Eric has a pretty nice rundown of today’s big announcement, and I’m sure Schutze will chime in at some point, when he’s done looking into the combination polo-field/squash complex expected to be announced for southern Dallas next week. In the meantime, Sharon Grigsby, editorial page editor for the Morning News,…
That up there is a video, from the visual wizards at You+Dallas, chronicling last year’s Artopia, the annual Dallas Observer art party. The event, at the Dallas Contemporary, celebrates art, fashion, design, music and the rest of the cultural color wheel, and it’s where we unveil the winners of our…
Quick programming note: Things are going to be light around here in the coming weeks. A bunch of us threw in on the Powerball, which is up to $550 million, and as everyone knows, the more people who get together on buying a ticket the better the odds. So I…
Safe to say AMC knows a little something about pulling off a period drama. So we have high hopes for a pilot recently ordered by the ambitious cable network — especially since it’s set in Dallas, and double-especially since it was written by a native son. The show is called…
“A lot of you are probably wondering, What the hell is Mike gonna do on stage tonight?” Mike Tyson asks at the beginning of his one-man show, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth. “I’m wondering the same thing.” Wonder no more, friends. Tyson is bringing the Spike Lee-directed show, which has thus…
Filmmaker Judd Apatow lands in Dallas today to promote his new movie, This is 40, a raw, raucous look at three weeks in the life of an excessively good-looking American family. I saw it yesterday. It’s good. More on that later, from me and people way more qualified than me…
The city of Dallas has said it wants next year’s festivities surrounding the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination to be quiet, understated, and focused on the man, not his death. And they will be, we’re sure. But let’s be real: People are going to capitalize on this, and not just…
If this isn’t a pitch perfect send-up of every holiday you’ve ever spent back home, you must live somewhere exotic. Or your parents are dead. One of the two…
“Almost 4,000 students, faculty and staff participated in this historic, one-take video, showcasing the gifts and spirit of Martin High School in Arlington, Texas.” So says the YouTube description. But it’s right there. See for yourself. H/T Dallas Reddit…
I had one of my newspaper moments yesterday. I have them every so often, usually when the Giants win the World Series and I get all trashed on nostalgia, looking up all the front pages of my hometown rags. Yesterday’s was different. Yesterday’s moment was of the Serious Journalism bent,…
In this week’s Dallas Observer, we have a long look at the goofiness of the U.S. patent system, which lots of smart people agree is suffocating innovation in this country. One of those smart people is local billionaire Mark Cuban, who’s been on a jihad against patent laws for a…
What you see above is Aaron Sorkin, writer of all of the things people like, talking about his plans for the forthcoming Steve Jobs biopic, based on the biography by Walter Isaacson. It includes this rather detailed reveal, which was transcribed by Grantland:…
That guy you see up there is J.C. Drake, the police chief at North Lake College in Irving. Chief Drake is real worried about all the school shootings, so he decided to do something about it. He decided to offer a course, apparently to students and also staff, in how…
When news hit my Twitter feed yesterday that Louis C.K.’s next stand-up special — the one based on the act he blessed Dallas with last month — would premiere on HBO, my first reaction was: Oh, that download-forever thing didn’t work. Too bad. I liked paying $5 for some funny…
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 see above. No…
Here’s a press release I got. They appear to be serious. About what I have no idea. Hurricane Sandy left millions of Americans without power while wreaking havoc on New York City. While most sought solace from the storm with nearby family or friends, many students living in New York…
If you saw Louis CK’s concert in Dallas two weekends ago, his monologue on last night’s Saturday Night Live may have been a bit disappointing. He did about seven minutes of material from his current tour, basically word for word. But he more than made up for it two sketches…
Parent Crap’s Alice Laussade is off this week, tending to her beloved Meat Fight. Joe Tone, who became a parent earlier this year, fills in. The house was dark. Most of the street was by then. Porch lights, living-room lights, kitchen lights — every watt visible from the sidewalk was…
The Cowboys were well into their first-quarter meltdown on Sunday when Dez Bryant, the team’s embattled wide receiver, set up to return a Giants punt. Before the ball was snapped, the radio team of Brad Sham and Babe Laufenberg calmly suggested that Bryant, known for his casual handling of the…
I did some hard time in Cleveland a few years back, and I covered quite a bit of basketball. My time there overlapped some with that of Delonte West, who revealed himself to be tough, funny, weird, one of the few seemingly authentic athletes you’ll come across in the locker…
Every Texan’s favorite high-school football drama has been an amusing subplot in the presidential campaign ever since Mitt Romney co-opted Friday Night Light’s locker-room slogan: “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose.” The show’s creator didn’t approve; the author of the book upon which the show based did. And the Romney…
The last time time Dallas Nostalgia took this big a hit was when the St. Patrick’s Day parade appeared in peril. Before Mark Cuban emptied his cup holders and saved it, the internet took up the cause, in the form of a CrowdTilt fundraiser. See also: – CrowdTilt Started a…
