The Moore, the merrier: Linda, Katie and John Glantz, from left, are popping their activism cherry Sunday with a health-care protest at City Hall. Don’t get the Glantz family wrong: They are all about health care. Even though their Web site is called ProtestHealthCare.org, the last thing they want to…
Soul music legend Bobby Patterson will headline our Music Awards August 14 at the Granada. You miss this, you miss everything. Because, see, when Jim Schutze gets pissed off at Wick Allison or Tim Rogers over at FrontBurner, he posts to Unfair Park. But when our current music editor takes…
We’re not quite sure what all this is precisely, but there’s a dude out on the interstates and Interwebs posting videos taken from inside the cab of his 2006 Freightliner. And from what we can tell, all he does is drive and shoot, drive and shoot, then drive and shoot…
The US-China Business Council yesterday released what it calls a “full analysis of US exports to China from all 435 districts in the US House of Representatives,” which, of course, includes the good ol’ 32nd Congressional District — Pete Sessions country, natch. Overall, says the report, U.S. exports to China…
As we mentioned a couple days back, Hannah’s stormed AT&T Plaza for CBS’ The Early Show, and, man, does WFAA-Channel 8’s HQ ever look good on KTVT-Channel 11. (I can almost hear Justin Farmer now, shouting through the glass, “Kelly Rowland! Say my name!”) Among the guests this a.m. was…
Finally, something worth reading over at Bold Types: Harlan Crow’s pissy missive to Mayor Tom concerning revived talk of a taxpayer-subsidized hotel attached to the Dallas Convention Center. (And, yeah, we had to borrow it from Bold Types, as Steve Blow saved it as a “.pdg” file, which doesn’t exist…
For those keeping score, Abacus Chef de Cuisine Tré Wilcox has now won two out of six Elimination Challenges on Top Chef. No Top Chef wrap-up this morning; had an early-a.m. interview, alas, which surely bummed out Shinsei’s Casey Thompson, winner of last night’s Quickfire quiz and no fan of…
Earlier this week I spoke with Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle about his department’s investigation of three officers for writing fake tickets and making false arrests, largely of prostitutes and low-level street criminals. The officers — Timothy Stecker, Jeffrey Nelson and Albert Schoelen — have been suspended pending the completion…
We couldn’t help but giggle — or wince, maybe, hard to say — at this line in the Dallas Mavericks’ announcement this afternoon concerning the just-released 2007-’08 season schedule: “Dallas begins its 28th season on Wednesday, Oct. 31 in Cleveland as they take on the Eastern Conference Champions.” Really, the…
The tizzy over Rupert Murdoch’s buying The Wall Street Journal and the constant hand-wringing about the death of the newspaper business are doing one of those déjà vu things for me. It’s also doing one of those I-told-you-so things. I remember getting not just derisive laughter but outright hostility in…
Good grief — here I am trying to make it through Harry Hunsicker’s latest set-in-Dallas thriller Crosshairs, which is pretty damned good and gets its official release this week, when yet another locally penned novel crashes on the desk. Literally too: Mark Gimenez’s second book, The Abduction, weighs in at…
I see our old pal and esteemed colleague Ann Zimmerman has a front-page piece in Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal this morning about a particular piano we mentioned a few months back. Yup, it’s John Lennon’s instrument, the one upon which he wrote “Imagine” in 1971 whilst apparently smoking plenty…
KTVT-Channel 11 Jeniffer Tunay shows her injuries to KTVT-Channel 11 reporter Clif Caldwell. By now you’ve no doubt heard that on Monday night, a couple was biking on the Katy Trail when they were attacked by a man wielding a box cutter. Well, Bryan Kilburn, whose wife Jeniffer was on…
Screw this: By God, when that Jacquielynn Floyd is right, she’s right. Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while, they say, and Floyd found one with her Morning News column Tuesday: Democracy is tedious and fatiguing. So let’s leave the Trinity River toll road vote to…
On an April evening in 2006, two police officers were patrolling a crime-ridden neighborhood in Northwest Dallas, a few miles south of Love Field. One cop was a respected veteran, the other a rookie less than a month out of the academy, now learning on the job. The two saw…
A half-hour after her boyfriend left her Irving condo on an icy night in January 1988, Marilyn M. heard pounding on her door. Thinking her boyfriend might have had car trouble, Marilyn opened the door and confronted a stranger who pushed his way into her home and dragged her to…
Southern Fried Dallas deserves better: I am a theater lover and can’t recall ever reading a more nasty, vicious review of a Southern comedy (“The Silent Treatment,” by Elaine Liner, on Unfair Park, July 25). I did a little research and was surprised to learn that The Sugar Bean Sisters…
SAN ANTONIO—He was done signing autographs. Finished glad-handing fans. Complete with his first day of training camp as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. But, refreshingly, Wade Phillips was just getting started. As Phillips jogged into The Alamodome locker room tunnel last Wednesday afternoon, a man desperate for his attention…
Craig Watkins sure is putting the “DA” in “DNA.” This week’s Observer cover story on DNA exonerations will be available shortly, but recent news about the case of Clay Chabot proves that these revelations of dubious convictions are just going to keep on coming. And, as District Attorney Craig Watkins…
According to a missive on the band’s MySpace page, Denton’s own Current Leaves, one of North Texas’ best young bands, is calling it quits. They leave behind one excellent platter of psychedelic country — the criminally under-heard Pastense — as well as one forthcoming swan song, the title of which…
Jeff Liles has informed us as to the identity of “juabeaux,” who’s been posting all the archival footage of bands performing in Deep Ellum way back when. But till we talk to our YouTube’n archivist and find out what he plans on doing with what we hear is an estimable…
Just what the heck’s going on at 700 N. Pearl St., Suite 510? That’s the question many folks are asking, as help-wanted ads like this one, this one and many others found in the Detroit Free Press, of all places, list an address but no employer’s name. This has been…
