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No, seriously. An acid flash-forward, perhaps? –Robert Wilonsky…

On Monday, WFAA-Channel 8 ran a story about a guy named Chris Jones, who moved half a block away from an existing bar/live-music venue — Dallas Observer readers’ fave Lee Harvey’s — and discovered that, wow, living half a block away from a bar/live-music venue can be kinda loud sometimes…

Behind the Screen Door: Joel Harloff You may have eaten his lyrical food at the Landmark Restaurant in the Melrose Hotel, or maybe at Nana and Mi Piaci. You may have heard about Screen Door, the upcoming restaurant to feature his craft in One Arts Plaza. Still, Joel Harloff has…

Help us decide, please: Is this cover of the Commodores’ “Easy,” performed Tuesday night on America’s Got Talent by Cas Haley of Dallas Observer Music Awards-nominated Woodbelly, great? Or is it not great? Or would be be great it if were performed ironically? Or does the obvious sincerity — he…

I was driving east on Ross Avenue, near Fitzhugh Avenue, last week when a big yellow banner caught my eye. “Aseguranza sin Licencia — Liability and Full Cover,” it read, which translates to, “No license? We provide liability and full coverage.” And that wasn’t all. The ad, hanging above a…

Oh, I know — you think St. Vincent’s overrated, a big ho-hum. Well, that ain’t gonna stop me from posting this: Annie Clark and John Vanderslice covering the Magnetic Fields’ “Yeah! Oh, Yeah!” at the Echo on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. Oh, yeah. –Robert Wilonsky…

Every year, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park goes searching for a new play upon which to bestow its Macy’s New Play Prize for Young Audiences. The winner get a $5,000 commission fee and gets to travel to Cincy a few times during the year to prep the play for…

On last night’s Top Chef, Casey Thompson dolled up for a night out that wasn’t to be. So, this makes three Top Chef wins for Abacus Chef de Cuisine Tré Wilcox; favorite much? We’re essentially at the mid-point of Season Three, and no other “cheftestant” has emerged as a serious…

Tell the truthiness: Is a high-speed toll road along the Trinity River a good idea? Would it help relieve traffic congestion downtown? Is the road the best use of resources? Those are good questions to which Buzz has no answers, but we do know one thing: Some of the favorite…

Most people arrested and imprisoned in the United States are assigned lawyers to help them navigate the legal process. Not so for immigrant detainees facing deportation. The proceedings are civil, but many people are detained while their cases wend through immigration court. Some detainees find lawyers through nonprofits such as…

Innocence Project Freakin’ incredible: Incredible! Absolutely incredible! (“Chains of Evidence,” by Glenna Whitley, August 2.) No wonder we are headed down a path of destruction. We will soon be a Third World country. If that makes you mad, GOOD! Because you might step up and do or say something to…

A couple of weeks ago, my father, who by all accounts is a reasonable man despite an unusual enthusiasm for pinto beans and windbreaker jackets, was mowing the lawn. It was sunset in the outskirts of the quiet Arlington sub-suburb of Mansfield. My father, a land developer, was dutifully clipping…

A film snippet showing a California preacher boasting about his opulent lifestyle on 20/20 has dunked ABC and correspondent John Stossel in hot water, thanks to Dallas-based religious watchdog Ole Anthony and the Trinity Foundation. Not only was the network forced to air a retraction, the preacher has filed a…

SAN ANTONIO—Yesterday a backup quarterback. Tonight the lead singer. Don Meredith serenaded a nation with “Turn Out the Lights,” Troy Aikman recorded the forgettable “Oklahoma Nights” and we can only assume Roger Staubach hummed some Pat Boone tune while saving babies from burning buildings. But Tony Romo? Never has a…

Usually when I get e-mails about facials, I herd them over to the spam folder and try not to look at any attachments, but I figured the one headlined “24k Gold” was probably safe, unless somebody built the Bionic Man and forgot to tell me. Luxury On Lovers, which is,…

In this week’s Buzz, which should appear online shortly, we take a brief look of some of the “truthy” — i.e. bullshit — arguments being made by proponents of the Trinity toll road. Let’s cut through the crap and get some hard facts, Buzz suggests: If voters reject a highway…

Earlier this year, there were plenty of stories about Hanan Ibrahim and her four children — ages 15, 14, 8 and 5 — being imprisoned at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor. Arrested in November in their Richardson apartment, the Palestinian family was kept in “the prison” –…

Big news this morning from the Dallas Opera: Karen Stone, the general director, is leaving after four years on the job. Why? “To pursue other opportunities,” of course. Though this is what Stone, who came to Dallas from the the Theaters of Graz in Austria, says in the press release…