Articles for March 31st, 2009
A Visit To The Etruscans At SMU’s Meadow Museum
Our good Professor Spiegelman wandered over to take a look at the new exhibit about this mysterious people and wrote up what he found for the WSJ.
Bad News: Home Prices Have A Long Way To Fall. Good News: Not In Dallas
Here’s the topline of a report from Deutsche Bank. New York could fall 47 percent? Yikes. Got a condo in Florida? Double yikes. Could this actually be good news? Megan McArdle thinks so.
Re: “D Art Slam”
One more thing. Wick and John Sughrue drafted a letter to explain what we’re up to. In part, they said:
Of all the changes to Dallas in the last decade, the most exciting to us is the burgeoning of a vibrant home-grown art community. On May 29-31, 2009, D Magazine and f.i.g. will celebrate this community at our first-ever D Art Slam at f.i.g., right next to Dallas’ fabulous new Center for the Performing Arts.
We are passionate about supporting local artists and introducing them to a greater audience. D Art Slam is a three-day, juried event designed to showcase the talent of local visual artists. We intend to make Dallas the number one city in America for promoting local talent in an elegant and sophisticated venue that complements their work.
The location couldn’t be better: f.i.g is a high-design, high-concept environment that is arresting without overpowering the work on the walls. It provides a comfortable space for patrons to interact informally with artists.
New “D Art Slam” Site Is Up
As promised, the site has been updated. Remember, deadline for artists to submit their work is Sunday. Don’t dally. Your motivation? At the D Art Slam (powered by f.i.g.!), the New Dallas Nine Awards will be given out, and those peeps will be featured in the August issue of the “print product.”
I’m Sure This Will Get Everything Running Smoothly Again: The Conficker Worm
Coming tomorrow — maybe, maybe not — is the latest version of the Conficker worm, called by Slate tech columnist Farhad Majoo “the Bugatti of worms.” Talk to your IT guy. And even if you don’t use Windows, there could be trouble. Says Manjoo:
But having a safe machine doesn’t mean you’re safe. Conficker’s true aim may be to bring chaos to the Internet, at which point you might feel its wrath even if your computer is OK. When Conficker infects a host, it ensnares it into a botnet—a massive network of computers geared for unsavory ends. Botnets can spew out spam, mount denial-of-service attacks to bring down Web sites, or consume so much bandwidth that they drown out all other network traffic.
Sweet fancy Moses.
UPDATE: A same-building-working FBvian points me here and here, where an 11th-hour double guns to the worm is emerging.
Win a Free Tut Trip to Cairo, Egypt
Today is your last day to register. If you win, consider taking Spider Monkey with you.
Gremlins At Work On All D Magazine Sites
Apologies. The sites will be painfully slow to access (as well as to post on) at times all week. They gave me a quite detailed explanation about why but I didn’t understand a word of it.
AFI Last Night: One Nation
Last night at NorthPark, I took in the premiere of One Nation, a documentary by three local filmmakers (Justin Wilson, Tony Wann, and Jack Waldrip) that uses songs, news footage, commercials, and all sorts of other pictures and sounds to recreate the turbulent year of 1968. Moving through the year chronologically, One Nation is intense and even funny at times (it includes a commercial for Colt .45, when the malt liquor was positioning itself as an elite beverage for white folks), using only the raw material the year provided with no outside comment. That’s not to say there isn’t a strong point of view or a strong way of expressing it. The most powerful sequence begins with a clip of Johnny Cash performing “Ring of Fire,” and gradually, that’s mashed up with footage of the U.S. Army making its way through Vietnam with flamethrowers. It’s a little bit long and the month-by-month setup means some of the more important events (the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the assassinations of MLK and RFK) happen well before the climax. But it’s well worth seeing — especially if you, like me, didn’t live through 1968 the first time. One Nation screens again tomorrow at 4:15 p.m. at the Magnolia.
The Marty Cortland Stimulus Plan: Buy Canada
Marty has been bugging me for weeks to post this. The funny thing is, he’s actually half-serious. He thinks the United States should offer to buy Canada.
Leading Off (3/31/09)
1. Lincoln High School principal Earl Jones, who has been at the campus two decades, was recently given a 20-day suspension and is scheduled to be reassigned to another campus next school year because a coach paddled a student two years ago, even though the principal reportedly reprimanded the coach. Prediction: tomorrow, the details will have changed considerably.
2. The Texas Senate passed a bill yesterday that would allow police to set up sobriety checkpoints and would expand their ability to give blood or breath tests to suspected drunk drivers. MADD is happy, but unsure if it will pass the House. I mean, have you seen the collection of drunks in the Texas House?
3. With new-car sales dropping 35 percent in North Texas, VW Lewisville has decided to start selling scooters. I’d love to buy a Vespa, actually, but I’m not sure how I’d get it home. No way I’m taking one of those suckers on I-35.
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