What a difference a Williams makes. This morning -- on the day Dallas school trustees are supposed to decide whether to pull the rug from under reform Superintendent Mike Miles -- I looked at two sets of reports on the school district, one from Don Williams, the retired real estate...
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Shortly after former Senator Rick Santorum took the reins as CEO of Dallas' EchoLight Studios, he began pimping "The Christmas Candle," a holiday parable about the residents of a quaint English village protecting traditional values (a miracle-producing candle) against the forces of modernity (electricity). The film "hearkens back to the...
Two blocks away from the Dallas Convention Center for Lights All Night, and that rumbling, white noise roar of a crowd pre-concert is already audible.The colossal sonic happenings inside - thousands of feet removed, and buffered by countless layers of stone and steel - vibrate the downtown concrete architecture both...
Interim Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez is now acknowledging what's been clear to everyone else for two months: City Hall really stepped in it with its Uber crackdown. "I made a mistake. Please accept my apology," he wrote this morning in a memo to the City Council. "I regret the...
Village Baking Co. is on a roll lately. In addition to turning out some of the best baked goods in Dallas, they've recently secured a portable, wood-fired oven. They've teamed up with Antoine Cantarel, who owns Bread Stone Ovens, LLC, and plan to wheel the bread-baking trailer to various events...
Senator Wendy Davis, the first legitimate Democratic aspirant to statewide office in years, couldn't vote without first signing an affidavit verifying her identity Monday morning. That's because a state law passed in 2011 requires for the first time that voters provide a valid photo ID. So why did Davis get...
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As midnight approached on March 24, 1998, the residents of Garland tuned in to channel 18 to await God's television debut. If the predictions of new resident/cult leader Hon-Ming Chen proved accurate, the Lord would interrupt regularly scheduled programming at 12:01 a.m. to announce his impending descent on the Dallas...
Charles Long's futuristic XChange sculpture could be science fiction source material. Housed in NorthPark Mall, an area that's already established itself as an art and commerce amalgamate, Long fuses new media with ritual, then tosses in an element of monetary exchange. The end result will be a large, chalice-shaped wishing...
If you like anything passionately, Vanity Fair may have its sights set on you. The magazine has released a series of short videos bashing film and music snobs, and now they're taking aim at food nerds. Heirloom tomatoes are under attack, and the results are unfortunately hilarious and accurate. If...
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The case of Jeffrey and Henry Buck, the gay Dallas couple who married in Massachusetts in 2006 before filing for divorce in Dallas two years later, proved a couple things. One was that gay married couples, just like straight married couples, can fall out of love and decide it's best...
In a matter of weeks, crude oil will begin flowing through the Gulf Coast portion of the Keystone pipeline in Texas. The question watchdog group Public Citizen asks: Is it ready? That's because, with the help of landowners along the line's course, they say they've identified 125 separate instances in...
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In simpler times, video games and all that they had to offer were fully contained within a gray plastic cartridge. As a result, buying a used game required very little due diligence beyond a quick glance at the visible circuitry and making sure the game wasn't terrible. The used gaming...
TCU started its rush week on August 10 and many other Texas universities are about to follow suit. If you're a GDI (goddamm independent) wondering what it takes to make it into the sacred sisterhood we've rounded up a few things you need to know. For best results, start preparing...
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In honor of Sunday's sold-out Meat Fight, we're celebrating smoked animal flesh all week long in our inaugural Meat Week, in which we celebrate the procuring, cooking and face-stuffing of dead-animal flesh. The term "barbecue" holds a lot of different meanings to those who have tasted meat worked by the...
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Before the salt and sugar brine permeated and seasoned the flesh, before the impossibly crisp skin emerged from the convection oven, before the vibrant red and green salsas joined it on a massive wooden board turned serving dish, the pig's head was already special. Berkshire pork is prized for its...
Last summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put Dallas-based power generator Luminant on notice, warning the utility that its northeast Texas Big Brown and Martin Lake plants were in violation of the Clean Air Act. The company's coal-fired plants, EPA contended, had been modified, resulting in a "significant" increase in...
Last night at Fort Worth's Bass Hall, classic horror film geeks and avant-garde minimalist music fans united in nerdom to do what they do best: sit in the dark, watch, listen, and quietly freak-out in the presence of their idols. The occasion was a screening of the classic Bela Lugosi...
The Alamo Drafthouse will roll out a new film and brew next week. The Austin-based theater has collaborated with Dogfish Head for a release of their new brew American Beauty, which will be served during special screenings of the concert film, The Grateful Dead Movie. See also: - Papa Preach:...