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Yearly Archives: 2008

Same (Smelly) Song

When Bill Cole saw a "haz-mat" team in front of his Riverside-area auto repair shop last month, it brought back some pretty bad memories....

A Hill of Beans, Please

There's a pretty interesting backstory to the newly resurrected Pit Barbecue (702 N. Henderson St.). But you can ask one of the friendly counter...

Starry Eyed

I always assumed that only "ladies who lunch" frequented Zodiac, the café inside Neiman Marcus at Ridgmar Mall. Generally, I'm not in that...

Green Energy

Welcome to Hollywood in the 21st century, a time and place where a film doesn't need any fans to spawn a sequel. Five summers ago,...

Crouching Tiger, Eating Panda

The latest animated family film from DreamWorks Animation, Kung Fu Panda is not as much fun as Kung Fu Hustle, but it's much better...

Urgencies

Austin's Urgencies kicks out straight-ahead rock 'n' roll. Enthusiastic and a tad angsty, the foursome conveys a sense of constantly expiring time here on...

Boxers and Boyfriends

Pastiche seems to be the thing with our theater troupes, at least for this week. While Dallas Summer Musicals is staging a faux 1920s...

Torture Porn

Having made such classic documentaries as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War, Errol Morris looks deeper into the events at Abu...

Inner Universe

God particles and dark matter may sound more like topics for theological debate than terms of science, but they're both part of a global...

Cutting the Tension with a Fork

Chow, Baby adores its friends Smiley and Mr. B., but they do have one flaw. Feature, sorry, Chow, Baby meant to say "feature": They're...