“SSSSSssssss…” “Stop that!” Carolyn Thomas snapped. Her best friend Dena Schlosser was driving with her eyes closed, hissing like a snake. “SSSSSSssssss…” “Open your eyes and look at the road!” Thomas said. “Put your mind on Jesus.” The weird behavior had started as soon as Schlosser and her three girls…
If you want to see what an Observer writer looks like–brainy with a touch of rugged, in my estimation, or the perfect mixture of jock and intellectual–Jesse Hyde will appear tonight on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360� talking about a piece he wrote for the Deseret Morning News in July 2004,…
I’m gonna resist the urge to focus on the name Metrognome (I’ll just let hope live on that tonight I’ll discover a garden statue in savvy attire serving as the art collective’s mascot), and instead unleash a serious urging to attend the Shoplifting show tonight in Fort Worth. The quartet…
Take a good look at the MADI Museum. It may not be around much longer. If you were to visit the Web site of Kilgore & Kilgore, PLLC–the 58-year-old law film specializing in, among other things, cases dealing with intellectual property and personal-injury class actions–you will see seven serious-looking attorneys…
For those who have had their fill of strange preachers or who plan to wait to hear directly from God before accepting Doyle Davidson as a latter-day prophet (good plan), the dead-tree edition of the Dallas Observer has a few other tidbits that might interest you. Such as: Jim Schutze…
So how is it exactly that a baseball team can blow a 9-0 lead? Marijuana muffins, you say? Dude, I’ve got one even better. Texas Rangers. Nuff said. Well, actually, let’s say a little more because last night at Yankee Stadium your Rangers made history. Texas led the Yankees 9-0…
On newsstands this morning in the Dallas Observer: Glenna Whitley reports on Doyle Davidson’s bizarre world of demons and doom in her cover story on the Dena Schlosser case. Davidson, you might remember, was pastor of the Plano church Schlosser attended before she cut off the arms of her 11-month-old…
A few months before the publication of Laura J. Miller’s new book Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption, which deals with the rise of the megabookstore and the demise of the beloved indie book seller, Barnes & Noble opened yet another Dallas location right across the street from…
Or at least that’s how it would seem, given the splash image on the site for Ruehl No. 925, the Abercrombie & Fitch-owned clothier with stores in such fashion-forward locations as Schaumburg, Illinois, and Novi, Michigan. A new location will open at the Galleria in November, and according to WWD.com,…
And learn David Hasselhoff’s “Looking For Freedom,” the Knight Rider’s 1989 “hit” credited with, oh, tearing down the Berlin Wall. (Well, that’s what Hasselhoff says.) Now, it’s being touted as the reason Nowitzki’s such a clutch free-throw shooter: The Mav says here that when he’s at the charity stripe, “I…
Just got word from Radiant’s Daniel Hopkins—who’s, like, one of two drummers in Dallas that actually knows how to tune his kit—that the Dallas Observer Music Award-nominated band will be featured bright and early tomorrow mornin’ on WFAA-Channel 8’s Good Morning Texas. And if you miss that broadcast, Radiant will…
Those of you out there who religiously listen to Darrell Ankarlo (you know who you are, and, in all likelihood, you hate Mexicans) may have already heard of the Wingman, a Dallas-based superhero who rides a fold-up moped around the city in search of the drunk and wobbly. On the…
Forget those rumor blogs posting their maybes and could-bes about who’s playing the fifth annual Austin City Limits Music Festival, which takes place September 15-17 at Zilker Park; we have the full list, from A (Alexi Murdoch) to Z (Buckwheat Zydeco). While some of the folks were confirmed long ago–Tom…
No, seriously. Turns out the lite-rock-country-jazzer who used to play for tips at Popolos is fronting a new Manhattan punk-rock band called El Madmo. Me, I don’t think the woman singing these songs sounds much like frappucino-set crooner, but it doesn’t sound not like her; she certainly curses more than…
Eva’s head on a stick would distract anyone, especially Tony Parker. Richie Whitt makes brief mention of this below, but I wanted to note an important momentum swing in last night’s “holy crap, not another heart attack” down-to-the-wire Mavs victory–when Tony Parker missed two key overtime free throws for the…
I went to the American Airlines Center Monday night and was reminded why we love sports: because for three heart-stopping, adrenalin-pumping hours, we forgot about the first ex-wife, the second mortgage and the four tires that need rotating. Mavs 123, Spurs 118 had everything. Villains (Tim Duncan) setting traps. Turncoats…
Like me, you’re probably burned out on Wright Amendment talk, which will likely last so long we’ll be able to beam to New York City Star Trek-style from the comfort of our own homes. But the contstant noise coming from both Southwest Airlines and American Airlines has produced one totally…
Preservation Dallas The Crozier Tech building downtown has to be sold. The out-of-town owners ain’t in a hurry. Shame. Tomorrow, Mayor Laura and the rest of the City Council will stop down and recognize the fact May is Preservation Month in Dallas—and, yeah, it’s a little late in the month,…
There’s a piece in the Los Angeles Times this morning about “e-vangelizing,” or the listening to sermons on your iPod (“godcasts,” they’re called) or using Olive Tree Bible Software to read The Good Book on your BlackBerry. Quoted in the story is Richard Reising, president of Artistry Marketing, the 8-year-old…
Little strapped for cash? Got knee pain? Migranes? Or maybe vaginal atrophy? Or a spastic colon? Meth addiction? Hypoactive sex drive? Well, do I have the solution for you! It’s called Research Across America, a clinical-study biz with offices in Dallas (and El Paso, Manhattan and Reading, Penn.), and if…
The headline of this essay (it’s not really a story) from the Bethel College (in NORTH NEWTON, KANSAS) newspaper tickles me: “It takes three days to walk across Dallas.” It’s essentially just a piece about writer Brad Kohlman’s run-in with a homeless guy, but to save you the time of…
According to this story, Hurricane Katrina might have devastated New Orleans and much of Louisiana, but it sure did blow a bunch of money Texas’ way. The Bloomberg piece corresponds with a news release issued last month by the Texas Workforce Commission, which said Texas added 279,400 new jobs during…
