While former Dallas-area quarterbacks are leading ranked teams to record performances, SMU’s Justin Willis is suffering through life on the Hilltop. Willis, the former standout at Denton Ryan High School, threw for a paltry 112 yards and was benched during Saturday’s abysmal 24-6 loss to North Texas. Meanwhile, former Southlake…
In college, we had this MTV channel, mtvU, that actually played music videos. Weird, right? You could turn it on and expect to see a full-length, non-TRL shortened version of (at the time) some My Chemical Romance, Phoenix or Snow Patrol video. I know, how embarrassing, I’m showing my old…
In the ongoing soap opera at Water of Life Church in Plano, preacher Doyle Davidson has posted another “message to Lisa” with a new tidbit of information–and what reads like a threat. For the first time, Davidson says that the church–and the Spirit of the Lord–bought Lisa and J.R. Staton…
Or Is It? Shella Sattler is hot. She is a former cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Clippers. She could pretty much seduce any guy in Dallas. But you know what? Shella craves fat dudes. Weird I know, but there’s a twist. Isn’t there always? When she’s not…
Gas prices in Dallas continue to fall, according to the Dallas Business Journal, which attributes it to “calmer weather.” “Dallas motorists are paying about $2.54 a gallon for regular, self-serve gasoline, about 12 cents less than last week,” the article says. And maybe that’s not such a good thing, according…
So my story on truck stop whores got posted on some Web site called rotten.com, and in the comments section, in which people are bitching about how long the story is and how much it sucked, a guy named Johnny lifts the lid on a whole other world. Texas State…
Tarantino’s and Green Room and Trees may be gone, but there’s still a lot of life down in Deep Ellum, thanks in no small part to Frank Campagna, owner of the Kettle Art Gallery on Elm Street. He’s got a show opening tomorrow night that I’ve been excited about for…
Today’s sign of the apocalypse: Airing now on ESPN 103.3 FM, The new Little Ball of Hate Show. What earlier this week was a decent and maturing Dennis & Engel combo has abruptly deteriorated into a one-woman act with the surprise firing of Steve Dennis. The 9 a.m.-noon slot on…
Hey, Taylor, want an Observer sandwich? It’s tasty. DALLAS–Last night, Merritt Martin and Andrea Grimes had a threesome with Taylor Hicks. In their minds. When the American Idol winner walked into Club Dada around midnight after finishing a performance at Nokia Theatre, Grimes frantically telephoned Martin, knowing that a possible…
Nothing like a little morbid curiosity to boost a sale Big estate sale going on right now at 4949 Swiss Ave., subject of the recent series of stories in The Dallas Morning News, “Mary Ellen’s Will: the battle for 4949 Swiss,” by Lee Hancock, which I thought was really terrific…
I hereby predict your Dallas Cowboys will win this Sunday in Jacksonville, go 10-6 this season and return to the NFL Playoffs. More important, I foresee no better place to watch the Cowboys this season than at the old Granada Theater on Greenville Avenue. Starting Sunday at 2:30 p.m., the…
Screw Rock Star: Supernova. We’re thinkin’ we prefer our karaoke live…like, in person. Last Wednesday, we ventured into the world of live backing bands with Rock Star Karaoke hosted by the lovely and vivacious Jenn Nabb. Good thing we did when we did–the karaoksters got the boot from Lakewood Bar…
You’re fat. A real porker. Chunky McBlubber. Fatski Von Tubbenhausen. How do I know? Men’s Fitness says Dallas is the 4th fattest city in the U.S., up from 6th last year. So chances are you could stand to lose a few, just like Terry Daniels did this year. Terry before…
Jeez, what is up with you parents these days? You start prepping your kids for the SAT in preschool. Between soccer, music lessons and specialized summer camps, every minute of the poor tykes’ lives is programmed. Now comes this—an announcement of luge slider class and tryouts in Southlake, for kids…
Patience, patience: You can almost smell the odor of “gotcha” in the air. Four months after May’s enormous immigration marches, whose rallying cry was “Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote,” reporters and pundits are parsing the numbers, trying to figure out if there has been a spike in the number…
There have been a lot of FEMA fraud stories since Hurricane Katrina, but none like this. Late yesterday, Ken McLain, 33, of Dallas, was found guilty of scheming the disaster relief agency out of more than $70,000 in claims connected to Katrina and that other hurricane, Rita. McLain went by…
Nightline, the venerable ABC News program, will be airing a segment on Dallas Crown, the horse slaughtering plant in nearby Kaufman. The program is scheduled to air this evening and will feature interviews with Robert Eldridge, who has the misfortune of living a few hundred yards from the facility, and…
If you watched him shank two field goals in last week’s preseason tie, you couldn’t believe your eyes. And if you go to his Web site, you won’t believe your ears. Even before he scores his first point in Dallas, kicker Mike Vanderjagt is already the cockiest player in franchise…
Hard times: Thousands of words have been written on the Dallas Observer’s blog, Unfair Park, as well as D magazine’s The FrontBurner and elsewhere online about impending job cuts at The Dallas Morning News, but so far nothing has appeared in our print edition. The reason for that is that…
Indulge Buzz in a childhood flashback: We were around 10 when a buddy got his hands on some discarded window counterweights–about a dozen bars of iron, weighing roughly a ton. (Maybe it only seemed that much.) A local junkyard paid money for scrap, so we dragged the bars about two…
We appreciate the efforts of those who encourage children to study the sciences. After all, it’ll be up to the next generation to come up with the nifty scientific advances we’ll need to counteract the abuse we’ve given our bodies. Smoking, drinking, fatty foods, no exercise—those chickens should be heading…
Seeing as the Dancing Tongue Literary Cabaret does not, in fact, have anything to do with the works of Anaïs Nin, we’ll endeavor to avoid any skeevy, tired jokes using naughty Latin words. Rather than overheated diarists, Dancing Tongue’s focus is on poets, blending their words with live music and…
