Didn’t think it was possible to make Bachman Lake look almost pretty, kind of peaceful. I was wrong. –Robert Wilonsky…

From the looks of this photo, among many others currently posted on the KDFW-Channel 4 site, this morning the La Madeleine at 3906 Lemmon Avenue became a drive-thru. At least, that’s what the driver of a yellow Corvette figured. –Robert Wilonsky…

Former Dallas Burn’er Brandon Pollard, educating my boy about bees at Dallas Farmer’s Market two weeks back The Washington Post is wrapping up its “Eat Local Challenge,” in which the paper’s asking folks to eat “food that has been grown or raised within 100 miles of home.” Among those taking…

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Secretary of Defense Robert Gates addressed the Military Child Education Coalition’s annual conference today, held in the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center’s enormous ballroom. Speaking to the fact that three out of five service members deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan war zone have families…

For those interested in a sneak peek at the made-for-Lifetime movie The Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, which premieres August 2 at 8 p.m., the cable outlet’s posted a few short behind-the-scenes videos over here. But, by day’s end, Unfair Park will host some exclusive footage from the film…

Denton County A YouTube director from Denton named Jim, who goes by the moniker SilkOlive, has posted today a haunting two-minute film about the Old Alton Bridge just south of Denton, which has been on the National Register of Historic Sites since 1988. Only, it’s better known amongst the local…

News from Comic-Con International — and, no, nothing about the new RoboCop movie, The Spirit, Watchmen prop photos or Hugh Jackman. Rather, it’s about Dallas-based Blockbuster, which schlepped out to San Diego those in-store kiosks from which customers can download movies directly to their Archos player for now, what an…

Jenny At last, Joyce Poole has responded. Who, you’re wondering, is Joyce Poole? “She is to elephants what Jane Goodall is to chimpanzees and Dian Fossey was to gorillas, their savior.” Also: She is the author of 1996’s Coming of Age With Elephants: A Memoir and 1997’s Elephants for the…

Now, he’s as nasty as his wife’ll let him be. Sounds like Luther Campbell’s wedding over the weekend was a most eclectic wingding. The 2 Live Crew frontman married his attorney Saturday at the Saint Luke “Community” United Methodist Church on R.L. Thornton Freeway, before heading over the Hotel Palomar…

What you see above is the former Shell station at the intersection of Preston Road and Royal Lane. Despite what we’d been told in February — that Shell was retrofitting the property, which has been a gas station as long as I can recall — not so much. Don’t know…

That’s the word from Gurinder Chadha, the Bend it Like Beckham director who was among several tapped to helm the big-screen version of the TV series, which Laura Miller tried desperately to get shot in Dallas during her tenure as mayor. Speaking to the U.K. Independent about her latest film…

CBS-TV Steven Daigle I didn’t even realize the 10th (!) season of Big Brother had already started. But, wow, that was quick: Dallas’s gay rodeo champ, Steve Daigle, has already been given the boot — second contestant off the show, dude doesn’t waste time. Thank God there’s Reality TV World…

Link Nicoll Max Holland. In November 1998, Brown University’s now-defunct newspaper George Street Journal ran a lengthy piece about Max Holland, who’d been at the university for a few months working on his book A Need to Know: Inside the Warren Commission. The story noted that in 1995 he began…

Twenty years ago we launched this annual tradition called the Dallas Observer Music Awards—way back in April of 1988. “Our stated goal with these awards is to narrow the odds a bit in favor of locally created sounds,” then-music editor Clay McNear wrote at the time. It still rings true…