A newspaper-writin’ reader sends this missive regarding his days living in Little Forest Hills: When I moved to Dallas from Fort Worth in 1996, I landed in a tiny rent house on Daytonia Avenue smack in the middle of Little Forest Hills. Believe the hype: Little Forest Hills has a…
Found a copy of Quick next to the toilet today and opened it up (hey, I like Sudoku) to find a blurb about a proposed graffiti crackdown in Dallas. If the City Council gets its way, $500 fines can be issued for carrying spray paint around town. Sure, fine, whatever…
Is weepy the new douchebag? Friday night, Observer Night & Day co-editor Merritt Martin and I hauled out to the Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie for the Franz Ferdinand-Death Cab For Cutie show and were surprised to find ourselves in the company of a remarkably large population of frat guys…
In FC Dallas’ 3-2 win over Chicago Saturday, the local kid made good, scoring the winning goal in the 70th minute–just five minutes after entering the game. But that kid wasn’t Mario Torres, the local Latino league phenom whose story we chronicled last July. Nor was it fellow Dallas products…
Maybe one day The Dallas Morning News will do a story on Bill Parcells’ feelings about the Terrell Owens signing. Till then, we’ll just have to take Peter King’s word for it. By the way, that is good enough for me. –Robert Wilonsky…
If you missed The Writer’s Garret’s inaugural Writes of Spring Literary Festival of Books and Authors over the weekend, you didn’t miss much. The fest took place Friday through Sunday at the South Side on Lamar lofts, and it was sponsored by the likes of Borders, DART, KERA, Comcast and…
The Dallas Stars may win the NHL’s Stanley Cup this spring. Regardless, it’s already been a positive season, mainly because after tonight’s clash against the San Jose Sharks at the American Airlines Center, the Stars’ ridiculously hideous alternate third sweater will be loaded on a truck and sent to Goodwill…
The bad news: Dallas-Fort Worth has a severe gang problem–has for years, in fact, and it’s only getting worse, say officials with the Department of Justice. The good news: DOJ’s going to make an effort to do something about, announcing on Saturday it’s going to channel $2.5 million in grant…
My Associated Press pal Christy and her husband, formerly of local Fox affiliate KDFW-Channel 4, are in town this week for the Texas Rangers opening series against the Boston Red Sox–not to see the Rangers, mind you, but their beloved Red Sox. Also in town is their pal Dan Shaughnessy,…
If you see Kevin Sorbo walking around town, it’s because he’s Walking Tall. And because The Rock wasn’t available. I think the key phrase in this particular story is “each with budgets of $2 million,” which oughta go into that fund the mayor’s trying to build up in order to…
I noticed two things this weekend during a visit into the quaint, quirky White Rock Lake neighborhood known as Little Forest Hills: the astounding number of hideous McMansions springing up like weeds in the woods, and the tiny signs trying to fend them off like disposable Davids dueling Tyveked Goliaths…
A few weeks ago we wrote about the phenomenon known as the indigo children. The New Yorker has a follow-up about the latest step in kiddie evolution: the Dandelion Child. Best. Story. Ever. –Robert Wilonsky…
See for yourself…
Dear Cafe Express on McKinney Avenue, Things you may not want to publicize to your customers in the form of an “award”: Lowest Crew Turnover — 64.5 % Lowest Food Cost — 28.8 % Perhaps you might place these placards in the back room as motivational tools instead of on…
Pink Nasty (Austin): This blurb was originally directed towards the jagged, worn-down blues-rock of Denton’s jetscreamer, but we got a little good-news-bad-news this afternoon: Spune Productions’ Lance Yocom e-mailed to say that jetscreamer guitarist and lead singer Samantha Moss broke her hand and had to back out of next weekend’s…
When a crap director leaves a movie he’s scheduled to direct, you just know said movie has to be dreadful. For a week it’s been rumored Robert Luketic was gonna leave the big-screen adaptation of Dallas, which Mayor Laura Miller’s so desperate to get shot here. The initial reason offered…
To: The West End Historic District From: Andrea Grimes, Rick Kennedy and Matt Pulle, Dallas Observer staff writers Dear West End, Last night began fabulously at the Sixth Floor Museum with a Scotch tasting hosted by Chivas, at which Grimes re-re-affirmed her love for non-Chivas whiskys. Pulle, meanwhile, laughed a…
On Wednesday night, a Deep Ellum club employee said he had a scoop for me: “On April 10, all of the cooks are walking out.” He talked about rampant rumors he’d heard about a Dallas-wide initiative that involves all Latino restaurant employees skipping out of work on the Monday after…
Robert Decherd’s gotta be scratching his head. Yesterday, he got the good news that the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, was dismissing a shareholders’ suit against the owners of The Dallas Morning News over the company’s circulation scandal that turned into quite the mess in 2004. But for…
The best radio announcer in Dallas Cowboys history is staying, and the best offensive lineman in Cowboys history is going. Of course, if you rely on the area’s mainstream media these days, you’re clueless to both transactions involving Brad Sham and Larry Alllen. The Cowboys new flagship radio station–KTCK-AM (1310),…
Some folks have asked about the change in our Unfair Park blog banner–the chalk outline, the crime-scene tape. Well, yesterday we said goodbye to Big Tex, the original mascot of Unfair Park. We’d been told that we “can’t have Big Tex” because he’s a registered trademark, and the State Fair…
There’s been an interesting drama developing in the pages of SMU’s The Daily Campus this week involving the university’s Spanish lecturer George Henson. It began when the student paper reported that Henson showed up to work Monday to find that someone had scrawled the word “FAGGOT” across his office door…
