Patrick Michels Foreign policy, the economy, the Dallas real estate market — there was much to discuss.First Lady Laura Bush teamed up with the Jonas Brothers Sunday, helping dozens of Dallas sixth-graders sort dirt and spread seed at the new Trinity River Audubon Center. The event was a commemoration of…
Patrick Michels If the tall guy stays healthy, this old crew just might have a shot. Jerry Jones is fast becoming the Kevin Bacon of the sports world, laying down intricate, unlikely connections to absolutely everyone who ever made a buck off some other guy throwing a ball. A few…
For all you overachievers who got your Halloween costumes together a week early, Moby gave you an excuse to show them off Saturday night, headlining a long list of DJ’s spinning at the Lizard Lounge. “Meltdown” was the party’s name, with James Zabiela, Dirty South, DJ Dan & Donald Glaude,…
Patrick Michels Mayor Tom, and especially Laura Leppert, are thrilled T.O. could join them. The State Fair of Texas may have wrapped, but don’t worry — next week’s “Passport to Health” Diabetes Awareness Expo at Fair Park promises to be a real hoot too. To help spread the word about…
You can get away with calling TV on the Radio lots of things — post-punk, art rock, whatever you like. The amateur music critics we found at Mockingbird Station Monday afternoon tried all those and then some — even hinting that the track “Golden Age” off the New York set’s…
Someday dinosaurs will roam the earth again, but until they do, we’ve got aging rock stars to appreciate. Don’t get me wrong — some newer groups came through the city this weekend, but the main YouTube postings belong to some of the more junior dinosaurs. They’re easily identified by the…
Patrick Michels If you came anywhere near Elm and Akard Streets in the last couple days, then you saw an incredible, mind-boggling sight: hundreds of people walking around downtown Dallas on a weekend. If you looked closely, you probably also saw a pair of three-story beach balls knocking around between…
Patrick Michels About a forward: Dirk Nowitzki, kinda channeling Kurt Cobain Dirk Nowitzki faced a difficult choice last night, a dilemma many of us have grappled with before: what song to play on Guitar Hero. Course, since he’s Dirk Nowitzki, he made his decision flanked by three Mavs Dancers and…
Patrick Michels State Rep. Tony Goolsby, State Sen. Florence Shapiro and TEA Commissioner Robert Scott were thrilled to be at DISD this afternoon. With so many heavy hitters in one room at once, it was probably inevitable that nothing was accomplished. This afternoon’s hour-long meeting in the conference room at…
Patrick Michels Bishop Kevin Farrell will rue the day he crossed this unsavory bunch. Upset over the October 8 statement from Dallas and Fort Worth Bishops that called a vote for a pro-choice candidate “morally impermissible,” the folks at Catholics for Change made good on their pledge to protest outside…
The Texas stage spoof Greater Tuna opened in Austin 27 years ago and has spawned a handful of spin-offs, with actors Jaston Williams and Joe Sears playing the entire cast of characters, and all, until now, based in small-town West Texas. The latest in the Tuna catalog, Tuna Does Vegas,…
Between the benefit party “Benevolence” hosted at Zubar, and DJ Fishr Pryce’s regular third-Saturday gig at Fallout Lounge, last weekend was a good one to get out in Dallas and mug for the camera a little. Unless you’ve got one or two better things to do, like spin the records,…
Well, it wasn’t the liveliest show to ever grace the Granada’s hallowed stage, but James McMurtry recorded a live album Saturday night. The newly launched NoDepression.com billed Saturday’s event as a promo for the new site — one alt-country classic playing for another — though the way it turned out,…
Once upon a time, a long time ago — OK, Friday actually, but it feels like it was a long while back — we were waiting for the weekend to begin. Oh, the music we were going to see, the things we were going to do. Well it’s Monday now…
Photos by Patrick Michels In my Mavs’ fantasy, this is followed by a loving embrace and an 82-0 regular season. Hmm, what oh what could distract us from our Cowboys’ misery today? Two words: Mavericks! Dancers! The squad hyped its shiny, skinderful new calendar with a shindig at Ghostbar after…
Daniel Rodrigue This sucker was 32 feet of evil, but nothing a match and some gasoline couldn’t fix. In short: Good 1, Evil 0. Fireworks exploded overhead as the 10-headed demon god Ravana burst into flames Satuday night at Texas Stadium. OK, fine, so it was only a 32-foot-tall effigy…
Patrick Michels It’s opening weekend at the new Trinity River Audubon Center, and with free admission this Saturday and Sunday, it seemed like an opportune time to size up the nature reclamation project that’s been 10 years in the making. Upwards of $40 million has been poured into making the…
Photos by Patrick Michels Reaching for the high notes. They’re out there somewhere. For those of you scoring at home, it took Jessica Simpson three songs into her Friday night set at the State Fair of Texas to drift into chatter about her BF and QB, Tony Romo. “Someone who…
One of the best purveyors of rootsy punk, Columbus, Ohio’s Two Cow Garage, has just released Speaking in Cursive, the band’s 4th effort. The album hit the streets yesterday, and is the first Two Cow effort not to feature founding member/drummer Dustin Harigle. Before a CD release show in its…
When first encountering Syntax Strange’s juxtaposition of acoustics, boom bap, and unforgiving staccato flow, you just might wonder, “what the hell is that cat talking about?” The understatement of the week would be to say that he rhymes for people who listen to lyrics, not just hear music. Syntax’s rapid-fire…
The British indie pop duo The Ting Tings provide the soundtrack to Aural Ambush this week. We sprung their single “That’s Not My Name” on some music-lovers outside the Granada and along Greenville Avenue Thursday night. All liked the song’s beat, but there was plenty of disagreement beyond that –…
Patrick Michels From DISD trustee Carla Ranger this morning, in a note to teachers: “May your lives be blessed in spite of the unjust price you now pay for the mistakes of others.” Briefly this morning, a dispatch from the front lines of the DISD teacher layoffs coming down today…
