Midlake prefers the summer breezes of Christopher Cross and other soft-rock faves. Which doesn’t explain why the band’s new record is genius. The latest issue of Spin, which should be on stands any second now (it’s the one with Johnny Knoxville on the cover; no, it’s not the September 2003…
All I know about Green Mountain Energy’s this: It’s supposed to provide cleaner electricity “from less-polluting sources like wind, water, solar, biomass, geothermal, and natural gas,” and that there’s always some slightly bearded dude on the sidewalk trying to get me to sign up every time I go to CD…
Copper theft’s all the rage these days, especially among folks stealing the stuff for quick drug money. Ask the city council in Montgomery, Alabama, which last week adopted an ordinance that requires folks who buy scrap metal to electronically send a daily report to police. Or Dean Wallace and Angela…
Last Thursday, we had an item about the federal civil-rights lawsuit filed by Lucresia Mayorga Santamaria, who’s claiming that Preston Hollow Elementary School is segregating its students by forcing Hispanic kids into English-as-second-language classes even if they’re English-proficient. Santamaria, who has three kids at the school, is also claiming that…
No one thought McGraw-Hill would make a federal case over the name Standard & Pours. Whoops. Last week, The McGraw-Hill Company did something Pascale Hall never thought it would have the nerve to do: The company, which owns the financial-analysis company Standards & Poor’s, filed a federal trademark infringement suit…
We had our theories as to why Charlie Waters might have missed his radio broadcast as the Dallas Cowboys’ on-air analyst, but it really was as simple as his contract gave him an out, so he took it. You would have too. If you turned on the TV Saturday night…
Yeah, I really miss Chad Hutchinson–especially that winning grin that asked, “Exactly how do you a throw a football?” Tony Romo threw the crap outta the football on Saturday night. Quarterback of the future; you read it here first or thereabouts. Course, I think I said the same thing about…
Somebody recorded The Old 97’s performing in Kentucky in 1999. Lucky for you, you can download that show in 2006. For free. Better hurry. Over the weekend, “Jennings in Boston”–otherwise known as the person who runs the very top-notch MP3 blog known as rbally–posted a 7-year-old Old 97’s show recorded…
Here’s some good news for fans of the cable networks Logo and Here!, two channels with content aimed at gay viewers that had been dropped from local cable programming when Time Warner Cable took over the Dallas cable from Comcast Corp. on August 1. That had some local viewers mighty…
You read it here first: Thesis is gonna be huge. (Just in case.) Friday: Already said it in this week’s And Another Thing column, but I can’t impress upon you enough how exciting a prospect Thesis is to the city’s R&B/neo-soul scene. Her demos are nothing compared to her live…
Time for another weekly Unfair Park giveaway. Today, we’re offering two fabulous prizes. The first is two tickets and a parking pass to the Mary J. Blige concert tonight a Smirnoff Music Center. The first person to correctly guess Unfair Park blogmeister Robert Wilonsky’s favorite color will be obliged with…
I began watching Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen in its first season after developing love and mad respect for foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay, thanks to his BBC ventures. Before the current season, the show held auditions here in Big D. I had friends that went. None made it, but Texas had showing…
The Invisible Sheriff strikes again. This week, we wrote about how Lupe Valdez infuriated her rank-and-file officers when she declined to fire Larry Locke, one of her top chiefs, for keeping a Thompson submachine gun in his storage cabinet. Valdez had overruled her highest-ranking employee, Jesse Flores, who wanted to…
Six weeks after my story on the truck-eating railway trestle on Garland Road near the White Rock Lake spillway, DART told The Dallas Morning News that it is looking at tearing the bridge down. Three bright yellow signs warn drivers that the abandoned trestle has a clearance of 12 feet…
This morning, The Wall Street Journal has a story about the stock-option scandal that’s hounding technology-outsourcing Affiliated Computer Services Inc., a subject about which we’ve written a few times. ACS is mentioned at length as part of a larger pattern of conflict-of-interest issues arising as other companies across the country…
Terrell Owens can’t sell his $4 million New Jersey house. Wanh. And wanh. If you’re like me, you could probably do without another Terrell Owens story right about now. But for some reason, this one makes me kind of happy. Apparently, T.O. is having some trouble selling his house in…
Doyle Davidson is an old-fashioned kind of guy who likes to write love letters. To married women, yeah, but still. Water of Life preacher Doyle Davidson has been posting weird “messages to Lisa” again, including one that seemed to signal a possible change in his “marital” status. As Dallas Observer…
One of the most beloved and respected hoteliers is coming back to Dallas to oversee the redo of the Stoneleigh Hotel, which looked awfully nice 80 years ago. Saw this morning that Jeff Trigger’s La Corsha Hospitality Group has been named to take over the Stoneleigh Hotel, which is about…
Those of you not attending the Spoon for Cancer Party in Fort Worth (or the Eels show at Gypsy Tea Room) would be wise to make the trek up to Denton tonight, where a fine double bill awaits you at Rubber Gloves. Headliners Ladyhawk hail from the same Vancouver, British…
The Save Our Scene posse is in its second week of life and is already keeping its watchful eye on all city matters that affect its home, Deep Ellum. In particular, they attended yesterday’s city council meeting and reported on some of the Deep Ellum news to come out of…
A Friend of Unfair Park read the item this morning about a federal lawsuit, and the resulting trial, alleging racial segregation at Preston Hollow Elementary School and offered this insightful anecdote: “My son was a student there some time ago, with a different administration. The first week of second grade,…
Barbara Lorenz Carly Patterson is gonna be on reality TV. With Cyndi Lauper. On Fox. Those are the teardrops of pride, my friend. Remember two summers ago when a spunky 16-year-old from Allen won our hearts and the gold medal in women’s gymnastics at the Athens Olympics? Then, like, remember…
