No doubt you recall Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey's blow-up over that redistricting map sprung on her during commissioners court a couple of weeks back. Long story short: She'd agreed to one map, only to have John Wiley Price give her, at the last second, an entirely different one that...
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Still waiting on a lot of news this early afternoon in regards to Saturday night's Electric Daisy Carnival at Fair Park. All morning long city officials -- including Fire-Rescue folk, Medical Emergency Services folk, etc. -- have been tied up in meetings about the event, which saw dozens hospitalized and...
From the Raymond Pettibon album art, which invokes his classic album covers for his brother Greg Ginn's band, Black Flag, to the thundering downstrokes, rubbery machine gun rhythms and brash spirit, Off! is a time machine to the early days of West Coast punk. And the band boasts two illustrious alumni...
It's that time of year again, folks. Yes, yes: It's Dallas Observer Music Awards season! Our 23rd attempt at it, even! As you may recall, the whole shebang is taking place a little bit later this year. But it's still the same old celebration you've come to know and love...
SMU students may remember C.W. Smith as the curmudgeonly creative writing prof who had permanent dibs on a particular wooden chair in Dallas Hall; others know him as the mentor and ally who helped them find their voice, or who simply told them for the first time that they were...
Lower Greenville Avenue has seen a lot of change lately, and it's going to see a lot more. An Asian behemoth, Rohst, and a revamped Terilli's have risen from the ashes of a four-alarm fire. Bucket loaders, backhoes and jackhammers are making a mess of the street and sidewalks, and...
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Back in late '08, developer Bryan Foster went to Dallas City Hall to see about getting $475,000 in City Center Tax Increment Financing District reimbursements, which he said were needed to give 1400 Main Street, then a 1954 building in sorry shape, an $4-plus-million extreme makeover. The end result: Plush,...
Up until yesterday, I believed that July was National Lemonade Month. After Googling it, I discovered there likely isn't any such thing as "National Lemonade Month." July is just another hot month that needs a good, refreshing beverage. It is also, apparently, the National Month of blueberries, horseradish, baked beans,...
Never been happier to be wrong. And I don't care that I wasn't alone -- I admit I was wrong. I'm stunned by the Mavs sweeping the Lakers, punctuated by Sunday's 122-86 epic shellacking. Matter of fact, I'm more surprised by this outcome than the Navy SEALs sweeping Osama. I...
The intellect of one of the best managers and greatest players in baseball history short-circuited at the worst possible times for the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 5 of the World Series, but Monday night's match-up wasn't won or lost on brain farts by Tony La Russa and Albert Pujols...
As is typical for this time of the year, SXSW backwash results in a nice slew of bands hitting our area tonight.....
"You're going to eat that now?" the guy at the head shop asked. He looked worried. "That's not a good idea. I don't take 'em in the daytime. It renders me non-functional."Well, shit. It was Friday afternoon, and I was about to drug my co-workers.A little background, though, before we...
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The whole fuzzy, distorted, pedal-laden and ambient electronic music thing is hard to pull off. Fact is, it's really easy to get it wrong amidst the growing stacks of undulating effects. It's far too easy to be excruciatingly stripped-down and downright boring. When a band can pull it off, though,...
Some of his pieces burst with a spectacle of vibrant color while others find their power in the absence of any hue at all. Burnt, swirled, carefully prodded and calculated with the precise hand of tattoo artist, David Sena's art pairs scientific measure with impulsive creativity. His mark-making instruments of...
There's no shortage of stories extolling the genius of John Tatum, the 45-year-old who in 1994 co-founded Genesco Sports Enterprises, the Woodall Rodgers-based consulting group that marries the right product with the right athlete, sport or major league. Sports Business Journal noted in '08 that "Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s defection was...
Chef Paul Liebrandt is one of those maverick foodies who elicits equal parts admiration and dissent, love, fear and loathing in his equally distributed coterie of fans and detractors. To his adherents, he is that prototypical wunderkind in starched chef's whites, possessed of the ability to wow the palate, as...
The Frisco and Allen locations of In-N-Out are three weeks old today. You've had time to digest the Double-Doubles, the well-done fries, and that one girl has, hopefully, wiped away her tears.Opening day was a manifest destiny of meat. Some travelers had "In-N-Out or bust" on their cars, and others...
Dwight David Yoakam, the modern savior of the Bakersfield-style of electric country music, is actually a native of Kentucky and he's now been a staple of Hollywood productions for years. Such a quizzical mélange makes sense, really. Give a listen to the way in which Yoakam has blended so many...
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Those state-lawmaker types are a shifty bunch, eh? During the state legislature's regular session, lawmakers debated a bill that would have required proof of citizenship or legal status for anyone applying for a new or renewed driver's license. That way, argues sponsor Tommy Williams, a Woodlands senator, illegal immigrants couldn't...
There's quite a bit of an international flavor to the musical offerings in our area this evening, which is one of the more interesting Monday nights we've seen in a while...
School's out, but not for the Dallas Independent School District's trustees, who're meeting at this very moment (behind closed doors) before they look at two versions of the 2011-'12 budget -- what they're calling versions 5.1 and 6.0, which follow the iteration presented to the board on May 26 that...
Put away your worries about the durability of compact discs, squeeze into your acid-washed jeans and let's go watch the NBA's model franchise play at one of America's best sports venues, Reunion Arena. On the way we can fill up our Pontiac Fiero for 91 cents a gallon, mail some...