Cincinnati

Lawsuit: Former Cowboy Roy Williams Still Owes Half Million on University Park Home

For much of the last decade, Roy Williams was the hard-hitting enforcer of the Cowboys secondary, pulverizing any player who dared to bring the ball in his general vicinity. His reputation has since been tarnished by the poor pass coverage and general descent into mediocrity that led the Cowboys to ... More >>

Mark Davis Says "Today is the First Day of Talk Radio." Ain't That the Truth.

Not long after the networks started calling Ohio for Obama last night, but before Karl Rove tried to convince himself that Cleveland and Cincinnati were going to miraculously turn the state red, Mark Davis, the local conservative talk-radio host and Morning News contributor, dispatched the Tweet you ... More >>

Fort Worth's Special Guest and Not Half Bad Split the Difference

"I couldn't stand the sincere punks. I never believed them. Still don't." - Iggy Pop So said the erstwhile "world's most forgotten boy" to the New York Times earlier this year. Proving, I suppose, that it's been a few seasons since he penned classics like "No Fun" and "TV Eye" after observing the s ... More >>

Greyhound Drivers Union Says Texas Buses Are Being Driven by Crappy Drivers. Huh?

Anyone who has ridden cross-country on a Greyhound bus, and who walked by the bus station on Lamar Street yesterday, would have assumed that the group of protesters gathered there were speaking out against the inhumane conditions suffered by its passengers. On the contrary, the picketers were m ... More >>

My Morning Jacket's Tom Blankenship on Record Stores: "We Need That Sense of Community"

​ Few bands have risen from the stale, beer-stained stages of America's dingiest dives only to entertain majestic crowds at some of the world's largest festivals more naturally than My Morning Jacket. Formed in Louisville in 1998, the Jim James-fronted group has undergone a series of personnel ... More >>

Dallas Regional Chamber Wants DISD Board to Commit to Commit! Like, Right Now.

​Still waiting on a response from Mayor Mike concerning the Dallas Regional Chamber's so-called Commit! initiative, which we took at long look at Sunday. Turns out, Rawlings, Dwaine Caraway, Uplift Education board member Todd Williams and Dallas ISD board president Lew Blackburn paid The Dallas Mo ... More >>

George Clinton On How To Live A Long, Funky Life

Bro Fest Offers Its Strongest Bill To Date

Channel 5's Getting New Sportscaster

​While we await a call back concerning a Local TV News Rumor that may be a big nothin', here's a confirmed little something: KXAS-Channel 5's getting a new sports reporter. Actually, says Susan Tully, news director at KXAS, Rontina McCann is "the quintessential I-touch-all-the-product person," mea ... More >>

Creature Feature: Somewhere Beneath Young Frankenstein's Monster, Preston Truman Boyd

Paul KolnikBoyd as The Monster, with Christopher Ryan as Frederick Frankenstein, in Young Frankenstein at the Winspear​"It isn't easy being green," sang Kermit the Frog. For actor Preston Truman Boyd, starring as the mad doctor's stitched-together Monster in the Broadway tour of Mel Brooks' music ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Tanya Morgan at the Green Elephant

Tanya Morgan, Bodega BrovasGreen ElephantAugust 20, 2010 Better than: Any hip-hop concert you would see at an American Airlines Center bill filled with marquee acts that get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to destroy your ear drums.Tanya Morgan​ Tanya Morgan has been touring the coun ... More >>

The Eyes of the BCS Critics Are Upon ... Texas

​Ironic, isn't it, that last year Texas was a great, sympathetic team that got rejected, and this year the Longhorns are a good, criticized team that's getting the royal treatment? Colt McCoy lost the Heisman Trophy last Saturday night in Arlington. Does Texas still deserve a chance to w ... More >>

State Fair of Texas Files Application to Build Giant Greenhouse, Growing Area at Fair Park

Something like this Rough Brothers-designed greenhouse is what the State Fair of Texas has in mind.​Earlier this afternoon, I noticed on the Landmark Committee's Fair Park Task Force meeting agenda for Wednesday a most intriguing note: Someone has applied for a Certificate of Appropriateness to bu ... More >>

Cops Out: National Fraternal Order of Police Votes Not to Hold 2013 Convention in Dallas

Better luck next time, convention center hotel.​Angela Hunt just called with the bad news: The National Fraternal Order of Police voted not to hold their 2013 convention in Dallas after all. Says Hunt, who returned from Long Beach, California -- site of this year's confab -- at 1 this morning, the ... More >>

David Sedaris Is Probably Still Signing Books Somewhere on the SMU Campus

Jenny the Elephant, as drawn by a certain humorist of noteHoards of lit fans -- which is to say, people who still read actual books -- filled in the tapestried seats of McFarlin Auditorium last night and listened to humorist, essayist and This American Life favorite David Sedaris regale us with tale ... More >>

The Top 10 Sports Zingers I Can Think of Off the Top of My Head

Not saying Sean Avery isn't an asshole. Or a horrible teammate. Or, for that matter, a room-wrecker the Dallas Stars should consider dumping.I'm just saying he shouldn't have been suspended - or worse, pending this afternoon's meeting with NHL poobah Gary Bettman in New York - merely for his "sloppy ... More >>

That ’70s Show

As American as Overpriced Dolls

In Kit Kittredge, all it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine

Tarnished Star|No Big Deal

Dallas Theater Center Finely Combs Through The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead

Also, Opal's Husband is a gem

At Sundance, Some Films Are Wanted, While Others Are Desired

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

The Ataris

Thursday, September 13, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

They Am Smart

Alone No More

Forgiving the past opened Sandora Irvin's future

Ritzy Flitz

Ritzy's making a comeback

O Brothers, Who Art Thou?

If you don't know who the Soledad Brothers are, you should

Bass Fishing

Drums & Tuba make rock out of nothing at all

Entry Level

O.A.R. went from school at OSU to touring the U.S.A.

Horton Hears a "Wha?"

Tuna Casserole

My recipe for a tasty tenure as Cowboys coach

The Thin Line

Jurassic 5 knows the difference between hip-hop and rap

Shout Out Loud

Small-time restaurants battle for recognition

The "P" Word

Sitting out the rounds of musical chairs

For the Love of Mic

Duets explores the world of karaoke singing, and rather sweetly at that

Epistle to the Jews

Southern Baptist missionary Jim Sibley's job is to call Jews to Jesus. Is anyone listening?

In Deep sh...

Undercover-cop film swims in the shallow end

Gold gamble

Voters would decide if Olympic efforts get up to $100 million in state subsidies

Freak show

Boys bond in cinematic fairy tale more grim than Grimm

Resurrecting diner grub

Maybe Guthrie's needs a seance

The Lizard king

David Yow's got balls--he just doesn't want to show them to you anymore

Funk that

James Brown used them. Hip-hoppers stole from them. Will these women finally get their due?

Events for the week

Bottoms up!

Larry Flynt doesn't go all the way to bad taste

Buzz

Events for the week

Can he get an 'amen?'

Al Green returns with his first all-secular album since 1977

Fight the power of hatred

We cannot let evil cowards make us less free

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

How to renovate Reunion

Architect details low-cost plan to save arena--and poll shows public wants it done