If I was taking a poll right now for most bizarre story in Dallas in 2007, I would have to go with the tale of two Muslim women who keep drawing attention to themselves by acting as if they have jihad on their minds. It started after midnight on Monday…
Teresa Nasty Real guns and roses At The Cavern last Friday, the band She-Dick, which was profiled in last week’s issue, performed what may have been their last show with the original line-up. Not even a year old and they go all Destiny’s Child on us with a band change…
When immigration agents visited six Swift meatpacking plants around the country last week, they made 19 arrests. One of those arrests was of Chris Lamb, an Iowa human resources employee who’s being charged with harboring illegal immigrants. Makes you wonder if, seven months after Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more…
Andy Uhler, of KUT-FM (90.5) down in Austin, will be walkin’ the streets of Deep Ellum for the next couple of days for a story about the past, present and future of Deep Ellum. Picked a good time to do it, before the rest of the landmark collection of early…
A few weeks back, I drove the kiddo to The Bubble and Turtle Creek for a Sunday-morning walk along Lakeside Drive — well, it was either that or Bachman Lake, and we’d already spent the previous weekend collecting used condoms. And whilst back among the concrete teddy bears on the…
Fact is, Steve Abraira, Palm City just sounds nicer than Dallas — more tropical, ya know? Or, like, a place where superheroes and soap stars live. Almost two years ago, Dallas Fire Chief Steve Abraira was told by Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm: Quit or be fired. So he resigned,…
Congratulations to Mike Orren and Pegasus News, which has been acquired by Seattle-based Fisher Communications, a media company that owns some 27 media outlets in the Northwest. Financial terms haven’t been disclosed yet, but they will be: Fischer’s a high-priced NASDAQ-traded stock ($50.80, as of this morning) with extensive Securities…
We hadn’t been to the Stoneleigh Hotel blog in a while, but we stopped by this morning only to find the just-posted answer to a question we never really had: Just where did those lions guarding the front door come from? Long story short, courtesy the mysterious “Dave W”: They…
Stacy Keibler will show you her legs if you show her yours. Do you have legs? And do you know how to use ’em? Because if the answer is “yes” to at least one of those questions, do we have just the event for you. See, we just got a…
Photo by Casey Monahan The highlight of our Saturday night: singing “Happy Birthday” to Roky Erickson as he turned 60 years old, in the city in which he was born. At first, we wondered how many folks might show — coulda been half-empty or sold-out, we guesstimated on our drive…
We just received our University of Texas Press Fall and Winter 2007 catalog, and toward the back we found word of a new travel book — kinda, sorta. Titled Placenotes — Dallas, it’s actually described as a “boxed set of cards that guides you to the unique and memorable places…
Fine — so that’s overselling it by just a bit. Nonetheless, great filmmakers zoom in on the little details — beads of sweat, shifty eyes, restless hands and, now, bouncing feet. Over the weekend, whilst waiting for Plano boy Josh Evans to bust out of the 2007 World Series of…
Were you wondering why it was taking so long to get on Stemmons Freeway this morning? Did you try to find out and discover that The Dallas Morning News’ traffic report took 16 minutes to load on their new, improved, streamlined, easy-to-use Web site? (Hey, I really was going to…
Good Friend of Unfair Park Frank Campagna, proprietor of Kettle Art down in Deep Ellum, took his peeps up to NYC in the middle of June for the Affordable Art Fair. It was no ordinary shindig — the AAFNY, one of several Affordable Art throwdowns held throughout the year in…
The big-money men at Dallas’ Beta Capital Group are trying to scrape together enough spare change to stop Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal takeover. Word was only 10 days ago that Rupert Murdoch had succeeded in his efforts to buy The Wall Street Journal from Dow Jones & Co. –…
Interested in franchising a Which Wich? Because according to the sandwich-makin’ chain’s Web site, you need about half a mil, at minimum, to open a location — but it oughta be worth it, insists the NY-based site RestaurantChains.net. Says here that Jeff Sinell’s chain of eateries — which opened its…
Who says the Mavs’ owner doesn’t have a sense of humor? Certainly not the Mavs’ owner. Because he thinks this is “hysterical.” And, he adds, “Hopefully whlie [sic] you are laughing with me, or at me, Im laughing all the way to the bank.” That, you can count on. Especially…
As Clear Channel owns five major stations in the Dallas market — among them, KHKS-FM (KISS 106, home to Kidd Kraddick), KDGE-FM (102.1, Your Alleged New Rock Alternative) and KZPS-FM (92.5, the recently rechristened Lone Star) — this certainly qualifies as local news. And if you’re an unsigned local artist…
Amongst the pleasures we’ve missed in our adventures in gluttony is the joy of pink salt from the Himalayas. Say what? Yeah, the Paris Hilton-pink unrefined fossil marine salt that formed some 200 million years ago in the mountains of the Sherpas. It has a pinkish shimmer, a swell granulometry…
On a recent flight from Houston to Dallas, my plane-ride banter took a grisly turn when I learned why the woman next to me was coming home to Big D. She lives in Maryland, and the day before, her brother’s Labrador mauled their elderly mother, leaving both of her hands…
We keep meaning to make it over to the Romance Writers Association annual shindig, being held this weekend at the Hyatt Regency downtown. But since something always keeps coming up, we’ll rely instead on my new favorite-named Web site: Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels. Among their “random thoughts” so…
No idea how we missed this one, but a couple of weeks back, the Barbie Doll Collectors Convention came to town — well, the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center, close enough. Far as I can tell, there was a fashion show during which growed-ups dressed like Barbie dolls; fine,…
