| | | An Advocate for the Sexually Abused Demands Answers from Prestonwood Baptist Church by Amy Silverstein  The letter was anonymous, just like other warnings that came before it. In late January, it arrived in the mailboxes of advocates who work on behalf of Christian sex-abuse victims. For 26 pages, it offered a rambling defense of a place that shouldn't need one — Prestonwood Baptist Church, a Plano mega-church with 37,000 members, three campuses, decades of mostly good publicity and a celebrity pastor named Jack Graham. more >>
| | | Rowlett Man Wants Cities to Crack Down on Handicap Parking -- By Hiring His Company Rowlett Mayor Todd Gottel, like all decent human beings, hates it when able-bodied individuals (read: assholes) park in handicap parking spots. "It really disgusts me," he says, "because the handicapped deserve the same rights as we have. Those folks that violate that should be ashamed of themselves and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law." more >> | | | | | | The 10 Best Dive Bars in Dallas-Fort Worth by DC9 At Night  "Have you no pride?" If the answer to that question is a proud, confident, "Of course I don't," then this list is for you. Depending on where you come from -- say, any small town in America -- dive bars aren't necessarily unique so much as they are de rigueur. But when done right, a proper dive bar is highly evolved art form, a tacky, depressing mix of old, dusty lamp shades, dirty mirrors and wood paneling that make for an all-but-perfect watering hole. more >> | | | Chinaski, the Fury is Denton's Madcap Writer Dalton Kane can't sit still. Or, better put, he can't stop writing. Performing under the pseudonym "Chinaski, the Fury," he has a colossal catalog of work squirreled away on his hard drive, featuring over 300 tracks that he insists he can't ever release. Even in his live performances he improvises half the show on the spot in an effort to connect with the chance audience member and moment. Oh, and he's written about 80,000 words of his first novel. For Kane, the phrase "singer-songwriter" takes on a whole new meaning. more >> | | | | | | Pera Keeps Adding Restaurants, and I Keep Longing for the Original's Bread by Scott Reitz  I still remember my first trip to Pera Turkish Kitchen in Far North Dallas. Four of us were piled in the car, headed up Preston Road, and I was salivating already, based only on food-blog scraps. I'd read that Habip Kargin and Serdar Sensel, the half brothers who own the place, used fresh, bright ingredients in their Middle Eastern cooking; that their dolmas presented grape leaves rolled taut around rice that retained its bite; and most important, it was rumored they baked their own bread and it perfumed the dining room. Apparently they brought it to the table piping hot. more >> | | | Pop Diner Has Closed, Thank God Pop Diner opened to significant fanfare a little more than two years ago. The space was filled with Lichtenstein-esque prints and head shots of pop stars. The walls were bright red, the music was loud and the place was open 24 hours. It was just the sort of diner Uptown needed to keep late night drunks from digesting their own stomachs. We wanted to love it! more >> | | | | | | A Star Comes into Focus, but Focus Never Does by Amy Nicholson  If Grace Kelly had been raised by coyotes, she might have stalked the screen like Focus' Margot Robbie, a va-va-voom blonde with bite. Robbie is too beautiful to play normal, too sly to play nice. Miscast as a shy saint in Craig Zobel's upcoming Sundance hit Z for Zachariah, she had to disguise herself as a brunette. Robbie's more at ease when she can let 'er rip, as in her big debut as Leonardo DiCaprio's gold-digging wife in Wolf of Wall Street. Applaud DiCaprio's slithering, stoned car scene to the rafters — I'll save my standing ovation for the deft way that Robbie, trying to impress her date at a posh restaurant, haughtily commands the waiter to bring her a straw. more >> | | | Top Doc Red Army Showcases the Height of Soviet Hockey Sport is a natural metaphor for war. Two sides in two colors face each other on a field, each with its pride and physical safety at risk. Their leaders scheme plans of attack, drawing arrows toward the enemy's flank. And backing the teams in the stands — or, more often, on TV — those of us too frail (or lazy) to fight ourselves scream, hiss and cheer. more >> | | | | | | Mississippi Goddamn and Miss Evers' Boys Open Wounds in Black History by Elaine Liner  For his new play Mississippi Goddamn, Dallas playwright Jonathan Norton does something unexpected and a bit radical in his look back at the 1960s civil rights movement. Instead of simply lionizing Medgar Evers, the NAACP field secretary who worked to overturn Jim Crow laws and was assassinated on his own front porch in 1963, Norton explores what it might have been like to live so close to controversy. more >> | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Coupons >> |
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