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May 25, 2012
The DC9 At Night/Good Records Challenge #2: The Mohicans
Aaaand we are back with the second DC9 At Night/Good Records Challenge. Once again, we're making a sport out of shopping for art, finding any excuse we can to create our own version of Supermarket Sweep. For those who don't remember the rules, we give our favorite artists and Dallas personalities $5 ... More >>
Music
December 22, 2011
It's all "Fa Shiggadow" to Hip-Hop Duo The Mohicans
Aaaand we are back with the second DC9 At Night/Good Records Challenge. Once again, we're making a sport out of shopping for art, finding any excuse we can to create our own version of Supermarket Sweep. For those who don't remember the rules, we give our favorite artists and Dallas personalities $5 ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2011
Best Local Hip-Hop of 2011
A.Dd When we heard Paris Pershun and Slim Gravy teamed up with super producer PicnicTyme and DJ Sober for When Pigs Fly, we couldn't help but be excited for A.Dd 's 2011. They confidently took the city by storm, and When Pigs Fly achieved local legend status thanks to a Kickstarter campaign. Add t ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
College Football Uniforms Are Outta Control: My Top 10 Observer-ations
10. We've sorta become desensitized to Oregon's smorgasboard of uniforms with different helmets featuring gray, green, yellow and white and neon-green outlined numbers. Blame Phil Knight and Nike for those. But what about the rest of ya? The opening weekend of college football delivered some gr ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2011
After Raucous Send-Off Last Week, UT Dallas Nabs Second in Final Four of College Chess
Photos courtesy UT DallasSixth-year grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez studies his options against a fellow grandmaster from UT Brownsville on Sunday.Maybe you've heard, but chess is serious business at UT Dallas. Perennial contenders for the national championship, the Comets are one of three Texas te ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2011
Texas Aggies Know Their Meat
A panel of judges at the National Meat Association's second-ever University Cook-off this week was partial to the University of Idaho's bacon sausage, but a stuffed pork loin created by Texas A&M took the people's choice prize. "I ate it, and I liked it," says operations manager Jen Kempis-P ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2010
The State Never Could Execute Ronald "Buffalo" Chambers. But He's Dead Now.
A then-21-year-old Ronald "Buffalo" Chambers was sentenced to be executed in 1976.I cannot count the number of stories Observer editor Mark Donald and I have written about Ronald "Buffalo" Chambers, who, on April 10, 1975, kidnapped 22-year-old Texas Tech student Mike McMahan and 20-year-old Dei ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
Whitt's End: 9.17.10
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Of all the teams that lost in Week 1 of the NFL season, betcha there's only one that spent the last couple days explaining and defending their organizational flow chart: Your Dallas Cowboys. *On ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2010
Whitt's End: 9.3.10
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *The Texas Rangers' slogan this season: "It's Time". The Texas Rangers' situation on September 3: "It's Over." With 29 games remaining, the Rangers could go 14-15 and the A's would have to go 24- ... More >>
Blogs
August 30, 2010
Hold the Tortillas: A&M-Kingsville Tosses Football Tradition
Texas A&M University-Kingsville has become the latest institution to clamp down on tortilla tossing. "Over the course of the past year, I wrestled with a difficult issue related to the spirit of the institution," President Steven Tallent explained in a recent statement banning the practice a ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2010
Cowboys 16, Bengals 7: My Top 10 Observations
10. Man, what a letdown. You spend all weekend talking about and listening to and watching highlights of Emmitt Smith and Super Bowls and football immortals. Then they kick off the Hall of Fame game and you get Cowboys 16, Bengals 7. It's like going to the theater and being titillated b ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
Day "Off": My Top 10 Observations
10. Decided to take a day off today. At least from 105.3 The Fan. I'm working on a cover story for next week's Dallas Observer, plus I've contracted some ornery strand of the common cold that has me so congested that diced jalapenos taste like nothing but texture. Seeing that I spent ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2010
Healthy Local Runner Drops Dead at 32. Um, Time to take Physical Inventory?
