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The New Valley View Will Be Like Uptown, With a Gondola

The last time I set foot in Valley View Center three or four years ago, it was eerily reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic zombie flick, and not the old-school kind with the undead lurching forward with laughable slowness. The zombies that come to mind are the type that are puma-quick and would have no ... More >>

One Thirty Productions' Greater Tuna Melts your Heart, Makes You Laugh

Lubbock Texas-Based MicroZap Inc. Claims Technology Allows Bread To Stay Mold-Free

According to The Associated Press, MicroZap Inc. has developed a technology that allows bread to be stored for up to 60 days without growing mold. The device, which costs about $100 more than a standard microwave oven, makes use of the same energy to kill mold spores in a loaf with a 10-second blast ... More >>

Brian Loncar Finds a New Way to Profit Off His Clients

There is little doubt that Brian Loncar is a shrewd businessman. One doesn't dub oneself the "Strong Arm," create a Bat Signal-like image of a flexing appendage, and create a minor personal injury litigation empire without some measure of marketing savvy. But Loncar is also known to blur ethical li ... More >>

Milkshake Maniac is Scary. No, It's Funny. No, It's Scary.

When we found the Milkshake Maniac series on YouTube, we were interested, then afraid, then interested, then afraid again. We had to know more about this dude from Plano who wears an "I Heart MS" shirt and makes extended-dance-cut "oh"-faces at the camera. So, we asked him some questions.

Plans Remain For Food Trailer Court Parked Next to Trader Joe's on Old Arcadia Site

​Two questions this morning about Trader Joe's plans to build its first Dallas location on the site where once the Arcadia stood: Does this kill the food-trailer park Madison Partners had planned for the site, and what does this mean for the old Whole Foods spot everyone thinks is going to Walmart ... More >>

Cedars Open Studios Exposed the Day-to-day of Local Artists

On Saturday, as a part of the 9th annual Cedars Open Studios, more than 60 artists provided the opportunity to share a little insight into their own creativity by opening up their studios to the public. Complete with food, music, and of course, wine, most studios were at capacity with the steady flo ... More >>

Don't Forget That Other Hike-n-Bike Bridge Linking Riverfront and the Cedars

​We're going to begin this morning with two Trinity-related items -- the first of which you see above. That, Friends of Unfair Park, is the Belleview Connector, a proposed bridge that would link Riverfront Boulevard to the Cedars -- specifically, Jack Matthews's South Side of Lamar and the attenda ... More >>

Mike Rawlings on Tenure as Homeless Czar and Why "Citizens Council" Isn't a Pejorative

viaAylwin Lewis​During our 90-mintute interview with Mike Rawlings at CIC Partners inside Crescent Court for last week's piece about the mayor's race, Rawlings repeated a statement about the campaign that he's made at countless debates: "It's not about personalities." We argued the opposite i ... More >>

Justin Bieber's Biggest Fans Descend Upon Frisco

Mattie Stafford​Every few years it seems a new pandemic sweeps the nation. Usually occurring on or around television sweeps weeks, diseases like SARS and swine flu become hot-button topics that dominate news coverage as well as most other forms of popular media. Formerly innocuous water cooler ... More >>

Something's Fishy This Season

Poster Of The Week: Phosphorescent, Shiny Around The Edges, DJ CeePee and The Dallas Family Band At The Kessler Friday

Kevin Sears​Good Records' Kevin Sears created this beautiful gig poster for Friday's show at the lovely Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff. It's a show we're quite excited about, of course, so it's great to see such a cool flyer promoting it. Making it even more interesting a bill is a late addition to ... More >>

Exploring Dallas' Eating Habits, One Lunch Sack at a Time

Kinda makes us regret that bag of beef jerky we had for lunch.​Anyone who reads about food knows what they should eat. And they probably have a pretty good sense of what they could eat, if they had plenty of money and an elastic gut. But there's remarkably little food journalism devoted to wh ... More >>

City to Refocus Its Attention at Southwest Center on Macy's, Which Is "Still Alive"; Penney's Owner Will Consider All His Options

​Back to Southwest Center Mall for a moment -- or, more specifically, the city's plans to keep the "dead mall," per the Urban Land Institute, alive. Karl Zavitkovsky kept the council's Economic Development Committee behind closed doors for almost an hour this morning, during which point it was men ... More >>

Ron Natinsky Wonders: If We're Gonna Save Southwest Center, Why Not Valley View, Then?

Sam MertenRon Natinsky​If nothing else, this'll be the last Southwest Center Mall item of the day -- only because there'll be nothing left to talk about till after the council returns from its summer recess. But Ron Natinksky, head of the city council's Economic Development Committee, called Unfai ... More >>

The Sad View from Valley View

Signs like this one decorate dozens of empty storefronts at Valley View Center.​When I was a kid, Valley View was my mall -- bought my first skateboard (a Powell-Peralta purchased at the stand beneath the escalators), my first album (KISS's Double Platinum at the Disc Records) and my first guitar ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: Decadent Dub Team, Fracturing the Mash-Up

DDTers Jason Wolford, EZ Eddie D and Jeff Liles​ The puke green exterior made the Mitchell Building in Deep Ellum look like a frightening industrial shop of horrors. Far from being accidental, that's by design -- the place was actually a weapons manufacturing facility during Word War II.In the ear ... More >>

Dallas Architecture Porn, Part 281: For Sale, a Photo of Lang and Witchell's Drafting Room

​Otto Lang and Frank Witchell built this city, more or less. Let's catalog, shall we: the Dallas Power & Light Building, the Lone Star Gas Company HQ,  the Sanger Bros. Department Store, the Fair Park Music Hall, the Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s Catalog Merchandise Center (now known as the ... More >>

Ava: A restaurant so good, Dave Faries might consider moving to Rockwall for...Nah.

New actors freshen up old fave, Greater Tuna; no bite in Kitchen Dog’s contest winner

Red Bird Singing in the Dead of Night, Take These Broken Wings and Learn to Fly

View Larger MapSpeaking, as we were late last week, of deserted area malls, today comes word that the city council's trying to figure out what to do with the Shopping Center Formerly Known as Red Bird. Otherwise called Southwest Center Mall, the joint was once a jam-packed jewel upon its grand openi ... More >>

I Have Heard The Future Of Music, And Its Name Is Hunkasaurus

Tom Hendricks, a.k.a. Hunkasaurus And His Pet Dog Guitar. Updated. Follow jump for additional info. Tom Hendricks announced today that he is opening his record company to any indie musician who wants to be on a label. "Do you need a record company? Well you are welcome to be a part of MUSEA, my 16 y ... More >>

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Flight of Fancy

Glossy combat epic offers a sanitized version of World War I

More Bang for Yer Roebuck

Soul Food

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Blanking the Slate

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Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Capsule Reviews

Our critics survey the local art scene

Artists in Residences

A Dallas real estate developer reinvents the art of the deal

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Best Sporting Goods Store

Oshman's Supersports USA

Here Comes Judge

Mike Judge is King of the Hill at the Dallas Video Festival

Mall Rats

Thieves stole Ronnie Wilson's name, and now she's having an identity crisis

Buzz

Slip up; Sinking ship; Cookie cutters

Bum's rush

As downtown's upscale residents find themselves surrounded by an army of street people, many wish these 'dopers and crackheads' would move on -- or at least find a toilet

Cow chips and dip

If you can get past the Texas kitsch, the grub at Texana Grill makes for some good eatin'

Night & Day

June 18 - 24, 1998

Getting Scrooged

DTC hits some flat notes with A Christmas Carol

Buzz