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    March 20, 2012

    Rio Room's New DJ Series Starts This Thursday, So Turn Left Right

    As Rio Room's '83 Series comes to a close, you may have thought Thursday night would free up. Sorry, shaking your groove thing is just going to become a year-round habit, but at least you know there are international and regional tastemakers set to underscore your weekly dance party. We have the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Ask Indie Grandpa: The Coachella Lineup

    With the release of Coachella's lineup yesterday, we decided to ask our resident curmudgeon and "good old days" music expert, Indie Grandpa, what he thought of the annual desert festival, which has now expanded to two weekends. What do you think about Coachella's lineup? First of all, morning ever ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Before We Fight the Power, First Let's Take on the Anti-Government Idiots

    ​I have a column in the paper this week about the Trinity River levees, and I had a please-respect-my-lawn thing here yesterday about plastic bottles and White Rock Creek. Even I didn't get the connection between the two before the comments started rolling in from the idiot, free-market, libe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Tonight, Tonight: The Apples in Stereo at The Granada, Tyler Hilton at The Loft and Nonpoint at Trees

    Back to the drudge of the work week. But, hey, at least you have a couple of nice musical options this evening...

  • Dining

    September 2, 2010
  • News

    December 3, 2009
  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    At The Majestic Theater, Dusting Off Old Favorites With the Spectacular Senior Follies

    Patrick MichelsBill Kennedy onstage at The Majestic Friday night​Ned Startzel was 3 years old when the new Majestic Theatre opened on Elm Street in downtown Dallas in 1921. Startzel began writing shows, performed in Vaudeville acts and fought in World War II, while Dallas's theater row rose and fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Breach of Faith Redux: Is the Army Corps of Engineers Learning From Past Mistakes?

    Jim SchutzeThe Trinity River in June 2007On February 11, I wrote a piece for the paper version of Unfair Park in which I said officials in New Orleans shared blame for the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Specifically, I wrote, "The locals had pushed and pulled for a century to get t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2007

    Ginger Allen Has a New Gig

    Jim SchutzeThe Trinity River in June 2007On February 11, I wrote a piece for the paper version of Unfair Park in which I said officials in New Orleans shared blame for the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Specifically, I wrote, "The locals had pushed and pulled for a century to get t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 19, 2007

    Griffin's Gold

    The D-Lister offers grade-A stand-up

  • Dining

    December 21, 2006

    Toque-less

    Saltwater Willy's embraces a chef-free concept

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2006

    If I Had a Trini

    Saltwater Willy's embraces a chef-free concept

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    Monsters

    Confessions of a white middle-class parent

  • Film

    June 13, 2002

    Dance Party U.S.A.

    Dirk Shafer captures the circuit-party scene on digital video

  • Dining

    May 2, 2002

    Thom Tom Tim

    Triple R Group lands its first chef

  • Dining

    January 3, 2002

    Party's Over

    Dallas restaurateurs weather a year of many valleys, few peaks

  • Culture

    December 20, 2001

    Deal With the Devil

    Dale Chihuly makes art for the masses. The masses deserve better.

  • Dining

    October 18, 2001

    California Rewind

    Doug Brown claws his way back to Dallas to work in the Eatzi's kitchen

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    Desert Blooms

    Jetports and elite resorts may do what border bandits and blistering heat couldn't: rob Big Bend of its rugged beauty

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    Dead Wrong

    How consummate con artist Henry Lee Lucas resurrected the dead and went looking for a sucker. He almost found one.

  • Film

    November 23, 2000

    Loathsome Lothario

    Ben Affleck puts the moves on Gwyneth Paltrow in this bad Bounce

  • Film

    June 8, 2000

    Going, Gone

    Someone take the wheel, 'cause Cage don't know where he's going

  • Film

    May 4, 2000

    The goddaughters

    Sofia Coppola mixes nostalgia, suburbia, and teen lust into a volatile blend in The Virgin Suicides

  • Film

    October 7, 1999

    Eat up

    Vonnegut's unfilmable Breakfast of Champions is a magnificent movie after all

  • Music

    September 2, 1999

    Silver Scooter

    Vonnegut's unfilmable Breakfast of Champions is a magnificent movie after all

  • Culture

    August 19, 1999

    Journeymen of summer

    Root, root, root for the home team -- whoever they are

  • Music

    May 6, 1999

    Squeeze player

    With his mob connections and starlet phone numbers, Dick Contino was the coolest accordionist in 1950s L.A. -- which is why he's James Ellroy's buddy

  • Film

    March 25, 1999

    All the Reich moves

    From Germany, a story about a singing group that thrived until Hitler came to power

  • News

    August 27, 1998

    Cowtown Babylon

    When Fort Worth oil tycoon Tex Moncrief accused his secretary of embezzlement, she says, he left out one important detail: their 16-year affair

  • Music

    August 20, 1998

    Chairman of the bored

    HBO's Rat Pack don't mean a thing, because it ain't got no swing

  • Music

    April 16, 1998

    Pay attention

    Meredith Miller decides to say folk it and goes rock

  • Music

    January 15, 1998

    The beat goes on

    Sonny Bono got more respect in death than in life

  • Music

    May 15, 1997

    Shooting craps

    U2 takes over the world--and turns it into a commercial

  • Film

    March 13, 1997

    The pointy-head gang

    A tumbledown City of Industry is built upon rehashed film-noir cliches

  • News

    June 15, 1995

    Moncrief Family Values

    A wealthy Fort Worth oil clan's court battle isn't just about millions. It's about pride. Miriam Rozen tells a tale of favored sons

  • Film

    November 3, 1994

    Thanks for the mammaries

    Sexploitation pioneer Russ Meyer revels in the permissiveness he helped create

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