Casey Thompson isn’t nervous about tonight’s Top Chef finale. Not yet, anyway. At 2 this afternoon, Casey Thompson was in the lobby of a Chicago hotel, waiting for her parents to arrive from Austin. It’s a big night for Mr. and Mrs. Thompson’s one and only child, regardless of whether…
Right click to view and enlarge the flier for the October 20 concert. Yesterday, DC9 at Night posted the roster for the Carter Albrecht Memorial concert, scheduled to take place October 20 at the Granada Theater: Sorta, the Old 97’s, The Slack, Salim Nourallah, the Drams, Junky Southern and other…
Thanks to the Dallas Museum of Art for posting to YouTube DJ Spooky’s six-minute dissertation on Marcel Duchamp, taped at the DMA during That Subliminal Kid’s recent Late Night appearance-slash-performance. Only, why’d you disable the embedding, oh, DMA? We weren’t gonna make fun of the crowd, swear. (We’re no more…
Every year when the State Fair of Texas rolls around my optimism somehow reboots. This is the year, I surmise in my most naïve tone. The year I finally conquer my nemisis, the frustrating, impossible game where the goal is to tilt an empty beer bottle upright using a fishing…
What are you gonna do tonight? Watch Top Chef, and see if that lady from a restaurant you can’t afford to eat at wins some stuff? Puh-shaw, I say to you. Get thee to the Addison Improv, where Noted Regional Comedian Dave Little will be performing his one-man show. It…
Mark Graham Sequina Moore lives in the Pleasant Village Apartments, one of two Dallas complexes bought by a Portland-based property management company. Two issues ago we spotlighted the efforts of a Portland, Oregon-based property management company that’s attempting to turn around one of the worst apartment complexes in Dallas. To…
Alas, our Top Chef-ing’s almost at an end: Tonight we find out whether Shinsei’s exec chef Casey Thompson is crowned queen of the kitchen or whether Hung or Dale takes the title. For thems who can’t wait another second, here’s Bravo’s Web-only two-minute sneak peek at tonight’s final finale –…
It was either a cool kid or Wentworth Miller — so we went with a little something for the ladies. Today at 11 a.m., medical researchers from the Perot Family Center for the Care of Brain and Nerve Injuries at Children’s Medical Center and UT Southwestern Medical Center will announce…
ABC-TV So, Albert Reed is no longer Dancing With the Stars — whoever Albert Reed is. Which means, yes, Mark Cuban remains on ABC’s dance floor for one more week, despite the general consensus that he’d mamboed his way off the show Monday night. (And here I thought we were…
Have you prayed for Osama today?If you want to know what defines an evangelical Christian, look no further than Brother Andrew, the 79-year-old Dutchman who called himself “God’s smuggler.” He is a revered figure among evangelicals because of his single-minded devotion to spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ — one…
For those wondering how to fill their Texas-OU game week schedule, this morning’s Austin American-Statesman has the complete rundown of events, beginning with Thursday’s “Run to Dallas” at 11 a.m. Says the Statesman, “Coach Mack Brown hands game ball to NROTC students at Royal-Memorial Stadium to start fundraising relay run…
One of three paintings from Strictly Tabu on sale on eBay Though it’s been gone eight years, it’s still hard to believe Strictly Tabu isn’t still hanging out at the intersection of Lomo Alto and Lemmon — damned good pizza, if I recall correctly, and it was the perfect place…
Another season, another last-place finish, another shrug, another yawn. In the wake of an obscure 75-87 disappointment that has already camouflaged itself alongside the other 22 losing seasons in franchise history, you’d like to hear something drastic or at least different from the Texas Rangers. Maybe, “Shit’s gonna change!” Or,…
Architect Bob Meckfessel .. or former Dallas Observer editor Peter Elkind? I rarely go to shul, and when I do, it’s usually for something unusual — like, oh, a mayoral-candidates forum or a Trinity toll-road referendum debate. And, see, Temple Emanu-El does it right: Sure, you have to get up…
Moments ago, Gordon Keith of KTCK-AM (The Ticket, 1310) played on the morning show this tribute to Cowboys QB Tony Romo — if “tribute” is the right word, and I’m pretty sure it’s not. “The Search for Romo” was posted yesterday by the user “love4romo,” who’s surely trying to be…
Dallas-based Dean Foods, which stocks the dairy case with Land O Lakes and Oak Farms products, said today it’s not going to milk as much out of consumers as it previously expected — something to do with “rapidly increasing and record high dairy commodity costs.” And it’s bad news all…
“Like watching a bulldog chase a squirrel.” That’s how Mark Cuban and his dance partner Kym Johnson wound up scoring an 18 during their “Ride Wit Me”-lite mambo. Might wanna check out the video below, if you missed Cuban’s Dancing With the Stars appearance last night — could be close…
Whew. We just spent a couple of hours reading the 166-page indictment from the feds’ investigation into alleged bribery and extortion at City Hall, charges concerning a federal low-income housing program and other tax-supported real-estate doings. Thought we’d try to spare all you people with real jobs the trouble or…
In February, Brian Potashnik, at left, attended the opening of Southwest Housing Development’s senior citizens apartment complex in San Antonio. Brian Potashnik, president of low-income housing builder Southwest Housing Development, has issued a statement concerning his being one of the 14 indicted this morning in the feds’ City Hall corruption…
Turns out former city council member James Fantroy’s indictment is a spin-off from the City Hall corruption investigation — kind of like Rhoda was to The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Alas, no perp walks or indictees vowing to fight the charges while holding back tears. Except for the allegations that…
Tom Sawyer’s not terribly suitable for Richardson’s middle-school kids. Rush’s or Mark Twain’s, we’re guessing. The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas just released its 11th Annual Banned Books Report, titled Free People Read Freely. (That’s the slogan of the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, which lasts from…
So, how does Wall Street like Belo’s decision to separate its newspaper and television divisions? A lot, looks like: Belo Corp.’s stock is up 18 percent today, having jumped $3.12 to $20.48 as of moments ago. And if you’ve been looking at this thing all morning, those numbers are rising…
