Early last week in The New York Times, Mimi Swartz described her love-hate relationship with Dallas. Today in The Times, Richard Woodward describes his love-love relationship with Fort Worth — specifically, its myriad art museums. But, as Woodward writes, the food in Cowtown ain’t so hot: “If the art in…
Now that we’ve mentioned Amy Talkington’s The Night of the White Pants this morning, it’s as good a time as any to show the trailer for her brother’s debut film. We’ve brought it up a few times before, but now that former Met music editor Keven McAlester’s Roky Erickson doc,…
If you forgot, and we know you did not, way back when we announced that Laurie “Wife of Larry” David and Sheryl Crow would kick off their 11-city bio-diesel-powered “Stop Global Warming College Tour” in Dallas on April 9. Turns out we were just a little off on the venue…
Oh, my gaaawd. This is the big night. The yellow Camaro is premiering at the Angelika Film Center. It’s tuxedo and limo time. We’ll be on the edges of our seats with white knuckles. That will be just like whenever we actually rode in the yellow Camaro. The yellow ’72…
T.D. Jakes will join Jerry Falwell on CNN tonight. Lord have mercy. “How would Jesus solve today’s problems?” Dunno, let’s ask Him. (Or Bible Girl.) But since that’s not an option — sorry, that’s not an option for some of us — CNN tonight at 7 p.m. turns to some…
Illustration by Brian Stauffer One morning in March, the world’s forces of globalization, migration and economic inequity collided in a split second on the balcony of a Best Western in the Panhandle. There, bubbling away outside the doors of three motel rooms, was a line of Crock-Pots. Beside one was…
This just in from the U.S. Census Bureau: The DFW is a-growin’ and then some. Seems that since April 2000, some 842,000 folks have moved into the metroplex, pushing the population well past the six-million mark. Take that, Houston, and your measly increase of 825,000. You too, Phoenix, with your…
There are lot of amazing things in the forthcoming Heritage Auction Gallery entertainment and music memorabilia auction, which gets under way April 14 and 15 at the company’s Uptown digs. There’s Kurt Cobain’s 1953 Martin acoustic guitar, for instance, which used to belong to Mary Lou Lord. There’s Walt Disney’s…
I see that Nancy Nichols has the same news I just received via e-mail: Greg Merkow is shuttering Merkow’s on Greenville Avenue. But what she doesn’t note is that, according to Merkow, the place will soon be reopening as…yup, Greenville Bar and Grill. What goes around, eh? –Robert Wilonsky…
This comes to us courtesy The Dallas Morning News’ Bold Types blog, and it was written, of course, by Jim Schutze’s new favorite pejorative, Steve Blow: I love it. A letter to the editor in this week’s Dallas Observer labels me as “one scary guy.” When I tried to give…
Diane Zamora gives her first interview from prison Sunday on Dateline NBC, which, apparently, has caught every predator it could find. The name Diane Zamora ring a bell? Oughta, even if you weren’t here on December 3, 1995, when then-19-year-old Navy midshipsman Zamora and boyfriend David Graham, then a 20-year-old…
Apologies for the Unfair Park downtime this morning; it’s what you get when you bury the servers for a Dallas-based blog beneath a bank building in Phoenix, I guess. Perhaps the time off this a.m. was for the best, though. Gives me a little while to cool off, take a…
There are those out there who feel the Angels swept our Rangers because, well, they were cheating! Corked bats vs. resin hats. Gotta love baseball. Or do you? –Richie Whitt…
You know who we blame for the Rangers’ 0-3 start. No, not this guy. Why would we do that? C’mon. Three games. Three losses. One reminder: Your Dallas Mavericks started 0-4. But after watching the Texas Rangers get absolutely bludgeoned in Anaheim, my dollar — on second thought, my million…
This was not paid for by the Friends of Gary Griffith. But it is a nice photo. Dallas city council member and mayoral candidate Gary Griffith has friends. Not surprising. Seems like a decent guy. Talked to him for a few pieces here and there, always called back promptly, always…
In a way, Celso Martinez was the perfect public face of the Dallas Independent School District. Martinez ignored local reporters as long as he could, until they made him the unflattering subject of a series of stories on how he was in open violation of board residency policy by living…
Doctors took Rudy Jaramillo’s cancer. They couldn’t touch his charisma. On a glorious spring training afternoon in Mesa, Arizona, baseball’s best hitting coach walks into Hohokam Stadium and is immediately mobbed. Chicago Cubs and former Texas Rangers slugger Alfonso Soriano, who last year hit 46 homers and 41 doubles, dances…
Amanda Salcido was standing in line clutching a package of ground beef when she saw the $100 bills. The man in front of her at the United Supermarket opened his wallet to pay for groceries, and she watched over his shoulder as he riffled through the bills, looking for a…
Stephen Meyer remembers the parade of prominent provocative thinkers who traipsed through McFarlin Auditorium in the mid-1980s when he was studying graduate-level mathematics at Southern Methodist University. So he’s bemused by the stance of the university’s science professors, who recently tried to shut down a conference he organized for April…
MYOB: It’s good that the Dallas mayoral candidates have finally found something to disagree about. It was getting hard to tell some of them apart. Tom Leppert and Darrell Jordan—c’mon, they’re really the same guy, aren’t they? Someone’s funnin’ with us. On paper, the field of—what is it now, 30…
Lemmings and Toll Roads Don’t need no stinking road: I agree wholeheartedly with Jim Schutze (“Steve Blows,” March 29) when it comes to the back-door politics behind the Trinity River project. The Dallas Morning News editorial staff has made council member Angela Hunt out to be a person who single-handedly…
Arlington native Jeffrey Brown produced the AFI narrative feature award-winner. So proud. So very proud. If yer still around and so interested, I’ll be on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) ’round 6:30ish this evening to discuss the AFI Dallas fest with “The Hardline.” Only two weeks after the fest started and…
