Articles for November 22nd, 2011

A Special Apology to All Our Imprisoned Subscribers

I’m not sure how many subscribers we have behind bars. We’ve got a few. Every so often, we get letters from them. Yesterday, though, we got a letter from the Mail System Coordinators Panel of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Seems our October issue did not make it to our incarcerated subscribers. Reason? The ESD sex scandal story. The magazine was rejected in accordance with Policy 3.91: “A specific factual determination has been made that the publication is detrimental to prisoner’s rehabilitation because it would encourage deviate criminal sexual behavior.” Huh.

Sorry, guys. (And girls?)

posted by Tim Rogers | November 22nd, 2011 1:48pm | filed under Media | 11 Comments »

Target Stops Using Egg Supplier Accused of Animal Cruelty

629a1070139611e180c9123138016265_7If you tried and failed to get eggs at Target recently, as I did when I encountered the oddly redundant sign pictured here, here is why you couldn’t.

posted by Zac Crain | November 22nd, 2011 1:05pm | filed under Animals, Business | 8 Comments »

Things To Do In Dallas Tonight: Nov. 22

As Tim mentioned earlier, today is the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It is also the day, of course, that Lee Harvey Oswald made the Texas Theatre famous after a store owner saw him ducking inside without buying a ticket. When one is wanted for murder, I’m not sure petty crime is the way to go.

To commemorate the tragedy that has continued to define Dallas, the aforementioned, neatly restored movie house hosts JFK Day, starting this afternoon and continuing well into tonight. They’ve recreated, down to the minute, everything that screened on November 22, 1963—from opening times to extremely cheap ticket prices—plus added a few extras.

Catch Cry of Battle, the main feature about a spoiled son of an American businessman who gets caught up in guerrilla warfare in the Philippines during World War II, and stick around for Rush To Judgment, a conspiracy theory documentary based on a book debunking the findings of the Warren Commission. Just for fun, there’s a free late night screening of Naughty Dallas, a B movie in the spirit of the theater’s Tuesday Night Trash series that features the Carousel Club, the nightclub formerly owned by Jack Ruby, Oswald’s killer. Whew. Feel free to bring your copy of 11/22/63 and read at the bar between movies.

And finally, because I’m the helpful-yet-jealous sort, there’s an excellent option for families who find themselves free of work and school. It’s Dollar Day at the Dallas Zoo, which makes for an extremely cheap way to commune with animals that are not ritualistically slaughtered to feed us in two days time. Layers are your friend, since it’s a tad cold.

For more to do tonight, go here.

posted by Liz Johnstone | November 22nd, 2011 11:52am | filed under Things to Do in Dallas | (0) Comments »

Jeb Hensarling’s Epic Failure May Be a Success

With Sen. Patty Murray (D., Wash.), Dallas Congressman Hensarling co-chaired the supercommittee, that extra-legislative Hail Mary pass that failed to connect with a receiver. Blame is, of course, flying back and forth in both directions. Several groups have come up with ways to fix the deficit — Simpson-Bowles, the Group of Six, etc.  But Congress cannot. The Senate has failed to pass a budget for the last three years. The House has passed budgets which resemble nothing more than ideological talking points for Republican members running for re-election in heavily right-wing districts.

The market’s reaction was predictable. Say what you will about Italy and Greece, but their parliaments have faced the music and acted.

What’s to be done? Nothing.

Absent Congress, the automatic cuts will go into effect. The Bush tax cuts will disappear. The combined fiscal result will be a huge reduction in the deficit.

Now we get the pure enjoyment of watching both sides scramble to undo the consequences of their intransigence. It is America’s Zen moment. Inaction equals action, whether either side likes it or not. We may come to thank Jeb Hensarling after all.

posted by Wick Allison | November 22nd, 2011 10:59am | filed under Economy | 18 Comments »

D Magazine’s Raya Ramsey Talks Giving Back For the Holidays on WFAA’s Daybreak

Our very own online lifestyle editor, Raya Ramsey, acquitted herself nicely this morning on WFAA’s morning show, Daybreak. But that dastardly host Ron Corning cut her off before she could plug our website featuring even more ways to celebrate the holidays: www.dmagazine.com/events

She’ll get you next time, Corning.

posted by Jason Heid | November 22nd, 2011 9:54am | filed under Events, Media, Shopping, Society | 1 Comment »

Leading Off (11/22/11)

Kennedy Was Killed 48 Years Ago. To mark the anniversary, the Los Angeles Times runs a story about our preparations to mark the 50th anniversary in 2013. Says the Times: “Those organizing the 50th anniversary event … say they are not capitalizing on memories of Camelot. They want to show the world how far ‘Big D,’ the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country, has come from its days as a conservative outpost of big-haired socialites, oil tycoons and cowboys.” But the best thing about the story is the photo that accompanies it. Is that really the pose you want to strike when being photographed at the “X” in the road where the bullet(s) struck our president?

Redskins Player Tells Cowboys Fan to Kill Himself. Everybody is up in arms over Jabar Gaffney’s response to a Cowboys fan who was taunting him on Twitter about the Redskins’ record. Gaffney tweeted back: “3-7 ain’t a record to be proud of I’m just proud I ain’t you get a life or kill urself.” I’m more disturbed by that run-on sentence.

Rick’s Cabaret Buys Silver City Cabaret. Silver City, which we once called the worst strip joint in Dallas because of all the bad stuff that has gone down there, is now owned by Houston-based Rick’s Cabaret International. I love this quote in the press release from Eric Langan, the CEO of Rick’s: “We are very enthusiastic about the potential to develop the Silver City location at 7501 North Stemmons Freeway near Love Field, which will become a great entertainment and retail destination. [So far, so good. We're talking business here. Excellent.] Only 14,000 square feet of the 54,000 square foot building is currently in use [still with you], and we will develop the rest to include a Tootsie’s-style Knockers Sports Bar and an after hours nightclub.” Right there. That’s the part of the quote where Eric Langan’s mom’s head hits the table. We can only hope that this Knockers Sports Bar will be open in time to welcome visitors coming to Dallas for the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination.

posted by Tim Rogers | November 22nd, 2011 8:39am | filed under Local News | 6 Comments »