So, we were informed late yesterday that everything is not as hunky or as dory as Angela Hunt led us to believe concerning the fate of the now-former Hard Rock Cafe on McKinney Avenue. (Hunt herself hinted as much in a late-day blog entry on Thursday.) Indeed, from what we…
Alas, we just couldn’t make it to the Shins show Monday night at the Palladium Ballroom. But 18-year-old Caitlin — who goes to Plano West and whose MySpace page features a video in which some dudes are asked, “How much money would it take [for] you to kill a puppy…
On Tuesday, Sunu Gonera was in town promoting his forthcoming debut as feature-film director: Pride, the true-life tale of Philadelphia swim-team coach Jim Ellis, played by Terrence Howard (Crash, Hustle & Flow). It was kinda surprising that the Zimbabwe-born Gonera had never been to Dallas before, considering that his next…
Of all the locals and former locals on the list of the “Definitive 200” albums of all time, Norah Jones’ debut ranks highest. That. Does. Not. Make. Sense. Well, here’s something sure to generate comments — I mean, it sure as hell oughta. And, blessedly, it’s local-ish enough to merit…
Dave Avery, at left, with Max Stalling at the Texas Tavern in Brenham Richie Whitt called last night with some odd news: KHYI-FM (95.3, The Range) morning-show host Dave Avery was dead. Why was it odd? Well, for one, Avery, who joined the station January 1, was a young man:…
Because there’s nothing slow about us, we just noticed that Angela Hunt posted to her Web site late last week a recap of last Wednesday’s neighborhood get-together concerning the fate of the Hard Rock Cafe on McKinney Avenue, which went adios on Saturday. In short, she says, the new owner,…
Comerica’s moving to Dallas, sure, but bringing with it only 200 employees, which means, according to its top execs, some 7,300 emplyees will stay in Michigan — many of them in Detroit Rock City. Nonetheless, yesterday a group of Detroit ministers marched in front of Comerica Inc.’s downtown Detroit tower…
This is Lalo, the man to whom the U.S. government paid $260,000 to act as an informant — and the man believed to be responsible for at least one murder, if not many more. The cover story in this week’s issue of Unfair Park is based largely on court documents…
The Black Widow, whose bond was set this week at $1.5 million, has seen better days. When Sandra Camille Bridewell — you recall, the Black Widow? — appeared in the court of State District Judge Tom Aldridge yesterday, she appeared “very calm, almost like she was going to a doctor’s…
Babe Laufenberg wants back in the Cowboys broadcast booth. Brad Sham wants him there. So there, Jer. You ever tried to stop a rumor from making the rounds because, well, it shouldn’t have been a rumor in the first place? Only, by telling people the rumor wasn’t true, you somehow…
Say “cheese.” Actually, could ya stop? Yeah, that would be swell. A few mayoral-race notes this a.m.: First, in this morning’s in-box was a missive from a Friend of Unfair Park instructing me to look at Allen Gwinn’s Web site, specifically yesterday’s item titled “Mayor Candidate Gary Griffith: Truth? Ethics?”…
I have no legs. I distinctly remember having legs three minutes ago, but now I’ve lost them. Where have they gone? Everyone else around me has legs. I can see them. There they go, jogging ahead of me in expensive Nike training gear, high-fiving each other as they cross the…
Don’t judge SMU’s basketball season by what happened on the court. Rather, go by what’s happening a couple hundred feet below it. “That hole in the ground,” says first-year coach Matt Doherty, “is the future of our program.” No, smartass, it’s not a mass grave reserved for the latest crop…
There is one chair in the room, and they sit him in it. He pulls out his wallet. He’s looking for a number. A phone number, an address. That is why he is here. Fernando the lawyer. Fernando the drug trafficker. He’s got a load of marijuana, and they want…
Kudos: We don’t usually envy daily newspaper folk. Dailies are too bureaucratic, too lacking in the smart-alecky-ness that we love. Here in alterna-world, when big papers suffer through staff cuts, as The Dallas Morning News did with a round of buyouts last year, we eat up the schadenfreude like it’s…
Winners and Whiners Wail like a schoolgirl: Richie, you have got to be kidding me (“German Engineering,” February 22). I had to do a triple take and make sure Cuban herself didn’t write this article—or maybe you are Cuban writing under another name. You want to criticize the guy who…
When Jim Moseley sat down at the Dean & Deluca store in Charlotte, North Carolina, at 9:30 a.m. last Friday he was nervous. Officer Harry Inch had assured the businessman that Inch and other members of the Violent Criminals Apprehension Team would take down the target before she got anywhere…
Some people say the hallmark of a great retail store is quality merch at good prices. Others like to see a wide selection of goods. Me? I like to see an animal. Store cats, dogs, gerbils, fish, wombats, whatever — they all make my shopping experience better. I like knowing…
You know what’s killing the planet? Steak. Yeah, steak. No one needs reminding that Dallas is a steakhouse holy land. But there are also a lot of folks here who embrace the anthropogenic global-warming hypothesis and its concomitant pieties and hysterics. Don’t look now, but Dallas is sitting on a…
If there had been a Denton rock doc, Lift to Experience would have totally been in it. Whilst touting Robert Gomez’s rave in Mojo on Monday, we linked to the former Latin Pimp’s Web site and noticed an intriguing nugget tucked away in his bio: “A documentary film called This…
This is a photo from Ghostbar. Wow, that’s surprising, isn’t it? Yeah, totally. March is National Women’s History Month! How exciting! How important! How this makes me want to employ gratuitous use of exclamation points! Hurrah, women! Despite the fact that we spend a good portion of our lives bleeding…
This likely falls into the “Not Really That Interesting But What Do We Know Anyway” category: We just got a release announcing that Dallas-based author Daniel J. Hale was today named as executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America, the organization that hands out the covered Edgar Awards. And…
