Back in April, we told you about Angela Hunt's decision to reconsider her August 2008 vote to shut down Woodard Paint & Body Shop and develop a compromise to allow the family-owned business to remain at its location on Ross Avenue where it opened 90 years ago. The dozens of...
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In the days before photography, when members of the gentry commissioned portraitists to commit their wealth and beauty to canvas, it wasn't uncommon for the household's sheep and cows to get their pictures painted too. The heyday of agricultural art is long over, although animals still appear in paintings --...
That's the word just in from the Dallas Police Department, which has wrapped its investigation into whether or not the council member acted inappropriately when interfering with officers trying to do their job last week. Dash-cam video, a transcript and Officer Nathan Draughon's account of what transpired when he pulled...
Chiddy Bang, Vonnegutt TreesDecember 2, 2010Better than: going to an actual SMU party. Lest there remained any question as to whom the music of Chiddy Bang is meant for, the Philadelphia-based, indie rock-sampling hip-hop duo provided the answer at Trees last night.Or maybe it's more appropriate to say that their...
As you're most likely aware by now, Dallas County Constable Derick Evans, former constable Jaime Cortes and two of Evans's deputies have been indicted on a total of nine counts. We've been working the phones since yesterday and haven't heard back from several parties, although Judge Jim Foster's supposed to...
Small wonder the Stephen Broden camp is gnashing its teeth over the Brad Watson violent-overthrow interview. Just before Channel 8 ran the interview in which congressional candidate Broden said violent uprising is "on the table," Broden's campaign says it had received polling data showing Republican Broden within six points of...
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In about two months, Dallas Area Rapid Transit hopes to open the Royal Lane station along the expanded Green Line. Not far from the site, on Rodney Lane, sits Central Hardwood, a massive lumber warehouse that sits on property owned by the Wilber Family Limited Partnership. And in legal docs...
By this busy line up of shows, you'd think it's already Friday...
Every weekend throughout the metroplex, dozens of bands that aren't native to the Dallas area come through town, hoping to commandeer the attention of a few ears and attach themselves to the memories of area concertgoers. For many a traveling band, the only way they will ever be able to...
Most marriages take work -- in the months and years after the wedding ceremony. But for Mark and Dante Walkup, just getting their marriage recognized has been an exercise in legal and logistical hoop-jumping. The virally famous couple, who married over Skype to sidestep Texas's ban on same-sex marriages, found...
After losing yet again to the Democrats, Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman is prepared to let someone else attempt to turn the blue county back to red, telling us that he doesn't expect to run for a third term in 2012. "I don't want to say I'm definitely...
Gawker is reporting today that Paste magazine is about to close shop any minute now, further proving that combining two dying industries, music and journalism, indeed results in a double-negative and not a positive.It's a sad day for sure, both for music journalism fans and for local music. Paste, let...
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When he left in 2000 his going-away party was thrown at Sipango, because the guy with the red hair would never venture into the "white house." When he returned in 2007 he was a 40-year-old virgin who'd never called, much less crafted, a playbook. And now—in a crazy, capricious 2010—he's...
According to Samuel Adams press material included with a sample bottle of Infinium (and an ice bucket and pair of flutes -- aww, you shouldn't have!), 60 percent of men would prefer to toast with beer instead of Champagne if given the choice. Whether or not that's a good reason...
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Gorillaz, NERD
This was bound to be a big year in local music. After an impressive 2009 that mostly saw notable debut or breakthrough releases from previously unheralded area performers (see: Telegraph Canyon, Teenage Cool Kids, Neon Indian, The O's and Air Review), we knew, heading into this year, that the big...
The group of mayoral hopefuls—the police chief, the politician, the CEO and the long shot—agree on just about everything. Raising taxes is naughty. Natural gas drilling should be allowed only if science proves it's safe. Neighborhoods are kick-ass, though it's unclear whether anyone can be found who's anti-neighborhood. Former Pizza...
One of these men ain't coming back next season.Me, I'm all set for the Texas Rangers to exit the post-season tomorrow -- heartbreak and frustration and despair are prerequisites for being a lifelong fan of a franchise yet to sniff a post-season series win. So, then, I consider this release...
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Jonesing for Art
What's the deal with all the Mexican song lyrics about lágrimas and llorando? We all know most Mexican men are más machos dudes and all that, so why all the songs about tears and crying? Even if a gabacho cries, he doesn't try to advertise it and certainly does not...
Red Bull SoundClash with Ozomatli, Talib Kweli & The Rhythm Roots Allstars with Special Guest Bun BPalladium BallroomOctober 28, 2010Better Than: Anything else worth the $10 ticket price. The Palladium looked a little different last night.Instead of the conventional one stage people have become accustomed to, there were two stages...
There was a time in our younger days when there simply was no bigger band than Smashing Pumpkins. Depending on who you ask, double-album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Saddness is either one of the greatest triumphs of the mid-'90s alt-rock boom or one of the most self-indulgent, overrated albums...