles, the $100,000 awarded through the Mayors' Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative will go toward the mixed-use Broadway ... More >>

Yes, Another Film Festival: The USA Film Festival Releases Line-Up and Schedule

Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda in Neil Jordan's Ondine, which is playing the USA Film Festival April 30​The Dallas International Film Festival wraps up Sunday. But tomorrow morning, tickets for the USA Film Festival will go on sale via Ticketmaster, according to the fest's publicist in the rele ... More >>

As Neiman Marcus Struggles, Former Employee Rawlins Gilliland is Still Minding the Store

Yesterday, in the comments to the item about Neiman Marcus's latest bit of bad news, noted man of letters Rawlins Gilliland deposited a comment intended to gently shoosh those experiencing even the slightest twinge of schadenfreude at the luxury retailer's misfortune. I had intended only to highligh ... More >>

Dallas by Design: If You Can Only Attend One City Council Briefing All Year, Make It Today's

This morning's Dallas City Council briefing should be more interesting than most -- thing's almost like a meeting of a book club where the topic is urban design and development, which is perhaps why the council's moving out of City Hall and across the street to the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library's ... More >>

The Best of Dallas Theater in 2008—and a New Rule for Getting More Butts in the Seats

Lyric Stage Gets Ready to Rumble

Oh, the Humanities Medal! (For Dallas' Robert Edsel and His Foundation)

"Dallas Rag" and Other Stomps

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Well Versed

Same state, different worlds for two Texas poet laureates

Blink

Shake-ing it up

As Cliff likes it

Cliff Redd heads up the Shakespeare Festival again, and shakes up the status quo

Tapped out

A prison arts program searches for a dance partner

Blink

Your wish is granted

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MAC dandyBox-office buzz

Blink

Another thing coming; Friends in high places; Arts movement

Rules are for suckers

When it came time to hire an architect at city Hall, bureaucrats Robert Troy and Jan Adams made one unforgivable mistake. They were honest.

The naked guy

Out of the rubble

A new book on Deep Ellum's past strips away the dust of myth and history

De Sade lite

Stage West presents a lighthearted romp through incest, bestiality, and necrophilia

Apple sauce

Adam and Eve show a lot of cheek in 11th Street's Arthur Miller revival

Deal of the arts

Does 500 Inc. bully small Dallas arts groups to perform for their grants?

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Rhyme and Reason

Leaning House Records puts a new slant on poetry

The shaman and his savior

Documentary Arts preserves the lost music of the Hmong

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Striking a Nerve

Laurie Anderson riffs on fame, death, and the political landscape

Building to a Crescendo

Dallas Opera was once the toast of the nation. Now it is reaching for that high note again.

Buzz

Rushes

Rough cut

NEA cuts send Texas filmmakers reeling

Slouching toward the millennium

Kitchen Dog celebrates its new era with a strange, apocalyptic work

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