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The History Channel's Monster Quest proves that believing in sasquatch, moth-men, chupacabras and other legendary creatures requires some suspension of skepticism. The story is set with witnesses describing an encounter and perhaps showing a blurry photo or scratch left behind on a tree. The team of cryptozoologists take print casts,...
Or perhaps not.When last we left this saga we were told that 'round about 8 a.m. this morning, 160th District Court Judge Jim Jordan would rule on that temporary restraining order Tom Hicks and George Gillett asked for two long days ago in order to stop a U.K.-court-ordered sale of...
Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to...
Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to...
Self-portrait by Eugène Delacroix, who apparently came back from the dead to enter and win a beer-naming contest.Thanks to all the commenters for the fun beer ideas from yesterday's Libertine Oktoberfest Beer Dinner contest. Some sounded tasty, some sounded disgusting and some had us laughing out loud. Here are a...
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It's a long, long way from the women's bar outside Berkeley, California, where Ntozake Shange first presented her combustible choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf in December 1974, to Atlanta's Tyler Perry Studios, where the impresario filmed much of this calamitous adaptation. Though striving...
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Jamie Lidell, Twin Shadow
While it's well-known that Dallas County leads the country with a whopping 22 exonerations since 2001 -- 20 of which resulted from the preservation of DNA evidence -- there's been some squabbling among Republicans and Democrats about who deserves the bulk of the credit: former District Attorney Bill Hill or...
Watched some Packers-Bears on Monday Night Football last night and it hit me how good Cowboys' left tackle Doug Free has been this season. How's that you ask? Bears' defensive lineman Julius Peppers was all over the field in Chicago's 20-17 win. (By the way, when their opponents have the...
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Brave New World
10. If I told you that Team A had edges over Team B in yards (410-308), plays (71-49) and time of possession (33:40-26:20) while holding its opponent to 1 of 11 on third downs and producing a special teams touchdown, you'd probably say that Team A had a 90-percent chance of winning that...
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Industry analysts say Chili's should shift its focus from burgers to burritos if the chain wants to recapture customers. Brinker International , which released its fourth quarter results today, has positioned Chili's as a family-friendly watering hole. The Associated Press reported,"Excluding discontinued operations and one-time items, Brinker's profit amounted to...
ACL is over, and with it, the spillover has left. I guess it's back to a more typical slate of weekday shows tonight. Still an interesting collection of touring acts invading our area this evening, though. Something for everyone. Almost...
Patrick MichelsOn Wednesday, Dallas Police Chief David Brown released that dash-cam video and called upon the Dallas County District Attorney's Office to prosecute three officers involved in the beating of Andrew Collins. Thursday evening, the Dallas Police Department sent word: Brown has fired five more officers for alleged offenses dating...
Not saying I know something you don't, but: if Dallas gets hit with a bioterrorism attack, and the only vaccine is inside a heavily guarded briefcase at Parkland Hospital, and the only doctor who knows how to make more of it is being held hostage by a gun-wielding maniac --...
Citing the Beatles song "The Long and Winding Road," Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig told reporters this afternoon that he was "very restless" as the sale of the Texas Rangers was stalled by bankruptcy and a courtroom auction. "Nobody thought it would be that long, and nobody thought it...
Visiting Austin is like visiting your grandmother's house. As soon as you arrive, you're required to sit and eat, and then until your host is satisfied or you take leave. In this case, you have hundreds of grandmothers all insisting you look peaked, in dire need of sustenance. "You know,...
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It's football season, which means tailgaters are weekly firing up their cookers and churning out meaty pork ribs, tender beef briskets and an array of other smoke-kissed meats that seasonal allergy sufferers might want to avoid. I spent five hours with an allergist yesterday, trying to understand just why Dallas...
FeelerThe ToadiesIn 1997, three years after taking the nation by storm with their still-holds-up-quite-well major label debut, Rubberneck, the now-seminal North Texas rockers in the Toadies went back into the studio to record their follow-up. The resulting album was Feeler, a disc that the band now looks back upon as perhaps the best in its catalog. […]
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It All Comes Rushing Back
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