Mark Austry was healthy. Not an obsessed fitness nut, but healthy. Played baseball at Texas Tech and with the Fort Worth Cats. Was a superb golfer. And, when he found time from being a devoted family man to wife and two kids, he got out and ran. Sunday he dropped dead. At age 32. Literally s ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2010
We're Six Months Away from Ponying Up, But, Still, SMU to ESPN ... Twice
SMU just released the 2010 football schedule, and, clearly, the Christmas Miracle in Hawaii meant a little something-something when it came to the Worldwide Leader locking down dates. Because the season opens with a September 5 Sunday-afternoon showdown in Lubbock against Texas Tech -- the first ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2009
Whitt's End: 5.8.09
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Looks like The Ticket's parent company - Cumulus Media - is asking forcing employees to take five unpaid days off before June 30. Ouch. Maybe not a big deal to on-air talent with six-figure ... More >>
News
April 16, 2009
A Killer F5 Tornado Rips Through Dallas County -- How Ready Are We for this Nightmare Scenario?
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Looks like The Ticket's parent company - Cumulus Media - is asking forcing employees to take five unpaid days off before June 30. Ouch. Maybe not a big deal to on-air talent with six-figure ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2009
Baylor, Texas Tech Are Raiding North Texas!
Courtesy Texas Tech UniversitySo says the Texas Tech athletics Web site this afternoon, as the Red Raiders make it official: Tech and Baylor are moving their next two games up to North Texas sooner than later. As in: This year, on November 28, the Red Raiders and Bears won't play in Waco, as schedul ... More >>
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January 21, 2009
Didn't Take Zach Thomas Long to Get His Fill of the Cowboys
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Zach Thomas. Unlike Brad Pitt in the movie, Zach didn't exactly grow younger as he got older. But boy did he grow sick and tired in a hurry. This is how it was supposed to work: After a successful, yet ultimately unfulfilling career in Miami, Zach Thomas ret ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2009
Whitt's End 1.9.09
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *First things first. If you plan to see this movie, or even think it looks remotely entertaining, please, leave these premises immediately. *Nothing official yet (UPDATE: Now it's official), but I hear E ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2009
The Top 10 Announcers in Dallas Sports History
In retrospect, Ole Miss and Texas Tech are merely above-average college football teams. Their little clash in Dallas last week, however, was called by two of this area's icons of announcing. Though he's looked better, it was good to see Pat Summerall working the game on TV. And on radio - with his ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2009
Cotton Bowl Classic, One Last Time
Speaking, as we were yesterday, of Ole Miss-Texas Tech (sorta), David Sanderson was kind enough to provide us with this panoramic farewell snapped during the final Cotton Bowl Classic ever to be played at Fair Park. A much larger version can be found here. --Robert Wilonsky
Blogs
January 5, 2009
Texas v. Ohio State: The Siesta Bowl
Was watching the Cotton Bowl with some buddies on lower Greenville when Ole Miss sacked Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell for a game-clinching safety. While most of the joint emitted a primal scream, spiked their red-n-black hats, or ordered another mind-numbing shot, one dude sat and ... More >>
Blogs
January 1, 2009
Happy New Year! The Top 10 Most Memorable Moments in Cotton Bowl History
Pass the Advil and crank up the wayback machine. Let's kick off 2009 with one last, long, loving look back at the Cotton Bowl. Oh, the refurbished stadium will still be around, but its namesake game is moving to Arlington after tomorrow's Texas Tech-Ole Miss curtain closer and, other than Texa ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2008
BREAKING NEWS: Michael Crabtree Coming (to Dallas) and Going (to the NFL)
In news that should surprise no one, Michael Crabtree's last college game will be Jan. 2 in the last Cotton Bowl played in Dallas. No official announcement, but I hear the Texas Tech All-World receiver and two-time Biletnikoff Award winner is making plans for the future. And they include more Dalla ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2008
Whitt's End
Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week - even the end of the year - welcome to Whitt's End: *Hold your horses if you thought tonight's concert by Russ Martin and his band at Joe Avezzano's joint up in Frisco was going to A) turn into a bashfest o ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2008
Texas Tech v. Ole Miss. One Last Cotton Pickin' Time
So, you jazzed about the old Cotton Bowl's final matchup? The Only Team To Beat Florida vs. The Only Team To Beat Texas. Maybe it's just me, but I'm intrigued by Mississippi vs. Texas Tech.
