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RoboCop

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    7-Eleven: Scooting DPD's Downtown Patrol Into The Future

    The Dallas Police Department's downtown patrol is about to get a whole lot more, well, motorized. That much we can safely say. DPD announced yesterday that 7-Eleven was donating four new T3's to the department, bringing the total to eight. They were so excited about the whole thing that we got no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    In Defense Of... David Guetta's "Turn Me On" feat. Nicki Minaj

    Among the electronic music producers who have cashed in on dance music's popularity in the States, I'm most ambivalent about French DJ/producer David Guetta. Last year's album, Nothing But the Beat, took its title pretty literally with two discs of beat, and a couple cameos to keep things interest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    North Texas State's Own Peter Weller Still Doesn't Know What Buckaroo Banzai Is About

    ​While I wait for City Hall to get back to me about something, here's a little something to fill your holiday-week "work" hours: 32 minutes with Peter Weller, most of it shot Saturday during our chitchat following the Dallas Film Society's Very Special Screening of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banza ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    The End of the Occupation: Scenes From Dallas Police's Raid on Occupy Dallas's Encampment

    Photos by Justin Terveen, slide show hereIn the shadow of Dallas City Hall, officers on horseback and in riot gear prepared to raid the Occupy Dallas encampment early this morning.​A little past 11 last night, one of the protesters camped out behind Dallas City Hall was walking from tent to te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    John Lithgow, Peter Weller to Q&A After Very Special Screening of Buckaroo Banzai

    Lithgow and Weller, together again​Like I said a few weeks ago: John Lithgow's coming to town November 18 for a Very Special Event courtesy the Dallas Film Society, which will take place at the Hall of State with Elvis Mitchell moderating the Q&A. And, like I said a few weeks ago, the Dallas F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Erykah Badu Recalls How Jerry Haynes Convinced Her to Become a Singer After All

    ​First time I met Erykah Badu was in February '96, at the old Grinders on Lowest Greenville, where she'd poured coffee just a few months earlier. It was a full year before her debut Baduizm was released; those Grammys were still in the distant horizon. It was her first interview, her first chance ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Top 100 Reasons Texas Is Twice as Awesome as Any Other State

    Merritt MartinOh, you can damn well bet this is on the list.​By now most of you dear readers are well aware of the Gawker-produced list of the 50 Worst States In America. Gawker placed their home base at 50, and the Lone Star State at 13. Sure sure, our placement could be worse, but instead of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2011

    Through the Looking Glass at OCP HQ

    Photos by Justin Terveen​To those who helped made last night's RoboCop-at-OCP HQ event happen -- Downtown Dallas, Inc.; Brent Brown and his staff at the CityDesign Studio; the Dallas Film Society; and, of course, the promotions staff at the Observer -- a mighty "much obliged" this morning. Couldn' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    See You Tonight, Brobocop?

    Sir Mitchell​Shame I only just found out about Sir Mitchell's newly released Brobocop tee; I woulda have worn it tonight, as it's no doubt much more comfortable than this helmet I espied on eBay. Ah, well. Next time. Oh, right, there won't be a next time. Tonight's screening of RoboCop in front of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    On July 1, See RoboCop In Front of Omni Consumer Products HQ, Dallas City Hall

    Poster by Alexander Flores​Finally, a dream comes true.For far too long now we've talked about screening RoboCop somewhere in downtown, preferably outside, definitely near one of the myriad landmarks featured in the film set in "Detroit" but shot entirely in Dallas in the summer and early fall of ... More >>

  • Music

    April 28, 2011

    Sons of Hermann Hall Turns 100

    Poster by Alexander Flores​Finally, a dream comes true.For far too long now we've talked about screening RoboCop somewhere in downtown, preferably outside, definitely near one of the myriad landmarks featured in the film set in "Detroit" but shot entirely in Dallas in the summer and early fall of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Cheerwine Release Incites Show of Regional Soda Love

    ​Garden & Gun magazine yesterday stirred up the soda world with news that Cheerwine can now be ordered online, a development that should excite the drink's many fans in Dallas. "Every single day we have someone asking about Cheerwine," says Scott Causey, who staffs The Soda Gallery in the Bis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Well, If You Want to Know What I Think Ought to Play at Main Street Garden Movie Night ...

    ​Back in May, Kourtny Garrett, senior vice president of marketing for DowntownDallas, told us that come autumn the organization would be hosting an "outdoor movie series" on the Main Street Garden lawn. Now, the official MSG site says the series is "coming soon," but Downtown Dallas just sent word ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 16, 2009

    Big D Production

    ​Back in May, Kourtny Garrett, senior vice president of marketing for DowntownDallas, told us that come autumn the organization would be hosting an "outdoor movie series" on the Main Street Garden lawn. Now, the official MSG site says the series is "coming soon," but Downtown Dallas just sent word ... More >>

  • News

    July 3, 2008

    The Hard Lie

    How former Ticket host Greg Williams destroyed the most dynamic duo in Dallas talk radio through drugs, deceit and disaffection

  • Film

    April 26, 2007

    Rachel Stein, Showgirl

    Back home in Holland, Paul Verhoeven uses his basic instincts to craft a slick Holocaust thriller

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