There are things Mom told you not to talk about in social settings, like religion, politics and your sex life. A new Richardson-based T-shirt company wants to jump-start provocative conversations. Politeed sells tees imprinted with questions sure to set fire to your hottest buttons, among them race, global warming, illegal…
By now, many of you have probably read the MySpace bulletin from Carter Albrecht’s bandmate, Sorta bassist Danny Balis, about the passing of his best friend. In it, Balis mentions the prescription stop-smoking drug Chantix, which Albrecht and his girlfriend had recently begun taking. Balis writes: “i later learned through…
Jen Nabb has sent details for Carter Albrecht’s funeral, which will take place Friday at 2 p.m. It will be held at Parkway Hills Baptist Church in Plano, between Park Boulevard and Parker Road off the Dallas North Tollway. And Carter’s mother has said “everybody” is welcome to attend. –Robert…
Uh-oh. For SMU’s over-matched, underwhelming football team, Labor Day felt a lot like Groundhog Day. Before a hopeful (that is, naïve) crowd and horrified (which is to say, realistic) national television audience, the Mustangs got absolutely plastered and humiliated by Texas Tech. Again. Tech has beaten SMU 12 straight times,…
This morning, friends of Carter Albrecht’s are dividing their time between mourning the musician and searching for answers — just what happened in the wee hours yesterday that led to Albrecht’s being shot by a man who believed he was trying to kick down his door and break into his…
And now, for something a little lighter — more of Avi Adelman’s home movies. This time, he’s out filming drunks on Lower Greenville Ave., and what sounds like a brewing disaster to some looks like a network pilot to us. Enjoy — but with the sound way down, if you’re…
Disturbing news updates set aside, friends of slain Sorta multi-instrumentalist and singer Carter Albrecht gathered at the Barley House last night. After waiting out the ruckus-raising revelers from the SMU-Texas Tech game, a crowd of mourners grew steadily from 8:30 p.m. on, in spite of the glaring lights and probing…
At this very moment, there’s an impromptu wake for Carter Albrecht taking place at the Barley House — appropriate, as the bar’s MySpace page contains under its “Heroes” category the note that, “yeah, carter sometimes sings that with rock star karoke.” But now, this story is no longer a mere…
Mark Graham Dallas police are trying to piece together the last hours of Carter Albrecht, center. Dallas police Sgt. Larry Lewis, of the department’s homicide unit, has spent the better part of today trying to figure out just how Carter Albrecht ended up shot to death early Monday morning. “And…
Sorta’s Carter Albrecht — center, back row — was killed early this morning. The story has been circulating all morning among local musicians and friends who do not want to believe it, but the sad tale is true: Carter Albrecht, keyboardist, guitarist and singer in the band Sorta, is dead…
Late-breaking news about, um, late-breaking news: KTVT-Channel 11 and KTXA-Channel 21 just announced that news director Regent Ducas is out and Scott Diener is in — immediately. Diener’s been with the CBS affiliate, and its UHF counterpart, since June 2006, when he arrived from a Belo-owned station in Phoenix. And…
It’s a new day at Unfair Park as we come before you offering gushing praise for Dallas County Judge Jim Foster. Seriously. We’re not even going to add a few shots to water down our praise and keep it “edgy.” No. This post is going to be a 100 percent…
Since we’re all degenerate hippies — well, most of us — we’re known to thumb the occasional copy of In These Times, where this week there appears a story headlined “The Counterproductive War on Gangs.” Turns out, most of the info from the piece — which insists increased law enforcement…
We just received a reminder that next week, from Tuesday to Friday, Dallas is home to an enormous and enormously influential annual conference devoted to homelessness and urban poverty. Beginning September 4 at the Omni Dallas Hotel Park West, the Texas Homeless Network will host “Face the Homeless: A Call…
Arlington’s Jeremy Wariner, at right, winning the 400 in Athens in 2004 — the dude doesn’t know to lose. Arlington’s own Jeremy Wariner added another trophy to his mantle, dominating the 400-meter dash today at the World Track Championships in Osaka, Japan. Wariner ran a 43.45, more than .51 seconds…
A couple of weeks back, Norah Jones and M. Ward played Les Arènes de Nîmes — or, the complete opposite of Popolo’s in Preston Royal, where I first saw her perform way, way back when. Anyway, someone a couple of days ago posted four songs from their set — including…
The Stars re-signed Jussi Jokinen, the Rangers committed to Ron Washington through 2009, and the Mavs still haven’t added anything except this spare part. I know, you don’t give a da-yum. Honestly, me neither. ‘Cuz tomorrow the calendar changes to September, and the season changes to football! The Cowboys slept-walked…
The British art world is incredibly envious of Kenny Goss and George Michael’s $200-million collection, which features the work of more than 30 British artists — among them, says here, Grayson Perry, Gavin Turk, Sarah Lucas, Bridget Riley, Gary Hume and others. The couple also owns one of the largest…
The September 10 issue of Time — which is not yet online — contains 10 questions for Your Dallas Cowboys’ wide receiver Terrell Owens. And it’s just brilliant, brilliant — if only for the queries posed by Randall L. Dunn of Cincinnati and Patrick Hurley of Buffalo:…
Lest you bump into a newsstand tomorrow without fair warning, at right is the cover of People magazine due to hit stands Friday. And according to this from Time, the story quotes a friend who says, “Owen was very despondent. He slit his wrists. He almost did not make it.”…
After 35 years of slinging bistro food and popping corks, Kathy McDaniel and Charlotte Parker are taking a permanent breather from The Grape. Enter former The Grape executive chef Brian Luscher. Luscher — who most recently cooked at TPC Craig Ranch golf club and was named Avid Golfer magazine’s Best…
As of today, Greg Wallis is suing everyone he believes responsible for his wrongful imprisonment. For the second time in two weeks, a Dallas County man exonerated with DNA evidence has filed a federal civil rights and malicious prosecution lawsuit. And this one has a couple of twists. Greg Wallis,…
