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University of Texas at Arlington

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Dallas versus Sprawl! It's a Fight-to-the-Finish Cage Death-Match, Not a Church Picnic.

    If The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Arlington sponsor a big seminar on regional cooperation, how many people at the seminar are going to come out against regional cooperation? Yeah. Not to be self-important or anything, but I believe that's my job, Pilgrim. So here it is: Regi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    UT-Arlington Students March for Trayvon Martin, Demand Gunman's Arrest

    Students, faculty and community members marched together today through the University of Texas at Arlington campus, demanding justice for Trayvon Martin's death and the arrest of his killer, 28-year-old George Zimmerman. Hundreds attended the rally organized by the UT-Arlington NAACP chapter, inclu ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2011

    MasterMind Finalists: The Almost-Chosen Few

    Students, faculty and community members marched together today through the University of Texas at Arlington campus, demanding justice for Trayvon Martin's death and the arrest of his killer, 28-year-old George Zimmerman. Hundreds attended the rally organized by the UT-Arlington NAACP chapter, inclu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Be It In 1976 or 2008, Tom Waits For No Man

    ​I've taken one spin through Tom Waits's forthcoming Bad as Me, which is every bit as good as they say -- Rain Dogs redux times 10, turned up to 11. Hear for yourself: Anti- Records is streaming the lit-with-a-torch "Back in the Crowd" and the titular trash-can growl. Record's out October 24, whic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Dallas "Visionary" and UT-Austin School of Architecture Dean Hal Box, 81, Died Sunday

    Courtesy the University of Texas at AustinHal Box​Two years ago I posted a lengthy excerpt from the 1962 book The Prairie's Yield - Forces Shaping Dallas Architecture from 1840 to 1962, published by Reinhold in conjunction with the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Among its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2011

    New York Times on Ralph Isenberg's Efforts to Bring Saad Nabeel Back to North Texas

    Mark GrahamRalph Isenberg​We've mentioned in recent months Ralph Isenberg's efforts to bring Saad Nabeel back to North Texas, where a University of Texas at Arlington electrical engineering scholarship awaits the 20-year-old Frisco Liberty High grad. Nabeel, though, was deported to Bangladesh last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    If FW Passes on Feds' $25 Mil Transpo Grant, Dallas Wants For Streetcars. Good Luck.

    University of Texas at Arlington LibraryMain and Akard, circa 1953​The city council's Transportation and Environment Committee meeting just wrapped, with Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez updating the council on the status of streetcars. Read all about it. But in the middle of Gonzalez's presen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    UT Arlington To Set Up Shop In Oak Cliff

    Daniel RodrigueBob Stimson​The Oak Cliff spirit of urban development and community outreach, which we are physically incapable of not writing about here in the paper and online, continues -- this time, with an urban planning storefront that's the result of a partnership between the Oak Cliff Chamb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Ralph Isenberg to Ask Obama This Evening Why Administration Deported Frisco's Saad Nabeel

    Saad Nabeel​Speaking of the president's visit ...One week ago today we mentioned that Former Dallas City Plan Commissioner-turned-immigration activist Ralph Isenberg has taken up the cause of Saad Nabeel, who came to the U.S. with his parents when he was 3, graduated from Frisco's Liberty High Sch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Ralph Isenberg DREAMs of a Day When Deported Saad Nabeel Can Return to Frisco

    ​For those unfamiliar with the story of Saad Nabeel, there's quite the extensive Wikipedia page -- but long story short, he's the Bangladeshi-born 19-year-old who, till recently, had been in the States since he was 3, when his folks came here seeking political asylum -- a request repeatedly denied ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Good Friday: RTB2, Fair to Midland, Robert Gomez, Guy Forsyth, The Bravery, Green River Ordinance and Spindrift.

    ​First off: Let's all say a prayer for Bret Michaels.Now let's take a gander at what's in store for this weekend. First, the shows we've already discussed.Saturday sees our poster-winning show from The Slider Pines, Kirby Brown and Glen Farris coming to life at the Double Wide. But, for the most p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    Teaching DISD Students About Money -- How to Keep It, and How to Make It

    ​Over the weekend, New York Times personal finance writer Tara Siegel Bernard visited with Sunset High School's Mathew Frost, an 11th and 12th grade American history and economics teacher giving his students a real-world look at how to balance the books. In other words, he's teaching to the actual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Craig Watkins Believes Today's Exonerations Could Be "Biggest" Yet for Dallas County

    Brian HarkinDallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins​On Friday, 54-year-old Claude Alvin Simmons Jr. and 39-year-old Christopher Shun Scott will be free men for the first time since being wrongly sent to prison in October 1997 for the robbery and murder of Alfonso Aguilar. Two other men will ... More >>

  • Music

    August 13, 2009

    Shiny Around the Edges Heads From Little D to Big D

    Brian HarkinDallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins​On Friday, 54-year-old Claude Alvin Simmons Jr. and 39-year-old Christopher Shun Scott will be free men for the first time since being wrongly sent to prison in October 1997 for the robbery and murder of Alfonso Aguilar. Two other men will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    Miss Texas Hopes Moving to Arlington From Fort Worth Is a "Booster Shot in the Arm"

