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KERA-FM (90.1) this morning ponders the future of Reunion Arena, as B.J. Austin chats it up with real estate types and with the likes of current council member Angela Hunt, who'd like the city to hold onto the land for at least the next decade, and former council member William...

Dooney Da Priest's anti-sagging-pants anthem -- which, turns out, is just a, erm, homage to this similarly monikered track that came out in 2006 -- gets special notice in the U.K. this morning, where the Guardian breaks down Dwaine Caraway's favorite song with several mentions of the deputy mayor pro...

Jenny Seriously, I hadn't intended on writing another Jenny the elephant item this week -- not even to point out this freshly minted Associated Press story about the zoo vs. sanctuary debate or to direct your attention to this ever-growing petition calling for her to be moved to The Elephant...

If I may direct your attention to DC9 at Night for a moment, Pete's posted quite the present: the title track to Dallas Observer Music Awards fave Sarah Jaffe's forthcoming six-track EP Even Born Again, which the great Robert Jenkins dropped off yesterday. It's your for the taking; don't even...

Jenny Best get used to Jenny the elephant talk, as the fait accompli -- sending the 22-year resident of the Dallas Zoo to a drive-through zoo in Mexico -- is now anything but. Angela Hunt's making her case for the Tennessee sanctuary in a News op-ed this a.m.: "This debate...

Ann Lott After the jump, the official announcement from the Dallas Housing Authority concerning the resignation of CEO Ann Lott. But first, the lead: "The Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) Board of Commissioners accepted the resignation of Ann Lott, president and CEO effective July 29, 2008 during a special called meeting...

This is Elizabeth Reesman -- who dresses up as "an underground-dwelling elf that lives in a completely matriarchal society," duh -- from Keven McAlester's film The Dungeon Masters. Mazel tov to Dallas boy Keven McAlester, who, it was announced today, got his second documentary feature -- The Dungeon Masters --...

Yesterday, the teaser for Oliver Stone's W made its online debut. Please, do get your popcorn ready. --Robert Wilonsky...

What you see above is the former Shell station at the intersection of Preston Road and Royal Lane. Despite what we'd been told in February -- that Shell was retrofitting the property, which has been a gas station as long as I can recall -- not so much. Don't know...

That's the word from Gurinder Chadha, the Bend it Like Beckham director who was among several tapped to helm the big-screen version of the TV series, which Laura Miller tried desperately to get shot in Dallas during her tenure as mayor. Speaking to the U.K. Independent about her latest film...

Jenny For the Friends who might have missed the news -- and, really, don't know how that's possible -- there will be a "Save Jenny" rally on Sunday, from 1 to 2 p.m., in front of the Dallas Zoo next to the the giant giraffe. Organizers -- and, of course,...

As Pete's taking the day off to recover from the Dallas Observer Music Awards -- and back in my day, we got an hour, tops -- thought I'd sneak this musical note by the goalkeeper. Because -- surprise, surprise -- it's a New Year notice, yet another in advance of...

Notes Angela Hunt: "This is a picture from Africam Safari. It's critical to note that the elephants can't get to the lush trees behind them -- there is a fence (you can see the wire fence if you squint)." In tomorrow's Dallas Morning News, you will find this story about...

Richardson High School grad David Gordon Green's Pineapple Express opens August 6 -- and, to quote the Dazed and Confused trailer, bring a bud. By way of a reminder, here's the red-band trailer, which is NSFW, natch. But, courtesy a Friend of Unfair Park who visited a Hawaiian Falls yesterday...

Brian Barnaud Taking Greendale to New York, via Deep Ellum On Saturday, Undermain Theatre publicist Lisa Taylor sent out the reminder that director Katherine Owens; bandmates Kenny Withrow, Paul Semrad and Alan Emert; and cast members Bruce DuBose, Newton Pittman, Shannon Kearns-Simmons and plenty others are heading to NYC this...

Mark W. Norris SMU president Gerald Turner, addressing the Methodist Church convention today at the Hilton Anatole Opponents of the George W. Bush institute failed Thursday afternoon to keep the think tank off of the SMU campus. Their petition, an acknowledged last-ditch effort, called for the South Central Jurisdiction of...

So's you know, we're over reality TV. Because, you're right, it all sucks. Even when locals like Daniel Lewis, seen here, are on. Which is all the time. Last night’s Shear Genius reminded me of why I stopped watching the first season. It was lamely boring and boringly lame. And...