Articles for May 4th, 2010
Texas A&M Student Senate to Possibly Vote Tonight on Opposing In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants
A group called Campus Reform just shot out a press release regarding a proposed bill currently sponsored by 34 Texas A&M student senators that will at least be discussed tonight.
The bill, it seems, voices opposition to giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. Granted, it really doesn’t have a ton of teeth (refraining here from Aggie joke), and won’t really change anything. But would you like to see what it says? Let’s jump.
Curiouser and Curiouser: Highland Park Community League and the Mysterious Lodging
Aaaaand, over at Park Cities People, Merritt Patterson (and commenters) dissect the meaning of the fact that the Highland Park Community League, which endorses candidates for mayor and council, shares a phone number and address with Highland Park town hall, and why town employees are answering that phone and collecting the league’s mail.
Now, I’m no expert website doohickey person, but I do know this: If you have buttons on your website, they should work, IJS.
Neumann: More Low Income Housing Not Right for Oak Cliff
Oak Cliff People’s Josh Hixson blogs that Dallas City Council member Dave Neumann gave more details about his recent decision to not recommend a redevelopment of a low income apartment complex.
It seems that after speaking to merchants and other residents, Neumann drew the conclusion that more low income housing wasn’t in Oak Cliff’s best interests.
But somehow, I think Neumann’s assessment of how Bank of America took the news of the kibosh was probably understated. “They were disappointed,” Neumann said.
Free Movie Tickets on FrontRow
If you like babies (or watching PBS’ “Nature”), come check out our giveaway.
Joel Kotkin on Moby Dick
Just kidding. Is there a such things as blograffiti? That’s what I was going for. This movie must still be bouncing around my head. Opens Friday. FrontRow review Thursday.
What To Do in Dallas Tonight: May 4, 2010
Booker T. Washington grad Norah Jones is in town at Fair Park Music Hall tonight. It’s hard to believe the Grammy-winning “Come Away With Me” was released eight years ago. Seems like just yesterday I was clutching myself in the fetal position while listening to “Lonestar” and dreaming about moving back to Texas. Well, at least that all worked out. If you’re going to the show, don’t miss opening act Sarah Jaffe, a local (Denton) singer/songwriter who is very popular around these parts. D music expert Zac Crain says to listen for Jaffe’s “Clementine” and “Before You Go.”
- The patio at Arcodoro & Pomodoro.
There are plenty of places to spend happy hour tonight. But this one sounds like the one we want to do: happy hour Italian-style at Arcodoro & Pomodoro. The restaurant just started offering L’ora Felice, with drink specials galore, and a nice patio to relax on (pictured). But free stuff is extra incentive to do everything in our world, and A&P is serving a free platter of stuzzicchini, or finger foods, when you order a drink. I needed to know a little more about these freebies, and they told me the platter includes tuna tartare, crostini, pizzettas, olives, and arancini de risi, or little fried balls of rice stuffed with delicious goodness. Also, the restaurant is celebrating it’s 22 year anniversary tomorrow, so we’ll raise a glass to that.
Leading Off (5/4/10): Subbing for Zac and Going for Quantity, Not Quality, in Effort to Atone for Tardiness Edition
1. Energy Future Holdings (aka TXU, Luminant, Oncor) announced it made $355 million in the first quarter. Go, power!
2. Two guys tried to steal a safe from the Sixth Floor Museum. They’re on the lam.
3. You know who is also on the lam? That guy who owned Global Exotics, the Arlington company at the center of the biggest animal-cruelty case in the history of animals.
4. A Lewisville teacher was busted for porn!
Wall Street Journal Not Wild About Moby-Dick
As Peter pointed out in Monday’s Leading Off, reviews of the Dallas Opera’s Moby-Dick have been uniformly glowing. Perhaps that is why Heidi Waleson (what an appropriate name), coming to the party a bit later than other reviewers, found fault with the production. As a writer, you want to offer a unique point of view. In any case, here’s how she wrapped her piece in the Wall Street Journal today:
For the most part, the opera was engaging and well paced. Still, I longed for some dissonance, an edge to the music that would awaken a visceral sense of terror. Comparisons to Benjamin Britten’s “Billy Budd” are hard to avoid: Britten’s eerie, less plush, less immediately pleasing score finally leaves a more lasting impression of an all-male drama on the high seas. Melville’s novel was a wild, experimental leap for mid-19th-century American fiction. Rather than capitalize on the outlandishness of that grand, messy creation, Messrs. Heggie and Scheer and their producers tamed this ferocious monster into a farm-raised fish suitable for the cautious palates of modern opera audiences.
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