Dallas filmmaker and journalist Kirby Warnock's doc Return to Giant, about the making of George Stevens's Texas-sized '56 epic with Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, is available on the double-disc DVD collection issued in 2005. Only: Not really. Because, you see, when Warner Bros. issued the disc,...
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Your bucket list should never include kicking the bucket. An 87-year-old World War II Navy vet was being honored for his generous blood donations out at Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend when an accident on the track resulted in his death. Don Krusemark was a passenger in a corvette...
The story of Lost Society co-owner Brightman "Brian" Nwatu hit The Dallas Morning News this morning, but it's nothing new to Avi Adelman. Soon as I saw the tale of the Lower Greenville bar owner who's been evading deportation for five years, I went over to Barking Dogs, where, sure...
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Don’t Bogart That Ticket
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffite, Magic Kids, Puro InstinctHailey's ClubAugust 2, 2010Better than: Stage diving off of my couch into my television set. On Monday Night, several hundred of the area's coolest people converged on Hailey's Club in Denton to see a bill consisting of three blog-tested, hipster-approved acts. Ariel Pink's...
The collaboration we mentioned a few months back between our own Annie Clark (St. Vincent) and David Byrne appears to be moving along slowly but nicely. We just read this morning that one of the songs they've teamed up on (either called "The Movie" or "Two Ships"), will initially be...
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Times are tough all around, and especially for artists. Grant money is scarce and patron support isn't what it was during boom times. Why not offer Dallas artists and creative entrepreneurs a shot at some money and a bit of buzz-generating publicity? Dallas Observer's first MasterMinds competition, launched in September,...
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Bolsa’s Bloody Good Brunch
Sure, this week's selection from the June 17-23 edition of the Observer is a bit of a calendar stretch that would have been better suited for last week, but, whatever, these archived issues don't tend to fall on the right weeks anyway. And, in light of Deep Ellum's recent rejuvenation,...
Organizers of last night's public hearing on the Bishop/Davis Land Use and Zoning Study at Methodist Hospital in Oak Cliff tried to head off any contentious quarreling and outbursts from the get-go. "Be respectful to everyone. There really isn't any reason to not be," organizers said. Play nice, or stay...
Sam's out at the Ballpark in Arlington at this very moment, where Chuck Greenberg's holding his first press conference as The Owner of Your Texas Rangers. (Nolan Ryan was called out of town at the last second.) As they mentioned yesterday, the newsome twosome called today's meet-and-greet to introduce some...
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Keanu And RDJ Get Animated
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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...
Proof of blog posts' surprisingly long shelf life arrived via e-mail this morning, in the form of a message from Dallas Morning News restaurant critic Leslie Brenner. Brenner had e-mailed last Friday, while I was out of the office for a Southern Foodways Alliance event, still smarting over a perceived...
Yesterday, we profiled the fast-rising Matthew McCallister, executive chef at Stephan Pyles. In part two of our three-part series, today we pose a few questions to McCallister. Tune in tomorrow as McCallister demonstrates one of his recipes for City of Aters. CofA: What is your favorite Dallas restaurant and why?...
We've known since March that Dallas Area Rapid Transit's $3-billion drop in sales tax receipts would put on hold several key projects, chief among them the second downtown rail line, or D2. But exactly what and for how long? Those are answers we didn't know, not until this evening. DART...
It's unavoidable: Eventually, you grow up. Your tastes change. Your priorities shift. Mostly, though? You become tired of the same old, same old. In turn, you want something new. In 2010, that inevitability has hit the local mall-punk scene—and hard, too. No longer featuring a cast of teenage brats looking...
American Idol opened its results show with the Top Five performing a medley of Frank Sinatra classics and the announcement that, next week, the remaining contestants would get the guidance of Jamie Foxx. Genre? Songs of the cinema. With Foxx, I would've expected vocal impersonations (what up, Faux Ray Charles!),...
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Sad news for those (including me) who were looking forward to catching The Go-Go's at their Granada Theater show on July 26: Seems guitarist Jane Wiedlin took an awful fall that will require surgery. Here's the word straight from the band's website:It is with great regret that the Go-Go's announce...
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Sherilyn Segrest
Serious bartenders may sneer at vodka, but there's plenty of the spirit distilled in Texas - and an enterprising Houston blogger is asking the public to determine which brand's the best. Seven companies are slated to participate in the Texas Vodka Throwdown in Houston on July 10, including Tito's, Savvy,...
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