I suppose it’s true: No one but professors, grad students and Jeopardy! contestants appreciate the classics anymore. Looks like the depleted fan base has not only affected the self-esteem of high-school English teachers everywhere, but also a local theater company: The Classical Acting Company is officially shutting down following its…
Consider this yet another of Dallas’ worst-kept secrets: The CVS pharmacy chain is going to buy up and tear down the Hard Rock Cafe on McKinney Avenue. At least, that’s the rumor “swirling” among the restaurant’s staff, says John Gogarty, the New Jersey-based publicist for the restaurant-hotel-casino chain, which is…
Nine-year-old Kashia has been part of the Central Dallas Ministries’ after-school program for four years. And she loves it. A few weeks ago, we ran a story about the great work Central Dallas Ministries is doing among the poor in parts of West and South Dallas. The story focused on…
Ron Washington has us all very excited about the Rangers this season. Which means, of course, they’ll still suck. But we’ll be excited about it. You’ll have to wait until 6 tonight on TNT to find out if Josh Howard joins Dirk Nowitzki as an NBA All-Star. And you’ll have…
Sometimes I try to imagine what a panic looks like over at FrontBurner. Does Wick throw off his D baseball cap, scoop up his emergency stash of collectable Gone With the Wind porcelain (currency of the future) and head for the Park Cities? Do the fashionistas head for cover in…
Transona Five was, from left, Scott Marks, Rachel Smith, G.P. Cole and Chris Foley. I heard only last night that Chris Foley, formerly of the Dallas band Transona Five, died Sunday from causes yet to be determined. Foley’s been playing with the Austin band The Swells for quite a while,…
No doubt we’ll have a few things here today about Molly Ivins; after all, Schutze and I worked with her at the Dallas Times Herald, Jim much longer and closer than I, and he has the anecdotes to prove it. Most of mine have to do with smoking — as…
Prison Break star Lane Garrison could face up to 10 years in prison. Maybe he could date Brandy? A couple of months back, Prison Break co-star and Dallas native Lane Garrison crashed his Land Rover into a tree in Beverly Hills, killing a 17-year-old boy sitting in the back seat…
The NHL’s All-Star Game has come and gone. So, too, has Dallas’ fascination with hockey. The mid-winter classic arrived last week disguised as an enigma: At once a crowning achievement on 15 years of grass-roots growth and a humbling reality check for a sport skating more toward thin ice than…
He looks like a good cop. He’s got the ‘stache, the short-cropped hair, the pushed-out chest and the shiny badge. He sounds like a good cop too; drawled and official. He’s got a TV reporter’s microphone in his face and a brick of marijuana in his hand, and he’s answering…
Hector Flores isn’t someone you’d expect to be apathetic about segregation. The immediate past national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, Flores often serves as the voice of indignation on civil rights debates. In Farmers Branch, where the city council recently passed legislation making it harder for…
Ethics, schmethics: Starting Wednesday, the parking lot that is the Dallas North Tollway toll plaza at Wycliff Avenue might become a little less congested, which is good, because it greatly lowers the chance that Buzz will spend the rest of his life face-down in a pillow at a state penitentiary,…
Last February, Lakewood restaurant manager Alexis Gaddy decided to do what a lot of people do: pay a bill with a money order. After all, they’re safe. Trackable. So he stopped by the 7-Eleven on Garland Road, bought a Western Union order from an automated machine, dropped it in the…
Houses That Go Oink Decrepit and lovin’ it: Just wanted Jim Schutze to know that his article about East Dallas (“Goodbye, Groovy East Dallas,” January 25) brought tears to my eyes and laughter to my throat. I miss the bones on the porch, the “salons” at Colin Jefferson’s (met Laura…
The Texas Observer’s home page confirms what we found out but a short while ago: Molly Ivins has died. We will have more tomorrow from her old friend and Dallas Times Herald colleague (by which I mean “drinking buddy”) Jim Schutze. –Robert Wilonsky…
Deep Ellum looked like this once. Then it turned into something else. And now, it turns again. “West Village.” That is how people are beginning to describe the Deep Ellum of the near-future, once the DART station goes in on Good-Latimer Expressway and once all the boho and tattooed riff-raff’s…
Today, Mr. Peppermint turns 80 years old — or “80 effin’ years,” as Jerry Haynes put it when Unfair Park called to wish him “Happy Effin’ Birthday.” This marks a somewhat major milestone in the lives of those of weaned on Muffin the Bear, Mr. Wiggly Worm, Captain Candy and…
Here’s a wacky item from the February 12 issue of Forbes, concerning Gary Kornman, who, as you may recall from earlier posts, is a Dallas attorney awaiting trial in federal court here after pleading not guilty to criminal charges of securities fraud and lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission…
On Friday, the Gypsy Tea Room’s bankruptcy case, which had been sitting in U.S. District Judge Harlin DeWayne Hale’s courtroom since October 2005, was dismissed after all parties agreed to make it go away. What does that mean, precisely? Well, says one attorney representing a creditor owed money, “the debtor…
The guy at the far left of this pic is local comic Joey Oglesby, who looks and sounds a great deal like Rev. Donnie Davies. We done here yet? After the jump, a message to the Friends of Unfair Park from the Rev. Donnie Davies — you know, the “God…
Austin Croshere scored 34 points last night. We’re not sure, but we think that’s also as many points as he’s made in his entire career. Don’t tell me you saw that one coming. After amassing only 24 points over the last two months, reserve Austin Croshere hops off Avery Johnson’s…
Don Hill looks like a man who wants to be mayor. Or he’s just wanting for a phone call from the F.B.I. Hate to tell this to our pal Zac Crain — who, we find out in this morning’s paper, is one powerful dude — but he is no longer…
