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The Times' Jill Abramson is Coming to Town. Be Sure to Follow Her Speech on Twitter.

Jill Abramson, executive editor of my favorite daily newspaper, The New York Times, will speak in town a week from tomorrow, 10 days later than originally planned. Her announced topic will be the same thing that delayed her: "The Boston Marathon Tragedy: 'Quality Journalism's Role in the Hyper Speed ... More >>

Big Cities Have a Glut of Lawyers While Small Towns Suffer

Everybody knows the Shakespeare quote, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." It's the stuff of T-shirts. But how many people know what it was about? In Henry VI, Dick the Butcher proposes killing all of England's lawyers as the first step toward accomplishing the treasonous plot of J ... More >>

McKinney Sen. Ken Paxton's Tax-Credit Voucher Bill a Sneaky Way to Route Public Money to Private Religious Schools

The idea behind McKinney Senator Ken Paxton's proposed legislation really is pretty ingenious. The whole school-choice voucher idea -- essentially a guise to funnel public money to religious schools -- invariably runs afoul of constitutional challenges. So, lately, that movement has shifted its stra ... More >>

Things Sriracha Does Not Go On

I started thinking about this project last Sunday whilst at brunch. I'd just hit Vickery Park's brisket sandwich with a healthy dose of cock sauce and noted how well the flavors worked together. Spurred by the famous Frank's Red Hot tagline, "I put that shit on everything" I asked my drunken table m ... More >>

Oh My Cod: A Dying Breed Means Your Fish and Chips May Soon Get More Expensive

OMC!!!​I headed over to the Libertine Bar this weekend to indulge in their weekend fish and chips special with a few cold Boddingtons. The move was a preemptive measure based an article published in The New York Times this weekend, which hints that cod fisheries could be in trouble. The story ... More >>

While Faraway Lenders Grapple with Fracking, a Word From Local Appraiser in the Trenches

Photo by Taryn Walker​A rig in ArlingtonThe New York Times ran an interesting story Thursday on the growing reluctance of banks to grant mortgages to owners of properties that have been leased for gas drilling in the northeast. Landowners often aren't giving banks a heads up before signing on ... More >>

Downright Loopy

Gift Ideas for Cooks When a Dreidel Isn't Enough

Since Chanukah's not traditionally a gift-giving holiday (it's a minor festival trumped up to keep assimilation-minded Jews from celebrating Christmas, but I'll save that screed for another day), I typically don't bother making a wish list. As a kid, my loot usually consisted of dreidels and socks, ... More >>

When Beef, Cheese and Bacon Go Wrong: Reviewing the State Fair Fried Goods, Part Two

Photos by Stephen MaskerThe chicken BLT. Why?​City of Ate this week set out to sample all the new fair foods that didn't make the Big Tex competition finals. Here, part two of our deep-fried review. Check out part one here, and see more food in our opening week slideshow. 1. Chicken BLT It's ... More >>

Schutze and "The Dirt Doctor" Take Issue With Times Story About an Organic Golf Course

Brandon ThibodeauxHoward Garrett​The New York Times today has a story about an organic golf course on Martha's Vineyard of which the newspaper says: "Opened eight years ago, the club is thought to be the only completely organic golf course in the United States ..." As we know, that actually mean ... More >>

Food Festivals Like Taste of West Village Aren't Necessarily About Food

​Since news about Texas food tends to find its way to my inbox, I know way more than I should about Texas Roadhouse happenings. I don't usually find too much in the Roadhouse oeuvre that's worth sharing, but I was oddly riveted by a recent announcement regarding the restaurant chain's partici ... More >>

Two Items That Go Down Easier With the Inclusion of a Justin Terveen Photo

Justin TerveenJuly Alley at Sunset, taken this week​Thanks to Larry James, I just spent the better part of an hour getting better acquainted with the 8-year-old Process Access Dallas, a coalition of thousands of physicians and more than a dozen hospitals -- and many, many more working under the au ... More >>

What Dallas Netflixed in '09

​Maybe you noticed (over to the right, beneath our Twitter Updates header) that yesterday, The New York Times took A Peek Into Netflix Queues in 12 U.S. cities, including Dallas. The breakdown's by zip code and ranks the top rentals of '09 -- and most zips find The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ... More >>

