"Are 99% of challenging bitches today like sarah jaffe and doug burr techno pointless?" That question, posed by Offensive Glistening in comments to a Pete Freedman blog post about an anonymous comment to a Paste article that named Denton "Best Music Scene," has no clear answer. But you can check out ... More >>
This gem by Brian Harkin may still be fresh in your memory (it's from the Spree's evening show earlier this month), but we've got 35 more shots, reaching all the way back to early January, to recap a year of the Observer's concert photography online.You can check out the slideshow here. --Pat ... More >>
Brian HarkinVonciel Hill wants concessions at Love Field to remain in the hands of one company, whose CEO is a director for the Citizens Council and contributed to her campaign. The city council's Transportation and Environment Committee yesterday afternoon met for 90 minutes in executive session a ... More >>
Sam MertenAfter serving eight years as a city plan commissioner and another eight as a council member representing some of North Dallas's more upscale neighborhoods, 72-year-old Mitchell Rasansky is no longer roaming City Hall when he's most needed. Replaced last month by Ann Margolin because of ter ... More >>
Brian HarkinDo you think President Obama ever imagined his stimulus package would help Dallas build a convention center hotel? This guy sure did.As the city's hotel development corporation prepares to sell what is now $505,230,000 in revenue bonds to build the convention center hotel, Moody's Invest ... More >>
Brian HarkinRon Price would like to name a DISD campus for the president as well.Hadn't intended to look at the Dallas Independent School District board's meeting agendas till next week -- damn, summer break went by in a hurry -- but Tawnell Hobbs gives us an early warning: Trustee Ron Price woul ... More >>
Brian HarkinDallas County District Attorney Craig WatkinsOn its Web site Friday, The Dallas Morning News ran an editorial concerning Dallas County Constables Derick Evans and Jaime Cortes's "too-cozy" relationship with Dowdy Ferry Auto Service, which is towing thousands of cars under their watch ... More >>
Brian HarkinDallas County District Attorney Craig WatkinsOn Friday, 54-year-old Claude Alvin Simmons Jr. and 39-year-old Christopher Shun Scott will be free men for the first time since being wrongly sent to prison in October 1997 for the robbery and murder of Alfonso Aguilar. Two other men will ... More >>
Brian HarkinLinda KoopLinda Koop, chair of the city council's Transportation and Environment Committee, and Gary Thomas, president of Dallas Area Rapid Transit, are having a mutual smooch-fest today at this afternoon's committee briefing, congratulating each other on what a terrific job DART ... More >>
Brian HarkinDallas County District Attorney Craig WatkinsIt's always a good idea 'round this time of the year to make a list of accomplishments, if only to figure out what you need to get done in the coming year. So happens, of course, that Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins needs to g ... More >>
POTW captain/Dallas Observer art director is under the weather today, the day in which he was supposed to make his triumphant return to the ship after a couple weeks of much-needed vacation. So he's out. And, with go-to replacement Jesse Hughey facing a few deadlines this afternoon, the duty of s ... More >>
Brian HarkinLarry JamesOn his blog this morning, Central Dallas Ministries CEO Larry James breaks some intriguing news: With the assistance of the Embrey Family Foundation, CDM has acquired 3.6 acres on the southeast corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and Interstate 30. I've got a call into James to g ... More >>

