Sometimes art imitates life, sometimes life imitates art, and sometimes a guy with no life creates art by imitating the bottom of the 10th inning from Game 6 of the 1986 World Series using the 1988 Nintendo Entertainment System game RBI Baseball. Yes, that’s the inning where Boston Red Sox…
A local company is investing $50 million in a new plant in southern Dallas. Let’s see, how can we make that seem like a bad thing? Hmm… See, the trouble is that the company is Belo Corp., which announced the groundbreaking for the plant on Langdon Road in a press…
Hey, I never thought former Dallas Observer music editor Zac Crain’s mayoral bid was a joke (my wife, on the other hand…kidding). But now that I can read about it here, in the hallowed pages of Dallas’ Only Daily, well, now I will take it very, very, very seriously. Good…
Just got off the phone with Kim Finch, one of the three new co-owners of the Double Wide. The longtime DW staffer, along with fellow DW ladies Jill Saveh and Whitney King, have taken the lease over from Jim Sibert in an equal partnership effective immediately. The bar name remains…
I’ve been sick today, so this is a little late, but the message up at the Double Wide Web site is a lie. Last night, I got a phone call from DW booking agent Chelsea Callahan: “We’re open again on Friday.” Turns out Jim Sibert was serious when he said…
On a clear, blue Thursday morning–which is to say, today–Dallas City Council member Gary Griffith announced his candidacy for mayor on the stone steps of Woodrow Wilson High School, where he was a student some 40 years ago. As he stood atop the podium, a life-sized poster of him as…
Here’s a kinda-icky story about how Texas gubernatorial wannabe Carole Keeton Strayhorn is hiring people to get her the 45,450 signatures she needs by May 11 to become an official candidate. Turns out her campaign’s using the Dallas-based National Voter Outreach to find her volunteers to collect those pesky petition…
The USA Film Festival has just announced some of its bigger guests and screenings for this year’s shindig, which is set to take place April 28-May 4 at the brand-spankin’-new AMC NorthPark 15 between Foley’s and Nordstrom at the revamped NorthPark Center. Gotta say, it’s a pretty decent-looking lineup; doubt…
By all accounts, the Dallas real estate market seems to be on the upswing; plenty o’land for anyone who wants it, right? It’s cheap too, and there’s enough space so that nobody has to get riled up over not-in-my-backyard! issues. Except when the land is literally your backyard, and someone…
OK, so let’s hear it. It’s been a week since SMU fired basketball coach Jimmy Tubbs and promised the reasons went far beyond the wrist-slap NCAA violations of buying players hamburgers and lending them cups of laundry detergent. If there’s more to the story–and there’d better be–it’s time for outgoing…
Speaking of SMU, the university’s Student Film Festival takes place April 18 and 19, and it’ll feature some 40 student-made shorts. While I am sure some are as “awesome” as fest director Erin Littlestar promises, if you’ve seen one or two student shorts in your life, the idea of sitting…
Yesterday, about 60 people–students, mostly, but at least one professor–marched on the Southern Methodist University campus, protesting an editorial that appeared in The Daily Campus last week bearing the headline “Gays, the new Jews?!?” According to this piece in the SMU student newspaper, “Voices silent, mouths gagged with rope —…
The little boy cried. His mother’s words didn’t make sense, but he knew enough to be afraid. “You’ll never see me again,” she said in the car. Then she dropped him off at his stepmother’s house and drove away. Sam Gross was 9, his mother’s only son, a boy everyone…
Like he does before every start, Rangers pitcher R.A. Dickey attended chapel last Thursday asking for God’s guidance on the mound. Presumably praying just as hard, Detroit Tigers catcher Ivan Rodriguez made a quick sign of the cross before digging in to take his third-inning cuts at Dickey’s faith-based knuckleball…
More than a year after Dallas County debuted a disastrous criminal justice computer system that kept inmates locked up long after they were supposed to go free, defense attorney Deandra Grant tells her clients to expect the worst. “I tell them, ‘Even if your sentence is up today, it’s very…
Big mo’: So, now what? Say you helped organize Sunday’s humongous immigration rally, bringing a crowd roughly twice the size of Plano peacefully downtown. Amazing. Pat yourself on the back. What else ya got? Assume for a moment that Congress regains its sanity–big assumption–and doesn’t make criminals of illegal immigrants…
We Got It Covered Uncovered: Regarding Rocky Presley’s letter (Letters, April 6) about Dada and the “death” of the Dallas music scene. While I applaud Mr. Presley’s passion, I’d like to say a few things. Mr. Presley’s claims that “…Dada will continue on, but it is dreadful that it is…
If it feels like gas prices are going up every single day, that’s only because they are. AAA has a pretty nifty media site that displays gas prices for specific markets; you can see the cost of a gallon in Dallas at this very moment, yesterday, last week and last…
Andrea’s post below wholly ignores the fact that two very good concerts in the past few weeks, Dinosaur Jr. at the Gypsy Tea Room’s Ballroom and the Books at Hailey’s, either sold out or were filled to capacity. Neither of those bands covered Coldplay. Comparing national and local draws is…
Last week I got an e-mail from a guy asking me if the term “wolf pack” meant anything to me. I vaguely recognized the name at the bottom of the letter, and then it came back to me: It had been an inside joke from, of all places, driver’s ed…
When you don’t see a review of the movie The Sentinel in the Dallas Observer next week–or any weekly newspaper, for that matter–it’s not because we’re ignoring it. It’s because we aren’t allowed to see it: 20th Century Fox, the studio releasing the Michael Douglas-Kiefer Sutherland-Eva Longoria thriller on April…
It’s nice to know my good buddy G. Craige Lewis is alive and well, preaching the evils of hip-hop to the Japanese. I heard he hated my story on him, which I couldn’t really figure out since every other e-mail I got about the piece came from some preacher who…
