At least once a year I'm subjected to a lament by a certain doctor I know about the horrors of managed health care. Next time I'll have a response: Join Doctors Without Borders. A year or so in Darfur, Sudan, or earthquake-devastated Pakistan, or maybe a few months attending to...
You read it here first: Thesis is gonna be huge. (Just in case.) Friday: Already said it in this week's And Another Thing column, but I can't impress upon you enough how exciting a prospect Thesis is to the city's R&B/neo-soul scene. Her demos are nothing compared to her live...
By the time the detective got there, the girl was more or less dead. She had been raped, that much he figured from how they found her--lying on her mother's bed, her shorts pulled off, her shirt pushed up above her bra. She was 11 years old, and that sickened...
No one thought McGraw-Hill would make a federal case over the name Standard & Pours. Whoops. Last week, The McGraw-Hill Company did something Pascale Hall never thought it would have the nerve to do: The company, which owns the financial-analysis company Standards & Poor's, filed a federal trademark infringement suit...
What better way to celebrate freedom than by gathering in a field with thousands of the very people that are helping to ruin it for the rest of us?! This Saturday, KLTY presents Celebrate Freedom 2006, billed as "the largest free outdoor concert in America" and featuring a slew of...
Don't dillydally on the way to Dada, because Voot Cha Index's early set will be the highlight of the night. Singer Neil Sanzgiri has some grating vocal quirks--his voice couldn't have dropped more than a few months ago--but with such pretty melodies and creative arrangements of piano, accordion, banjo and...
When the people standing in a circle introduced themselves, I became increasingly nervous. Out of the 20 or so who arrived for Monday night's very first Save the Scene Dallas meeting at the Darkside Lounge, half of them either were affiliated with musicians/companies I've bad-mouthed or who had previously made...
I'll level with ya: We haven't run a Set List concert review in way too long. But it's not that the writers here have shunned local concerts--far from it. Here are some of the best live acts I've seen in the past month and a half that haven't gotten enough...
For three years Pascale Hall has owned and operated a coffee shop in the basement of an apartment building. The odds should have dictated long ago that she shutter her doors and make room for the next venture (and the next and next). After all, she was down in the...
Though many avoid the number 666 like a leaking condom full of AIDS, some heathen entertainers see June 6, 2006 (6-6-06) as a once-in-a-century marketing opportunity. The remake of The Omen will be released, and speed-metal pioneers/pentagram enthusiasts Slayer long planned to release their follow-up to God Hates Us All...
Really, by the time you get to the end of this, you'll feel much better about the Dallas Mavericks' loss last night. Really. If nothing else, you will be so confused you'll forget there even was a basketball game last night. But try. I is not very good at the...
Ozone alert: Though you'll find some complaints about local music festivals (er, festival) on the previous page, we at AAT would be damn fools to ignore a good ol' summer show full of dirty Dallas rhyme kings. It's not Fitty, the Game or Juvy, but the Southern Alliance Concert at...
Because it's only logical that someone would confuse a credit-rating provider with a coffee house. Really. A Friend of Unfair Park's with a coffee buzz sends the following item about the bad blood brewing between South Side of Lamar coffee house-performance space Standard & Pours, winner of a Dallas Observer...
When his girlfriend said she wanted to go to the Minyard's grocery store on Live Oak Street, Entre Karage looked up from the game of blackjack he was playing and nodded. The store was only a block away. "But go right home after that," he told Nary Na. A pretty,...
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,...
