It takes me, oh, a good eight minutes to listen to most full-length albums anyway, so this works out incredibly well: The Polyphonic Spree has taken the entirety of its forthcoming The Fragile Army, which will be out June 19 on TVT Records, and shmushed it down to a single…
Emily W. Sunstein, a famous and influential former Dallasite you’ve probably never heard of If you know the name Emily W. Sunstein at all, it’s most likely because you’ve read her award-winning and incredibly influential biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. Both were beloved and…
For the last few weeks, I’ve started to sense that KTVT-Channel 11’s newcasts have been a little…oh…I dunno…edgy, but not in the good way. There’s just something sort of panic-striken about them, something a little too urgent — desperate, that’s the word. The anchors and reporters and the weather people…
Last week, almost 50 local high school and college students piled into a bus and headed out of town. This was no spring break beach vacation or field trip, though: The goals were purely political. The teenagers went to Austin to oppose proposals to repeal a law that allows qualified…
It’s all you, Erick Dampier. Even if you do have a man purse. It’s all about Nelson. Not this one. This one. Like some of us have said before, Don Nelson is an entertaining clown whose unorthodox coaching gimmickry sometimes makes better teams look bad. But in the end, he…
The United States Department of Justice is suing Farai Mushaninga, who operates FW Hawk Services and FW Hawk Taxes in Dallas, claiming the guy has screwed the Internal Revenue Service out of nearly a million bucks. Seems that since at least year, his more than 1,000 filed tax returns aren’t…
Ed Oakley, Jim Schutze may not be a fan, but the Friends of Unfair Park like you just fine…so far. Just a reminder that the Highly Unofficial Unfair Park Mayoral Poll’s up and running till 5 p.m. tomorrow. Thus far, it’s been a fascinating 24 hours, with nearly 2,200 votes…
You’ve got to save money to make money: Belo bossman Robert Decherd As prophesied, that Belo Corp. press release concerning its first-quarter earnings came out this morning, and, hey, things are looking good…um…ish. Goodish. Or maybe esque. Or maybe not. Profit dropped 10 percent, after all. Belo’s reporting that net…
A lot of you don’t like the format change over at KZPS-FM (92.5); you’ve said so right here. Well, you’re in good company: Stephen Colbert is also no fan. Last night on The Colbert Report, he included ZPS’ ditching of advertisements as one of “The Four Horsemen of the A-Pop-Calypse,”…
He’s coached in the NBA Finals. Worn two Olympic gold medals. Won NFL Most Valuable Player. Been enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And this Saturday he’ll be picked in the top 10 of the NFL Draft, twice. All, mind you, by merely playing dress-up. From rugby player…
The prisoner, dressed in white cotton that’s beginning to fray, ducks into the office and glances around nervously. The man behind the desk asks him to take a seat. The prisoner sits on a metal chair, his knees together, his scuffed work boots placed squarely on the floor. He is…
Last fall, Willis Johnson, a radio personality and political consultant, kept on running into city council member Don Hill. Johnson saw his friend playing golf, socializing at a banquet and working at City Hall. Each time, Johnson asked Hill the same question, “Don, what are you going to do?” The…
If you don’t know the joy of commercial-free satellite radio and don’t care to shell out a monthly fee for the kind of programming that used to be free, take heart: Redbeard is coming back to Dallas airwaves. When the now-defunct Chancellor Media Corp. abruptly yanked Q102 off the air…
Take the cheese: Hey, Max Wells, where are the flowers, the candy or, at least, the little personal thank-you note for our fellow Dallas Observer peon Matt Pulle? C’mon, a man of your age and background should know a little something about gentility—and how to trim a candle and handle…
Mayor, Mayor, on the Wall Crony baloney: This is an interesting race from an ethics standpoint (“Don’t You Wish Your Mayor Was Hot Like Me…”, by Matt Pulle, April 19). You have Hill under the shadow of an FBI investigation, but even more troubling you have the Trinity River project…
While everyone else is figuring out whether to use their Katies as doorstops or hat racks, the Dallas Observer is proud to announce we’ve moved on to far more prestigious honors: Our team took home the first-place trophy at the first annual LIFT Charity Grown-Up Spelling Bee, held today at…
They don’t call Darrell Jordan the “100 Hour Man” for nothing. For those who think we only publish Sam Coats press releases verbatim, here’s one from Darrell Jordan, who today released his “100 Hour Plan,” which would involve a lot of talking — about crime. Says the release, Jordan’s “first…
Which Wilson brother has the most fun being a Wilson brother? Zeppo, right? If yer a fan of the Wilson brothers — which is to say, of course, Groucho, Harpo and Chico — they’ll all be together on May 7 at 7:30 p.m. We can even tell you where: at…
Well…not really — at least, not so far. But according to an “exclusive survey” of NBA general managers just posted at RealGM.com, Dirk Nowitzki did snatch the Most Valuable Player award, just edging out Phoenix Sun and former Mavs teammate and drinking buddy Steve Nash. Dirk got 17 first-place votes…
On Monday, the Audit Bureau of Circulations will release its spring circulation numbers for major daily newspapers. But today’s online edition of Editor & Publisher has a sneak peek at those numbers, and they aren’t good: “According to industry sources, overall daily circulation for the six month[s] ending March 2007…
I love stories about stupid criminals — you know, the guy who gets stuck in a chimney while trying to steal Christmas presents and the thief who hands a stick-’em-up note to a bank teller written on a deposit slip for his own bank account. But I have noticed a…
David Wingo, better known as Ola Podrida — the singer-songwriter, not the mall. Here’s the damnedest coincidence: Yesterday, Spin featured as its Artist of the Day selection a band out of Austin called Ola Podrida, which is really none other than soundtrack composer David Wingo — the same guy who…
