When his girlfriend said she wanted to go to the Minyard’s grocery store on Live Oak Street, Entre Karage looked up from the game of blackjack he was playing and nodded. The store was only a block away. “But go right home after that,” he told Nary Na. A pretty,…
Pay to play: We’re having a debate about a debate here at the Dallas Observer. Robert Wilonsky, editor of the Observer’s blog Unfair Park, thinks Belo Corp. is behaving like an evil corporate monopoly by limiting access to the live broadcast of this Friday’s gubernatorial debate. This is bad, he…
Our old pal Will Clarke–about whom we’ve written, oh, just a little in the past–is officially Hot Shit. Well, that’s not entirely accurate, but awfully close. In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, which I don’t even have yet even though I am an inexplicably loyal subscriber, Clarke’s been named…Hot…
Really, the only thing more important than putting in a Deep Ellum DART station is making sure the city does it when it’s convenient to Andrea Grimes. K? Thanks. Dear City Of Dallas, I am writing to you on behalf of myself and my neighbors. We reside in the general…
Speaking of former Texas Rangers, seems Kenny Rogers’ anger management issues are alive and well after all. Seems Rogers, who once famously punched a KDFW-Channel 4 cameraman and later sorta apologized, got into a parking lot dust-up with a Detroit Tigers fan. At this point, I guess we’re supposed to…
Bob Mong was on The Ticket this morning. Maybe he had something to do with Buck Showalter’s buyout? The Dallas Morning News editor Bob Mong was on, of all places, KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) this morning talking about the future of his newspaper. He didn’t say terribly much; surprisingly, morning-show…
Bursting some four years ago from the Centrum as the wild game/pan-Asian eatery-cum-nightclub called The Dr�lion Restaurant & Lounge, Drae Restaurant (a.k.a. The Drae) has shut its doors due to an inability to reach an agreement with the Centrum’s property management firm, a statement says. Drae was shaped by Khanh…
This wasn’t the scene at Tom Hicks’ house last night, where Buck had his last supper. Kinda looks like a man having his ass handed to him, though… To quote Robert quoting me, “Toldja so.” Look, as I wrote in last week’s column in paper version of Unfair Park, Buck…
You get the sense from the new Sports Illustrated that Jerry Jones wanted T.O. to B.L.O.W. when he signed him as a Cowboy. As expected, all things considered, the new issue of Sports Illustrated has a feature about the Dallas Cowboys’ week that was; something to do with T.O.’s O.D…
Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks has canned manager Buck Showalter, according to KTCK-AM (1310). I believe Richie wrote on August 24 that Hicks had hired the wrong man, which means he fired the right one when he gave Buck his walking papers, likely last night during a confab with general…
Garrison Keillor discovered some folks in Dallas don’t want them damned foreigners to have any rights. Took him an hour to figure that out. Not bad. Garrison Keillor, the man with the pleasant voice and sharp temper, writes in his Tribune Media Services-syndicated column about how the Senate has adiosed…
Marlon Brando’s signed and personally annotated Godfather script is among the nearly 2,000 items for sale in Heritage’s auction this week. Can ya spot me, oh, 40 large? Last week, Heritage Auction Galleries music memorabilia specialist Garry Shrum was kind enough to cross Oak Lawn Avenue to deliver the 464-page…
Our old pal and colleague John Gonzalez, who abandoned the paper version of Unfair Park for Boston magazine, sends this missive about the doings in his hometown of Philadelphia, where, word has it, there is some kind of big football game to be played this weekend. John? “Eagles fans are…
On his recently launched blog, former Dallas Morning News TV critic Ed Bark takes “an up-close look at a largely unreported ratings phenomenon in D/FW,” which is how, on an almost daily basis, KDFW-Channel 4’s Good Day “whips” in the ratings the national networks’ morning shows. So, take that Today,…
Dirk Nowitzki, like the rest of us, can’t believe basketball season’s already here. He just wishes he were in Germany, not Denton. Let’s hope Dirk Nowitzki’s first official act as a member of the 2006-’07 Dallas Mavericks isn’t an omen. During Monday’s media day at the American Airlines Center, the…
See, we’re not afraid of no torso of a young Greek man from a 330 B.C. funerary relief. Not us. So, over the weekend The New York Times took notice of Frisco elementary school teacher Sydney McGee–you remember (head hanging in shame), the Wilma Fisher Elementary School art teacher suspended…
Even a good Longhorns fan has to acknowledge that Kyle Field’s one of the greatest college football venues ever. The Cotton Bowl, not so much. For a year now, Mayor Laura’s been banging the same drum: If, which is to say when, the annual Texas-Oklahoma game finally leaves Dallas and…
If American Airlines had its flight attendants wear the old Braniff uniforms, we’d be more forgiving of its service. There’s an Associated Press story that moved this afternoon about airline museums and how poorly they do. In the case of, oh, Delta Airlines, people can’t even get into its museum…
“I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States.” In his cowboy boots and unfortunately pleated and tapered pants, Al Gore took the Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie stage Saturday night to offer up his inconvenient truths. After observing just how good it…
Two Dallas actors and directors have acquired the rights to adapt Valley of the Dolls into a stage production. Yeah, we’re surprised it hasn’t already been done too. “You’ve got to climb Mount Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls.” That’s just one of the great/bad lines from Jacqueline…
Rick Perry’s folks brokered a deal that would give Belo exclusive access to Friday night’s gubernatorial debate. On Friday, the four major gubernatorial candidates will participate in the sole debate before the November 7 election. The date of the debate has already been a substantial point of contention: It’ll air…
By now you’ve seen the disturbing video of Tennessee Titans lineman Albert Haynesworth violently and intentionally stomping on the face and head of helmetless Dallas Cowboy Andre Gurode from Sunday’s game. (And if you haven’t, it’s below.) In the aftermath, Gurode got 30 stitches. And Haynesworth should get sued. At…
