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I do a lot of dirty things in this job — riding sweaty horses and rasslin’ sweaty women, among them — but nothing has ever compared to the pervasive sense of creepiness that overcame me while working on my first-ever Girl On Top column about an “exclusive” social club called…

Elizabeth Villafranca said yesterday’s rally in Dallas says a great deal about the brawl in Farmers Branch over that immigration ordinance. As far as those fighting to defeat Farmers Branch’s immigrant-related measure are concerned, the immigrant-rights rally at City Hall yesterday couldn’t have come at a better time. Late last…

It had to be a helluva way to go out. On Saturday night, the Gypsy Tea Room said its farewell with a show from the band the Plain White T’s — and, turned out, the T’s didn’t leave the joint as they’d found it. But contrary to reports sent to…

Maybe you, like everyone else I know, want to own a restaurant, only you don’t have the long green needed to realize that life-long ambition. And if you do have the dough, well, it’s hard out there for a restaurateur; today’s celebrated hot spot is tomorrow’s Standard, after all. There…

If the old Hard Rock still looked like the McKinney Avenue Baptist Church, it’d be a landmark yesterday. But since it doesn’t, well, the fight’s on today. For those still filling their daily planners — and, more to the point, for those still concerned with the fate of the former…

We have to say, The BAcksliders may be Dallas’ most relentless self-promoters (they’re also relentless proponents of awkward capitalization). Not only did they send us copies of their debut full-length and recently released pink vinyl 45; they sent them to every writer on staff — even Matt Pulle. We soon…

El Greco, “Descent of the Holy Spirit” He called himself Apostle. And many a Sunday morning was punctuated with the skronk-skronk of a saxophone as he blew his rendition of “Amazing Grace.” He was a young man, and he’d recently gotten out of prison, where he had some kind of…

We imagine David Faustino looked a little like this Wednesday night when told he needed to fork over a thou just to get into Ghostbar. Hey, Grimes, looks like while you can get into Ghostbar, Treach from Naughty By Nature ain’t so fortunate — if that’s what you call it…

Somebody get me the number of Avi Adelman’s sleep therapist. I honestly don’t know how he gets any rest at all. The drunks pee too much. The cops tow too little. The noise is too loud … oh, cripes, we can’t cover all this ground at once. Better you just…

In recent months, the Dallas-based father-and-son investment team of Craig and Don Hodges — better known as the $650-mil Hodges Fund — has gotten plenty o’ pub in such pubs as Kiplinger’s and USA Today. The former celebrated the duo as “a rare, old-fashioned fund” that’s making more on its…

John McKee, one of the McKinney Avenue residents leading the charge to get the former Hard Rock Cafe building designated a city landmark, takes issue with at least one charge made by Hard Rock Cafe attorney Eric Moye in the story below. In the original piece, Moye, a former state…

Reverend J. Frank Norris raised the funds to build the McKinney Avenue Baptist Church, which would, decades later, become the Hard Rock Cafe. Norris was also a good friend of the Ku Klux Klan’s. On Monday, the city’s Landmark Commission is once more meeting to decide the fate of the…

Here it goes again: Will Uptown upchuck another one? Lay odds now. Turns out the space that once hosted now-at-the-Mansion-on-Turtle-Creek chef Tim Byres’ Standard is now in the clutches of one Larry Lavine. You know him. He founded a little restaurant called Chili’s. Also Tia’s Tex-Mex. Now he operates this…

A couple of arts ‘n’ crafts notes with which to begin your day: Well, at last it’s official: I know you couldn’t sleep at night, but the great St. Vincent (which is to say, Polyphonic Spree’s Annie Clark) is indeed a rostermate of Badly Drawn Boy, Thom Yorke and Super…