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  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Cable TV Programmers Make Bait-and-Switch a High Art

    Drunken yoga does not equal female empowerment. Show of hands: Who remembers when cable TV's A&E channel featured real art for entertainment? Been a long time, right? Back in the 1990s, the Arts & Entertainment channel, as it was known then, specialized in high-culture programming. Ballet. Opera. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 8, 2011

    Sample a Little Tea-Vee

    Drunken yoga does not equal female empowerment. Show of hands: Who remembers when cable TV's A&E channel featured real art for entertainment? Been a long time, right? Back in the 1990s, the Arts & Entertainment channel, as it was known then, specialized in high-culture programming. Ballet. Opera. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2011

    Dallas News Publisher Jim Moroney Talks to UT Students, Profs About the Future of His Paper

    On Thursday, Jim Moroney paid a visit to Austin, where he told an audience of University of Texas journalism students and professors: Only The Major Metropolitan Newspaper can preserve, protect and defend democracy ... or something like that. The Dallas Morning News's publisher spoke of rapidly shri ... 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 >>

  • Music

    September 15, 2011

    Ten Things You Can Expect to See At Austin City Limits 2011

    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

    May 13, 2011

    Really, We Have to Wait a Whole Year Till Modern Family Cast Comes to Brinker Forum?

    Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet will be at the Winspear in April​Mixmaster Merritt has posted the lineup for next season's TITAS performances, which will be spread across the Winspear and Wyly beginning September 1. Here, we bring you the roster for next season's Brinker Inte ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2011

    Kid Around with Sid

    Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet will be at the Winspear in April​Mixmaster Merritt has posted the lineup for next season's TITAS performances, which will be spread across the Winspear and Wyly beginning September 1. Here, we bring you the roster for next season's Brinker Inte ... More >>

  • News

    November 11, 2010

    Don't Cry for Me, Mexico: Why are Mexico's Macho Singers So Weepy?

    Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet will be at the Winspear in April​Mixmaster Merritt has posted the lineup for next season's TITAS performances, which will be spread across the Winspear and Wyly beginning September 1. Here, we bring you the roster for next season's Brinker Inte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    News & Notes With Tom Hicks, Mark Cuban, Luke Wilson and The Wyly Bros' Broker

    Kit NelsonOne of Liverpool FC supporters' myriad posters advertising their disgust with Tom Hicks's asking price for the club​Some start-o-the-week news and notes while I roll a few fat blunts in preparation for this afternoon's Public Safety Committee meeting ...Remember when Tom Hicks said, why, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 27, 2009

    DSO Me

    Kit NelsonOne of Liverpool FC supporters' myriad posters advertising their disgust with Tom Hicks's asking price for the club​Some start-o-the-week news and notes while I roll a few fat blunts in preparation for this afternoon's Public Safety Committee meeting ...Remember when Tom Hicks said, why, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    Bi-Partisan Inspiration

    Hillary Clinton and Kay Bailey Hutchison unite to inspire

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Food For Thought 2.25.09

    "I don't know what lactose intolerance is, but this sure feels like it." (Pat Johnson--not a famous person, but my administrative assistant years ago at a PBS station, probably muttered while she was transcribing one of my interview tapes. Not a new quote, I know--nor a statement of great ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    Tomorrow, WFAA's Brett Shipp Is the Subject of an Exposé on PBS

    Brett Shipp In October 2006, Benny and Martha Cryer of Wylie were killed when natural gas, leaking beneath their home, ignited and exploded, trapping them beneath fiery debris. One year later, WFAA-Channel 8's Brett Shipp revisited the story to find out why no one had been held responsible for th ... More >>

  • News

    October 23, 2008

    Just How "Illegal" Are Illegal Immigrants?

    Working cheap isn't a crime. It's the American way.

  • Calendar

    September 18, 2008

    Cook or Kook?

