They dispensed little American flags at the door. One woman implanted hers sideways into the hair bun on the back of her head. When WBAP-AM (820) morning talk-show host Mark Davis came out onto the stage to cue flag waving, the woman with the flag in her bun flicked it...
If you want to read the complete file in the case of Infinity Radio, Inc. v. Belo Corp. et al, the subject of a news story in this week's Observer, here are the kinda-simple steps necessary. And lemme say I wish I knew how to do this Friday, after getting...
Parking is hard, so this tells you something. Every slot contains a car--Mercedes, BMW, Lexus and so on. A manager in a crisp suit strolls out onto the patio to direct. No valet on weekdays. But it's OK to park in the dim strip mall across 7th Street, he says...
Persistence is a virtue: Laray Polk is conducting what she calls an "intervention." Dressed in black from head to toe, Polk is perched on the curb outside a downtown parking garage, pleading with two young Hispanic men hurriedly getting into a sleek black government sedan. The driver, a military recruiter,...
This is not George Lazenby making his doomed run at James Bond, or even Mel Gibson presuming to play Hamlet. This is serious heresy, combined with a touch of felonious assault. It has evidently not occurred to Steve Martin that, just as there is only one Eiffel Tower, there is...
It sounds like a burglar's vision of paradise. Starting next Wednesday, February 1, you can break into any business in Dallas, trip up the alarm and the police won't rush to the scene. Thanks to a new law passed by the Dallas City Council, the city's finest will no longer...
Room 115 in Stearns Hall on the campus of Dallas Theological Seminary could be a classroom at any American college. The long, pale blue countertops dotted with laptop-friendly outlets are arranged in tiers rising away from the lectern at the front of the room. Most of the 70 padded seats...
Endure a few run-throughs of Pomp and Circumstance, make sure your tassel is on the correct side of your cap and ready your flask for the after-party at the rich kids lake house. Its a graduation, baby. Most years, the theme of the Dallas Observer Music Awards is an afterthought,...
The Broke Leading The BrokeRadio host John Labunski dishes out money advice; did he mention he's bankrupt? The promise that radio hosts John Labunski and Cathy DeWitt hold out for listeners is alluring: "Grow your retirement assets free from losses!" Together, the husband-and-wife team call themselves the Senior Advisory Group...
The following is an excerpt from the book All Over The Map: True Heroes of Texas Music (UT Press), which will be released on Friday, November 18, at AllGood Café from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. There, the Dallas Observer's Robert Wilonsky will host a Q & A session, and...
There is a reason why Paul Pepe became a doctor, and not in some relatively tame specialty such as dermatology. Or radiology. But the high-stress field of emergency medicine--where he is an innovator, a pioneer, one of the nation's foremost experts. At 55, he is chairman of emergency medical services...
Thursday, July 14 In the 1950s, real men could sing and dance. Real men appeared in musicals about saving inns for their former bosses by performing revues. And they even got the girls before the credits rolled. Danny Kaye was a real man--a funny man--who cracked the jokes while straight...
Like all the other guests invited to Mayor Laura Miller's black-tie fundraiser, Ralph Isenberg and his girlfriend left their car in a parking lot and boarded a DART bus. Though both were underdressed for the occasion, Miller had invited them at the last minute, and Isenberg wanted her to get...
Dallas restaurant publications come and go with the regularity of...well, regularity. Dining Book, Dallas Food & Wine Journal, Vine Dallas--there are probably others. Wait a minute; didn't The Dallas Morning News once have a quarterly insert magazine called Wine & Food that disappeared really Quick? See how fast the go...
Jim Bryant is 75 years old, walks with a cane, sometimes suffers a dry throat from medication. He gets tired. But Jim Bryant is stubborn about principle. Today he has taken his cane in hand and come downtown to City Hall yet again to continue his quarter-century-long battle with the...
6/28 Dude, Neil Slater is the jazz man testifyin'. He's written 60 compositions for jazz ensembles, was nominated for a Grammy in '93, chairs the jazz studies department at the University of North Texas and played piano when the immortal Stan Kenton of the Stan Kenton Orchestra couldn't. On Monday,...
When an advice book has an index like this one, you know you're dealing with a wild one. For instance, let's take the S section topics: saints and sinners, sand in your crack, secrets and lies, septic tanks, sexual awakening and Shanghai beef baloney. Or perhaps the M section: menfolk;...
It used to be the Lighthouse Supper Club. The Lighthouse was a restaurant and bar on the shores of Lake Ray Hubbard. It aspired to be an old San Francisco-style dinner house. To that end, the restaurant included a lounge called "Club She." Our Club She adventure included black hot...
Mark Cuban Going Broke A Full Frontal exclusive investigation Earlier this year, Forbes magazine noted that Dallas Mavericks and HDNet owner Mark Cuban is the 437th richest man in the world, with an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion. An 11-month investigation of Cuban's assets, however, reveals a different figure:...
Thursday, February 26 A cinematic formula perfected by John Sayles in 1980 (in the form of The Secaucus 7): A group of old friends/time-sharers/students retreats to a house/hideaway/mansion, and mayhem/sexual catastrophe/murder inevitably ensues. Sayles kicked off the trend, which now has feelers extended into horror (Evil Dead--yeah, it's a stretch,...
There is no compelling reason to do a story about Glyn Johns at this moment. The greatest producer in the history of rock and roll, the man whose name is in your home if you own any of the most important and influential and merely famous music made in the...
Every so often, I get asked to DJ parties in the neighborhood--not because I'm the guy with the best taste, but because I've got the biggest CD collection in a 20-block radius (on rare occasion, size does matter). At first I gladly accepted the invitations for two reasons: It meant...
