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The Taliban

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    On Flood Control, Dallas Better Think Nationally or Be Ready to Drown Locally

    Man, talk about whistling past the graveyard. At yesterday's Dallas City Council meeting, council members Tennell Atkins and Delia Jasso asked good questions about the city's flood control plans, and City Manager Mary Suhm and her assistant, Jill Jordan, gave good answers. But it was all deck chairs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Michael Hinojosa: Why Should We Blame Him for Leaving a Sinking Ship?

    ​We all need to splash our faces with cold water in this matter of the superintendent of the Dallas school system leaving town for a job as superintendent of schools in Cobb County, Georgia. What the hell do we expect? Governor Rick Perry and the Tea Party are charging ahead with an agenda a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Today's Edition of The News Is Caught Between a Rock Island Street and a Hard Place

    ​There's a great story by Steve Thompson on Page One of The Dallas Morning News today about old industrial businesses on Rock Island Street, a quaint one-block lane tucked between the Trinity River levee and Lamar Street a mile due south of downtown. Several businesses there are fighting to keep C ... More >>

  • Film

    September 2, 2010

    The Tillman Story Sets the Record Straight.

    ​There's a great story by Steve Thompson on Page One of The Dallas Morning News today about old industrial businesses on Rock Island Street, a quaint one-block lane tucked between the Trinity River levee and Lamar Street a mile due south of downtown. Several businesses there are fighting to keep C ... More >>

  • Film

    July 15, 2010

    Restrepo: Capturing Men at Work at War.

    ​There's a great story by Steve Thompson on Page One of The Dallas Morning News today about old industrial businesses on Rock Island Street, a quaint one-block lane tucked between the Trinity River levee and Lamar Street a mile due south of downtown. Several businesses there are fighting to keep C ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2009

    The Horse Writer

    ​There's a great story by Steve Thompson on Page One of The Dallas Morning News today about old industrial businesses on Rock Island Street, a quaint one-block lane tucked between the Trinity River levee and Lamar Street a mile due south of downtown. Several businesses there are fighting to keep C ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    Dallas a Great Convention Town -- for Nuns

    ​There's a great story by Steve Thompson on Page One of The Dallas Morning News today about old industrial businesses on Rock Island Street, a quaint one-block lane tucked between the Trinity River levee and Lamar Street a mile due south of downtown. Several businesses there are fighting to keep C ... More >>

  • News

    February 26, 2009

    Guantanamo's Final Days

    America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    Stephen Colbert (Ahem) Supports (Wink Wink) Pete Sessions's "Insurgency" Remarks

    Last week, Rep. Pete Sessions had to be interrupted by an aide during an interview with the National Journal when he just couldn't stop putting the words "insurgency," "Republican Party" and "Taliban" in the same sentences. Which is how Sessions, makin' the 32nd District proud, wound up as the subje ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    The Why Chromosome

    'Gourmet' Dating Services Ponder The Missing MaleEd Bamberger can't figure it out.On a Thursday night, 33 members show up for a ritzy five course spread at Nana--28 women and five men. A few days later, he hosts another in a series of Single Gourmet events. This time a casual gathering for brunch dr ... More >>

  • Film

    May 1, 2008

    Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a Thing to Marvel

    'Gourmet' Dating Services Ponder The Missing MaleEd Bamberger can't figure it out.On a Thursday night, 33 members show up for a ritzy five course spread at Nana--28 women and five men. A few days later, he hosts another in a series of Single Gourmet events. This time a casual gathering for brunch dr ... More >>

  • Film

    December 13, 2007

    Grounded

    Controversy aside, The Kite Runner just won't fly

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2007

    "We Fight the Good Jihad"

    Controversy aside, The Kite Runner just won't fly

  • Calendar

    September 27, 2007

    Hear Ye, Hear Ye

    The Modern shows you what to watch

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2007

    Former UTD Student Gets Six Years

    The Modern shows you what to watch

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2007
  • Calendar

    July 26, 2007

    Lone Star SEAL

    Luttrell brings controversy to Mesquite

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2007

    Richard Chichakli Just Wants to Get Back to Richardson

    Luttrell brings controversy to Mesquite

  • Film

    May 31, 2007

    The Office meets Deliverance

    Satire and horror make for bad synergy in Severance

  • News

    March 29, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican!

    Satire and horror make for bad synergy in Severance

  • News

    February 8, 2007

    W. and Us

    Dallas, home to the George W. Bush think tank. Let's think about that.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2007

    Exiles in the Heartland, Part 2

    Dallas, home to the George W. Bush think tank. Let's think about that.

  • Calendar

    October 26, 2006

    Osama Undercover

    See another side of Afghanistan

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2006

    Shooting Blanks

    See another side of Afghanistan

  • Film

    July 27, 2006

    London Fog

    Woody Allen's second straight English excursion is a failed return to comedy

  • Film

    December 30, 2004

    Lean Sideways

    In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

  • Culture

    October 14, 2004

    Blues States

    Singing it loud and proud at WaterTower; Echo trio tries red-hot political comedy

  • Film

    July 8, 2004

    The Real World

    The Dallas Video Festival shows all the news not fit for print

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    The Polygamists Are Coming!

    Nervous West Texas townsfolk brace for the arrival of a sect of Mormon fundamentalists and their many wives

  • News

    April 1, 2004

    Disposable Cops

    Scratched or defective? Heave 'em and get new ones.

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2004

    Tumble 4 Ya

    Momix uses cactus tactics to attract new dance fans

  • Film

    March 11, 2004

    From Bad to Worse

    An Afghan girl faces the terror of life under the Taliban

  • Film

    August 14, 2003

    Habitat for Inhumanity

    The "asylums" depicted in The Magdalene Sisters are insane

  • Music

    April 10, 2003

    Dixie Down

    When does a benign anti-war comment become the death of open discourse?

  • Music

    January 16, 2003

    War On War

    Steve Earle wonders what's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding

  • News

    November 14, 2002

    Crusaders

    In another holy war, the battle plan is to turn Muslims into Bible believers

  • News

    September 26, 2002

    Hayseed Politics

    If Wal-Mart wants zoning in this burg, it needs to buy a new suit

  • Music

    August 15, 2002

    Toby Keith

    Unleashed (DreamWorks)

  • Film

    June 20, 2002

    War Torn

    The teen-agers of the topical, complex Baran find love and life don't often mix easily

  • Film

    April 11, 2002

    The Lord's Work?

    In Frailty, it's a Texas massacre with God's blessings

  • News

    March 14, 2002

    Kirk's Race

    Plus: Man's World, Keep On Busing, Knocked Out

  • Calendar

    February 14, 2002

    Viva V-Day

    SMU and UNT present The Vagina Monologues

  • Music

    January 31, 2002

    Crazy/Beautiful

    Brian Jonestown Massacre would rather be insane than average

  • Film

    January 17, 2002

    Arabian Nightmare

    A road through hell paved with good intentions points the way to Kandahar

  • News

    January 3, 2002

    Look Back in Confusion

    2001 brought out the best and worst in local media

  • News

    December 6, 2001

    What's Up, 'Docks?

    The Morning News keeps the evil thoughts away

  • Culture

    November 22, 2001

    War on War Books

    Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

  • News

    October 11, 2001

    Letters

    Don't Be a Wimp, Silly Boot Camps, Us and Them

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    New Model Army

    Can the big-brain boys of the defense community change the way America fights?

  • Music

    September 14, 2000

    Earth Crisis

    Harsh words

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