As far as Jeffrey Katzenberg is concerned, up to now there have been but two “revolutions” in the movie business: the mass introduction of sound with 1927’s The Jazz Singer (itself, a process 30 years in the making) and, a year later, the debut of The Viking, the first feature…

Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing?Whatever the case, when our often-contentious quintet of film critics put their heads together about the best movies of 2008, they managed to agree (more or less) on a dozen…

Dr. Jane Sadler at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas grabbed Santy’s jingle bells last week and told him to cough in advance of the big man’s big night. Associated Press photographer Scott Hensley captured the Kodak moment that screams so eloquently and accidentally Christmas 2008. We’ll return on Friday…

Dallas’s real estate market in 2008 in a nutshell: OK, then not. Which is more or less the analysis offered by GlobeSt.com today as it sizes up the year that was and sneaks a peek at the year that will be or won’t, depending on folks’ fortunes. Among the prophets…

From KSL-TV, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, comes this piece about former Utah state trooper Brian Smith, accused of the Monday-night shootings on LBJ Freeway that left two dead. So happens Smith had given the station’s crew a highway tour in his cruiser in March 2007, 14 months…

Not going to lie, not on Christmas Eve: This isn’t exactly the most riveting video ever made, even if does feature Mayor Tom Leppert. Still, for those tracking the progress of the Dallas Performing Arts Center — specifically, in this case, the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre — it’s an…

Barry Annino passed along the news last night: Don Blanton, longtime Deep Ellum property owner, died last weekend of a heart attack at his second home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The funeral will take place January 5 at noon at Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home, followed by a graveside service, with military…

Like it wasn’t already hard enough — which is to say, eff-you impossible — figuring out how the banks are spending their bailout billions. Today comes word that the Treasury Department’s dropped $4.7 billion more in 92 local banks, proving that the TARP can always stretch just a little bit…

Good news this afternoon for small businesses in the inner-city: The U.S. Small Business Administration has placed Dallas on its burgeoning list of cities tapped to participate in its Emerging 200 initiative, which IDs companies “that show a high potential for growth” and shows ’em how to, ya know, grow…

Dallas Parkway-based Leadsonline.com got an awfully nice plug in today’s New York Times piece about the rise in shoplifting during The Great Depression II: Electric Boogaloo. And what, exactly, does the company do? Helps retailers and law enforcement officials track stolen goods as they surface online and elsewhere; hence the…

As you may know, Dallas attorney Edward “Ned” Fritz died Friday at the age of 92. Said Laura Huffman, state director of The Nature Conservancy of Texas, Fritz is often referred to as “the father of Texas conservation,” because, among other things, he was the co-founder of the state chapter…

Whitney Lawson George Steel George Steel just got here — if that. Just four months ago, he was introduced as the general director of the Dallas Opera, following his celebrated tenure as executive director of the Miller Theater at Columbia University. But long before his new home at the Winspear…

After hosting Robert Jeffress on Friday, Harry Smith and the CBS Early Show dipped into the DFW again today — this time to tell the story of 9-year-old Jordan Taylor, the Hillsboro boy saved by docs at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth who reattached his head to his…