Subject: Pittsburgh

• A Cuban Sandwich

  October 30, 2006

• German Engineering

  October 3, 2006

• Irsay Can You See the Super Bowl in Indy and Not Arlington?

  May 21, 2007

• Finally, Hitting the "Reset" Button

  January 21, 2008

• Urban Land Institute Taps the Cedars As the Site of Its Annual Design Contest

  January 28, 2008

• Stars Struck

  May 20, 2008

• God Bless America. And Sports.

  July 3, 2008

• The Texas Strangers

  July 16, 2008

• Mark Cuban Will Be on the Interwebs Today, Courtesy the FCC

  July 21, 2008

• Channel 11's Out of Bologna

  July 21, 2008

• Choirboys 20, New York Sack Exchange 8

  After the two teammates who disconnected last week connected this week, it was a third-string lineman and a third-string running back who ran the Dallas Cowboys past the New York Giants and firmly into their own playoff destiny Sunday night. Running behind beleaguered left guard Cory Procter, Tashard Choice clinched the 20-8 do-or-don't victory with a 38-yard touchdown with just over two minutes remaining. But, let's face it, for the third time in three games Dallas' defense looked ab

  December 15, 2008

• Whitt's End 1.9.09

  Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *First things first. If you plan to see this movie, or even think it looks remotely entertaining, please, leave these premises immediately. *Nothing official yet (UPDATE: Now it's official), but I hear Eric Nadel's new broadcast partner in the Texas Rangers' radio booth will be former Mavs' voice Dave Barnett. Which, to me, would be a splendid choice. *Toldja. *Dallas Stars' icon Mike Modano earned h

  January 9, 2009

• Letters

  October 12, 1995

• Hide and seek

  May 16, 1996

• 10 Questions: Cynthia Hobbs

  Patrick MichelsAlthough not a sports fan at all, she tends bar at Frankie's, a sports bar in Uptown featuring some 40 screens--38 regular flat ones and a couple of the big monsters.Of course, Sunday is a big day for the city's sports bars, what with Arizona getting ready to crush Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl. Well, maybe it'll be the other way around--who can tell? Well, Hobbs is certain of two things: a team will win and the winner's fans will tip... 1. Why watch sports in a sports bar? Why not

  January 30, 2009

• Channeling the spirit of Christmas

  December 18, 1997

• Stopped short

  March 5, 1998

• Letters

  May 7, 1998

• He's baaaack

  July 20, 2000

• Letters

  July 20, 2000

• 10 Questions: Lidia Bastianich

  She arrived in New York at the age of 12 in 1958. Half a century later, she's a cooking icon with five cookbooks, four television series and six restaurants to her name.Bastianich's most recent PBS cooking show, Lidia's Italy, is such a hit in Dallas that she's frequently asked to help with local pledge drives. But her TV career began way back in 1998. Since then she opened restaurants in Pittsburgh and Kansas City and started a line of pasta sauces.The author of La Cucina di Lidia loves to

  March 17, 2009

• Girls 61, Boys 44

  Mike Rhyner actually drained this 3-pointer. The rest of Team Ticket's night was considerably suckier. One player wore low-top running shoes and - duh - sprained his ankle. A guy in only a diaper was escorted out by security. And, in the end, the teen-aged girls reduced the middle-aged men to a hapless puddle of fart-and-fall-down. In other words, The Ticket's game against a group of Lake Highlands High School basketball players was everything we expected. In the most signi

  March 26, 2009

• Meal Tickets

  January 15, 2004

• Adventureland: Greg Mottola loves the '80s

  April 2, 2009

• Don Caballero, DD/MM/YY, Hawk vs. Dove, Magnets

  Friday, February 6, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Denton

  February 5, 2009

• Is Girl Talk's Rebellion A Sign Of The Times?

  Just how out there Is Girl Talk's Feed the Animals?

  October 16, 2008

• Ask a Mexican

  Where’s the Mexican love for the Motor City?

  December 13, 2007

• ¡Ask a Mexican!

  November 2, 2006

• Accidental Tourists

  Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history

  February 15, 2007

• Teenage and Transgendered|Feet of Clay|Not So Special

  October 4, 2007

• Dallas' Prostitute

  June 1, 2006

• Sodajerk

  2 (Self-released)

  June 28, 2007

• Lemmings and Toll Roads| An Acquired Taste

  April 5, 2007

• Perfect Game

  With Fences, DTC steps up to take a big swing at a major work by August Wilson

  March 15, 2007

• Singles Going Steady

  MySpace and no-wave make sweet music together

  February 22, 2007

• Who's on Faust?

  Heavy bargaining for souls at Jubilee Theatre, Lyric Stage; hell is Glory of Living

  October 12, 2006

• The Young and the Peerless

  Baseball's best-kept secret plays in your backyard

  July 20, 2006

• Head Coach

  Science-schmience, truth-schmooth: A New Age consciousness coach says ya gotta believe

  March 16, 2006

• Modey Lemon

  Tuesday, September 13, at Rubber Gloves

  September 8, 2005

• Trick Schtick

  David Copperfield tries for a lucky "13"

  February 12, 2004

• Banter

  Don Juan in Chicago

  June 15, 2000

• Wonder bread

  Curtis Hanson builds us a cheese sandwich out of Chabon's novel

  February 24, 2000

• Freaks of the industry

  A guide to music on the Web that the RIAA isn't worried about

  January 13, 2000

• Lord, almighty

  Stigmata can make you miss the split-pea soup

  September 16, 1999

• Buzz

  January 18, 1996

• Dallas, So Much Like Pittsburgh

  We're awaiting our very copy of John F. Wasik's new book Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream, due to arrive shortly, in which he documents how the housing boom went bust and how walkable cities died a slow death, surprise surprise. And while Dallas and the surrounding suburbs don't get much mention in the tome, the city does show up on a surprising list called, ahem, "Surprise Cities," which are identified as metropolises that are "primed for some growth and offe

  June 24, 2009

• Blessed With Sexy Synthpop Satire, Altar Boyz Zings

  August 13, 2009

• My One and Only

  September 3, 2009

• American Baseball, the European Way

  ​Even if European soccer owner Tom Hicks convinced Major League Baseball to inject the same screwy tables that govern soccer into America's pasttime your Texas Rangers wouldn't be a playoff team. But, alas, they wouldn't be relegated, either. If baseball were run according to European soccer standards--top teams earning international play (or advancement, in the case of minor league squads), the worst facing relegation to the league below--the woeful Pirates, Orioles and Nats would be pla

  October 8, 2009

• Would-Be Owners of Your Texas Rangers Have Been Parading Through Arlington This Week

  ​Reuters was right: Last week, the news service reported that the three parties interested in taking the Texas Rangers off Tom Hicks's hands would be in Arlington this week to meet and greet with team bigwigs. And, so far, so good: According to Official Statements from the LeMaster Group, which handles Hicks's PR, Houston's freight-train Jim Crane "and his advisors" paid Rangers Ballpark a visit on Tuesday; and, yesterday, the team has a visitor from Pittsburgh. Says the release we received la

  October 22, 2009