| | | Texas Senate OKs Stricter Rules for Minors Seeking Abortions by Amy Silverstein  Throughout the regular legislative session, which will finally end this weekend, Texas lawmakers have dreamed up all sorts of creative ways to stop women from getting abortions. Following the abortion bills in Texas is like playing a game of choose-your-own-adventure. What kind of pregnancy would you least want to go through with and how can Texas ensure that you'll be forced go through with it anyway? more >>
| | | Dallas Cops Need Guardians, Not Warriors Last week President Obama banned certain types of equipment from federal grants to local police agencies, ruling that the federal government would no longer provide cops with tanks, bayonets, grenade launchers, ammunition of .50 caliber or higher and some types of camouflage uniforms. more >> | | | | | | The Endangered Dive Bars of Dallas by Dallas Observer Staff  Last year we lost two. First went The Loon, the bar Uptown forgot, an against-all-odds dive that finally succumbed to the weight of reality and was plowed in favor of a CVS. Next went Club Schmitz, the working-class bar on Old Denton Road, replaced by a RaceTrac. It’s impossible to know which will go next, or when, but it won’t be long. Inevitable death is part of any dive’s charm, just like it’s part of yours. more >> | | | Dallas Week Looks to Bring Together the Best and Brightest of Local Hip Hop Panels are more or less uninteresting to a person not directly invested in a trade. If you attended last night’s Dallas rap panel at Off The Record, then you’re probably invested in the trade (and business) of rap in Dallas. In fact, your livelihood may even depend on some of the advice that the panelists, including folks like Joel Salazar of Too Fresh Productions and Alex Thompson of Scoremore, had to offer. With some of the most important players in Dallas’ rap scene in attendance, the panel played as a great opportunity to network, but it was also an erudite start to what is being dubbed Dallas Week. more >> | | | | | | Mot Hai Ba Changed Chefs but not Courses by Scott Reitz  When Jeana Johnson and Colleen O’Hare announced they would be turning over the kitchen of Mot Hai Ba to a new and unheard of understudy, panic swirled in East Dallas. They had made a similar move to open that very restaurant, turning over the kitchen of Good 2 Go Taco to tackle an exciting new challenge. They traveled to Vietnam, ate their way through the countryside and came back to open a restaurant the likes of which Dallas had never seen. This time, they hired a new chef so they could work operations at their existing restaurants and maybe do a little consulting. As far as restaurant announcements go, it was kind of boring. more >> | | | RIP Snookie's, Another Casualty of Dallas' Real Estate Crunch If you’ve done a lot of drinking in the Cedar Springs-Oak Lawn area, you’ve probably soaked up a few of those Jello shots at Snookie’s, the low-key pub just down the street from all the action in the gayborhood. Snookie’s is famous for its drunk-appropriate fare, like epic piles of nachos and cheese-and-bacon smothered fries. Unfortunately, you only have a few more days to indulge in Snookie’s classic food and inimitable neighborhood atmosphere, because it’s closing at the end of this week. more >> | | | | | | The Connection's Glorious Technique Can't Disguise its Familiarity by Alan Scherstuhl  A movie about bringing down druglords that's actually mostly about movies, Cédric Jimenez's The Connection is stretched over driven-cop beats so familiar American audiences could probably follow it without subtitles. (It's in French — add that to the title, and you get a sense of its police-film ambitions.) It's a fleet, engrossing, familiar drama, a movie that's forever moving: along Marseille's winding coastal highways, through throbbing mobs of extras at its '70s discotheques, down the corridors of a hospital on a gurney with the bloody victim of a hit. more >> | | | San Andreas Cracks California, not The Rock The San Andreas fault stretches 810 miles up the Pacific coast, roughly the length of a dozen Dwayne "The Rock" Johnsons lying end to end. When it rumbles, we'll need all 12 of him to spring into action — although, as Brad Peyton's San Andreas warns, that still won't be enough to save the day. more >> | | | | | | Three Art Events for Your Weekend by Lauren Smart  If the Nasher Sculpture Center has taught Dallas one thing (and surely the number is vastly larger), it's that sculpture transforms its environment, and vice versa. more >> | | | Race, Politics and Ambition Clash in Radio Golf The smartest man in Radio Golf isn’t the man with money. That’s just one of the home truths in August Wilson’s final play in his epic 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle. African American Repertory Theatre’s strong production of Radio Golf benefits from sharp, well-directed performances by five hometown actors who click with Wilson’s elegant but earthy dialogue. This is the last show in the Wyly Theatre’s Elevator Series of plays performed by smaller companies in the intimate sixth-floor studio space. more >> | | | | |
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