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I have been writing about racial issues in Dallas for almost a quarter-century, during which time my thesis has always been that Dallas is a weird place. A while back I had an...
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The former singer for The Red Rooster Boogie Band isn't shocked by what's happened to him and his band in the two short years since they released their debut album. No, as...
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It's easy to imagine The Metropolitan on any corner in downtown Boston or Chicago. Unlike most Dallas restaurants parked in strip malls, high-rises or on thoroughfare frontage...
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Andrew Niccol keeps making the same movie over and over again and dressing it in slightly different clothes: the sleek charcoal Hugo Boss grays of Gattaca, the crisp Crayola...
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Annie Leibovitz has spent her photographic life capturing celebrities on film, including actors, musicians and models. Women, an exhibit of her work that has been touring for...
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At a recent performance by the new ChelseaPark Productions troupe at the Trinity River Arts Center, the lights came up for intermission between two one-acts and half a dozen...
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The judge takes his seat behind the bench, wearing shirtsleeves, a striped tie and a bucketful of country-boy charm. "How y'all doing today?"
"Fine...OK...good...," respond...
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, the latest from good-hearted Oklahoma City psychedelics the Flaming Lips, is the record you've been looking for this summer if Signs creeped...
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Mark Maguire, founder of Maguire's Regional Cuisine in North Dallas, is dressing down. Not changing from button-downs to Kid Rock pop-top tank tops, but from North Dallas to...
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Citizen-soldiers eager to renew hostilities in the American culture wars can shoot a couple of spitballs at each other this week over Little Secrets, a teen-anxiety movie that...
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I may safely claim to be the least qualified person to attend The Blazin' Hot Poker Run for Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas. I rode on the back of a motorcycle once,...
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When last we saw Piet Mondrian, he was a completely cosmopolitan man. To be sure, we all know the backstory: how Mondrian, the hero of De Stijl, champion of the abstract grid,...
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Prior restraint are words used to describe the actions of a judge or some other government official who tries to tell the press that it's forbidden to print or broadcast...
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When we arrived at the Dallas Observer (not long after we landed in Dallas, period) one of the first albums we were given by the music editor at the time was Room 158, a disc...
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Imagine, for a moment, a world without bartenders.
A city of sober club hoppers, their vision unimpaired, would doom the latex industry--and that's just one scenario....
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Things you will learn from a forthcoming oral history of Saturday Night Live: Dan Aykroyd slept with, among others, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman and writer Rosie Shuster, the...
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Cat Scratch FeverAny press is good press: I would like to thank Zac Crain for the five kittens he gave The Filthy Skanks in his column the other week (Full Frontal, August 8)....
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QB&A
After leaving SMU, Kelan Luker is Submursed in rock and roll
Usually, it works the other way around: Most athletes wait until they've made their millions in the pros...
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Her reputation as critics' fave well cemented--she writes gloomy and acerbic, sings scornful and angelic, collaborates with Elvis Costello, sleeps with Michael Penn--Aimee...
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The official book on Neko Case has her born in Virginia, growing up all over North America (though staying in Tacoma just long enough to call it home) and leaving that home at...