Highway Patrol: NYTimes Examines the Clear and Present Danger Posed by Work Zones

​The front page of this morning's New York Times takes a long, hard look at how unsafe highway work zones are, especially those involving pavement-edge drop-offs (which, according to one 2006 study, pose "a potential safety hazard because significant vertical differences between surfaces can affec ... More >>

Friday's Unverified Fact About San Diego

​The 'Boys host Northern Mexico's NFL franchise on Sunday. Next week, it's off to the Big Ugly. For now, one final "fact" about the pretty boys from border...As a boy, Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers was traumatized by the final scene in Ghostbusters. He is so frightened of marshmallows he spen ... More >>

NY Times Wasn't Wowed By Jerryworld. So, Then, How About the Wyly and Winspear?

Patrick MichelsA view from the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House on Monday, when it made its official bow​Another day, another review of the AT&T Performing Arts Center -- this one from Nicolai Ouroussoff of The New York Times, whose assessment graces the top of this morning's Arts section. ... More >>

George W. Bush Sure Has a Lot of Stuff

Two days after The New York Times singled out Saddam Hussein's unloaded spider-hole pistol (band name alert) among the possible trophies to be displayed in George W. Bush's SMU library, and a week after Pulle's piece on the joint, comes this Associated Press report about the contents of the Lewisvil ... More >>

As Rainbow Lounge Raid Story Spreads Across Country, Many Interviews with Chad Gibson

Courtesy KXAS-Channel 5Chad Gibson, hospitalized for a week after the Rainbow Lounge raid in Fort Worth, tells local TV stations he wants the officers involved prosecuted.More than a week later, the Rainbow Lounge raid continues to make national headlines.Yesterday, The New York Times revisited the ... More >>

Good Times: St. Vincent Gets Some NYT Love

Annabel MehranIt's Annie Clark's Times, we're just living in them. The New York Times checked in with St. Vincent yesterday, a day after her sophomore album, Actor, earned its official release--mostly, it seems, because the NYT wants in on the hype, dammit. The piece is mostly a straight up feature ... More >>

Just Remember, Luxury is Not Dead

In January, as Neiman Marcus was reporting dismal Christmas numbers and laying off nearly 400, the retailer's CEO and president, Burt Tansky, insisted a rebound was around the corner: "Luxury is not dead," he insisted. Perhaps not -- maybe it's merely comatose. So notes this morning's New York Times ... More >>

Landlubber

Stage West presents The Seafarer

Food For Thought...

"Wine bulletin boards are the equivalent of Fox News and MSNBC, each preaching to their own committed choir and trashing the other." (Eric Asimov in the New York Times)

The New York Times Runs An Obituary On Clint Ballard, Jr.

The New York Times has an obituary today on Clint Ballard, Jr., who died on December 23. 2008.Ballard, a longtime Dallas and Denton resident, wrote a number of hit songs, including Linda Ronstadt's No. 1 hit single, "You're No Good." His death comes two and a half years after he suffered a stroke f ... More >>

The Times, Trinity High and Tonga

Good GodTube, That's A Lot of Dough

See What She Means

The Mansion hosts a Peony in Love

Wanna Pay For Bush's SMU Library? S'OK, He Won't Tell No One.

Wherein Jim Schutze Introduces His New Blog ... Waitaminute.

The New York Times Is Now In Bidness With The Dallas Morning News

Success? Or Just Hoping for the Best?

So Is the Knowledge Econony For or Against the Trinity River Toll Road?

Soft Core

The revenge of the nerds is bitter

Girl on a Motorcycle

Sandra Brown Writes Some Crazy Friggin' Books

That's So Craig Watkins!

More Inconvenient Truths

Expo Park: Gosh, It Looks Happening!

Radio is a Sad Salvation

Bye, Bye, Buyout

Screen Lingo

Screen Dancers

Ballets Russes offers history and passion

Bright Eyes, Jim James, M. Ward

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Beef Brawl

The beef is good, but other things are better at Smith & Wollensky

Internal Despair

In The Believer, a Jewish student explores his inner Nazi

Like, You Know

Floored offers a reminder that irony isn't just about bringing the funny

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Write or wrong?

Marilyn Manson's Long Hard Road Out of Hell is paved with one journalist's bad intentions