In many ways, Mary Timony is just now learning the tricks and pleasures performing live. The guitarist and co-vocalist of the all-female punk rock supergroup Wild Flag is two decades into a fairly successful career as a professional rock musician at this point. Her claim to fame is her lead...
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The Rum Diary Needs More Punch
Some exciting news out of Rihanna camp last week: Her new album is scheduled to release on Monday, November 21. The announcement came in conjunction with the release of her latest single with electronic music producer Calvin Harris."We Found Love" is Harris' latest collaboration with a British Commonwealth diva. (He...
Last minute invitations often result in accidental food discoveries. Last night a friend asked me to join her for dinner, which turned out to be the "soft opening" of a new restaurant in her downtown neighborhood. As City of Ate reported back in January, the creator of Steel is bringing...
While skimming through Eater's news feed this morning an item caught my eye: "More Pie Fives On Order; Northeast Pumpkin Shortage". The pumpkin shortage stuck out because I thought I remembered seeing it last year. I switched from canned to fresh pumpkin a few years back for my annual pumpkin...
I grew up in a rural area, and the state fair was pretty far away. Most years the county or 4-H fair was where I got my fix for funnel cakes and sheep shit. The theme is about the same, but the scale much smaller and the food selection was...
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Current American Idol judge and People Magazine's "World Most Beautiful Woman" for 2011 Jennifer Lopez has had quite a year between having twins and announcing a split with her third husband Marc Anthony. For the past couple years, though, J-Lo had tried to draw a line between her personal and professional...
On June 6, 2006, this item appeared in the regional roundup found in the Metro section of The Dallas Morning News:Authorities have identified a woman fatally struck by a Dallas police car Saturday night as 51-year-old Patricia Ann Brooks. Police said Officers Juan Rangel and Susan Kreun were driving south...
Deborah Oropallo's massive pieces command your attention the minute you enter the Stay ZaZa Art House & Social Gallery, a partnership with Santa Fe's Turner Carroll Gallery. It's a relatively small, simple event space with a chandelier interestingly tucked in the back right corner, black floors, and bright track lighting...
If ever you find yourself pondering whether Dallas could foster a sex-positive feminist hippie art magazine dedicated to poetry, love and ganja, then rest assured that Let It Bleed's newest issue, "Yield to Hemp-tation," offers the surfeit you crave. Last night, women and the men who love them met at...
The Degolyer Estate at the Dallas Arboretum is a beautiful spot, a big house set back from a broad lawn, edged this time of the year with pumpkins and purple flowers. In the library, retreating Dallas City Council members and various other City Hall types (City Manager Mary Suhm, the...
At its August 11 board briefing, Michael Casserly, executive director of the D.C.-based Council of the Great City Schools, told the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees: It could be a good, long while till you find a suitable replacement for Michael Hinojosa. Casserly, invited by board president Lew...
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Courthouse News brings word this morning of a suit involving Unfair Park's 'cross-the-freeway neighbor, the Hilton Anatole -- specifically, its V Spa, which bills itself as "a sublime setting, a true spa experience, a multitude of treatments ready to revitalize and pamper, heal and refresh." The suit, filed Friday in...
Convincing devoted urbanites to venture to Garland can be a hard sell, no matter how hungry they are. The endless concrete pavement and strip malls, all heavily guarded by expansive parking lots, aren't inviting for exploration, especially when polished ethnic eateries lurk inside the loop. But culinary adventurers willing to...
This afternoon at 1, the city council's Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee will get together with a jam-packed agenda that will include an appearance by City Auditor Craig Kinton, who will outline his FY2012 to-do list. (Which includes a look-see at the city's ethics, as in: "Assess and evaluate the...
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Fear and Fracking in Southlake
This morning, we received word of a new report released yesterday: the American Express OPEN Independent Retail Index, which was done in conjunction with Austin- and Chicago-based Civic Economics and looked at 15 big cities, Dallas among them, ranking each based upon the number of independent restaurants and retailers in...
When Denton's Novaak announced their break-up up shortly after the 35 Conferette in March, the band's lead singer, Jessi James, already had a few tracks in her solo repertoire. Just a month before, James had flown to New York City to work on a handful of songs with the help...
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Teach for America, the nonprofit teacher pipeline founded by Park Cities native Wendy Kopp, has made a couple of appearances in the Morning News lately, first in a news story and then an editorial about the rate at which TFA teachers stick in their jobs. Apparently the first class of...
Perhaps you heard that Plano was recently named the 12th longest-living city in the country by the Daily Beast. But what you may not know is that a whole bunch of other listicles ranking places based on their General Pleasantness have spotlighted the 'burb. The results are mostly positive, occasionally...
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My First Show: 2011 Edition
For Dallas-based EPA investigator Keith Phillips, the visits to a Louisiana oil refinery started in the late '90s, and came, it seems, with dual purposes: business and pleasure. It started as an investigation into the refinery's waste storage methods and refinery manager Hubert Vidrine, who was eventually prosecuted. But court...