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May 7, 2012
Tomorrow Night at Iron Fork, Whiskey Cake Chef TJ Lengnick Challenges Reigning Champ Scott Romano
Tomorrow night Dallas will gather at the Fashion Industry Gallery for the Observer's second annual Iron Fork competition. While many will focus on the food and booze sampling, the backdrop for the event is a cooking competition between former Joule chef and reigning Iron Fork Champion Scott Romano, ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2012
Predicting Mike Miles' Future at DISD: Broadly Speaking, I See Blood and Privatization
Not sure what to think of Mike Miles, the Dallas school board's pick for new superintendent? Here's a shortcut. Decide what you think of the Broad Superintendents Academy (BSA). Miles is a 2011 graduate of a boot camp for school superintendents in Los Angeles founded and funded by a foundation nam ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
Thar She Blows: A Great Idea Rises at City Hall. Fetch the Harpoons.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. A huge idea turned up at City Hall yesterday. Huge. This is like a Blue whale beaching itself on the banks of the Trinity River. I'm afraid City Hall is going to send a crew out there and chop it into cat-food. We need to stop and take a big look at this ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2012
Shippin' Shale, or: What's That You Say About Our Energy Independence?
The days of lease-bearing landmen making it rain on the Barnett Shale are over. The industry became so proficient at fracturing the rock thousands of feet beneath the surface and extracting the gas trapped within that they glutted the market. Gas prices took a swan dive and have stagnated eve ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2011
The Five Best Math- and Post-Rock Bands That Claim They're Neither Math- Nor Post-Rock.
Genre labels are fascinating tools in the overall study of popular music. Even the term "popular music" can be misleading, for heaven's sake. Metal gods Anthrax are popular -- but they're certainly not pop. Kesha is certainly pop -- but not popular with people, y'know, who like music to not be th ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2011
RAND Corp. Enrolls in Dallas ISD's Summer Schools As Part of $50-Mil Best Practices Study
Yesterday, some 8,500 Dallas Independent School District elementary students reported to 17 campuses, from Bryan and Caillet to Truett and Winnetka, to begin summer school. Pardon: Make that summer camp. At least, that's how district officials and DISD's educational partners sell the idea to kids ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2011
Erykah Badu to Join My Morning Jacket As Guest For Streaming Tuesday Night Concert
Once-in-a-lifetime events sometimes happen more than once, turns out. Next Tuesday night, when My Morning Jacket performs in its hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to celebrate the release of their new album, Circuital, they will be joined on stage by one Erykah Badu, just as they so memorably were t ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2011
Pittsburgh Label Reissues Early Releases From Legendary '70s Dallas Punks The Nervebreakers
David "Nicke Blitz" MitchellTruly one of the seminal bands in Dallas history, The Nervebreakers' heyday came way back in 1977 when the band got the chance to open up for a Dallas date with Ramones. Then, in 1978, they did the same for the Sex Pistols -- and even got a mention in Rolling Stone in ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2011
"Leveraging Our Resources," or: If You Read One Council Briefing All Day, Make It This One
The Dallas skyline circa 1982, as depicted in this morning's economic development council briefingAt the end of February, city and council officials explained Dallas's meager 0.8 percent population growth over the last decade thusly: "The third-largest city in Texas is simply built out." Which le ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2011
SXSW 2011 Buzz Power Rankings: Kanye Is On Top For Now... And Pretty Easily, Too.
