News from Comic-Con International — and, no, nothing about the new RoboCop movie, The Spirit, Watchmen prop photos or Hugh Jackman. Rather, it’s about Dallas-based Blockbuster, which schlepped out to San Diego those in-store kiosks from which customers can download movies directly to their Archos player for now, what an…
Jenny At last, Joyce Poole has responded. Who, you’re wondering, is Joyce Poole? “She is to elephants what Jane Goodall is to chimpanzees and Dian Fossey was to gorillas, their savior.” Also: She is the author of 1996’s Coming of Age With Elephants: A Memoir and 1997’s Elephants for the…
Now, he’s as nasty as his wife’ll let him be. Sounds like Luther Campbell’s wedding over the weekend was a most eclectic wingding. The 2 Live Crew frontman married his attorney Saturday at the Saint Luke “Community” United Methodist Church on R.L. Thornton Freeway, before heading over the Hotel Palomar…
Interesting media release this afternoon from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, about how 55-year-old Dallas-based FBI “support employee” Deborah Lee Stinson and her 27-year-old son Mark have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The entire narrative, as usual, is after the jump, but the feds allege that from January…
Nice Associated Press story this afternoon about Nocona Athletic Goods Company and its damn-right resurrection, following the July 18, 2006, fire that destroyed the then-80-year-old manufacturer of the best danged baseball gloves in the U.S.A., located about 100 miles northwest of Dallas. While Rawlings and Wilson do most of their…
What you see above is the former Shell station at the intersection of Preston Road and Royal Lane. Despite what we’d been told in February — that Shell was retrofitting the property, which has been a gas station as long as I can recall — not so much. Don’t know…
FC Dallas’s Dax McCarty A couple of sports notes this morning. First, out of Arizona comes word that the Cardinals are going to “Protect the Nest” this season by keeping Dallas Cowboys fans outta University of Phoenix Stadium. That is, if Cowboys fans — who, historically, fill up Arizona games…
That’s the word from Gurinder Chadha, the Bend it Like Beckham director who was among several tapped to helm the big-screen version of the TV series, which Laura Miller tried desperately to get shot in Dallas during her tenure as mayor. Speaking to the U.K. Independent about her latest film…
CBS-TV Steven Daigle I didn’t even realize the 10th (!) season of Big Brother had already started. But, wow, that was quick: Dallas’s gay rodeo champ, Steve Daigle, has already been given the boot — second contestant off the show, dude doesn’t waste time. Thank God there’s Reality TV World…
Be the first on your block to wear Dirk’s Olympic jersey. All it’ll cost you is $79.95. Maybe it was the Tim MacMahon bump, but the sixth most-popular online petition in the entire world — at least at Petition Online — is the one containing the words “Dirk Nowitzki.” As…
Link Nicoll Max Holland. In November 1998, Brown University’s now-defunct newspaper George Street Journal ran a lengthy piece about Max Holland, who’d been at the university for a few months working on his book A Need to Know: Inside the Warren Commission. The story noted that in 1995 he began…
Super Bowl. Or bust. If the Dallas Cowboys don’t win the NFL championship February 1 in Tampa, it will be a devastating disappointment impossible to ignore. If they don’t at least make it to the title game, it will be an unmitigated disaster improbable to restore. Anything less and Wade…
On the evening of January 8, at about 7 p.m., Constable Lee Roy Gaitan, a no-nonsense Texas lawman, was walking outside his house when something caught his eye. Off in the distance, racing across the night sky of the small town of Dublin, was what looked like a red orb…
“The Dirt Doctor” by Jim Schutze, July 17 Diggin’ the Dirt I’ve been a “follower” of Howard’s and his message of organics for 16 years now. We’ve not sprayed or used chemicals inside or out in that time. The diversity of beneficial insects and reptiles in our yard is amazing,…
Restaurant Critic The Dallas Observer has an immediate opening for a full-time restaurant critic. We want someone who is passionate about food, knowledgeable about the restaurant industry and is able to produce stylish, opinionated columns. This position requires a 1,500-word weekly restaurant review, plus additional writing, blogging and/or editing duties…
Trash ain’t nothin’ but cash: Virtue, they say, is its own reward. That fact probably helps explain why Buzz isn’t on anyone’s short list for sainthood. We prefer more tangible rewards for our rare good works, like cash money. Take recycling, for example. Although our neighbor allows us to use…
Twenty years ago we launched this annual tradition called the Dallas Observer Music Awards—way back in April of 1988. “Our stated goal with these awards is to narrow the odds a bit in favor of locally created sounds,” then-music editor Clay McNear wrote at the time. It still rings true…
One of our sister papers, the Seattle Weekly, has news today concerning my favoritest Dallas Maverick ever: James Donaldson. Turns out, the well-traveled baller with the bad knees — who started with the Seattle SuperSonics before joining the Mavs in 1985 for a seven-season stint that included a trip to…
So, looks like the Dallas Independent School District’s Board of Trustees meeting tomorrow — a specially called get-together, as they don’t normally meet in July — should be an especially interesting one. Because only a few hours after we posted the item about Joyce Foreman’s displeasure over the Booker T…
Patrick “Buzz” Williams called it yesterday: “Someone needs to put some music with Angela Hunt’s videos,” meaning the footage she shot of the swaying elephants at the Africam Safari Zoo in Mexico. And, sure enough, someone’s done scored the video. –Robert Wilonsky…
A remarkable statistic, courtesy the Military Officers Association of America today: “More than 700,000 children have seen a parent deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and three out of every five Active Duty, Reservists and National Guard members deployed to a warzone have family responsibilities.” And war is hell on those…
Edward Hopper’s Hotel Room Just as the city is about to get into the hotel bidness, this news: Dallas saw a 3.8 percent drop in hotel occupancy rates from May 2007 to May ’08. Among the so-called “key markets” in the country referenced in this report, Dallas’s drop was the…
