Thursday, November 6, 2008

Pegasus News week in view: Change edition

By Mike Orren

We know that the presidential election dominated the news this week, but while you're picking out your inauguration gown, don't forget that all politics is local -- and we've got results on all the key races.

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Metro: Dallas went blue in presidential polling and we survived two earthquakes. Have we somehow been moved to California? ... Latina Lista was at the Bishop Arts election party ... Three days after the election and Kim Brimer still hasn't conceded ... WFAA was the big winner in the election night ratings ... Reading and Radio Resource looks into the local Native American community ... Nice to see a local community (Keller) skipping the stadium and investing in technology and schools ... If you're in Arlington and have outstanding warrants, you might want to get right in a hurry ... Is Fort Worth going back to streetcars? ... The towing company our readers love to hate lost its city license this week ... Richardson Echo reported the retirement of Richardson Police Chief Larry Zacharias ... The Street Zine reported on an effort to get prostitutes off the street.

Stage: Shawn interviewed African-American Repertory Theater's William Earl Ray ... Theatre off the Square has a new production of Phantom of the Opera ... Stolen Shakespeare Guild announced its upcoming season.

Flix: The Dallas Video Festival is in full swing and John has previewed some of the featured films ... On Friday, check in for reviews and filmmaker interviews on Synecdoche, NY and Boy in the Striped Pajamas and reviews of Soul Men and Role Models.

Music: Our pals at The Blue Shoe Project are putting two living legends in front of 4,000 students on Friday ... Gobbler's Knob likes the look of Saturday's Revival Tour.

Artsy: Carrollton is up in the weekly "Downtown Showdown" ... North Texas Daily interviews Denton muralist Roy Warren ... The McKinney Fire Museum got a snazzy 1922 truck and McKinneyNews.net got video.

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Best Bites: Local food companies are dropping HFCS ... Teresa checked out the new California Pizza Kitchen for one ...

Game: The Stars are off to a lousy start, but the Cupcheck has found 20 reasons to look on the bright side. Maybe they should take a cue from the UNT Men's Hockey team, which has its first woman on the roster ... The Mavs won two this week ... The Rangers added a new pitching coach who made a big difference for the Brewers ...

Schools: It's superintendents in the hotseat, as the Lancaster ISD is studying the Larry Lewis investigation and in the Dallas ISD, Michael Hinojosa refuses to resign ... A class at Arlington Bowie High needs votes in an international video contest ... Cindy Chaffin got video of the Richardson High homecoming parade.

Bidness: We're the second-fastest-growing market in the US, but that didn't stop us from losing four Circuit City stores. And it looks like a lot of those new folks must be in new apartments ... Local firm Fish & Richardson has been named the largest IP firm in the US.

Pegasus Picks for the weekend

Take part in the Festival of Ideas this Saturday

Friday

• It's a soul showcase at Nokia with Keith Sweat and En Vogue.
• Oceanaire has a five course wine dinner (with some seafood to soak up the wine).
• There's championship rodeo and country music at the Texas Stampede (all weekend).
• Rebel country pianist Terry Allen should be a lot of fun in the intimate confines of the McDavid Studio.
• There are lots of Dallas Video Festival events, but you can't go wrong with the showing of the 24 Hour Video Race winners.
• The South Dallas Dance Festival features New Orleans dancer/choreographer Michelle Gibson (all weekend).

Saturday

• Get engaged in the future at the Dallas Institute Festival of Ideas
• 4,000 people playing in the mud. Genius.
• Meet JR, Bobby, Pam and the rest of the Dallas crew as they celebrate the show's 30th anniversary at Southfork.
• Lots of local female musicians are putting on the GoGirls Music Fest as an organ donation benefit.
• I really love Calexico's musical melange.
• Metal and hip-hop meet in a bill that includes Kottomouth Kings, hed p.e., SubNoize Souljas and more...

Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY

• The Dallas Video Festival features the top short films from Texas.
• If singing for 24-hours straight would bring world peace, could you do it? Find out.

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