You can do it, put your stinger into it.South by Southwest is a static thing -- both in theory and in practice. It's a chance for bands to fans to see the established acts they've been wanting to see and for new, up-and-coming acts to try and make names for themselves. And that latter part very m ... More >>
News
February 3, 2011
Welcome, Cheeseheads and Towlettes! Let Us Show You How to Get the True Big D Experience
You can do it, put your stinger into it.South by Southwest is a static thing -- both in theory and in practice. It's a chance for bands to fans to see the established acts they've been wanting to see and for new, up-and-coming acts to try and make names for themselves. And that latter part very m ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2010
Heinz Rolls Out the Free Fries and Ketchup, Food Truck Included
You say you want food trucks in Dallas? Well, here you go.It seems even marketers are getting in on the food-truck fever that has infected every major U.S. city. In yesterday's New York Times, Tanzina Vega wrote an excellent article about corporations jumping on the mobile food vending bandwagon, ... More >>
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November 28, 2010
Drill, Maybe, Drill? Almost Three Years After Council OK'd Gas Leases, Hunt Still Concerned.
Patrick Michels has been all over XTO Energy's efforts to sink some gas drills in and around Dallas, a piece of which may or may not wind up on the council's year-ending agenda on December 8 following the City Plan Commission's decision last month to deny the wastewater-spilling Exxon subsidiary ... More >>
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August 3, 2010
God, I Hope I Get It: As Hamlisch Takes Over DSO's Pops, A Talent Search at Arts Magnet
Elaine LinerSing us a song, you're the Piano Man, Marvin Hamlisch!Marvin Hamlisch has his EGOT. That's Emmys (four of 'em), Grammys (four), Oscars (three) and a Tony. The composer of A Chorus Line and the film score for The Way We Were also has a Pulitzer Prize and three Golden Globes. So he's go ... More >>
Culture
June 10, 2010
Kitchen Dog's Long Way Go Down Too Cinematic For Stage;Jubilee Sails With Gem Of The Ocean
Elaine LinerSing us a song, you're the Piano Man, Marvin Hamlisch!Marvin Hamlisch has his EGOT. That's Emmys (four of 'em), Grammys (four), Oscars (three) and a Tony. The composer of A Chorus Line and the film score for The Way We Were also has a Pulitzer Prize and three Golden Globes. So he's go ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2010
Dallas, You Are Very Charitable
Charity NavigatorSo says Charity Navigator today in a press release announcing The Most Charity-Conscious Cities in America -- we're right there at No. 3 on the highest-rated-cities list, so barely behind No. 1 Pittsburgh and No. 2 Houston (Houston). So, to all those who give till it hurts, a hea ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
Greenberg Expects Some Creditors to React "In a Noisy Fashion" To Rangers' Bankruptcy
Photos by Sam MertenLeft to right: Chuck Greenberg, Tom Hicks and Nolan RyanShortly after the Texas Rangers announced the team's plans to resolve its ownership situation in federal bankruptcy court, Tom Hicks said he and his lawyers agreed "about a month ago" that this was the best way to han ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
The Artist Behind The Ads
Photos by Sam MertenLeft to right: Chuck Greenberg, Tom Hicks and Nolan RyanShortly after the Texas Rangers announced the team's plans to resolve its ownership situation in federal bankruptcy court, Tom Hicks said he and his lawyers agreed "about a month ago" that this was the best way to han ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2010
After the Explosion: How Irving Might Wind Up Using Texas Stadium Site
One of the early conceptual renderings for the Texas Stadium site, before officials decided to blow it up real goodPatrick will be along shortly with some photos and observations from today's final final media tour of what remains of Texas Stadium before the big blow-em-up on April 11. (Hey, ther ... More >>
Music
March 25, 2010
It's Good To Make Time For A Bro, Even After SXSW and NX35.
