Remember back when Jim Schutze reported on Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh? No? Don’t recall the story of a man that not only dried, grated and sprinkled his own feces on pastries at Fiesta, but smeared the non-dried variety on book spines at the Dallas Library? I’ll wait for your “Oh, riiiight, that…
Dallas Cowboys training camp hasn’t officially begun, and starting free safety Keith Davis is already drawing flags. But these aren’t yellow for leaping offside but red for lying. The skepticism you had at initially hearing Davis’ tale of being shot on Interstate 635 in the early morning of July 16…
The Rangers couldn’t have picked a worse time for their worst flop of the year. Big series against the New York Yankees. Big attendance. Big media attention. Uh-oh. Climaxed by last night’s excruciating 8-7 loss to the Bronx Bombers, the Rangers were swept. And now, thanks to the Cowboys officially…
I was always very good about playing well with others. Until I was 35. After that, my give-a-shitter about group dynamics plumb gave out. Here at Theater Critics Camp in New England, I’m reminded of the saying from Sartre: Hell is other people. Amend that: Hell is other people who…
Don’t know how the local media missed this one–perhaps they were too busy blogging about Oxnard’s night life-—but Terrell Owens is guaranteeing a Super Bowl for your Dallas Cowboys. Not this year necessarily, but sometime in the next three years. He said so in a sit-down with KXAS-Channel 5’s Newy…
The Creative Arts Theatre & School is warming up a chestnut with The Emperor’s Invisible Clothes, a lighthearted take on the Hans Christian Andersen tale of an emperor conned by swindlers into buying a nonexistent suit of clothes that are “invisible” only to the stupid. It’s a nice cautionary tale…
� Danny Moloshok/Blue Pixel for MBP 2006 If we wanted our rock stars to be boring, Patrice, we’d listen to Radiohead. Last night’s Rock Star: Supernova was a lesson in feisty dialogue with co-host Dave Navarro. The guy was definitely showing some post-break-up angst when he exchanged his usual sticky-sweet…
Back in the late 1980s, I wrote magazine stories about crimes, murders mostly. Grisly murders where one spouse kills another in a way that leaves scorch marks on the garage floor or bloodstains splashed across the kitchen ceiling. I sometimes interviewed the accused, giving me access to county and state…
Today did not dawn pretty for you traditionalists. That is, if there are any of you left. First, Fort Worth’s tradition-saturated Colonial golf tournament has sold out and partnered with something called the Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resort, rendering the grand ol’ golfing get-together as faceless and bland as any…
Many of the folks who washed up in Reunion Arena after Hurricane Katrina could wind up displaced again. Hurricane Katrina displaced them once, now a failure to send in the proper paperwork could force thousands of evacuee families living in Texas to move again. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said…
Just looking at a screenshot of Luxor makes us want to play it. If games like Grand Theft Auto are the gansta rap of videogame genres and Quake the death metal, then Luxor would fit, ahem, squarely in the niche for adult contemporary music–polite, nonviolent, familiar and comforting. Sorta like…
No one has ever accused us of having good taste. Literally. No one. Not ever. Still, even we know some things don’t mix. Tan shoes and navy blue slacks. White wine and five-alarm chili. Executions and fun guess-the-celebrity games. That last one comes from the Texas Moratorium Network, a statewide…
Gut feelings: Why would two Plano women decide to spend July Fourth fasting? The likely answers seem obvious enough: swimsuit season, too many mochafatass lattes at Starbucks, an anorexia relapse. But to protest the Iraq war? Looks like we’ve found the progressive contingent in Plano. Their names are Julie Cuniglio…
No, trust this: Buzz has a deal for you, Dallas voter. For free, we will come by your house and do an inventory of things that need to be repaired, replaced or added. It’ll be a long list–face it, if you’re letting Buzz inside your home, it’s a dump–but we’ll…
The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Texas redistricting is out, and by almost any measure it’s a Republican victory. A 5-4 decision isn’t exactly crushing, but the effects certainly are: DeLay’s 2003 map, known as Plan 1374C, is left almost intact, as is his new tactic of redistricting whenever power…
Congratulations are certainly in order for Sheriff Lupe Valdez after she passed her mandatory state law enforcement exam on her second try yesterday, knowing that if she flunked it would generate another round of ugly headlines for her department. Still, rather than modestly announce the good news and move on,…
Thirty kajillion people can’t be wrong, so there must be something good about American Idol. Looks like a saccharine, overlong version of the old Gong Show to me, but I’m obviously missing something. And contemporary dance? That’s the one with the hippies flailing around in bare feet, right? Not my…
Ink erasure: Too many tattoo parlors in Deep Ellum? Is that possible? Apparently, yes. The city council last week approved an ordinance that mandates at least 300 feet between parlors in the neighborhood, now home to a half-dozen such shops, most packed together on Main Street. In 18 months someone’s…
Rick Kennedy Whoopsie-daisy Our constant vigilance here at Observer World Headquarters was rewarded moments ago when, just across the street, we noticed this innocuous maroon compact popping the baddest-ass wheelie we had ever seen. Except that it was just sitting there. Further investigation showed that in fact the car had…
Former Dallas drummer (and legendary hooligan) Michael Sanger returns to home base from the desert sands of Phoenix on a short tour with electro-twins Bark Bark Bark. Jacob Cooper and Grace Claiborn (aka, Cranberry Grace) enlisted Sanger (formerly of Post from Vermont and Budapest One) to provide live beats for…
The council’s talking now, and I think it’s gonna be a sweep, damned near. “Dallas is the ninth-largest city in the country, and we’ve developed half of it,” says Bill Blaydes, who looked like he was dozing during the naysayers’ speeches. “There is a major need for what we are…
John Fregonese, the proud papa of ForewardDallas!, is in the house, but has kept quiet. He’s been walking around, standing and sitting and stroking his beard, looking alternatively bored, frustrated, aghast and elated as his baby gets batted about the room. His name has been evoked a hundred times today–sometimes…
