Bill Gates

The British Guy Samples the Tea at the Renaissance Faire

Regular readers may remember that I found it amusing to review cream teas and high teas around Dallas, comparing them to their British counterparts. While many of you didn't agree that this was in fact amusing, that's never stopped me before. For the third in a highly infrequent series, I am for som ... More >>

An Englishman Gets to Know Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue BBQ is the easiest barbecue restaurant to chant the name of. That is an undeniable fact. Go ahead and try it. I'll wait here. Catchy, isn't it? With an immediate marketing advantage like that, it's a wonder this place is so deserted of a chilly Monday evening. I also see from the frankly ... More >>

Let the Democrats Remember: The Wealth of the Nation Doesn't Come from Yachts

Pins and needles, waiting for the Democrats to open in Charlotte. I am so worried the Obama campaign might stumble on an editorial from The Dallas Morning News and actually read it. Well, not that worried. That would take a lot of stumbling. But what a shame if they did take the News' consistent ed ... More >>

Woman Stole a Church, Tried to Sell it Back to Pastor, Lawsuit Claims

In March 2011, the Exciting Greater New St. John Primitive Baptist Church closed on a modest white clapboard building on 56th Street in South Oak Cliff. The church, led by the Reverend Vincent Davis, appointed three trustees to handle the financing of the purchase and later put Sandra Diamond Taylor ... More >>

The Problem With.... Flo Rida's "Good Feeling"

Flo Rida has only become more and more interchangeable and average since he transitioned from R&B party music like 2008's "Low" to poppish party music like 2009's "Right Round." At this point, he oughta change his name to Cam Ofloj. Or something similar.

Point/Counterpoint: Is Lil Wayne's Newfound Sobriety a Good or Bad Thing?

Weezy F. Baby​Little Wayne emerged from Rikers Island late last year. Now, owing to the terms of his probation, he must lay off drugs and liquor for three years or return to prison. And, by all accounts, he's kept kosher. And yet something doesn't quite sit right. For the man who once composed a l ... More >>

On L.A.'s Skid Row, a generational war over how to teach the American children of illegal immigrants

The Mexican Has a Ball With the Etymology of Cojones

Today In Music News: Big Four Take On Apple, Kings of Leon Talk To Detractors and Jermaine Jackson Turns Humanitarian

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, August 10, 2009...The "Big Four" music companies are taking on Apple with a new form of digital music. Maybe they should ask Bill Gates what happened to the Zune. It seems like Kings of Leon are starting to figure out they've sold their soul to the ... More >>

Food For Thought 4.28.09

"This is a journey, and we still have work to do, but expanding our sourcing of beans from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms and partnering with the Gates Foundation represents significant steps." (Steve Yucknut, vice president of sustainability, announcing Kraft's intention to increase coffee be ... More >>

The Shock Wave Felt 'Round the Amusement Park Business

Kelly Law-Yone is Queen of Fake Rock

Guitar Hero Breeds a New Kind of Bar Band

Videogamers are living out rock and roll fantasies on screens at your local pub

French Lessons (From Mrs. Bill Gates)

Three's a Charm

A promising glimpse of the next Halo

Missing from the Dallas Scene: You

Royalty pain

Don't forget to read the fine print

Wize Guys

Here's your chance to get rich quick -- or lose your shirt, in which case, GlobalTec disavows all responsibility for, well, anything

Stacked Deck

Giving penny-ante politicians a say over lucrative affordable-housing developments seemed like a good idea--until the FBI came calling

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Yuppie Pricks

Friday, February 11

The Geek

Anthony Michael Hall grows up

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nocturama (Anti-)

Slow Love

Christina Ricci finds a way to warm her wickedly funny cold heart in Pumpkin

Simple Simon

California Suite isn't Neil Simon's best, but Richardson Theatre Centre could have done worse

Hairy Plotters

Ignoble savages go ape in Human Nature

Misery Loves Company

Addison's Out of the Loop Festival stages some strange, dark, wonderful works

Odds and Ends

The more things change, the more we try to keep up

Industrial Evolution

The record industry crippled Napster with litigation. But has it made things worse for itself?

From Russia, with Love

Just $25,000 gets you a bundle of hot Russian babes from one Dallas matchmaking firm. What more could a rich American geek ever ask for?

Microsofties

If Antitrust were written in computer code, it'd come up all zeroes

Hope and Glory

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has reason to shout-his money and enthusiasm are resurrecting a dead team

Grammar School

Nelly sets out from his beloved St. Louis on the road to fame and fortune

Software and hard time

Texas prisons take a byte out of crime with a computer rehab program

Cyber bore

The DotComGuy gets loads of publicity just like this for being a zero

Fatman and slobbin'

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Oldie but goodie

Lawry's The Prime Rib: an old wrinkle ahead of its time

Night & Day

January 7 - 13, 1999

Iron butterfly

Oh, Brother

Russell Miles, the "Bill Gates of weird," finds religion in crank calls

Night & Day

August 20 - 26, 1998

Rocket man

Former NASA engineer Tom Moser dreams about launching the next generation of spacecraft from Texas soil

Fair game

Feminism posing as trend, profit masquerading as activism, and a bunch of really bad songs: Why Lilith Fair isn't so fair at all

Ani DiFranco, musician

Reconsidering the image of the do-it-yourself poster child

Pulling up lame

Hoop Dreams creators cripple the myth of legendary runner Steve Prefontaine

Buzz

Cosmic cowboy

Jimmie Dale Gilmore goes once more into the mystic

Buzz

Wish Woman

She hasn't got money or connections. But straight-shooting Linda Terrell is helping dying grownups live their dreams.

Slam dunk

Hoop Dreams is a thrilling gut check for sports fans and athletes alike