Even a good Longhorns fan has to acknowledge that Kyle Field’s one of the greatest college football venues ever. The Cotton Bowl, not so much. For a year now, Mayor Laura’s been banging the same drum: If, which is to say when, the annual Texas-Oklahoma game finally leaves Dallas and…
If American Airlines had its flight attendants wear the old Braniff uniforms, we’d be more forgiving of its service. There’s an Associated Press story that moved this afternoon about airline museums and how poorly they do. In the case of, oh, Delta Airlines, people can’t even get into its museum…
“I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States.” In his cowboy boots and unfortunately pleated and tapered pants, Al Gore took the Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie stage Saturday night to offer up his inconvenient truths. After observing just how good it…
Two Dallas actors and directors have acquired the rights to adapt Valley of the Dolls into a stage production. Yeah, we’re surprised it hasn’t already been done too. “You’ve got to climb Mount Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls.” That’s just one of the great/bad lines from Jacqueline…
Rick Perry’s folks brokered a deal that would give Belo exclusive access to Friday night’s gubernatorial debate. On Friday, the four major gubernatorial candidates will participate in the sole debate before the November 7 election. The date of the debate has already been a substantial point of contention: It’ll air…
By now you’ve seen the disturbing video of Tennessee Titans lineman Albert Haynesworth violently and intentionally stomping on the face and head of helmetless Dallas Cowboy Andre Gurode from Sunday’s game. (And if you haven’t, it’s below.) In the aftermath, Gurode got 30 stitches. And Haynesworth should get sued. At…
The BrainSUITE at Presby looks like something from Dr. McCoy’s sick bay on the U.S.S. Enterprise. Not that we’ve ever seen Star Trek. Get our your datebooks: Says here that on November 30 at 3 p.m., neurosurgeons at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas will perform–during a live webcast, no less–a brain…
Had to go to China–well, the China Daily, anyway–to find out about University of Texas at Dallas professor Mihai Nadin, who is developing video games for the elderly. Makes sense: Just before he died, my grandfather lamented that one of his biggest regrets in life was not learning how to…
In the new issue of Time there’s a bonus section called “Inside Business,” and inside that is a story called “Is Coal Golden?” If you ask Mike McCall, head of wholesale operations at TXU, and Governor Rick Perry, the answer, of course, is absolutely. If you ask Mayor Laura Miller…
Some of the guitars in this pic of the Riverboat Gamblers probably aren’t around anymore. At least, they aren’t in the band’s possession at this point. Happens all the time: Band goes on the road, band plays small club, band parks van in front of small club, band goes to…
It’s late. Damned near 6, when the front desk shuts down. But if you can make it here by then, and yer the first to e-mail me, then you’ve got a decision to make: two tix to Al Gore doing his gloom-and-doom seminar at the Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie…
Tired of hearing about the same old great local bands from your writers here at the Observer? Wish we’d tell you to do something other than splooge over The Theater Fire for once? Well, here’s your chance. Go see some comedy, jerk. Tomorrow night at the Comedy Sportz Arena (603…
The Hotel Palomar and its residences are much prettier without the smoke. Just got a call from a Friend of Unfair Park’s who offices near Mockingbird Lane and North Central Expressway. He sends word of what we can see from over here at Maple and Oak Lawn: Something’s burning at…
Helen Hall, one of the great gals of the Big “D” Jamboree, died this week. She was 78. Five years ago I wrote a story about a country singer who was this close to becoming famous but instead became only a legend. In March 2001, Helen Hall, who was born…
Josh Alan Friedman spent several months imagining he was this guy, pornographer Al Goldstein, in order to write his life story. Try to think of something worse. You can’t. A little more than a year ago, singer-songwriter, author and occasional Dallas Observer contributor Josh Alan Friedman was asked to do…
Once, the mayor told us we had broad shoulders, beautiful eyes, a strong handshake and soft skin. We thought nothing of it. If you’ve read this or this, you’re well aware that local TV reporters claim KTVT-Channel 11’s Sarah Dodd’s too chummy with Mayor Laura Miller. It’s a charge that…
Well, for one thing, they contain tiny gifts. Or dynamite. Or the new, sleeker model of Dallas’ Only Daily. With Byron Nelson’s death and Terrell Owens’ accidental non-suicide attempt, this week provided an immediate Litmus test for the post-buyout Dallas Morning News’ SportsDay section. And, like we feared, bigger was…
This is what it might have looked like when Sabrina Balentine was fired from Razzoo’s. Might. Dunno for sure. Hard to say. Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, on behalf of Sabrina Balentine, who was fired from a…
One of our colleagues here just received an e-mail from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association that contains the sad news that Dennis Vercher, the longtime editor of the Dallas Voice, died yesterday from an HIV/AIDS-related illness. Vercher had been editor of the Voice, the self-described “community newspaper for…
Levi is a young preacher in the “army of God” depicted in the film Jesus Camp. Oh, I was ready for a fierce reaction to Jesus Camp. Something really extreme–like wanting to cast a demon out of my 27-inch TV. Or declaring that Oprah is the Antichrist. I’d seen the…
We now know why The Ticket pulled the confrontation between Norm Hitzges, pictured here, and Gordon Keith. Apparently, it wasn’t funny. Yeah? Who says. Apologize for the seven-second delay in getting back to this. But last week I was invaded by e-mail aliens, and then yesterday Terrell Owens almost up…
This week, the paper version of Unfair Park has a detailed story on the fledgling romance between Dallas police chief David Kunkle and television reporter Sarah Dodd. Turns out the chief cares enough about Dodd to call us and defend her journalistic integrity. Other reporters, however, including some of Dodd’s…
