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For That Special Someone: A $100,000 Jet Pack From Neiman's Christmas Book

It's mid-October again, time for temperatures to cool, leaves to turn, and Neiman Marcus to drop its annual compendium of decadent absurdity in the form of its 176-page Christmas Book. The catalog, which you can find here, contains just as hypnotic a collection of high-end fashion photography and r ... More >>

In the Midst of Wrapping Starck Club Doc, Cain and McKinnon Fit in Stanley Marcus Film

Michael Cain says he's this close to wrapping his long-in-the-works Starck Club documentary -- by February, fingers crossed. Just last night, the founder of the Deep Ellum-turned-AFI-turned-Dallas International Film Festival dispatched this teasing look by way of a holiday greeting. But as I got to ... More >>

Mayor, Police Chief Ask You Not To Buy Your Christmas Gifts On The Black Market This Year

Photos by Anna MerlanMayor Rawlings, Chief Brown and the council at this morning's presser to announce "attack" on buyers, sellers of stolen goods​This holiday season, City Hall, the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County District Attorney's Office would like to remind you not to buy y ... More >>

MasterMinds: Matthew Posey, Joel Hester and Karen Blessen Are Winners in Our Inaugural Creativity Awards

Just Remember, There's More to Eddie Bernice Johnson Than the Scholarship Scandal

Eddie Bernice Johnson's Facebook page​This item is a dilation of a comment I posted to yesterday's item about 30th District Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and the scandal about scholarships and nepotism. It struck me after I posted the comment that maybe I owed the topic a better effort. In t ... More >>

Florida Prof Unearths Sixth Floor Museum Talks by Dallas Journo Legend Vivian Castleberry

​As the women's editor for the Dallas Times Herald for nearly 30 years, from the 1950s to the '80s, Vivian Castleberry revolutionized the section's coverage -- addressing domestic violence, for example, in addition to lifestyle pieces on decor and fashion -- and became the first woman named to the ... More >>

In Which Joule's Tim Headington Speaks Vaguely About Downtown Expansion

Earlier this month, we got all we (thought we) needed out of the DowntownDallas annual luncheon at the Sheraton -- that new logo, which, no kidding, is starting to grow on me. But I went over to the DSpotters' Web site this morning to look for something else and found this instead: the 2009 annual r ... More >>

The Year/The Decade: Markets

​You know how it is--nothing to do in Dallas but eat, drink and shop. If only we had a signature bridge...We've always had Neiman Marcus for those who want to spend the credit and places like TJ Maxx for us who don't. In the last ten years, however, food shopping in this city has become much more ... More >>

Having a Cow Over Derrill Osborn's Auction

An abstract Duvan Lopez Yepez painting, among the Derrill Osborn items up for grabs next week.​When my former colleague Christina Rees says Dallas print media needs to get off its ass and properly cover the visual arts, this probably isn't exactly what she means. Nevertheless, I now direct your at ... More >>

A Taste of 10 Dallas Milkshakes

Europeans have fresh, seasonal foods, universal health care and about 30 weeks of vacation each year. But we have milkshakes.OK--so they serve a literal version: milk shaken with some flavoring. Ours involve ice cream, crammed into a glass and churned with a little milk (or, better yet, cream) into ... More >>

Roy Bennett (The Band) Has a New Video--With a Hot Chick and Everything!

The local rock trio known as Roy Bennett has just released a new video for its song "Alone," and, hey, they actually got a semi-famous actress to star in it!Lead singer Ben Templeton met Farah White, who, among her credits, was one of the beauty pageant contestants in Miss Congeniality, while he was ... More >>

Free Shaggy: Why One Now-Former News'er Wants to "Run Topless Down the Street"

Dallas Morning News insiders and the merely curious have no doubt spent the better part of the day watching the comments pile up on the DMNcuts blog, which has documented the layoffs taking place inside 508 Young Street. Condolences have been extended, tempers have flared, those let go have said the ... More >>

Whitt's End

Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I got $1 for the first person who can show me - like Tony Romo did last week - any time that Terrell Owens has ever uttered the phrase: "This one's on me." Owens has every right to be jealous of Romo ... More >>

Experience This

Celebrate Independence Day in December

Scenes from the Cycle Show: Bike Buffs and Stunt Bait Gawk at a New Ducati

Dianna Wray Hold still ... this won't hurt a bit. Outside the Dallas Convention Center, rows of motorcycles stand gleaming in the sun. The sound of rumbling engines fills the air, and the smell of exhaust fills the nostrils. The scent could be Chanel No. 5, judging by the faces of those in the par ... More >>

Freddy Lee Foots Meets the Long Arm of the Law (Again and Again)

In a 1994 Essay, Stanley Marcus Recalls His House and Its VIPs

Entering Its Second Year, AFI Dallas Avoids the Sophomore Slump

Neimans: Slumming It On YouTube

Damned Yankees

So You Can Motorboat While Running the Rock

Filling the Charity Cups

Swap Meet

Framed!

Inner-City Kul

It's too cool for school, but can we call it art?

Roosting Tortilla

Manny's Uptown bringing its family recipes to Lemmon Avenue

Vote Pedro

Napoleon Dynamite's Efren Ramirez is one reason to see Latinologues

Blanking the Slate

What’s a weekend with the Burning Question crew like?

Love Yourself

Rosemary Meza's Masturbation Session

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Going, Going, Gone

Lord & Taylor shuffles off into the night

Spanish Fly

Dallas turns rape to romance with Calatrava bridges

Hope Chests

Kary creates time capsules as art

Picture It

Lowe shows the positive with his negatives

Best Men's Pressing

Cox Dry Cleaners and Laundry

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Open Houses

Munger Place puts out the welcome mats

Salve! Succumbs

McKinney Avenue Italian restaurant calls it quits

Sunken Island

Gozo gets shuttered up

Hash Over

Bastille blip; Mixed hash; List watch

Fur flies

A Dallas-based anti-fur group is targeted in a free-speech battle

NIGHT & DAY,

1998 December 3-9

Will the clothes make the man?

Dallas' Todd Oldham wants to take his colorful fashions from sassy to classy--and reap big-time profits. But MTV's fashion designer won't have it easy in his quest to transcend trend.

McFugue, no cheese

Beethoven and the Dead European Males clean up a notorious street corner

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Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX