| | | Dallas Libraries Strive to Survive in a Digital World by Lauren Smart  The Dallas Public Library faces an uphill climb when it comes to demonstrating its value to future generations, especially those who will be in the position to fund the library. An entire generation of American middle-class kids, loaded up with smartphones and tablet computers, no longer plop in front of the Nancy Drew novels, debating which mystery to take home (or more likely, which Katniss Everdeen book comes next). Interest in the library is becoming stratified. On one end of the spectrum are well-heeled donors interested in the do-good potential of the library. On the other are the people who actually use and need it. It's the middle ground, the potential volunteers, the mid-level donors, whose connection to the library is getting thinner. more >>
| | | | | | | | | | Uchi Has Your Wallet in Its Sights by Scott Reitz  Uchi, Dallas' newest and most aspiring sushi restaurant, offers plenty of ways to enjoy a meal filled with inventive and exciting Japanese food; you just need to decide how much money you're willing to part with. more >> | | | | | | | | Gorgeous Wolf Totem Holds to Nature-Adventure Formula by Scott Tobias  Whenever Annaud and his cinematographer, Jean-Marie Dreujou, chase the pack across lush green hills and arid plains, Wolf Totem has the elemental beauty of a Carroll Ballard (The Black Stallion) production or the better sequences from The Bear, Annaud's simple, affecting 1988 film. Whenever it pauses to consider, say, how the declining wolf population reflects the thoughtless dictates of the Cultural Revolution, the film bites off more gazelle meat than it can chew. more >> | | | The Look of Silence Takes a Second Look at a Genocide In The Look of Silence, Adi Rukun, a middle-aged optometrist whose older brother was tortured and killed by the Indonesian killing squads, seeks out each of the men who had a hand in the crime — some of them now powerful officials — and confronts them about the event. more >> | | | | | | |
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