Things have gotten so bad, someone went and made a sticker out of it. One of the biggest feuds Dallas has seen in years has everything except sex: art, money, power, police and the looming threat of litigation. That's why people have been hanging on every detail of the dispute...
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Certain images not only have a lasting power, but remain relevant for generations to come. Few images in the world can boast such credentials like the Virgin of Guadalupe icon can. Of course, it stands to reason that one of history’s most prominent works of art would go on to...
This morning, we received word of a new report released yesterday: the American Express OPEN Independent Retail Index, which was done in conjunction with Austin- and Chicago-based Civic Economics and looked at 15 big cities, Dallas among them, ranking each based upon the number of independent restaurants and retailers in...
This is Day Two of Trinity River levee stories from me, which I realize is Day Too Many, but ... well, sorry. I'm just sorry about it, but I cannot let this moment pass without making an observation. Possibly an observation and a half. It'll be over quickly. First, half...
Seven days. I've got seven days till the greatest holiday of all time commences, and I haven't done a thing to prepare. Once an avid home cook, I've prepared, no exaggeration, one meal since I moved here in July. A bowl of steel cut oatmeal, laced with sweet Texas honey...
Alexander Dijulio's Alfabeto is as grounded in reality as it floats in the surreal. The show addresses context, authenticity and art itself. Although the show is made up of a number of pieces, you could consider it, Dijulio's first solo exhibition, a single installation. "The work is about finding harmony...
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Fashion and finance seem irrevocably linked as, over the decades, economists have theorized about a hemline index (they rise as stocks go up), a lipstick index (sales increase as the economy withers), and even a men's underwear index that says dudes only stop buying new boxers when the economy is...
If there is not a tsunami of underage prostitutes in America, that is not to say that there are no children trapped in this world. Of course there are. Yet, as we have pointed out in numerous stories, few resources have been devoted to sheltering the victims. If you want...
For nearly 15 years, California's Thrice has been one of the more intriguing alternative rock bands going. With an attitude of constant growth, the four-piece has incorporated elements of punk, metal and electronica into their heady and literate stew. Thrice's highwater mark would have to be The Alchemy Index Volumes...
One week from tomorrow, the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees will settle in for what's sure to be a calm, reasonable and thoroughly thoughtful discussion about extending the district's contract with Teach for America through the 2017 school year. The cost of the new deal: $3 million spread...
Along with the chart you see above, which celebrates (no, wait, that's not the right word) our record-breaking 70th day of temperatures at or above 100, the National Weather Service directs our attention to the latest Drought Information Statement issued a few days ago. Long story short: The bad ("blistering...
Speaking of 1401 Elm Street ...Before that was built, at the corner of Elm and Akard, there was in its place the Fox Theater, one among many movie houses lining the old theater row of which the Majestic's the sole survivor. I've seen a few photos of the joint, said...
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Dallas Detective Eddie Lopez pushed a photo across the table in a tiny interrogation room. "All I care about is finding this guy right there. It's that simple. I know you know where he's at." A huge, manic grin spread across Seth Winder's face as he laughed nervously. It vanished...
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Eat Up While You Can, Texas
When Rick Perry takes a shot at Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, you can kind of imagine him twirling that laser-sighted .380 Ruger coyote-killer of his on an index finger. When Richard Fisher does it -- he's the Harvard-grad president and chief executive officer of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank...
This morning, stock talk revolved not only 'round the stalled-out D.C. debt-ceiling discussions, but what might the Dallas Fed say when it released its Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey, especially following last month's not-such-good-news accounting. What analysts were particularly concerned about was the general business conditions piece of the fiscal puzzle:...
The Dallas Museum of Art has just come into some big bucks, an $85,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for their Access to Artistic Excellence program. It's not the first time NEA has honored the DMA with a grant. In fact, it's the fourth they've received...
Last we checked there were around 800 teachers vying for 700 vacancies scattered throughout the Dallas Independent School District. Which, sure, sounds a little odd, given that only a few months ago the district was considering thousands of layoffs due to the state's decision to gut public education. But truth...
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While Dallas ISD is debating a change to their rules in order to make their campuses more gay-friendly, two local universities have landed, once again, on the Princeton Review's list of "LGBT Unfriendly" schools. Released last week as part of Princeton Review's mammoth collection of college rankings, the list ranks...
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Pecan Lodge: Just Like Heaven
No doubt you're aware: This is fast becoming one of the worst droughts in state history -- No. 3 so far, at a cost of billions to farmers and ranchers. And save for this tease of "dissipating thunderstorms" moving in, or not, from Oklahoma, it ain't gonna get any better...
How about some good news for the Dallas Independent School District? That would come from today's online edition of The Washington Post, where longtime education columnist Jay Mathews ranks more than 1,900 public high schools across the U.S. -- the first time he's done so for the paper, after 13...