| | | On the Record with Dallas Chief of Police David Brown by Joe Pappalardo  Chief David Brown sits with the Observer for an extensive interview. He discusses his belief that community policing inoculated the city against protests, describes the way Dallas works with the feds on terrorism investigations, explores the morale aftermath of the HQ shooting last year, discusses his relationship with trailblazing former chief Don Stafford and dishes on how he expects his political enemies to ambush him again one day. more >>
| | | | | | | | | | Denton's New Brewpub, Barley & Board, Is Hip and Ambitious by Kathryn Debruler  While every dish at Barley & Board may not be perfect, there are enough big hits to make up for the near misses. In the quail and the mechada we saw examples of how Barley & Board excels at capturing a principle taste sensation — heat, acid — and wrangling it into a final dish that is both exciting and palatable. With these dishes, Barley & Board demonstrates that it’s more than the facade of a hip, ambitious restaurant. It is hip and ambitious. And really good. more >> | | | | | | | | The Coens’ Hollywood Farce Hail, Caesar! Flames Out by Melissa Anderson  Joel and Ethan Coen’s bustling comedy Hail, Caesar! looks back to the waning days of moviedom’s golden age: specifically, to 1951, when big-studio fixers were still tidying up the messes left by the talent (scrubbing now done by publicists and lawyers). As we’d expect, the Coens’ remembrance of this bygone era is mordant, though not as pleasingly salacious as Anger’s enduring compendium of Tinseltown scandal. But the brothers’ latest also has a certain buoyancy — a quality rarely associated with their films, especially the bleak Barton Fink (1991), their first treatment of studio-system Hollywood and its pathologies. The fizziness, though, proves fleeting, and Hail, Caesar! too often goes flat. more >> | | | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Only Fitfully Comes to Life You’re probably right if you think you might get a couple laughs out of a movie titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. You’re also right if you’ve guessed that this gung-ho but cruddy-looking mashup fails from A to Z: It’s neither good Austen nor good zombie flick. more >> | | | | | | |
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