Surely, you recall this: March 31, 2006: Amid rumors of drama in their marriage, [Britney] Spears shows up at Dallas’ Club X to help [Kevin] Federline promote his upcoming CD. Federline yells to the crowd to “give it up for my wife for showing up at this event!” Turns out,…

Robert Wihite’s Fat Man Bomb, now on display at the Barry Whistler Gallery Most of artist Robert Wilhite’s work is beautiful but benign: a Tower of Babel made of tissue and wood; a Throne of Zeus that’s more or less a chair affixed to a wall; a Sputnik that’d look…

Morrey Taylor He’s not the Snake, but, perhaps, Snake Plissken? So sorry, but I just can’t bring myself to write about Lisa Garza’s ascension to The Final Threeway on The Next Food Network Star; sorry, not that interested in Suze’s cassoulet queen, even if she does live a few blocks…

Forbes, second only to Craig “Junior” Miller and Santa Claus when it comes to making lists, moments ago provided us with this gem: Best And Worst Cities To Rent A Home. (And shouldn’t that be “Best and Worst Cities In Which to Rent a Home?” Because otherwise, it sounds …..

Ten of the 100 bestest cities in the whole country are in the DFW — though they’re not actually the D or the FW, as this is a list of “small cities.” Says Money, you’d do well to live in McKinney (which comes in at No. 14), followed by Carrollton,…

For those who’ve never seen footage from the deadly 1957 tornado that, as it notes here, “carved a sixteen mile path through Oak Cliff and West Dallas over a time span of about forty minutes,” someone’s just posted to the YouTubes footage from a doc made about the best-documented twisted…

After the jump, the view from Plano yesterday, where, as we mentioned a couple of weeks back, 15 collegiate teams revved their solar-powered engines for the 2,400-mile trek from North Texas to Calgary, Alberta as part of the North American Solar Challenge. Only, sweet baby Jeebus, from the looks of…

Tom Jenkins No assignment too small: Tom Jenkins could turn a nice meal into a work of beautiful art. The memorial service for Dallas Observer contributing photographer Tom Jenkins, who died a week ago of a heart attack, is set to begin at 1 p.m. at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary,…

Richardson Echo Crews have spent the morning dismantling Heights Park, where the old radar dish awaits its trip to storage. Andrew Laska, who tried valiantly to get the city of Richardson to preserve at least a piece of historic Heights Park, sends word that the city’s wasting no time this…

Gloria and Kenneth Copeland Back in November, Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican and his party’s top man on the Senate Finance Committee, demanded the financial info from a handful of televangelists who the senator — and Trinity Foundation’s Ole Anthony — believes are abusing their tax-exempt status. Dunno why…

Maybe if Starbucks just sold Slurpees and Big Gulps, they wouldn’t be shuttering 600 locations throughout the U.S. and A. — including novelist Brendan McNally’s favorite Lower Greenville location. Because GlobeSt.com this morning brings news that Dallas-based 7-Eleven, Inc. is looking to expand the brand by hitting the 300-location milestone…

Spencer Campbell Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy appear to be far closer in real life than in the books. Can see why. All conferences, whether they’re for insurance salesmen or would-be wizards, have something in common: They’re about as exciting as Ben Stein reading from a medical dictionary. Conventions devoted…

Sir Pauly Shore In an effort to revitalize his career, Pauly Shore wrote, directed and starred in Pauly Shore Is Dead in 2003. In the mockumentary, Shore tries to, well, revitalize his career by faking his own death, but his next film Adopted, due out in 2009, may indeed get…

Noted Regional Comedian Dave Little, this item is not for you. Clearly, you hate the Starbucks on Lower Greenville and the people who sup joe there. No, this is for the regulars there who think that it’s a nice little place to hang out and grab a cup of coffee…

How very Hef of you, Daryl Reaugh. Funny posting from Daryl “Razor” Reaugh on his official Dallas Stars blog today — something about the new iPhone. Only, he’s not referring to the second-gen phone that’s thick as a brick for most of the frustrated early birds. Nope, Razor’s in Canada…

BBC Three 11-year-old beauty queen Sasha Bennington Back in April, we mentioned 11-year-old Sasha Bennington’s trip from the U.K. to Plano, where the most controversial preteen in all of England competed in The Flower Power Beauty Pageant. In tow was a crew from the BBC, which was shooting its second…

Spencer Campbell Not sure about Harry Potter, but we think we see Chris Elliott standing in the back. Yesterday, hundreds of Harry Potter fans — Potterphiles, Potterheads, whatever – arrived in Dallas for the annualy salute to the boy who made J. K. Rowling rich. The magical gathering’s underway at…