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  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Hofmann Sausage is Bringing Snappy Grillers to Dallas

    News about Dallas by way of Houston: the Eating Our Words blog ran a story yesterday about Hofmann Sausage Co. and its pending Texas takeover. The Syracuse-based hot dog maker was purchased by the Dallas-based Zaccanelli Food Group, and the links should be available at every Albertson's by Memorial ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Spoon's Eric Harvey: "The Worst Show I Ever Saw Was Also One Of The Best. The Band Was Called Shadow Church..."

    It's been too long since Spoon has played Dallas, but tonight, they return to the Granada for a sold-out show. Keyboardist Eric Harvey lives here and you might have seen him at shows as big as Wilco at Fair Park Music Hall or as small as the final Annex House show. Harvey recently put out an excell ... 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 >>

  • News

    December 22, 2011

    Best Films of 2011: People of the Year

    Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Look Now, Morning News, Dallas's Problems Aren't Detroit's. Get It?

    ​Colleen McCain Nelson debuts a new political column today on the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News in which she holds up my former hometown, Detroit, as the arch example of what Dallas needs not to be. She's writing about Mayor Dave Bing's initiative to withdraw scarce city services from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    It's Almost the End of National Hot Dog Month. If You Haven't Been Celebrating, Get To It.

    Scott ReitzThe great Zweigles hot dog from Rochester​Oh, Aters. Twenty-nine days of bliss have passed us by and we haven't lead you to a single wiener. We haven't photographed one tubesteak, nor have we grilled a single frankfurter. July is hot dog month and we haven't offered the slightest co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    A Look at How "Resilient" DFW Is (Or Isn't)

    Developed by the University at Buffalo Regional Institute, State University of New York. Click to embiggen UC Berkeley's Resilience Capacity Index map​Patrick "Car-Free" Kennedy directs our attention to this University of California Berkeley look-see at the resiliency of the major metros in the U. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Denton's Water Is Apparently Some of the Tastiest in the Country

    Once it hits your lips, it's so good! ​A tap water taste competition. Of all the possible taste competitions in the world, you'd be hard-pressed to think of one less thrilling than tap water. Maybe borscht? Cough medicine, perhaps? Nonetheless, the U.S. Conference of Mayors recently conducted ... More >>

  • Film

    March 17, 2011

    Jane Eyre: A Woman of Independent Means.

    Once it hits your lips, it's so good! ​A tap water taste competition. Of all the possible taste competitions in the world, you'd be hard-pressed to think of one less thrilling than tap water. Maybe borscht? Cough medicine, perhaps? Nonetheless, the U.S. Conference of Mayors recently conducted ... More >>

  • Music

    February 24, 2011

    Pomplamoose's DIY Revolution

    Once it hits your lips, it's so good! ​A tap water taste competition. Of all the possible taste competitions in the world, you'd be hard-pressed to think of one less thrilling than tap water. Maybe borscht? Cough medicine, perhaps? Nonetheless, the U.S. Conference of Mayors recently conducted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Q&A: Death Angel's Mark Osegueda Talks Unlikely Collaborations, Band Name Regrets

    Death Angel​From 1982 to 1991, there probably wasn't a more interesting metal act than California's Death Angel. Not only did the band consist of five Filipinos, but they didn't stick to any standard metal blueprint either. Despite the serious moniker, Death Angel displayed a musical variety and s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    The Other Items on Park and Rec Board Agenda

    The city's inching closer to starting that Stevens Park extreme makeover, which had been set to start at the beginning of this month.​We've written plenty about one item in particular on today's Park and Rec Board meeting agenda, but it's not the only item of interest. As in: Were you aware that t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    Liveblogging Today's Parks and Rec Meeting

    You wanna see Rochester Park, you'd best hustle: It closes down in October for a big ol' levee redo.​All kinds of folks are crammed up in City Hall's sixth-floor Parks and Rec meeting room -- ladies who lunch, guys in suits, city officials and, of course, some dude who stinks pretty bad. It's so f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    "Great Trinity Forest Funding Breakdown" Sounds Like One Hell of a Bluegrass Jam

    ​Alas, it's just the title of one of two briefings the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will consider this morning. I'll leave it to Sam and Schutze to crunch the numbers and see if they add up -- Sam especially has a thing for the Texas Horse Park -- but according to the briefing, of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Yeah, But What If Baseball Went To The European Football Table?

    I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we're all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August ... September ... maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top ... More >>

  • Music

    December 18, 2008

    Buyer Beware: Lil Wayne's Got a Crappy Record at Live Performances

    I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we're all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August ... September ... maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2007

    Tom Leppert Keeps Delivering One Shocker After Another

    I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we're all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August ... September ... maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top ... More >>

  • Music

    October 12, 2006

    Born to Be Blue

    Blue Man Group: Pop-culture phenomenon or just three guys with too much latex?

  • Home Entertainment

    July 6, 2006

    Bond in a Bikini

    Blue Man Group: Pop-culture phenomenon or just three guys with too much latex?

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2006

    NASCAR: A Yankee Pastime

    Blue Man Group: Pop-culture phenomenon or just three guys with too much latex?

  • Film

    March 9, 2006

    Free for All

    The Libertine's protagonist is a boor you can't ignore

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2005

    Living Loud

    The Libertine's protagonist is a boor you can't ignore

  • Music

    July 24, 2003

    Kodak Moment

    Thanks to sticks and Strokes, Longwave's Steve Schlitz doesn't have to move back to Rochester just yet

  • Film

    May 17, 2001

    Under Ogre

    Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

  • Music

    May 10, 2001

    Dynamic Duo

    With playwright Steven Sater, Duncan Sheik sidesteps his usual breezy pop

  • News

    December 14, 2000

    Casual Day Casualties

    Do clothes make the lawyer? One Dallas judge thinks so.

  • Film

    September 30, 1999

    The shtick-up

    Plunkett & Macleane manages to steal a little fun from the familiar

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    Belo the belt

    When Belo got into the cable news business, it set off a war with Time Warner that has both companies fighting over Texas

  • Music

    December 3, 1998

    Wired shut

    Jawbox's odds-and-ends Scrapbook makes a wonderful farewell

  • News

    November 12, 1998

    Wayward son

    The Irving stepmother of a man linked to the shootings of abortion doctors wrestles with questions about his involvement

  • News

    October 16, 1997

    The (W)right to Fly

    How little Legend Airlines beat mammoth American at its own game

  • News

    August 15, 1996

    The Learning Curve

    Earnest eggheads came to Texas with an idea that for-profit schools can save public education. So far, it ain't working.

  • Film

    April 25, 1996

    Joe Bob Briggs

    Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

  • Film

    April 11, 1996

    Shadows and light

    Zeffirelli meticulously recycles the goof-proof romance Jane Eyre

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