Posts Tagged ‘dallas’
Museum Swap: The Perot is Pretty Groovy
ANTHONY MARIANINever mind all of the noise you’ve (probably) been hearing about the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. The building is not as offensive as most architecture critics have said it is (especially that guy from the L....
Cowtown Is Wowtown To Larry McMurtry
Jeff PrinceThe notoriously grumpy guy (Larry McMurtry) who wrote the greatest Western novel of all time (Lonesome Dove) has something sweet to say about my favorite city (Fort Worth). The February issue of Texas Monthly shares an essay by...
XTO Gets PO’d At Big D
JEFF PRINCEDallas is being much more cautious than Fort Worth when it comes to dealing with the natural gas drilling industry. The drillers came first to Fort Worth, where a powerful and persuasive mayor with deep ties to the oil and gas ...
What’s Local in No-Man’s Land?
HEARSAYI admit, I’m having a hard time keeping track of which musicians are “Fort Worth-based” and which ones are from Dallas, Denton, or beyond. Even more screwy, I’ve had my ear low enough to the ground to know that some ban...
Big Tex Burns (30 Years Too Late)
Jeff PrinceA native North Texan such as myself could be considered profane for saying good riddance to an iconic mascot such as Big Tex. It’s blasphemous. But when news spread about Big Tex going up in blazes this morning, my first ...
Another Example Of Dallas Sophistication
Jeff PrinceCity slickers in Dallas tend to look at Fort Worth as unsophisticated country rubes infatuated with cows and ranches. But even us Cowtown hicks might think twice about wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds of tomatoes in a fo...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Deep in the Heart (PG-13) Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite) stars in this drama as a recovering alcoholic determined to put his kids through college. Also with Elaine Hendrix, Rheagan Wallace, James Haven, Donny Boaz, Kath...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 8 The Dallas Architecture Forum takes its lecture series to Arlington this evening when widely acclaimed architect James Carpenter comes to UTA to discuss the role of glass in architecture and his work developing new ty...
Think U Can Dance?
Jeff PrinceI know nothing about FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance (other than just inherently knowing that I’d rather douse my eyes with boric acid than watch one second of it). It must be a popular, however, because the show&#...
A Tale of Two Rail Systems
Tarrant and Dallas took different public transit routes. Guess who’s ahead.DAN McGRAW Photos by Chase Martinez
Anyone who has ever tried taking the Trinity Railway Express to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport knows how poorly planned this commuter rail line is.