| | | | | There's a Useless Medical Marijuana Bill on Gregg Abbott's Desk First, the good news that really isn't good news at all, but whatever. As of late Monday afternoon's 96-34 Texas House vote, both chambers of the Legislature have passed medical marijuana reform legalization. Texans who suffer from intractable epilepsy and are able to get their hands on low-THC cannabidiol oil will not be prosecuted. more >> | | | | | | Denton's DIY Spirit Carries on at Rubber Gloves by Matt Wood  When you’re standing in Rob Buttrum’s packed living room, the word “claustrophobia” inevitably enters your mind. It’s not like an episode of A&E’s Hoarders — you don’t exactly feel suffocated or trapped — but every inch of available space is covered with records, VHS tapes and posters. And if you entered it five years ago, you experienced a different kind of claustrophobia in the presence of nearly two hundred other humans. more >> | | | Yells at Eels Overcome Family Trauma on New Album "In Quiet Waters" If the Dallas music scene had an official family, it would almost certainly be the González family. Together, Dennis and his sons Aaron and Stefan have spent decades playing jazz and experimental music and making tireless contributions to the community through education and youth programs. Sadly, the past year has been a difficult one for the Gonzálezes, one fraught with health troubles and personal turmoil, but they've dealt with it the only way they know how: by channeling it through their music more >> | | | | | | One Day a Week, Buddhist Center of Dallas Is Dallas' Best Noodle Restaurant by Scott Reitz  Tucked away in a residential neighborhood, on Stults Road just off Forest Lane, the Buddhist Center of Dallas sits quietly six days a week, providing a solemn refuge for area Thai Buddhists looking to get closer to enlightenment. There’s a manicured garden out back, and down just a few steps, koi the size of Labrador pups dance beneath the surface of a small pond, while fountains fill the otherwise quiet air with the sounds of trickling water. more >> | | | An Interview with Sandra Bussey, BBBop's Fast-Casual Empress When you think of a “chef,” you generally think about a guy in a big white toque, searing foie gras and plating dishes with tweezers. In the culinary world, it is the (mostly white, mostly male) fine dining chefs who get the most attention, even though most of us spend our dining dollars in restaurants that are much less fancy, with equally excellent food. BBBop, Sandra Bussey’s fast-casual Korean fusion concept, is one of those great-but-low key restaurants in Dallas. more >> | | | | | | Arthouse? Multiplex? Kabooms? We Have You Covered for Summer Films. by Chris Klimek  In the decadent 21st century, the summer movie season now sprawls from March through December. (Star Wars: Episode VII is due to awaken the Force December 18; every prior Star Wars picture has come out Memorial Day weekend.) But I'll stick to tradition and call Memorial Day the start of summer, when the movies are optimized to lure vacationing schoolkids and Chinese ticket-buyers back for repeat exposures and no block is safe from potential bustage. The Age of Ultron, it's traditionally called. more >> | | | Don't Hate Tomorrowland for Asking Us to Be Better In a junk-food summer, Brad Bird's Tomorrowland is a defiant carrot stick, a blockbuster adventure flick where the message is “Think smart.” It's a deliberate phooey to the kiddie carnage of movies like Transformers and The Avengers, which frighten children about the apocalypse before they can even spell the word. more >> | | | | | | The Liar Speaks in Rhyme and Is Well Worth Your Time by Elaine Liner  Believe the man in the purple pants when he says he cannot tell the truth. He is the title character in The Liar, a 400-year-old comedy by Pierre Corneille remade in 2012 into a rip-snortin’ rhyming farce by Venus in Fur playwright David Ives, working on a commission from the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C. more >> | | | 5 Attractions Six Flags Should Turn Into Movies Disney has a genius way of turning large sums of money into even larger sums of money. The executives at Disney probably laugh at the size of Scrooge McDuck’s money bin for being small and unsightly as they back stroke through one the size of a college football stadium. more >> | | | | |
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