Since the moments after Monday night’s debacle in Seattle, we’ve been looking forward to the replacement refs — those scab referees who so woefully stepped in for the unioned pros in the NFL’s first few weeks — to get the pop-culture treatment. I was thinking an ensemble screwball comedy next…
That there’s the recently released trailer for Promised Land, the first mainstream entry into the hopefully thin canon of Fracking Movies, which will of course garner a little more scrutiny on the Barnett Shale. See also: A Moron’s Guide to the Fracking of Dallas The movie, out early next year,…
The longtime owners of the Dallas Observer have sold the paper and its 12 Village Voice Media sister publications to a group of VVM executives, creating a new holding company and cutting ties with Backpage.com, the controversial classified advertising company. So: We have new owners, but the same old bosses…
In conjunction with our annual Best of Dallas issue, which hits the streets and the interstreets today, we held debates for several awards, including Best Burger. Mostly these were debates between two writers; in this case, I transcribed an ongoing internal struggle. Joe: The Ticket? Really, dude? Joe: It’s great…
In conjunction with our annual Best of Dallas issue, which hits the streets and the interstreets today, we held debates for several awards, including Best Burger. Mostly these were debates between two writers; in this case, I transcribed an ongoing internal struggle. Joe: The Ticket? Really, dude? Joe: It’s great…
You shouldn’t have lost faith in the first place. There is no Kristen Wiig if Tina Fey and Amy Poehler never move on, no Forte without Ferrell’s departure. The show must go on, and it did on Saturday night, with a lot of help from Bill Hader. This was the…
The Dallas Observer: You built that. Or you can, anyway, if one of the following opportunities suits you. Clubs Editor The clubs editor researches, reports, writes and maintains the Observer’s clubs and concert listings, helping ensure that our newspaper and web site offer the city’s most comprehensive, liveliest and most…
WFAA’s Brett Shipp went out to the football practice yesterday of Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders. What happened was dangerous, awkward, embarrassing, and yet another example of why Sanders shouldn’t have a school, and why this state should spend a few more shekels…
Somewhere deep in your blackened heart you’re rooting for Dez Bryant. Like a lot of his colleagues, his childhood was packed with a miniseries’ worth of drama and heartbreak, in and out of homes while his mom peddled crack. Then came the leaches, both men and institutions ready to exploit…
See also: Ten songs to accompany very specific dorm-room scenarios The first weekend of the SMU school year is here, which means some of our local co-eds, the ones blessed with those elusive hosting genes, will spend today pestering of-age classmates for booze, hiding their valuables and vacuuming. Always vacuuming…
Amidst a cluster of Ethiopian businesses near Greenville Avenue and 635 sits Desta, “one of a few restaurants in Dallas with the patience” to make their own injera, the classic Ethiopian spongy bread, as our food critic wrote last year. It’s a process that takes a lot of work, so…
Sometimes your brain, just like your body, needs to be flushed of all the toxins you’ve been dumping into it, especially if you’ve been streaming a lot of Netflix. No remedy for that at Whole Foods, but the Dallas Film Society, along with Morning News critic Chris Vognar and the…
The Dallas Morning News recently took some time from its very important schedule to film this slick little video declaring that “Journalism Lives.” But not just any journalism. In fact, not any other journalism. Just the journalism of the Dallas Morning News, which is “the most important news source in…
And no, it’s not Facebook, so don’t worry your pretty little anonymous head. You will still be able to fire-hose the general populous from the cave of privacy afforded by your clever screen name. You will just be able to do it faster, and hopefully with fewer quirks. The new…
See also: Will Ferrell’s visit to SMU. If you’ve watched any TV of late you’ve likely caught the above trailer for Campaign, the election-season send-up starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as rival congressional candidates in the South. The movie opens August 10, and to promote it, its stars will…
And it looks, I must say, rather awesome. Read Jamie’s preview of the fest, and get details on the festival web site…
Paige Chenault runs The Birthday Project, which partners with the Family Gateway shelter to throw birthday parties for homeless children. Which is way more patriotic than anything I did today. via Tiny Dallas…
The Observer is always looking for college interns to contribute to Dallas’ award-winning newspaper and web site. Specifically, we’re looking for students (any major will do) with a demonstrated interest and some experience in journalism, non-fiction creative writing, social media, multimedia, photography, filmmaking, joke-telling, or woodworking. (We’ve always wanted a…
The Dallas Observer is always looking for talented freelance writers, photographers, videographers and other content creators to contribute to our newspaper, web site and four blogs, Unfair Park (news), DC-9 at Night (music and nightlife), City of Ate (food and restaurants), and Mixmaster (arts and culture). Prospective contributors should spend…
The Dallas Observer is always looking for talented freelance writers, photographers, videographers and other content creators to contribute to our newspaper, web site and four blogs, Unfair Park (news), DC-9 at Night (music and nightlife), City of Ate (food and restaurants), and Mixmaster (arts and culture). Prospective contributors should send…
Skip the throat-clearing and jump right to the People Issue. If you hang around in the Observer’s orbit in the coming days, or if you happen to glance at the newsstand in your favorite bar, you’ll notice we’re offering something a little different this week: our first-annual People Issue. Given…
In this week’s Dallas Observer, we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. You guys are competitive, I say to Yasmin Bhatia and April Allen, and I watch the muscles…
