| | | Tearing Down I-345 Is Not as Crazy as It Sounds BY JIM SCHUTZE  The idea is to blow up, tear down, erase, make go away an entire elevated freeway at the eastern end of downtown Dallas. Chechen rebels couldn't do better than that. But the region's most powerful transportation planning official recently shrugged and dismissed the scheme to tear down I-345, the elevated freeway span separating Deep Ellum and downtown, as "the do-nothing option." Do-nothing? Tearing down a freeway? Maybe. It depends on who you are and how you view the future — that's the trick in attempting to understand the tear-it-down idea. This isn't really about politics. It's more out-there than that. This is about people having visions. Close your eyes. Relax. Try to envision... more >>
| | | | | | | | How Musicians Are Capitalizing on North Texas' Craft Brew Bubble BY KELLY DEARMORE  It was late spring 2012, and a scraggly band clutched acoustic guitars and a washboard in the middle of Deep Ellum Brewing Company's beer garden. As a hundred or so drinkers milled about, basking in the sunshine and sampling the young brewery's beers, one simple, frantically delivered line caught the crowd's attention. "When the shit goes down, you better be ready." With that exclamation and th... more >> | | | | | | Palapas Seafood Bar's Coastal Breeze BY SCOTT REITZ  Life is about to look really good, and I am going to tell you why. Picture yourself sitting on a shaded patio as a stiff breeze rustles the palm leaves that thatch the roof above your head. Picture a cold, sweating bottle of Pacifico in your hand. There is music, but it's not too loud, a mix of horns and happy feelings gently pouring from the outdoor speakers. And there are fried tortilla chips, ... more >> | | | | | | Jarmusch's Undead Know How to Live BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK  The vampires who walk among us — and they do — are not the Twilight kind, or the True Blood kind, or even the Buffy kind. In the world of Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, the director's most emotionally direct film since Dead Man, and maybe his finest, period, vampires are people who prefer to own their music in some tangible form rather than entrust it to some unseen librarian ... more >> | | | | | | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Alive and Tickling at Fun House Theatre BY ELAINE LINER  There's a functional way to drag a corpse off a stage and there's a funny way. The young actors in Fun House Theatre and Film's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead do it the funny way. Every time. Fun House, for theatergoers who haven't yet discovered its extraordinary shows, is Jeff Swearingen and Bren Rapp's all-youth company in Plano. In a bare-bones space at the back of a strip center off ... more >> | | | | | | DC9 At Night Handing out flyers for your band's show, that somewhat ineffective attempt to attract even a handful of people to attend, is one thing. Doing so under the nose of Denton County Jail officials i... City of Ate Four Corners Brewing Company's head brewer, Zach Petty, got his start in brewing at the craft beer emporium Homebrew Headquarters. After eight years at the home brew supply spot, he worked under b... Unfair Park via EarthworksThe Parr family says their daughter, Emma, began suffering nosebleeds when gas drilling operations took root nearby.When the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality took air samples from near Bob and Lisa Parr's Wise County ranch in 2010 on several... The Mixmaster Look, you've been treating earth pretty poorly. You drive an SUV, don't recycle as much as you should, and let's not even discuss how much Tupperware you own. Sure, Earth Day was technically Tues... | | | | | | | | | | | | | Coupons >> |
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