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First Round of SXSW 2013 Acts Announced, Including Blackstone Rangers and The Relatives

With the announcement of 35 Denton's initial lineup, it was only a matter of time before you felt that tightening in your chest, aka the first round of SXSW acts. North Texas' Blackstone Rangers, Ronnie Fauss, the Relatives, Somebody's Darling, Sarah Jaffe and Tedashii are all represented. Thurston ... More >>

James Bond, Out of Time

Fifty years in, the spy is ever less relevant — and still beloved. Why?

Frito Lay Chef Jody Denton on Brainstorming Sessions for New Flavors and When A Big Idea Hits

Chef Jody Denton had a 35-year restaurant career that spanned the globe and included work with some of the best chefs in the country, among them like master chef Ernst Gruch, Dean Fearing and Wolfgang Puck. Then about a year ago, he left all that for an office job. But he still gets to wear a chef's ... More >>

As Physicists Near Discovery of God Particle, A Word With SMU Prof Involved In the Search

Via.​You've probably heard that an international contingent of physicists in Switzerland is this close to identifying the Higgs boson, aka the "God particle." Currently, the Higgs is the theoretical mechanism that explains how matter obtained mass following the Big Bang. The theory is that it ... More >>

The Dallas Observer 2011 MasterMind Awards

The winners of our second annual art awards delve into the past and personal loss to bring new visions to Dallas

A Dangerous Method: What Do Men Want?

Cronenberg analyzes 20th century madness.

Verbal Sparring Between Romney and Perry Highlight GOP Debate, But Three Bachmann Quotes Prove She Needs to Go Home

If you missed last night's CNN Western Republican debate in Nevada, the clip above is the best example of why the GOP is seriously screwed no matter who they choose. The two supposed front-runners -- Mitt Romney and Rick Perry -- acted like a couple of high schoolers, barking and interrupting each ... More >>

Scardello Aims to Determine the Cheese Champion of the World

Just as most basketball fans didn't pay much heed to UNC Asheville before the Bulldogs stomped Arkansas-Little Rock in overtime last night, Scardello Cheese owner Rich Rogers hopes his shop's second annual cheese bracket will bring attention to overlooked cheese regions. ​France took the "Tou ... More >>

Wendy Reves's Sole Heir Files Federal Suit to Retrieve Mother's Art Collection (Left to DMA) and Money (Given to UT Southwestern)

Dallas Museum of ArtPortrait of Mrs. Emery Reves by Graham Sutherland, 1978​A federal lawsuit filed in Dallas on Friday has all the makings of a Vanity Fair feature story, down to the famous names who make cameo appearances -- among them, President Franklin Roosevelt, Coco Chanel and Winston Churc ... More >>

Stay Hungry, Live Longer: the Science Behind the Calorie Restriction Diet

An SMU biologist thinks the secret to the fountain of youth may be found by putting fruit flies on a diet.

DART's Outside Auditor Seems Too Inside to Expose Secrets

We're over the game of hide the ball with Deloitte Touche

Coppola returns with Youth Without Youth

Coppola romanticizes his source material

High on the Hog

In Texas, shoot as many feral pigs as you like. Just don't let your dog bite them.

Calatrava is Spanish for "Over Budget"

"Exuberantly shallow"

Suspension bridge of disbelief

G.I. Jerk

Phil Haberman claims he fought with special forces in Iraq, but he's about as real as Rambo

Boy Meets Whirl

A lost lad longs for life in I Am David

Manhattanism

The new season in New York's Chelsea galleries offers a mad mixture of artful objects, photo-optics and cinematic play

Kathleen Edwards

October 17

Apple Gazing

Stolik operator hopes to beat the odds

In Your Dreams

Joseph Dispenza weaves explanations for dreams

Botched Job

David Mamet plots and schemes, then blows his own Heist

Searching for the Great Man

Behind the important collector Paul Guillaume stood a very ordinary woman

Abstract Rebel

To achieve the stillness and symmetry that define his art, Hermann Sigg had to burn a big bridge

Letters

Where Did Our PLUR Go?; Just Shoot Him; Laughs for White Guys; Gone to Seed; New Ground

New-time religion

Meditation, Buddha, and baby wipes. You call this being Jewish? Oy vey.

Getting the Shaft

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

Bad business

Death merchant Michael Lee Davis, sent once again to prison, is now worth more dead than alive

Hide and seek

Deep Ellum developer Lou Reese bilked a savings and loan, bled his creditors, and walked away from federal prision a rich man. Bragging about it was is one big mistake.

Inside the soapbox

Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

The Dropout Piece

Lee Lozano was among the most celebrated conceptual artists of the 1960s. So why is she buried in an unmarked grave in Grand Prairie?

Pricey quotes

Peeking into Ginsburg's multimillion-dollar Voltaire

Renoir's war

A newly struck print allows the great Grand Illusion to shine again

Letters

The Fandom Menace

Living on the sidewalk for a month. Sleeping with Wookiees. Thousand-dollar action figures. Think the new Star Wars is just a movie? You poor fool.

On holy ground

The fight over St. Ann's snares the city, Hispanics, and the Catholic diocese in a battle that tests Dallas' commitment to preserving its past

Taking shots

A German hockey team claims that Stars goalie Roman Turek is its property

The biggest pump wins

Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumping water nearby. Under the state's "rule of capture," he has no right to complain.

For heaven's sake

Stone By Stone Gallery takes a risky ride with an unknown painter's chaotic spiritual journey

Renoir,Shmenoir

It's not exactly Dogs Playing Poker, but Christine Biederman says the Kimbell Art Museum's new Renoir exhibit panders to the masses

Zen in the den

Is a closed toilet the path to spiritual harmony? Dallas’ feng shui followers think so.

Cream of the crop

Jack Bruce follows his own path

Buzz

Events for the week

The Ego and the Ecstasy

Sculptor Raffaele Martini Pandozy wages a one-man war to revolutionize Dallas' aesthetic from inside his South Dallas fortress

Events for the week

Net profit

Making a buck off Internet neophytes

Disarming

DTC's Arms and the Man resurrects the comic genius of George Bernard Shaw

Bad news town

Whitewright keeps making headlines--for all the wrong reasons

Three-ring theater

It's worth running away to join DTC's Invisible Circus