According to the folks who put on the annual South by Southwest Film and Music Festival in Austin, attendence is up some 40 percent this year–which, by my estimate, would put the number of registrants close to 1.2 million. Granted, that’s a rough estimate, and I did get into journalism…
Rose Renfro is not Hispanic, but she plays one on on election day. Yesterday The Dallas Morning News’ Jim O’Neill reported how Renfro, a candidate for Dallas county commissioner, exploited a little-known Texas election code that allows you to include your nickname on the ballot. Running in a district that…
You saw the picture here on Monday. Now you get the details. Seems 65-year-old former Mavs coach Don Nelson is having a life the rest of us only dream about. That is, assuming you fantasize about getting drunk with Owen Wilson, acting in shows directed by George Clooney, sitting in…
A couple of weeks ago, The Dallas Morning News had a three-sentence item announcing that Los Angeles-based American Realty Advisors had bought the Quadrangle office-retail-and-restaurant center from Dallas developer Champion Partners, which has only owned the complex for three years. At the time, ARA had made no formal announcement; that…
The first trace of SXSW spillover in the metroplex hits Rubber Gloves this evening, but Dallasites who don’t want to drive to Denton on a school night are in luck thanks to Good Records. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone play their extremely campus-friendly electro-pop at the store’s new Lower Greenville…
The New York Times drama critic Honor Moore loves the new production of Fabrice Rozie’s Transatlantic Liaisons, which opened last week at the 99-seat Harold Clurman Theater on Broadway. The play is about the real-life love affair between writers Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren. The two actors in it,…
I have been bouncing around courtrooms in the George Allen Courts Building (the white structure at 600 Commerce) the last couple of days. Each judge has his or her own rules for cell phones and pagers posted on the courtroom doors. Some say, “No cell phone or pager use.” Some…
In case you missed this story in The Dallas Morning News yesterday, about the apparently unrelated murders of two gay men within the past week in Lake Highlands and in the Love Field area, here’s a version from a Web site that offers some grim statistics. –Robert Wilonsky…
Be Blunt about it: This is probably not how Ticketmaster intended to promote James Blunt’s upcoming local show I’m not saying I got really freaking excited when the Ticketmaster newsletter arrived this morning announcing that James Blunt will perform May 8 at the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie. I’m not…
Not that we never really worried, but the National Football League we know and love was kept intact last night. Facing a do-or-drastically-alter deadline, league owners meeting at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport voted to accept a collective bargaining agreement proposal from the players’ union. I could tell you that the…
Air Cargo World, billed as the authoritative voice of the international air freight industry, named Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as the world’s most excellent cargo airport in its second Air Cargo Excellence Survey based on a worldwide query of air cargo users. Fraport Frankfort got the second highest overall score,…
When Lindsey Lanzisero called her husband at work last week, he thought he was finally about to be a father. With his wife due to deliver their first baby within the week, restaurant manager Peter Lanzisero rushed across the Galleria’s Grand Luxe Cafe to the phone, sure that tonight was…
The Unity Church of Dallas sits on a wooded street not far from downtown, nestled beneath the shade of several large trees. In its 32 years, the brown brick building has been a refuge for those dissatisfied with mainstream religion. Put simply, it is a place where people go for…
The tuxedos were suave. The carpet was royally red. Joan Rivers’ fashion fangs were bloodthirsty. And the cleavage deliciously breached its levees. Yet something was missing from Sunday’s 78th Academy Awards. Ahem, where was sports? Sure, host Jon Stewart played soccer at William & Mary University, and a boxing flick…
Days after the release of a scalding report from the Texas Legislature on corruption and misfeasance at Dallas City Hall, one of its main authors, an Austin Republican, was wondering if the reporters’ are awake up in Dallas. “The Dallas Morning News put it on page one, but they sure…
Stephen McPherson, the high-tech massage parlor owner who humiliated Dallas vice officers after he caught them on tape disrobing and receiving X-rated massages from his employees, has been charged with first-degree murder after he allegedly shot and killed a man following a domestic dispute outside his Frisco home. Frisco police…
Zzzzz: Buzz was fascinated to read Gerry Fraley’s front-page story in The Dallas Morning News last Saturday about Major League Baseball’s announcement that it will now test for amphetamine use among players–bringing a halt (as if) to widespread use of little green uppers. According to the story, the ban on…
Playing Tag Memo to my “Homies”: The real crime, in my opinion, with the local graffiti scene (“SEKT and the City,” by Jim Schutze, March 2) is not so much that it is a violation of public and private property but simply that it is all so fucking lame and…
“Big Tex is a problem. He’s our Mickey Mouse.” And with those words, Nancy Wiley, a consultant to the State Fair of Texas, kindly requested that we remove Big Tex’s dorky visage from Unfair Park. Turns out Big Tex is a registered trademark–“both his name and his image,” Wiley said…
For this week, at least, Dallas is number one–in road rage. Automotive anger Web site Monkeymeter.com calculates a weekly road rage top 10 from its 1,000 or so user ratings per day, and at the moment Dallas can glare down its nose at such gridlock legends as Houston and D.C…
Last month, the League of United Latin American Citizens invited several folks running for political office to breakfast at El Ranchito in Oak Cliff, where a crowd of eager politicos seemed surprisingly awake for a Saturday morning. The featured performers of the event were the Democratic and Republican candidates for…
Ah, yes–“The Sweet Thighs of Mother Mary.” That infectious drum beat, that haunting female vocal. Now, you ask, just who is said female? Why, it’s Lulie Scott, owner of the 26-year-old beloved Dallas boutique Emeralds to Coconuts, which sits at the corner of, what else, Homer and Henderson. Yep, that…
