Stephen Meyer remembers the parade of prominent provocative thinkers who traipsed through McFarlin Auditorium in the mid-1980s when he was studying graduate-level mathematics at Southern Methodist University. So he’s bemused by the stance of the university’s science professors, who recently tried to shut down a conference he organized for April…
MYOB: It’s good that the Dallas mayoral candidates have finally found something to disagree about. It was getting hard to tell some of them apart. Tom Leppert and Darrell Jordan—c’mon, they’re really the same guy, aren’t they? Someone’s funnin’ with us. On paper, the field of—what is it now, 30…
Lemmings and Toll Roads Don’t need no stinking road: I agree wholeheartedly with Jim Schutze (“Steve Blows,” March 29) when it comes to the back-door politics behind the Trinity River project. The Dallas Morning News editorial staff has made council member Angela Hunt out to be a person who single-handedly…
Arlington native Jeffrey Brown produced the AFI narrative feature award-winner. So proud. So very proud. If yer still around and so interested, I’ll be on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) ’round 6:30ish this evening to discuss the AFI Dallas fest with “The Hardline.” Only two weeks after the fest started and…
Whatever you do, do not Google image search the word “meth.” This just in from Arthur N. Westover, M.D., of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas: Meth will eff you up. Cocaine too. Pretty much any stimulant. Eff. You. Up. Like, stroke eff-you-up. Stroke. Those are the…
Finally, some damn respect: While Houston hip-hop gets all the hype, Dallas rappers have been getting mere dregs of media coverage for the past several years. Things have been changing recently, however, and there’s no more notable sign of an upswing in visibility than the recent success of Dallas-based rapper…
Sadly, this is all we have left of a Beautiful memory — this one lousy screen grab. Late yesterday afternoon, we learned of some sad news: The video we wrote about on Monday, featuring some Skinimax-tastic late-night goings-on at an exclusive Beautiful Room party at the Pawn Gallery, had been…
I still can’t believe this is how Ed Bark spends his time: watching local TV ratings so, thank God, the rest of us don’t have to. And I do love this tidbit from this morning’s ratings recap: The Mavs’ hardfought, Dirk-less road win over the Sacramento Kings averaged 171,360 homes…
Charles Anthony Nealy, who was executed on March 20 On March 2o, a man from Michigan came down to Texas to witness the execution of Charles Anthony Nealy, who was sentenced to death in 1998 for robbing and killing two convenience-store clerks in South Dallas in August 1997. That man…
Steve Snyder, the former editor of Lancaster Today till he was “downsized” out of that gig earlier this year, sends word that he’s got plenty to offer at his Web site concerning the state of the Lancaster Independent School District and, more to the point, its superintendent, Larry Lewis. And,…
Babe Laufenberg’s back in the Cowboys’ booth, so what does that mean for his TV gig? How ’bout some Cowboys-related issues to chew on while waiting around today for this total waste of time and another Rangers loss in Anaheim? As predicted, Babe Laufenberg will return to the Cowboys’ radio…
Lancaster ISD Larry Lewis insists his district’s audit is more than two months late for legit reasons. When Dallas’ Only Daily recently mentioned the upcoming $142-million school-bond package vote in Lancaster, it said only that it will “alleviate overcrowding and address future growth.” Two days later, The Dallas Morning News…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution this morning wants to know why at least one high-end clothing retailer who was considering Atlanta opted instead to move to Dallas — ya know, “a city associated with big hair and bright colors,” argh. The retailer in question is “hip Spanish retail chain” MNG by Mango,…
I already knew there were plenty of reasons to love Half Price Books: the cool archaeological displays at the Northwest Highway location, making eyes at various members of the HPB in-house hot nerd-boy coalition and the ability to get a book on Viking history at 10:30 p.m. on a Tuesday…
Barry Annino just shot us this one-sentence missive concerning the fate of the Gypsy Tea Room’s space: The Door signed a lease for the Gyspy Tea Room yesterday. Salvation, thy name is Russell Hobbs? –Robert Wilonsky…
For the first, and almost certainly the last, time in metroplex sports history, Your Dallas Observer softball team is the hottest sports squad in town. (This is usually where’d I insert a snappy, informative link, but, c’mon, we can’t even get our allegedly powder-blue T-shirts — a la the Texas…
Again, this is probably a subject better tackled by Bible Girl, but the Texas Freedom Network just shot over a press release concerning House Bill 1287, which was introduced in February by Friend of Passover State Rep. Warren Chisum (R-Pampa) and would require every public high school in the state…
Michael Farber at SI.com just posted a great piece about Dallas Stars goalie Marty Turco, the amazing regular-season netminder who always seems to choke in the post-season. Love the opening-paragraph anecdote: The food was exquisite, the evening historic. On the March night that Mike Modano became the second U.S.-born player…
After the jump, a missive from John McKee, the McKinney Avenue resident who instigated getting the former McKinney Avenue Baptist Church designated a historic landmark. As you no doubt know by now, yesterday the Landmark Commission decided not to go forward with designation proceedings, which made the Hard Rock happy…
Here’s a reminder from John Erik Jonsson, co-founder of Texas Instruments and mayor of Dallas from 1964 to 1971, about how far Dallas has come in the past 40 years — and how far it’s got to go. Because I swear I heard at least four of the mayoral candidate…
How’s that upper-body strength? Wow, that’s impressive. Sounds like you’re the perfect candidate for the Dallas-to-London route that Google Maps has picked out. Dallas Observer freelancer Jennifer Medina and her cohorts over at Blockdot (the local advergaming company) happened upon this cash-saving “road” trip and sent it our way. Type…
Yesterday, I mentioned the House of Blues job fair was, well, yesterday; turns out, not so much, as evidenced by the notice cut-and-pasted above that says, yeah, it’s today and tomorrow. So, yeah, yeah — the city might not make any tax revenue off HOB till 2018, give or take,…
