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Yearly Archives: 2008

Simple, Italian

Who would ever have guessed that a free-standing building at the very west end of Camp Bowie Boulevard with a sign outside advertising "Indoor...

Ex Games

Last year, Hot Fuzz came out in the third week of April and turned out to be the funniest comedy of 2007. This year, Forgetting...

David “Honeyboy” Edwards

David "Honeyboy" Edwards is no longer in his prime, but he's still got the feel for the old-time, acoustic blues. Born into a sharecropper family...

Samuel James

Samuel James' version of the blues mixes tradition, sly humor, and a knowing wink with a steady, almost hypnotic acoustic beat. On Songs Famed...

L.A. Lawlessness

The overheated yet stubbornly unexciting cop thriller Street Kings stars Keanu Reeves as Los Angeles Police Department vice-squad detective Tom Ludlow, a loose-cannon cop...

Quaid Pro Quo

Mark Jude Poirier's name will be more easily recognized by readers than cinephiles. He's an acclaimed fiction writer whose novels (Goats) and short-story collections (Unsung...

That’s-a Mediterranean!

For almost six years, Café Chadra near John Peter Smith Hospital offered lunch crowds and evening diners a split-down-the-middle menu of Italian standards (lasagna,...

Late in the Hip Parade

Not picking on any one place in particular, but Chow, Baby is beginning to suffer from hip-sushi-joint fatigue. In now-and-then doses they're exciting and...

Poor Foundation

Local architect Ken Schaumburg is known in the real estate development business for hits and misses. His townhouse designs - downtown's Le Bijou, the...

The Thing From Another World

The ever-busy Linda Blackburn enjoys a solo exhibition at Artspace 111, having contributed to their Gallery Night show last month as well as the...