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Raymond Chandler

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Here's All Those True Crime Yarns in One Fancy E-Book: Seven Sins

    Every week writers for Dallas Observer and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2012

    The Best of SXSW Music: Saturday 3/17/2012

    So, we come to it: the end of all things. Four days of madness, Doritos, Skrillex and finally, St. Patrick's Day. Before we bid SXSW 2012 farewell, allow us to share our favorite moments from SXSW day four. Later, we'll let you know which shows weren't so hot. Find our favorites below, and if there ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    New Web-Based Project And a Day in Dallas Will Prove That Even Now, Terry Southern Lives!

    Photograph by Pud Gadiot, ViaTerry Southern​At this late date, tell me there's no need to remind you who Terry Southern is. No? We're good? Fantastic.Well, OK, in case you're still not clear: He's Alvarado-born, Oak Cliff-raised, SMU-educated writer who bridged the gap between the Beat 1950s and t ... More >>

  • Film

    March 10, 2011

    Cold Weather: Take a Trip to the Mysterious World of Mumble-Noir.

    Photograph by Pud Gadiot, ViaTerry Southern​At this late date, tell me there's no need to remind you who Terry Southern is. No? We're good? Fantastic.Well, OK, in case you're still not clear: He's Alvarado-born, Oak Cliff-raised, SMU-educated writer who bridged the gap between the Beat 1950s and t ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 14, 2010

    Pocket Sandwich Theatre's Fangs For The Memories Revives A Biting Comedy; Artisan's Swing! Falls Flat

    Photograph by Pud Gadiot, ViaTerry Southern​At this late date, tell me there's no need to remind you who Terry Southern is. No? We're good? Fantastic.Well, OK, in case you're still not clear: He's Alvarado-born, Oak Cliff-raised, SMU-educated writer who bridged the gap between the Beat 1950s and t ... More >>

  • Film

    October 18, 2007

    Afflecks Come Through with Gone Baby Gone

    The Ben and Casey come through with a complex, sophisticated Boston crime drama

  • Music

    November 22, 2001

    Josh Alan Band

    Josh Alan Band (Black Cracker Music)

  • Culture

    October 25, 2001

    The Basquiat Syndrome

    Trenton Doyle Hancock benefits from the art world's peculiarly cynical twist on affirmative action

  • Culture

    September 6, 2001

    California Dreaming

    Los Angeles artists bring their defiantly difficult work to Dallas

  • Film

    August 23, 2001

    Allen Town

    Scorpion is fun if familiar, one of Woody's typical Manhattan riffs

  • Culture

    July 12, 2001

    That's All, Folks

    Contemporary art superstar Ed Ruscha turns a mirror on his times, and finds...not a whole lot

  • Music

    March 29, 2001

    Blues Valentine

    Tom Waits for no one--except guitarist-singer John Hammond

  • Culture

    January 4, 2001

    Amazing but True

    Three photographers choose Spain and Latin America as their subjects, with breathtaking results

  • Culture

    October 12, 2000

    "Look! I Made This!"

    Robert Altman wants your attention, if not your affection

  • Film

    June 15, 2000

    Getting the Shaft

    Singleton's bad mutha is just that, so shut yo' mouth

  • Film

    October 14, 1999

    Out of sight

    The Limey proves style can sometimes enhance the gritty substance

  • Music

    May 6, 1999

    The variations of Tom Waits

    Or: What do Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and a one-armed pianist have in common?

  • Film

    March 5, 1998

    Fade away

    Twilight is all poses and fogged-in platitudes

  • Film

    September 18, 1997

    Police brutality

    The terrific L.A. Confidential captures our worst suspicions of how the world works

  • Film

    September 11, 1997

    City of angles

    How Curtis Hanson turned James Ellroy's epic crime novel L.A. Confidential into one of the year's best films

  • News

    July 10, 1997

    Busted

    Julio Mercado is Dallas' brand-new DEA boss, and he's inherited kilos of trouble. His city is about to be declared a drug disaster zone, but all his narcs seem to care about is snitching on each other.

  • Music

    January 16, 1997

    Ed Hagan, 1919-1996

    Another true original leaves us

  • News

    July 18, 1996

    Buzz

    Another true original leaves us

  • Music

    February 1, 1996

    Out There

    Another true original leaves us

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