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“Whine Flu,” by Richie Whitt, May 7 You and Him Fight You are a jerk. Why don’t you get out there and try playing and see what happens to you in the same circumstance? You gain nothing by retaliation, and statistics show that the one who delivers the retaliation blow…

We sent Hal Samples to the House of Blues this morning to shoot Erykah Badu and friends offering a lengthy discourse on blues history to students from St. Philip’s School, Prestonwood Elementary and Holy Trinity Catholic School. More photos and some video are to come tomorrow, after we get it…

Yesterday, Miss Texas and Miss Teen Texas announced they were relocating from Fort Worth, where they’ve been for the past 46 years, to Arlington in an overt attempt to pump life into a dying tradition pageant officials insist is as American as apple pie. Jean Magness, executive director of the…

Moments ago, the Dallas City Council voted on the 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.daytime curfew ordinance — and, not surprisingly, it passed almost overwhelmingly, by a vote of 12-2. The vote was taken shortly after Mayor Tom Leppert stressed that the ordinance (which you can read here, beginning on Page…

In a ceremony outside the old landmark at the very end of Dallas’s West End, the original staff of the Starck Club gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate the club’s 25th anniversary, and to witness the start of a new venture built on the club’s legacy.The Starck Project, led by Michael…

If nothing else, the debate over the daytime curfew sure did get more than a few kiddos active in city politics. The Dallas City Council just got through hearing from a parade of folks opposed to the 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. curfew, about which Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle…

I didn’t know till I looked at the Dallas City Council’s addenda for this week that for the last couple of months, the city’s been the proud owner of the Delux Inn on Stemmons Freeway. (The expenditure was approved last September, for $3.18 million in 1998 bond money.) Alas, don’t…

About a year ago, the North Texas Tollway Authority announced that it had chosen a new “trailblazer” design for its signs — that’s one of them at right, matter of fact, in a photo taken over the weekend by friend of the show Justin Cozart. But till Justin mentioned it…

Clearly, 2009 is The Year of Bonnie and Clyde. Seventy-five years after their deaths by ambush, you’ve got two new books on shelves at this very moment: former Star-Telegram books editor Jeff Guinn’s Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde and Paul Schneider’s Bonnie and Clyde:…

This weekend, Unfair Park’s across-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries holds yet another of its dino-bone and space-rock sales, a fairly regular occurrence over there. But this one got the attention of National Public Radio: All Things Considered co-host Robert Siegel can’t understand why someone will likely pay more than $50,000…

In fast-food news, this note out of Denver: A burger chain called Smashburger announced today that it’s expanding from one Texas location (a corporate-owned joint in Houston) to 75 locations in the coming five years, including 10 just-announced franchises in East Texas. A little digging on the burger chain’s site…

The Austin American-Statesman reports this afternoon that the state Senate has given its unanimous OK to new-and-improved legislation that revamps the contentious “pole tax” imposed upon, ya know, gentleman’s establishments a couple of years back. The original legislation, which imposed a $5-per-customer charge, wasn’t a big hit with topless bar…

Seems we missed this rather significant media release yesterday — significant, that is, if you’re a Texas Ex in need of, oh, I dunno, a PINK University of Texas Bling T-Shirt or a Longhorn Pet Sweater right pronto. Because after opening outposts in Houston and San Antonio, the University of…