Midlake’s up for three PLUG Independent Music Awards. Ain’t no Grammy, but better than a kick in the stomach. To be honest, we were pretty unfamiliar with the PLUG Independent Music Awards till we noticed two locals on the ballot: our fave soft-rock band Midlake and our fave local music…
Just moments ago, a fine feller from AEG Live sent us the following missive concerning a just-booked show at the new Palladium Ballroom on the South Side: “Los Lonely Boys is confirmed for Jan 26th and is more than likely going to be the first show.” Guess they figured it’s…
Gilley’s is about to be rechristened as the Palladium Ballroom. So far, there’s a Japanese metal show booked there in February. There’s a metal show scheduled for Dallas on February 19 taking place at a heretofore unknown venue called the Palladium Ballroom. The name’s familiar, but only because there were…
Ya know what Richie’s doing tomorrow? Getting tennis lessons from this woman. He calls it “working.” Whatever eases his guilty conscience… We never really need an excuse to run a pic of Anna Kournikova, but today we actually have one. The hottest player to ever pick up a tennis racquet–and…
It took a little longer than expected–like, oh, two months longer than expected–but U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay has finally ruled in the case in which a Preston Hollow Elementary School parent alleged the school’s teachers and its principal, Teresa Parker, were illegally segregating the Hispanic and African-American students from…
One of these guys is a pornographer. The other one is Josh Alan Friedman. As you know, we always like to follow Bible Girl with a blog posting that includes the word “clit.” Dunno–kinda like somebody dipping chocolate in your peanut butter, isn’t it? Well, we aren’t about to disappoint:…
Leave it to Jack E. Jett, a Dallas comedian and cable TV talk-show host who has a love/hate relationship with Bible Girl (the love part: he keeps reading it), to cut right to the heart of the matter. “Just to get things clear,” he wrote last week in the wake…
As of this weekend, Phil Romano will once more be in charge of Eatzi’s on Oak Lawn. Just got off the phone with Phil Romano, who says not only is the Oak Lawn Eatzi’s remaining open, but come Saturday, he will be the sole owner of it–just like the good…
If it’s all the same, this is how we prefer to think of Emmitt Smith. Full disclosure: I didn’t watch one second of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. Fuller disclosure: It pains me–and every bit of my sportswritin’ DNA–to even write about it. But since the NFL’s all-time leading rusher…
The Oak Lawn Eatzi’s will be the only one left at the end of business today. Yesterday, the local corporate office of Phil Romano’s gourmet take-out chain Eatzi’s Market and Bakery was closed down. At the end of business today, its outlets in Houston, Atlanta and Rockville, Maryland, will shutter…
Amidst all the furor over TXU’s plans to to spend $10 billion on 11 new coal-fired power plants in Texas, the Dallas-based energy providers sends word today that it’s going to restart its 575-megawatt Unit 2 at the Big Brown coal-fired power station in Freestone County today. Seems TXU’s fixed…
A couple of days ago, Colorado talk-radio host Peter Boyles (loved him in Young Frankenstein) discussed a June 12 Dallas Morning News article headlined, “Parkland will treat all moms-to-be.” Well, Colorado Media Matters, a state-based project of the nonprofit “progressive” group Media Matters for America, reports on its Web site…
Swear to God, this is the last time we mention Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan on the blog; swearswearswear. But we could not resist this one. You shall see why. Already twice we’ve told you that “Vanilla Face” is David Davis, the Adolphus…
I’ve read this four times and still don’t quite understand it: “A United States citizen who now lives in Great Britain has joined with the country’s leading gun owner rights organization in a federal lawsuit that says nonresident citizens are unfairly being targeted by existing laws that restrict gun ownership…
Talk about bad timing (and bad most everything else). Really, how does this happen: The Indianapolis Star reports this morning that thousands of Indy residents are finding in their mailboxes this week a promotional flier announcing that Steak n Shake is “a proud sponsor of the Dallas Cowboys.” That’ll be…
Late Sunday night in Portland, Jarrett Jack dribbled up the floor against your Dallas Mavericks. The second-year guard barked out a play for the Trail Blazers, initiating a pick-and-roll on the perimeter. Back in Dallas, Mavs fans that hadn’t yet tuned out their team’s 0-4 start were treated to a…
One sunny afternoon in the late ’80s, my mother was sitting in her blue recliner in the living room of our ranch-style house in Mansfield watching General Hospital. I toddled out of my room, intent on asking that woman the question that had been on my mind all day: “When…
If you think the local Democratic Party achieved its victory in Dallas County last week through good luck and timing, the rise of Jim Foster won’t change your mind. Now the county judge-elect, Foster hadn’t even decided to run until an hour before the filing deadline. On January 2, the…
An open letter to newly elected Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins: Dear Mr. Watkins: Give me a minute. A few minutes at most. What can you lose? First of all, congratulations. Everybody says you’re the first black district attorney in the history of the county. I’m sure it’s true…
In the days before this month’s election, the Dallas County Democratic Party distributed cards with photographs of the county’s five Hispanic judicial candidates and slogans proclaiming, “Yesterday we marched, today we vote!” The Tejano Democrats mailed election reminders to 30,000 Latino households. These were the last efforts of a get-out-the-vote…
When his teacher asked the class to draw pictures for parents’ day, little Doug Wright went to work with relish. His mom often pulled out an easel and paints on the weekends, asking her three children to draw pictures and make up stories about them. She read to them from…
Fed Up in Farmers Branch Simmering pot: We live in a melting pot of cultures which in itself creates misunderstanding and intolerance. Through my travels in the United States I have encountered examples of this intolerance toward me. Example: One afternoon I pulled off the freeway for a soft drink…
