Local artist Robin Ann Walker’s painting — which, I believe, is titled Skyscape — will hang in a Ritz-Carlton suite. I am officially fascinated (right on the arm, said Groucho Marx). I’ve always wondered about folks who paint hotel-room art, and this morning I’ve discovered one — who lives right…
How did it take so long for this to finally show up? Richie, you wanted video evidence of Tony Romo performing with Metal Skool at The Palladium in June? Well, here it is, crappy audio quality and all. If this doesn’t get you ready for tomorrow night’s pre-season game against…
Effin’ PETA. We’re suckers, really. They always promise naked, but seldom deliver; this is, like, the fourth time we’ve pimped an appearance by their so-called “sexy activists,” and no doubt this time we’ll also get reports that it was nothing but a big ol’ boring nothin’ at all. But we’ll…
So, you wanna know how to get into the 74th Annual Dallas Observer Music Awards. It’s simple: Just show up to the Granada Theater well before 8 p.m. on August 14, and a ticket will be waiting for you at will call. Yes, you. But, see, that assumes we won’t…
Bryan Wakeland just called. First thing he asked: “You remember me?” Well, uh, yeah, sure — drummer for Tripping Daisy and Polyphonic Spree, right? Right. Been a long time since we last spoke, I guess. Anyway, Wakeland was calling with some news of his very own: He’s got a solo…
Chef David Gilbert, late of Luqa Chef David Gilbert is gone from Luqa. The 2007 Rising Star chef follows in the footsteps of Luqa executive sous chef Grant Morgan, who is now executive chef at Hotel ZaZa’s Dragonfly, filling the slot Marc Cassell opened. Word is that Luqa and its…
So, turns out it was Dave Walbert who posted to YouTube all those Deep cuts last week; so said Jeff Liles, and so confirmed Walbert when reached in Austin by Unfair Park. Turns out, yeah, he shot all those now-broken-up bands at all those now-shut-down clubs years back, just because…
For some reason, TMZ.com this morning has a problem with a picture of Erykah Badu, taken during a Sunday-night show in Miami. “Erykah Bad-Do,” get it? But a local springs to Badu’s defense: sure, miss badu is a freak. i live in dallas, and she pretty much does and says…
Can you pick the Spanish-speaker in this public service announcement? Hint: It’s not the two white guys, who seem much more comfortable here. –Robert Wilonsky…
A few sportsy items, in no particular order. First, from that venerable sports authority known as The New York Sun comes this story about how Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson’s job is on the line this season; “Johnson Must Succeed To Avoid Texas Boot,” reads the head, and, like,…
In our ongoing series of embarrassing presidential wanna-bes’ pics, here’s Mitt Romney using Exergen’s infrared thermometer, which has been deemed unsafe by Dallas docs for use on athletes. Last month, The American College of Sports Medicine published a study that said infrared thermometers are no danged good when it comes…
This just in from Perez Hilton: The gossip blogger (and ruler of the free world, or whatever he’s calling himself today) picked up a blog from KISS-FM deejay Billy the Kidd’s official MySpace page. There, the jock talks about what a heinous bitch Avril Lavigne is/was/will always be. So writeth…
Tonight at 9, Dateline NBC airs an hour-long episode devoted entirely to … Sandra Camille Bridewell, better known ’round these parts as the Black Widow. “A lot of it is based on the Observer articles,” says producer Esther Zucker. “We basically report on what people are whispering about.” Correspondent Dennis…
Says here that on June 19 and again on July 24, someone “vandalized” Time Warner Cable’s fiber-optic lines that run along the Stemmons Freeway underpass near the Trinity River — and by vandalized, they mean someone stole the copper wiring out of the conduits. The first time it happened, some…
Adam Palazzo — otherwise known as local blogger This Boy Elroy — this morning posted to his site some pics he snapped whilst tooling around town over the weekend. They’re on his Flickr page as well, and the one posted here comes from the Dallas Design District — where, Palazzo…
Anybody still read the Sunday paper? OK, fine, then. Anyone clip coupons and read the circulars? (C’mon, IKEA’s catalog was shoved in many a Dallas Morning News yesterday — today too. That’s reason enough to pick up Your Daily Newspaper.) If you do and you did, you might have noticed…
This just in from the North Texas Tollway Authority: The tollway entrance and exit ramps to and from Stemmons Freeway will be closed this weekend. Why? The Texas Department of Transportation’s Bridge Division will be inspecting the Dallas North Tollway’s ramp bridges, thus prompting the closing of the ramps on…
No doubt the great George Gimarc has this interview somewhere amongst his Charles Foster Kane-like collection of all things Dallas radio. But yesterday someone posted to U2 Interview Archive a 1983 sitdown featuring Gimarc and U2 frontman Bono — and Mike Peters of The Alarm, who wisely bows out once…
A few weeks back we noted that id Software was likely going to debut Something Big at this year’s QuakeCon, which just wrapped at the Hilton Anatole. Turns out, it wasn’t just hype: id, the Mesquite-based makers of Quake and Doom and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, is looking to launch…
Dunno where Bill Ingram gets his info — aside, course, from “various reports cited by a Los Angeles radio station,” which is? — but the month-old rumor that has Chris Webber joining Your Dallas Mavericks is alive and well this morning. Writes KRLD-AM (1080) contributor Ingram, who’s tuned into his…
Last Friday, I told you about how the Backdoor Comedy Club had been forced to vacate its Ross Avenue location. This week, I’m telling you that the club has found temporary digs at the Radisson Hotel behind Mockingbird Station. The usual band of awesome local comics will be performing this…
So, Tré Wilcox wants to open an Italian restaurant; say, me too! (Sure, why not.) Or, like, maybe you’re interested? Because, turns out, it just ain’t that hard to own your own eatery — all you need are 395,000 dollar bills. Everything else is provided for you — if, that…
