No joke: There’s a bird missing, and an 11-year-old girl’s crying…fowl. I hate myself. It looks kind of like a joke–the childlike scrawl, the hastily added phone number, the phone-poll placement along a busy thoroughfare. (It would make a great album cover for some indie-rock band, come to think of…
Congratulations are in order for Centro-matic, whose Fort Recovery was deemed hipster-worthy by Pitchfork Media last week with an impressive 8.1 rating. Yeah, yeah, we know–one CD review ain’t the end of the world, but we’ll take whatever steps are necessary make “Calling Thermatico” a theme song for the next…
In case you weren’t too mesmerized by that enthralling Brett Wetterich-Trevor Immelman showdown at the Byron Nelson, you might have caught Mavs-Spurs Game 3 Saturday night. If so, your heart is probably still racing. And your fist is probably still landing air punches aimed at Jerry Stackhouse. In this series…
A fab four: The Dixie Chicks, circa 1991 A week from tomorrow, the new Dixie Chicks disc Taking the Long Way arrives in stores, and though a review appears in the Observer on Wednesday, lemme say, in short, it’s kinda swell; imagine if Fleetwood Mac made a country record for…
So Mayor Laura was right, and she was wrong. Last September, as Hurricane Katrina evacuees were streaming into Dallas by the tens of thousands, the mayor fretted even before their arrival about the crimewave she expected to accompany our new citizens. So too did police chief David Kunkel, who used…
On Thursday, we teased that the Dallas Film Commission was preparing to make a big announcement about a TV show set to shoot in here. Turns out it was Fox’s Prison Break, which is set to begin filming its second season in and around town beginning June 15, writes Ed…
Is this story in The New York Times today: a) a fawning profile of a business under seige by its larger local competitor; b) a case study in mid-1970s retro-feminism; c) a celebration of a job well done and proof that when treated well, employees will last forever; d) a…
My story on this will be on newsstands this coming Wednesday, but since the scoop’s already hit the Internet, we may as well be the first local outlet to report it. Late last night, former Weezer bassist-songwriter Matt Sharp announced on his MySpace account and on his side project’s Web…
It’s so cute when girls try to do boy things. Like grilling, for example. In fact, it’s so cute when girls try to grill, that TheOtherWhiteMeat.com has created a super-cute pink and purple section of its Web site, just for girls who like to grill. The pork people are, cutely,…
They dispensed little American flags at the door. One woman implanted hers sideways into the hair bun on the back of her head. When WBAP-AM (820) morning talk-show host Mark Davis came out onto the stage to cue flag waving, the woman with the flag in her bun flicked it…
Incumbent Dallas school board president Lois Parrott is trying to beat back an inspired campaign from challenger Leigh Ann Ellis in tomorrow’s hotly contested DISD board of trustee elections. This afternoon, Parrott’s campaign will be staffing the corner of Buckner Boulevard and Garland Road trying to lure last-minute voters to…
We have our first contestant in the Guess What’s Wrong With This Article sweepstakes. A local brand-communicator writes in: Here’s my vote. From the article: “This year work will begin on a $65 million bridge across the Trinity River designed by architect Santiago Calatrava. Future plans, already funded by $1…
Yes, Avery Johnson can coach. But let’s not allow the Dallas Mavericks coach to cut in line in front of Red Auerbach just yet. Johnson, the NBA’s Coach of the Year, is getting canonized for his injection of Devin Harris into the starting lineup before Game 2 of Dallas’ Western…
For those obsessed with the Alphonso Jackson embroglio, in which the Housing and Urban Development secretary admitted to killing government contracts with Bush bashers during an April 28 speech in Dallas, let us not forget his behavior 13 years ago. What simpler times those were: He was the head of…
Read this piece about downtown Dallas development, and see if you can find the one glaring mistake. And you can’t count the line about downtown Dallas being “a hive of activity,” which is just wishful thinking. –Robert Wilonsky…
Say what you want about criminalizing or legalizing Hispanic immigrants–the changes, it seems, are really coming from everywhere but Washington. Even if you’re an illegal resident, if you want to finance a house, get medical care or a tax refund, you certainly can. But what if your 14-year-old daughter just…
Sunday night’s 60 Minutes will feature a piece on the Dixie Chicks, whose new album Taking the Long Way will be released May 23 (and reviewed in the Observer next Wednesday). The Chicks talk to Steve Kroft about the threats the band received after singer Natalie Maines shouted her infamous…
Usually I don’t do brunch outside of Sundays, but today was the exception. Who can turn down free eggs and sausage when Ray Nasher is handing it out? The Nasher Sculpture Center hosted a press preview and breakfast buffet for its new exhibit, On Tour with Renzo Piano. You know…
At the risk of feeling dirty–and not in a good way–I’m going to part company from Jim Schutze and Morning News columnist Sherry Jacobson and, ick, take the mayor’s side in the whole Dave Levinthal/AMR stock tempest. Jacobson this morning picked up on a point made by Schutze on Unfair…
Tom Cruise, you’re nuts and probably holding Katie Holmes hostage, but Dallas still buys what you’re selling. Why, I have no idea, but I find this kind of staggering. By now, you all know that Mission: Impossible III had a “disappointing” opening weekend, raking in a mere (heh) $47.7 million…
I was wrong yesterday when I cracked that the new HBO series 12 Miles of Bad Road, about the wimmins of Dallas, would be shot in Louisiana. Turns out it’s gonna be made in Los Angeles, to which one might add a great big d’oh. “I think it’s going to…
The annual EDS Byron Nelson Golf Classic gets underway today at the Four Seasons Resort and Club in Las Colinas. For some guys, it means putting on your golf spikes, acting like dorks and watching golf all day. For the rest of us, it means somehow finagling a coveted badge,…
