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Daily Archives: March 12, 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel opens Friday in Dallas.

Film Shorts

OPENING: The Grand Budapest Hotel (R) Wes Anderson’s latest film stars Ralph Fiennes as a legendary concierge at a European resort hotel shortly before...
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SXSWhere House

Look, I know I should’ve stayed at home and gone to bed instead of going out on Monday — since Thursday, I’d been struggling...
Fort Worth Center for Architecture’s Design Talk is Wed, March 12 at 7pm

Night & Day

WED ▪ 12 Theater geeks may want to drop by Fort Worth Center for Architecture’s Design Talk this month. Perry Langenstein of International Theatre Consultants...

Follow the Campaign Money

Static was surprised to hear from not one, but two little birdies that money from outside of the state was spent on a low-turnout...
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Praying for Pizza

A few years ago the restaurants gods apparently decided this city didn’t have enough pizza options. In their infinite wisdom, they bestowed on us,...
Done poorly, mod-rock can sound melodramatic. In Memory of Man does it well.

Muscular, Modern In Memory of Man

Unless you’re The Toadies, you can’t seem to get away with mod-rock in this town. Heavy riffs and pounding rhythms with vocalists singing melodically...
Teacher Jim Crye doesn’t have metal-face all the time. Christian McPhate

Six-String Theory

Metallica, Slayer, or System of a Down isn’t something you’d expect to hear in a high school classroom. Rock ’n’ roll has never been...
Crain: “Texas opted out of the Medicaid expansion. That results in fewer funds ... .” Brian Hutson

New Directions

The facts on homelessness in and around Tarrant County aren’t encouraging: The total number of homeless people rose by 13 percent in the last...
Bill Barter’s “Untitled”

Gallery

Since his retirement from the aerospace industry, Arlington’s Bill Barter has devoted himself to painting geometrical arrangements of abstract wedges of color. The artist...
Aaron Paul focuses behind the wheel in Need for Speed.

Chasing Cars

OK, this one’s easy. Disney is looking for its own car-chase movie to rival The Fast & The Furious while that series is on...