This is not young Jim Schutze… OK, this is navel-gazing of the worst kind, but I thought you might like to know about it anyway: That picture (at right) on the cover of this week’s Dallas Observer, accompanying Jim Schutze’s story about the de-hippy-fication of East Dallas, is not Schutze…
Uh, note to DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa: You’d best tell your spokesperson the definition of “legal” before this gets ugly. Oh, wait. Too late. Our bad. Breaking news: The Dallas Independent School District is investigating whether a crime was committed at Preston Hollow Elementary School in the wake of a…
Buzz is a little late getting to the party with this, but it behooves us to say something about the city’s plans to tighten regulations and raise the fees for newspaper racks on city right-of-way—including the Dallas Observer’s. Ahem…here goes: It’s an outrage, an assault on our precious First Amendment-guaranteed…
I like cats…much the same way as I like having a clock radio. It gets me up in the morning. If it broke, I’d replace it. Same with cats. But I’m not one of those—ick—”just like my child” people, and I certainly wouldn’t invest money in a fancy cat. No,…
Saturday a packed Good Records hosted the CD release party for the two-disc Zac Crain for Mayor comp, with performances by Baboon, Dove Hunter and Erika Wennerstrom of Cincinatti’s Heartless Bastards, who certainly appreciated the audience, despite most likely not knowing who this Crain character was. For those of you…
These are your lungs on air pollution. It’s good to hear President Bush is yet again giving lip service to cutting down on oil consumption and boosting alternative fuels. Problem is, his nice little State of the Union nod to global warming wasn’t his first attempt at pretending to be…
In hot, sweltering day in August of 2005, Robert Eldridge gave me a tour of his Kaufman County neighborhood. It was the worst tour of my life. Eldridge lives in an African-American neighborhood in nearby Kaufman across the street from Dallas Crown, one of only three horse slaughtering plants in…
The blog editor’s away, so cats will play on Unfair Park. When I was growing up, my family had as many as 10 and as few as 5 cats at any given time. Usually, they found us, showing up on the back porch looking for kitty chow, a warm bed…
Just got off the phone will a Valley Ranch birdie that chastised me for not including Jim Bates on my list. Bates, who recently took a job as the Broncos’ assistant head coach, served as the Cowboys’ linebackers coach in the late ’90s. He’s a friend of Jerry Jones, a…
Hey, Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, that’s quite a spokesman you got there. Celso Martinez works as the spokesperson for DISD, where his job is to explain to the public how the school district goes about educating its students. Lately, my job has been to write about DISD, particularly how it goes…
Some people will believe anything. As Bible Girl has pointed out once or twice, Pentecostalism, the much maligned and misunderstood branch of Christianity, is growing at a phenomenal rate around the globe. A recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that Pentecostals and Charismatics, or…
Mystery date: Will he be a stud or a dud? Planned on posting this at sunrise, but my Parcells Party ran later than expected. And by “later than expected”, I mean 3 � tuna sandwiches, two bottles of bubbly and 2:37 a.m. Before moving on to coaching candidates, though, it…
I don’t know what freaking season we’re in with American Idol now — all’s I know is I think they hooked up a special Bat phone in the Sudan for the refugees to phone in their votes — but you guys need to check out this gem from Season Four…
Veuve, the sprawling 10,000-square-foot restaurant and concomitant hip vibe lounge Nine7Two on Belt Line Road (in the former Django space), is no more. It was felled by trademark infringement over the famed yellow-labeled Veuve Cliquot Champagne. It seems Veuve Cliquot parent Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, the luxury brands group that…
One can’t help but think that Entre Karage might have a different opinion about former prosecutor Tom D’Amore. Many attorneys have an inflated view of themselves, but Tom D’Amore takes lawyerly arrogance to a new level. After new District Attorney Craig Watkins canned the 19-year-veteran prosecutor, D’Amore whined that he…
Dear Jerkwads: Assume the position. Dear Two White Or Hispanic Males Who Broke Into My Car Last Night For What I Suspect Is The Second Time In Two Months But Who Were Finally Successful In Relieving Me Of My Crappy Mid-’90s After-Market Car CD Player (Congrats!), Allow me to introduce…
Laugh or scream, you tell me which. I don’t know what to do as I watch Southern Methodist University and the city of Dallas drift inexorably toward the Niagara of All Humiliation that will be the George W. Bush Presidential Library at SMU. The Dallas Morning News editorial page today…
Hey, how bad could it be? It was dubbed in Spanish. Yesterday the news hit that a 9-year-old who reportedly learned to drive courtesy of Playstation stole three cars, eluded police in a high speed chase and managed to board two flights in an attempt to get back to Dallas…
C’mon, can’t we learn to forgive and forget? Looking at this, you’d think he’s already in. But despite positive referrals from the judge who sentenced him, the gopher who worked for him and the columnist who backed him , Michael Irvin isn’t a rubber stamp from getting into the Pro…
Where’s Super Chicken when his feathered brothers need him? A bill that will make it a federal felony to transport game fowl (i.e. fighting roosters) across state lines already has more than 200 co-sponsors in the House and was recently introduced in the Senate by Maria Cantwell (D-Washington). If the…
Theresa Nasty Last week I told you to head out to Buddies for a drag king show that would at least blow your mind, if not your crotch. Girls dressed up as boys, political statements, dancing, etc. But there’s only so many duct-tape flattened breasts I can take before I…
Go down, Moses, and say let our Cowboys go. Bill Parcells, Dallas Cowboys hostage crisis, Day 13: Obviously he’s staying. Shows up for work at Valley Ranch every day, and ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, one of his few media buddies, is saying that Parcells will announce his decision to stay by…