    Yan shows Central Market how it's done

  • Film

    July 24, 2008

    In the Spirit of Waugh

    A good nine hours lighter than its TV predecessor, Brideshead Revisited gets back to the source

  • Calendar

    June 26, 2008

    Junk Lottery

    Locals aim to strike it rich on Antiques Roadshow

  • Calendar

    May 1, 2008

    Central Italy

    Locals aim to strike it rich on Antiques Roadshow

  • Calendar

    March 13, 2008

    Jazz It Up

    Chet Baker is Lost at the Modern

  • Film

    December 13, 2007

    Grounded

    Controversy aside, The Kite Runner just won't fly

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2007

    Norah Jones Kicks Off New ACL Season

    Controversy aside, The Kite Runner just won't fly

  • Calendar

    April 5, 2007

    Dick Adventures

    See Sherlock at TCU

  • Calendar

    March 29, 2007

    Sho'nuff Shogun

    See Sherlock at TCU

  • Calendar

    March 1, 2007

    It's Cookie Time!

    See Sherlock at TCU

  • Culture

    January 4, 2007

    Tubal Migration

    TV brings big Break, hot Lights to Dallas actors; plus, theater's best 10 of 2006

  • Calendar

    December 7, 2006

    Kiddie Carols

    Deck the Halls with gasoline

  • Calendar

    November 30, 2006

    Whiskey Carolers

    The Irish Tenors head west

  • Music

    September 14, 2006

    Cat Power and the Memphis Rhythm Band

    Saturday, September 16, at the Gypsy Tea Room

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2006

    A Holy Mess

    Saturday, September 16, at the Gypsy Tea Room

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2006

    Four-Part History

    Saturday, September 16, at the Gypsy Tea Room

  • Calendar

    February 9, 2006

    So Blue

    These musicians have the blues, but they're happy to be here

  • Dining

    August 4, 2005

    Home Runs

    Can great chefs cook ordinary food?

  • Film

    April 21, 2005

    Days of Thunder

    Some Dirt and a Crash highlight the eclectic 35th USA Film Festival

  • Calendar

    February 24, 2005

    This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

    Some Dirt and a Crash highlight the eclectic 35th USA Film Festival

  • Calendar

    February 17, 2005

    Purple Prose

    DTC is seeing Violet

  • Calendar

    November 6, 2003

    Danger Zone

    Tom Clancy plays spy games

  • Calendar

    August 7, 2003

    Salad Days

    Star chefs host a toss-up

  • Calendar

    February 13, 2003

    Them Demolition Ball Blues

    Robert Mugge looks for Last of the Mississippi Jukes

  • Calendar

    January 16, 2003

    Worlds Collide

    P.O.V. discovers Two Towns of Jasper for PBS

  • News

    July 4, 2002

    Broadcast News

    After layoffs, KERA tries to assuage staffers and make itself more relevant

  • Film

    January 31, 2002

    Culture Clash

    Documentarian takes a backstage look at Turandot

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    Thanks, But No Thanks

    Turning down millions in state money to build juvenile boot camps, Tarrant County opted for a different approach--one that works

  • Culture

    February 17, 2000

    Cheers and tallyho

    Your devoted columnist -- the little ingrate -- sails off into the sunset

  • Calendar

    January 27, 2000

    Swank sweat lodge

    Drummers of West Africa bring the roots of rock to Fort Worth

  • Calendar

    May 27, 1999

    Long time coming

    Drummers of West Africa bring the roots of rock to Fort Worth

  • Culture

    May 6, 1999

    The intentional tourist

    Texas artist Frank X. Tolbert2 gives us a new look at the Old World

  • News

    March 5, 1998

    See your world on a small screen at the 11th Annual Dallas Video Festival

    Texas artist Frank X. Tolbert2 gives us a new look at the Old World

  • Calendar

    September 18, 1997

    Events for the week

    Texas artist Frank X. Tolbert2 gives us a new look at the Old World

  • News

    February 8, 1996

    Lost children

    Television has replaced the family as the biggest influence in some kids' lives

  • News

    November 24, 1994

    Broadcast schmooze

    Proposed public-TV sanctions would target KERA hard sell

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