    Miss Texas 2008, Rebecca RobinsonYesterday, Miss Texas and Miss Teen Texas announced they were relocating from Fort Worth, where they've been for the past 46 years, to Arlington in an overt attempt to pump life into a dying tradition pageant officials insist is as American as apple pie. Jean Magnes ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    Ask A Lecturer

    Gustavo Arellano is a Distinguished Mexican

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    After Four Years as U.S. Attorney, Richard Roper Has Left the Balcony

    First he leaves At the Movies; now, he's no longer the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. As of tomorrow, Richard Roper's back in the private sector, working for Thompson & Knight, after four years spent as U.S. Attorney. Course, this was inevitable: Barack Obama will pick a new p ... More >>

  • News

    May 29, 2008

    African Immigrants Find Unity Missing At Home On Dallas Soccer Field

    First he leaves At the Movies; now, he's no longer the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. As of tomorrow, Richard Roper's back in the private sector, working for Thompson & Knight, after four years spent as U.S. Attorney. Course, this was inevitable: Barack Obama will pick a new p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2008

    AFI Dallas: And the Winners Are ...

    First he leaves At the Movies; now, he's no longer the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. As of tomorrow, Richard Roper's back in the private sector, working for Thompson & Knight, after four years spent as U.S. Attorney. Course, this was inevitable: Barack Obama will pick a new p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2008

    Latino Vote Is No Slam Dunk for Hillary Clinton, Not in Texas

    First he leaves At the Movies; now, he's no longer the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. As of tomorrow, Richard Roper's back in the private sector, working for Thompson & Knight, after four years spent as U.S. Attorney. Course, this was inevitable: Barack Obama will pick a new p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2008

    Spike Lee's School Daze at UTA

    First he leaves At the Movies; now, he's no longer the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. As of tomorrow, Richard Roper's back in the private sector, working for Thompson & Knight, after four years spent as U.S. Attorney. Course, this was inevitable: Barack Obama will pick a new p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2007

    Words for His "Wordless" Daughter

    First he leaves At the Movies; now, he's no longer the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. As of tomorrow, Richard Roper's back in the private sector, working for Thompson & Knight, after four years spent as U.S. Attorney. Course, this was inevitable: Barack Obama will pick a new p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2007

    Former Observer Writer Knocks Out His Second Book

    First he leaves At the Movies; now, he's no longer the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. As of tomorrow, Richard Roper's back in the private sector, working for Thompson & Knight, after four years spent as U.S. Attorney. Course, this was inevitable: Barack Obama will pick a new p ... More >>

  • News

    August 30, 2007

    Land of Opportunity...

    ...For many skilled immigrants, it's not here, it's home

  • News

    November 16, 2006

    Slow Tide Rising

    Did the Latino vote push Democrats over the top?

  • News

    March 30, 2006

    Missing Links

    Is a serial killer stalking gays in the Dallas area?

  • Calendar

    February 23, 2006

    Maya, Oh My

    Is a serial killer stalking gays in the Dallas area?

  • News

    March 3, 2005

    Hell Hath No Fury

    Plus: Cash for Candy; Tee’d Off

  • Culture

    December 9, 2004

    The Mongrel Cur of Art-chitecture

    The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art unleashes a feisty mutt

  • Resolution Guide

    January 15, 2004

    To Save Cash

    The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art unleashes a feisty mutt

  • News

    September 25, 2003

    A Texas Welcome

    Two UTA students make a wrong turn, end up jailed in Arlington

  • Calendar

    June 5, 2003

    Pink Ribbons

    Plano runs breast cancer out of town

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    The Dead Zone

    Thanks to TV, crime scene investigating is the new hot profession, but Max Courtney knows it's more science than art

  • Culture

    September 12, 2002

    Hot, Hot and Not

    Two university galleries mount vastly different multi-culti shows

  • Culture

    September 7, 2000

    Sibling Rivalry

    The sister cities finally split up for "Gallery Night"

  • Calendar

    April 22, 1999

    Night & Day

    April 22-28, 1999

  • Culture

    June 25, 1998

    Dysfunction junction

    11th Street Theater Project revives a Pulitzer play with mixed results

  • Calendar

    April 16, 1998

    Night & Day

    April 16 - 22, 1998

  • Calendar

    March 26, 1998

    Night & Day

    March 26-April 1, 1998

  • Calendar

    December 4, 1997

    Events for the week

    March 26-April 1, 1998

  • Calendar

    June 6, 1996

    Events for the week

    March 26-April 1, 1998

  • Calendar

    May 23, 1996

    Events for the week

    March 26-April 1, 1998

  • News

    November 9, 1995

    Buzz

    March 26-April 1, 1998

  • News

    July 27, 1995

    Good day for a robbery

    Garvin McCain claims he can tell you when it's safe to go outside

  • Culture

    June 15, 1995

    Pole-tossers in skirts

    It takes a big man to make it on the pro Scottish Festival circuit

  • News

    April 27, 1995

    Buzz

    It takes a big man to make it on the pro Scottish Festival circuit

  • News

    February 9, 1995

    Letters

    It takes a big man to make it on the pro Scottish Festival circuit

  • News

    February 2, 1995

    Guess who's coming to dinner

    An audit and an auction bring UTA president and critics to the table

  • Calendar

    November 17, 1994

    Events for the week

    An audit and an auction bring UTA president and critics to the table

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