Sorta’s Carter Albrecht — center, back row — was killed early this morning. The story has been circulating all morning among local musicians and friends who do not want to believe it, but the sad tale is true: Carter Albrecht, keyboardist, guitarist and singer in the band Sorta, is dead…
Late-breaking news about, um, late-breaking news: KTVT-Channel 11 and KTXA-Channel 21 just announced that news director Regent Ducas is out and Scott Diener is in — immediately. Diener’s been with the CBS affiliate, and its UHF counterpart, since June 2006, when he arrived from a Belo-owned station in Phoenix. And…
It’s a new day at Unfair Park as we come before you offering gushing praise for Dallas County Judge Jim Foster. Seriously. We’re not even going to add a few shots to water down our praise and keep it “edgy.” No. This post is going to be a 100 percent…
Since we’re all degenerate hippies — well, most of us — we’re known to thumb the occasional copy of In These Times, where this week there appears a story headlined “The Counterproductive War on Gangs.” Turns out, most of the info from the piece — which insists increased law enforcement…
We just received a reminder that next week, from Tuesday to Friday, Dallas is home to an enormous and enormously influential annual conference devoted to homelessness and urban poverty. Beginning September 4 at the Omni Dallas Hotel Park West, the Texas Homeless Network will host “Face the Homeless: A Call…
Arlington’s Jeremy Wariner, at right, winning the 400 in Athens in 2004 — the dude doesn’t know to lose. Arlington’s own Jeremy Wariner added another trophy to his mantle, dominating the 400-meter dash today at the World Track Championships in Osaka, Japan. Wariner ran a 43.45, more than .51 seconds…
A couple of weeks back, Norah Jones and M. Ward played Les Arènes de Nîmes — or, the complete opposite of Popolo’s in Preston Royal, where I first saw her perform way, way back when. Anyway, someone a couple of days ago posted four songs from their set — including…
The Stars re-signed Jussi Jokinen, the Rangers committed to Ron Washington through 2009, and the Mavs still haven’t added anything except this spare part. I know, you don’t give a da-yum. Honestly, me neither. ‘Cuz tomorrow the calendar changes to September, and the season changes to football! The Cowboys slept-walked…
The British art world is incredibly envious of Kenny Goss and George Michael’s $200-million collection, which features the work of more than 30 British artists — among them, says here, Grayson Perry, Gavin Turk, Sarah Lucas, Bridget Riley, Gary Hume and others. The couple also owns one of the largest…
The September 10 issue of Time — which is not yet online — contains 10 questions for Your Dallas Cowboys’ wide receiver Terrell Owens. And it’s just brilliant, brilliant — if only for the queries posed by Randall L. Dunn of Cincinnati and Patrick Hurley of Buffalo:…
Lest you bump into a newsstand tomorrow without fair warning, at right is the cover of People magazine due to hit stands Friday. And according to this from Time, the story quotes a friend who says, “Owen was very despondent. He slit his wrists. He almost did not make it.”…
After 35 years of slinging bistro food and popping corks, Kathy McDaniel and Charlotte Parker are taking a permanent breather from The Grape. Enter former The Grape executive chef Brian Luscher. Luscher — who most recently cooked at TPC Craig Ranch golf club and was named Avid Golfer magazine’s Best…
As of today, Greg Wallis is suing everyone he believes responsible for his wrongful imprisonment. For the second time in two weeks, a Dallas County man exonerated with DNA evidence has filed a federal civil rights and malicious prosecution lawsuit. And this one has a couple of twists. Greg Wallis,…
Haven’t seen Girl on Top today — sure hope she knows about tryouts today and tomorrow for an unspecified Jennifer Lopez video, which is sure to be fantabulous. They’re over at Minc Lounge on Exposition Avenue — and they’re being sponsored by Secret, which is strong enough for a man…
Until Dallas gets a proper local music museum, the most impressive — and dare I say important? — collection of photos I’ve ever seen is right here. Bands, venues, posters and the collected detritus of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s is available — as well as a NSWF snapshot of…
For some reason, Richie does not approve of Mike Modano’s marriage to Willa Ford. Last season Mike Modano had the captain’s “C” ripped off his Dallas Stars sweater. And last week, he apparently had his testicles removed. By his new wife. Watching the newlyweds give a tour of their Dallas…
This week’s news of Owen Wilson’s attempted suicide, and Matt Seitz’s essay about Owen, got me to thinking about the whole reason Owen got famous in the first place: 1996’s Bottle Rocket, which remains — easily — the best film ever made in Dallas. I was wondering specifically why that…
Need a stamp? Because they’re selling ’em at the University of Texas at Dallas tomorrow — specifically, the brand-new Gerald Ford 41-cent’er that makes its bow on Friday with special ceremonies only at UTD, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and at Ford’s former home in…
A few weeks ago, backstage at the Granada Theater during the Dallas Observer Muic Awards, I mentioned to Paul Slavens how much I love his Sunday-night show on KERA-FM (90.1). Then I spent the next 20 minutes bitching about how it’s such a damned shame that KERA doesn’t play music…
We received word this morning that Timothy Bray, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas, has been named the new director of the J. McDonald Williams Institute, effective September 1. Bray replaces the institutes’s co-founder, Marcus Martin, who’s going to head up Education is Freedom,…
Hear that? The silence. The eerie nothingness. The unequivocal lack of support. It’s quiet confirmation that Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick really, really, really screwed up, evidenced by rare zipped lips from Gene Upshaw, Jesse Jackson, the Reverend Al Sharpton and anyone else with half a brain and a quart…
Excelsior!: Sometimes news comes that puts a spark of optimism even in the cold, bitter lump that is Buzz’s heart, reminding us that yes, indeedy, hope never dies. Sometimes that ray of light comes from the oddest corner—from former Dallas police Chief “Weepin'” Terrell Bolton, for instance. You remember Bolton,…
