While the music section is off gallivanting around Austin for South by Southwest (see item above), the rest of us are left to pick up the pieces. There are plenty of good national and regional acts filtering through Dallas this week on their way down to Austin, but eff those…
If you want to learn a bit more about Forest City Enterprises, the Cleveland-owned development company getting some $73 mil of city money to redo the Mercantile Building downtown, there are myriad blogs out there detailing its doings elsewhere. Norman Oder’s blog, which contains more reporting than a copy of…
The paperback edition of former Observer cover boy Will Clarke’s Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles is due in May, and if the cover is any indication , then I guess Anthony Michael Hall will be playing the lead in David Gordon Green’s forthcoming big-screen adaptation. (Scroll down, by the way, to…
Some call it March Madness; others, the Big Dance. Me, I joyfully refer to it as the one month a year when gambling on sports is not only legal but openly promoted. Pop the corks, and ransack your 401(k)–it’s time to bet on basketball! If you work in an office…
Amazing the stuff you find trolling the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Web site when you’ve got nothing else to do. For instance, take this little item from Belo Corp.’s Form 10-K annual report, filed with the SEC just last week: “On January 5, 2006, Infinity Radio, Inc., a subsidiary…
Don’t tug on Superman’s cape. Don’t spit into the wind. And, unless you have an hour and a backup notebook or two, don’t call Dale Hansen for a quick comment. In the wake of the Dallas Cowboys’ move to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket), I got tons…fine, 12 e-mails from readers…
One girl was called Jane Marie Another little girl was called Felicity Another little girl was Sally Joy The other was me, and I’m a boy –The Who Everything was fine until George Jorgensen Jr. came along. In 1951, surgeons in Copenhagen turned the Bronx-born George into Christine, and a…
Mike Connor was a successful sales executive with Coca-Cola, pulling down a six-figure salary, when he realized something was missing from his life. So he quit his job and went on a spiritual quest. That was 11 years ago. Today, Connor calls himself a consciousness coach, and for $125 an…
Appearing now on the Dallas Cowboys’ new flagship radio station: A lunchtime host who fought the former head coach and constantly fillets the current one. A drive-time star who champions himself as leader of the “anti-Cowboys faction” and refers to Bill Parcells as “The New Jersey Con Man.” And a…
Just at the end of one of Love Field’s runways is an apartment complex that appears to have been shipped to Northwest Dallas from Fallujah, brick by broken brick. This complex, a gargantuan compound of broken bottles and rusty wrought-iron fences and shattered windows and overgrown weeds, sits almost directly…
Mary, Mary: Buzz is not what you would call a Christian scholar–or a Christian for that matter–so help us out here: If you were going to sell an icon of one of the New Testament Marys to a casino, shouldn’t it be the Magdalene version or the Bethany version but…
New Age Mumbo-jumbo Sad and silly: When I read the article “Little Boy Blue” (by Jesse Hyde) in your March 9 edition, my first and final thought was, “This is total crap!” Yes, I read through the entire article–more than once, just to assure myself that it was written on…
Steve Blow apologizes for having an opinion. I’m sure it won’t happen again. –Matt Pulle…
Touched down in Austin at around 1:30 p.m.; not too much exciting to report after going through the surprisingly quick registration line (unless seeing the only midget drummer at the festival, Christophe Zajac-Denek from Detroit’s the Hard Lessons, counts). The NX35 party is starting at Club DeVille on Red River…
Hulk smash…and is a smash too: Carlo Pagulayan illustrated Greg Pak’s work in the Marvel Comics mainstay title. My old pal Greg Pak, with whom I attended junior high at Alex W. Spence Middle School on Capital Avenue, has turned into quite the big-deal comic-book scribe. Pak, who wrote, directed…
Last November, Texas Monthly’s Mimi Swartz artfully deconstructed tort reform and its unimagined consequences in her November 2005 story “Hurt? Injured? Need a Laywer? Too Bad!” After Swartz’s much-talked-about story appeared, the special interest group Texans for Lawsuit Reform published a 5,300-word memo that attempted to rebut Swartz’s reporting, citing…
As much as I hate to put family business out there, it’s about the only way I can explain why we black folks love Madea so much. See, among African-Americans, we have something we call white-folk funny, and then there’s black-folk funny. Madea falls solidly into the category of–you guessed…
Just got this press release about the opening next week of a new club called Metro 5, which occupies the old Starck Club spot on McKinney Avenue in the West End, and three things stick out: “M5 brings a twist to the nightlife scene with weekly promotional offerings such as…
Ssssh. Hear that? Is it butterflies peein’ in a cotton field? Vince Young’s gears turnin’? Bode Miller’s Olympic medals clanging together? Nope, just the hollow clamor surrounding the World Baseball Classic. Chalk up another one for Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig. First, despite a mountain of evidence that Barry…
Dallas may well be the meanest city in Texas when it comes to its treatment of the homeless, but Wichita Falls sounds like it’s hell on Dallas’ homeless too. –Robert Wilonsky…
The underperforming stock of the Belo Corp., owners of The Dallas Morning News and WFAA-Channel 8, is getting much attention today; see here and here for commentary from those who know about such things. Both stories contain this quote from Belo chairman Robert Decherd: “The advertising market has been more…
According to its Web site, the locally based Leadership Network will “identify, connect and help high-capacity Christian leaders multiply their impact.” While only one of the words “high,” “capacity,” “Christian” and “leader” apply to me, I am fascinated by the rise of the movie-theater church; God loves a big room,…
