Terrell who? After last year's season opener, the Dallas Cowboys were 1-0, coming off a road win at Cleveland and defending their egomaniacal receiver, Terrell Owens, who had drawn a fine from the NFL for his track star touchdown celebration. After this year's opener the Cowboys are 1-0, coming off...
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Motorhead, Reverend Horton HeatPalladium BallroomSeptember 19, 2009Better than: playing poker with friends, just waiting on an ace of spades. Not to harp on the obvious here, but for a 63-year-old man, that Lemmy fella sure can rock.And, for well over an hour on Saturday night, the crowd at the Palladium...
Straight from the dead tree edition, courtesy Observer contributor Nate Patrin...Ten years after Mos Def's solo debut, Black on Both Sides, fans might've looked at his subsequent uneven catalog and started to wonder if their fondest memories of him in the '00s would consist mostly of his Chappelle's Show cameos...
The news spread pretty quickly among the scenesters yesterday afternoon: Suite, the ultralounge located near the intersections of Travis and Knox, closed, apparently after the club's owners chose not to re-up their lease on the property--or so this Dirty Dallas post, with its image of the lock-out notice posted to...
Tom Araya, bassist and vocalist for legendary metal band Slayer, is unapologetic about the controversy that has always surrounded the group—whether it's charges of devil worship or having sympathies for Nazis or terrorists. "I don't look at any controversy as negative," Araya says from Slayer's tour bus as it heads...
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Unless you've been on vacation over the last week, you've probably already heard some of the buzz surrounding a certain upcoming live debut by a certain ex-Ghosthustler member's newest project. But, some worthwhile buzz that you may not yet have heard is that tonight's Back to Cooool show at Hailey's...
An autumn storm soaks the streets and paints the outdoors a dull shade of gray, but inside the Fort Worth Convention Center the scene is all bright lights, pyrotechnics, and red, white and blue. More than 12,000 people have packed the arena for a one-day dose of inspiration at Get...
Early in Shane Acker's computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers and the titular numeral emblazoned on his chest awakens to the lifeless body of his human creator and sets forth into a decimated industrial landscape—all twisted metal and smokestacks—that calls to mind London...
Sure, our economy's grim, but consider this: In Haiti, 80 percent of the population lives under the poverty line and two-thirds lack formal jobs. Altering such circumstances is the mission of the Chiapas Project, a local micro-finance group that raises money for loans to impoverished women in Latin America. While...
"The Mayor's Retainers," by Jim Schutze, September 3 Devil in Details Toward the end of "The Mayor's Retainers" article Jim writes: "The real tragedy of the federal corruption trial, no matter what the verdict it produces, is that the behavior of the defendants has sullied and squandered the promise of...
Willis Winters, assistant director of the city's Park and Recreation Department, was kind enough to give Unfair Park a tour of the $17-million Main Street Garden this morning -- and by "garden," I mean mud pit and swimmin' hole. Hence, Winters's acknowledgment that, yes, it's quite likely the garden --...
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Another day, another Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission news release -- this one, concerning the firing of the three agents involved in the Rainbow Lounge raid in Fort Worth and named in the TABC's 32-page report released earlier this month. One other lieutenant is receiving a three-day suspension without pay and...
After Mayor Tom Leppert announced the need to pony up $29 million to study Dallas's levees resulting from "unacceptable" ratings by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a frustrated city official essentially blamed Hurricane Katrina for everything. "I think the corps is CYA'ing in the worst way," I was told...
Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council's Transportation & Environment Committee will take up taxis -- specifically, whether or not to cut cab companies a few big breaks in the middle of an economic downturn that's turned smack into oncoming business. According to briefing documents, calls to the airport are way down:...
As evidenced by The Informant!, it's a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels Midland biochemist-exec-turned-crooked-federal-snitch Mark Whitacre is a tragicomedy. Journalist Kurt Eichenwald spent five years trailing the bipolar fuck-up, and his 2000 book, The Informant, is so densely, richly...
During the waning days of the '08 presidential election, a piece of Photoshop made the rounds featuring Barack Obama shining Sarah Palin's shoes. Collin County man Roger Baker, an eight-year J.C. Penney veteran at its Plano HQ, says he printed out the photo and taped it to a co-worker's computer...
Julia Child said the only time anyone should ever eat diet food is while waiting for a steak to cook. That philosophy works for the rare woman like Child, who at 6'2 could absorb the extra calories stuffed in French cuisine. She was a giantess, but by no means gentle...
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Nancy Nichols brought up a good point in a SideDish post about Blythe Beck, her restaurant and--more importantly--her television series. "I don't watch enough [television] to have an educated opinion" she wrote, "but, from where I sit, it looks like more top chefs bottom out after their 15 minutes, or...
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Batman is suspended over the ocean waves with a shark clinging to his leg. Beating the beast on its nose fails to knock the 6-foot monster loose, so the Caped Crusader takes a desperate, last-gasp course of action. "Quick, Robin," he yells up to the Boy Wonder, strapping himself safely...
OK, now that the Dallas City Hall corruption trial has wrapped up and landed in the hands of the jury, it's time for everyone to weigh in. And, to make it interesting, Robert has generously ponied up a fabulous prize so this isn't just about fun and yuks. That's right,...