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  • Decherd to retire from Dallas-based AH Belo

    DALLAS -; The CEO of Dallas-based A.H. Belo (BEE'-loh) Corporation plans to retire in September and will become vice chairman of the board of ...

  • Texas Senate passes tougher abortion clinic rules

    dmontgomery@star-telegram.com AUSTIN With a week left in the special session, partisan discord erupted in the Texas Legislature after Senate passage of legislation toughening regulations on abortion ...

  • The Supreme Courts Decision In Salinas v. Texas Implications For White Collar Investigations

    U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) At the outset of a white collar investigation, counsel will invariably advise the client that if a government investigator unexpectedly appears seeking to "just ask a few questions," the client should politely decline and direct the investigator to counsel. Although the Supreme Court's decision this past Monday, June 17, ...

  • Will Summer Blackouts Doom The Texas Boom

    NRG's Green Mountain Energy wind farm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Texas has been an economic powerhouse in recent years. Gross domestic product in the Lone Star State, which hit $1.2 trillion before the recession, is ...

  • Dallas New Vietnamese Spot Mot Hai Ba Will Challenge Your Views

    It was wildly unexpected when Colleen O'Hare and Jeana Johnson announced their latest restaurant. They'd already successfully tackled tacos more suited for gringos than for those raised on the streets of Mexico City. Authenticity be damned - those tacos were delicious, and Good 2 Go quickly became an East Dallas fixture. But when two women from Texas decided to undertake the complex ...

Movie Review

Team America: World Police [DVD]

Team America: World Police [DVD]

Team America: World Police is an equal-opportunity offender satire for people in the middle -- you know, all those political independents who had a hard time making up their mind about who to vote for because theyre equally off-put by the Republicans holier-than-thou self ... ...

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  • If Only the Monsters University Writers Had Taken a Quick Sendak Seminar

    Terrorizing children in their bedrooms remains the existential concern of the toothy blobs, hams and pom-pom-furred Wild Things that populate Monsters movies, many of whom look like gummy nothings long stuck to the bottom of Pixar's junk drawer. Their very lives depend upon coaxing night-screams from human kids, a premise rich enough for Seuss or Borges. Is it too much to ask, then, that a ...

  • The War at Home

    Destruction is scary, but not half as scary as the act of rebuilding, the moment of looking at the random, jagged pieces you've got left and wondering how the hell you're going to fit them together. In Marc Forster's World War Z, the world as we know it is destroyed by a virus that turns people into zombies. Brad Pitt plays a New York City family man - a UN peacekeeper turned ...

  • Who Needs Superman In Traces Humans Fly without Special Effects.

    Traces lets you marvel at the wonders of the human body while making you feel bad about your own. Seven gorgeous young performers in a 90-minute whirl of acrobatics, dance and borderline insanity fly off the floor and hang in mid-air longer than logic and the laws of gravity say they should. They leap, tumble, scuttle up poles and heave themselves at each other like flying squirrels. Balancing ...

  • Trouble in River City in Lyric Stage’s Vanilla Music Man

    Meredith Willson's 1957 musical The Music Man, now at Irving's Lyric Stage, feels as summery as an ice cream social. If only this production came in more flavors than vanilla. The quaint ode to small-town life circa 1912 falls flat if its angelic Iowans aren't threatened with perdition by a devilish Harold Hill. Flim-flammer Hill hops off a train in River City to sell instruments ...

  • At the Van Cliburn Competition Perfection Is Subjective

    It's important to take a moment of stillness before you do something amazing. You have to stop and collect yourself because people are watching you, and you need to put that reality out of your mind. You have to center yourself and remember that the only thing that matters is you and the ball in your hand or you and the keys in front of you. Huangci was the first of 30 talented young ...

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