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Yearly Archives: 2013

Good Day, Sunshine

Every time I go to the Sunshine Bar, I wonder if the melted-butter yellow on the walls was at one time white paint, long-since...

JPS Under Microscope

Some local business owners are saying that JPS Health Network doesn’t want to work with minority-owned businesses. “JPS spends millions of dollars monthly on all...
All aboard with Droidekka! Next stop, nostalgia.

Zapped

As long as there have been video games, there’s been videogame music –– and there have been video games for nearly 35 years. The...
Ken Dixon “Order & Disorder: Common Denominator”

Gallery

Ken Dixon’s show at William Campbell, 3 Short Stories & 12 Options, takes its inspiration from Texas’ Hill Country, but the artist renders his...

Former Dallas Cowboys WR Sam Hurd Faces Life Behind Bars

The MMQB's Michael McKnight wrote a fascinating but sad story about former Dallas Cowboys receiver Sam Hurd, a walking chimney who smoked more eye-crossing...

Sharing the Wealth

The newly built Trail Drive just south of the Will Rogers Memorial Center is about as fancy as a road gets in this city....
Fowler: “The change in the law puts the issue of discipline back in the hands of teachers and administrators.” Courtesy Deborah Fowler

One-Way Tickets

Chewing gum in class or talking back to your teacher might seem like the kind of thing that would get your knuckles cracked or...
Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, and Terrence Howard make like New Edition in The Best Man Holiday.

Party Like It’s 1999

Malcolm D. Lee’s comedy The Best Man was only a modest hit when it came out in 1999, but it was the best-known of...
Matthew McConaughey hawks life-saving unapproved drugs in Dallas Buyers Club.

Drugstore Cowboy

If you know only one thing about Dallas Buyers Club, it’s probably that Matthew McConaughey lost 40 pounds to play an AIDS patient. That’s...
Jason Caswell (left) and Shawn Corley are re-imagining a pool hall into Arlington's first indie-rock venue.

Chuggin’ Monk: Indie Music to Arlington

Arlington is a lot of things: rollercoaster capital of North Texas, home of JerryWorld, chain-restaurant wasteland. What the city has never been is a...