One of the early conceptual renderings for the Texas Stadium site, before officials decided to blow it up real goodPatrick will be along shortly with some photos and observations from today's final final media tour of what remains of Texas Stadium before the big blow-em-up on April 11. (Hey, ther ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2010
All About the Rangers Baseball Express as Hicks, Greenberg and Ryan Hash Out Deal
No need to ask Lisa LeMaster for any further comment this time around -- the press release below, just sent out by Texas Rangers spokesman John Blake, is all we're going to get about the consummation of the "complex business deal" that's one step closer to putting Tom Hicks's ball club in the mit ... More >>
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January 14, 2010
An Innovative Court Offers New Tricks to Turn Ex-Prostitutes into Real Working Girls
No need to ask Lisa LeMaster for any further comment this time around -- the press release below, just sent out by Texas Rangers spokesman John Blake, is all we're going to get about the consummation of the "complex business deal" that's one step closer to putting Tom Hicks's ball club in the mit ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2009
Thomas O. Hicks: In Memoriam
With his decision to sell the Texas Rangers to Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg, long-time owner Tom Hicks will willingly, yet grudgingly step into the shadows of Metroplex baseball. But how will he be perceived? While Greenberg, 48, and his group seek approval from Major League Ba ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2009
Christmas Comes Early For Tom Hicks
Last night, Texas Rangers exec VP of communications John Blake sent the word since heard 'round the sports world: Tom Hicks has 30 days to get a deal done with Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan before asking MLB (and his myriad creditors) if it's OK, pretty please, to sell ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 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 ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2009
Angela Hunt Says She's Going to Ask Mary Suhm to "Investigate" 311 iPhone App
EngadgetSpeaking of the city and technological advancements involving one's talking box ...This morning on her ever-active Web site, Angela Hunt wonders why in the heck Dallas doesn't have an iPhone app that lets residents "snap photos of nuisances and code violations and send them off to city ha ... More >>
Culture
August 13, 2009
Blessed With Sexy Synthpop Satire, Altar Boyz Zings
EngadgetSpeaking of the city and technological advancements involving one's talking box ...This morning on her ever-active Web site, Angela Hunt wonders why in the heck Dallas doesn't have an iPhone app that lets residents "snap photos of nuisances and code violations and send them off to city ha ... More >>
Film
April 2, 2009
Adventureland: Greg Mottola loves the '80s
EngadgetSpeaking of the city and technological advancements involving one's talking box ...This morning on her ever-active Web site, Angela Hunt wonders why in the heck Dallas doesn't have an iPhone app that lets residents "snap photos of nuisances and code violations and send them off to city ha ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2009
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 loca ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2009
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 S ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2009
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 E ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 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, ... More >>
Film
October 30, 2008
Kevin Smith Blows his Wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno
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, ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2008
Stars Struck
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, ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2008
Finally, Hitting the "Reset" Button
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, ... More >>
News
October 4, 2007
Teenage and Transgendered|Feet of Clay|Not So Special
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, ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2007
Irsay Can You See the Super Bowl in Indy and Not Arlington?
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, ... More >>
Culture
March 15, 2007
Perfect Game
With Fences, DTC steps up to take a big swing at a major work by August Wilson
Blogs
July 11, 2006
Mean Guys Finish First
With Fences, DTC steps up to take a big swing at a major work by August Wilson
News
March 16, 2006
Head Coach
Science-schmience, truth-schmooth: A New Age consciousness coach says ya gotta believe
News
January 23, 2003
Lizzie Does Dallas
Plus: Oh, My Aikman Balls
Music
May 16, 2002
Mason Jarred
Mason Jennings spent a decade chasing a dream. Now he's finally waking up.
Music
January 13, 2000
Freaks of the industry
A guide to music on the Web that the RIAA isn't worried about
Music
September 23, 1999
Solex
A guide to music on the Web that the RIAA isn't worried about
Culture
March 5, 1998
Stopped short
Kevin Elster was through with baseball once, but it was not finished with him
Film
February 5, 1998
As the Worm turns
Rodman TV biopic is as Bad as it can be
Culture
December 18, 1997
Channeling the spirit of Christmas
East meets Stage West in Greetings!, a strangely wrapped holiday comedy
Culture
May 16, 1996
Hide and seek
Stage West's Joe Turner illuminates the ties that bind
News
January 18, 1996
Buzz
Stage West's Joe Turner illuminates the ties that bind
News
October 12, 1995
Letters
Stage West's Joe Turner illuminates the ties that bind
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