Blogs
November 21, 2008
Video of the Week: Greatest. Weatherman. Ever.
Seriously, how can you not love Texas Tech coach Mike Leach? His favorite weather: “When it rains mud.” His half-ass name for the live radar: “The beam.” His favorite creed: “You’re going to be dead in 100 years anyway. Live dangerously.” Still hope he somehow winds up in ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2008
You Betcha: Week 11
Seriously, how can you not love Texas Tech coach Mike Leach? His favorite weather: “When it rains mud.” His half-ass name for the live radar: “The beam.” His favorite creed: “You’re going to be dead in 100 years anyway. Live dangerously.” Still hope he somehow winds up in ... More >>
Blogs
October 23, 2008
Pro Football Comes to the Cotton Bowl? Or Close Enough. Maybe. If You Say So.
Seriously, how can you not love Texas Tech coach Mike Leach? His favorite weather: “When it rains mud.” His half-ass name for the live radar: “The beam.” His favorite creed: “You’re going to be dead in 100 years anyway. Live dangerously.” Still hope he somehow winds up in ... More >>
News
October 23, 2008
Picking Cotton
Texas-OU is great and all, but what about the Cotton Bowl's other 51 Saturdays a year?
Blogs
October 17, 2008
BREAKING NEWS: T. Boone Pickens Tours Cotton Bowl, Considers Tech-OSU in Big D
Texas-OU is great and all, but what about the Cotton Bowl's other 51 Saturdays a year?
Blogs
June 19, 2008
Duck For Cover
Texas-OU is great and all, but what about the Cotton Bowl's other 51 Saturdays a year?
Blogs
May 18, 2008
Mount Righteous Dispatches From The Road: Day Two, Panic! On the Great Plains
Texas-OU is great and all, but what about the Cotton Bowl's other 51 Saturdays a year?
Blogs
September 4, 2007
Guns Up 49, Pony Up 9
Texas-OU is great and all, but what about the Cotton Bowl's other 51 Saturdays a year?
Blogs
August 31, 2007
Only One More Shopping Day Till Football Season
Texas-OU is great and all, but what about the Cotton Bowl's other 51 Saturdays a year?
Dining
May 24, 2007
Wine, Loin and Kiddie Tech
Bin 555 is good for grownups too
Blogs
April 30, 2007
Buffalo Chambers Spared, This Time by the U.S. Supreme Court
Bin 555 is good for grownups too
Blogs
January 22, 2007
The Buffalo Will Not Die This Week
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Blogs
January 2, 2007
Knightmare
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Blogs
May 26, 2006
SMU Wins!
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April 19, 2006
Billy and the Jets
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Blogs
March 24, 2006
C'mon, but Lubbock?
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News
July 29, 2004
Letters
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Calendar
November 27, 2003
Born to Run
Lace up, Gramps
News
March 20, 2003
The Back Page
I would tell you about the Big 12 tourney, but my stomach hurts
News
January 2, 2003
2002 Revealed
An aging Buzz finds little to celebrate in the year gone by. What did you expect?
News
January 3, 2002
Odds and Ends
The more things change, the more we try to keep up
News
February 1, 2001
The Unbelievers
Minister James Simmons says he awoke from a coma one day to find himself a gay amnesiac. Some of his Dallas parishioners aren't buying it.
Music
August 26, 1999
Across the Bar
Deep-sixing Deep Ellum Records; The Tomorrowpeople play every song they know; Pleasant Grove gets Last Beat; Adventures of Jet hopes to be Born on the World Wide Web
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December 4, 1997
Letters
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