Is it safe to come out yet? Is this horrifying, recessionary, alien-anal-probe of a year finally—finally!—over? Whew! It is! We made it through the last year of a less-than-auspicious decade. Let's all get some "I Survived '09" T-shirts and have a party. Maybe while we're all together, we can make...
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Whatever the dreary setting may do to your psyche, whatever hope may fade at the sight of cellophane-wrapped meat and kitchen staff trotting bags of frozen okra from the walk-in, you have to grant Cobb Switch a plus or two. Their brisket shows far more character than you generally find...
So get this: Dorrough's car? Doesn't have an ice cream paint job. Go figure. It's not the most earth-shattering secret ever revealed, no. But, still, it's kinda funny to see Dorrough rolling around town in a car that isn't decked out in the style described in his smash summer hit...
A few hours after she and 11 other jurors found Don Hill and his four co-defendants guilty of 23 of the 29 charges against them in the Dallas City Hall corruption case, Rowlett resident Nedra Frazier gave me a behind-the-scenes peek at the deliberations. Much like my lengthy interview with...
In Sergeant John M. Russell's chaotic Army world the morning of May 11, the enemy was closing in. For the previous several days at sprawling Camp Liberty outside Baghdad, the big Texan from Sherman had talked of conspiracies, woken up from constant nightmares and broken down in tears, wishing someone...
Ida Maria, GlasvegasThe LoftAugust 4, 2009 Better than: taking a group of foreign exchange students to the mall. It took 20 minutes for it to happen, but, finally, here it was: some palpable, legitimate energy about the room at The Loft during Glasvegas' set. It was all coming together--the band's performance, its fairly impressive light show, the...
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Back in June of '08, we pointed your attention toward the Southwest Airlines ad at right, which first appeared in the Wall Street Journal. It was, of course, a statement: American Airlines, and the other carriers, might be charging for bags, but not your beloved low-cost Dallas-based Southwest, nowaynosir.But during...
The U.S. Attorney's Office just sent word that former Dallas Cowboy hitting machine, 48-year-old Eugene Lockhart, is among nine people indicted by a federal grand jury. They're accused of a running a mortgage scheme out of Dallas between 2001 and '05 under such monikers as America's Team Mortgage, America's Team...
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Whitt’s End: 7.31.09
In a famous biblical parable, a son takes his family inheritance and wastes it on riotous living in some distant land, returning home with empty pockets and a deep sense of regret—which seems like an appropriate summary of chef Marc Cassel's professional life, though almost in reverse. Dallas' prodigal son...
One week later, word of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and Fort Worth Police Department's raid on the Rainbow Lounge has reached Page A16 of this morning New York Times. The piece recaps for a national audience what the locals already know about the incident that has prompted TABC and...
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This current generation of American drinkers couldn't really care less about tradition. They shirk the classic cocktails in favor of trendy new flavors: pomegranate martinis, green tea margaritas, acai vodka and tonics or whatever the anti-oxidant of the month happens to be.Despite my frustration with such fads, I must admit...
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Ben Kweller, Jones St. Station
The puke green exterior made the Mitchell Building in Deep Ellum look like a frightening industrial shop of horrors. Far from being accidental, that's by design -- the place was actually a weapons manufacturing facility during Word War II.In the early '80s, the dark fortress was reinvented as a squatter's...
A conference broke out during this morning's city council meeting shortly after Mayor Tom Leppert announced that Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano and council member Angela Hunt pulled Addendum Item No. 15 regarding the booting ordinance for discussion. Leppert, Medrano and Hunt were joined Chris Heinbaugh and Paula Blackmon...
Earlier this year, the city released the results of a community survey in which code enforcement ranked high on Dallas residents' list of priorities -- behind only public safety, infrastructure maintenance and health services. But the survey also revealed something else: A majority of those surveyed rank code enforcement as...
Why do we ask? Well, a town in Australia just banned bottled water for environmental reasons--all that plastic waste, you know. But there are also those studies proving that, in most cases, tap water is every bit the bottle's equal, in taste as well as good-for-you-ness. Indeed, some brands simply...
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Estela Hernandez in the city's Public Information Office broke our hearts with the following e-mail that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box. Read it for yourself.Re: Reunion Arena Demolition Scheduled implosion of upper concrete seating decks demolition-CanceledSTATEMENT: Upon further review of the arena structure, A&R Demolition has found an...
This is one of the biggest music weekends in recent memory, and it seems like there's something for everyone regardless of budget or musical taste. First up is the Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson/Johnny Cougar show at Quiktrip Park in Grand Prairie. There are still tickets available, according to the Airhogs Web...
It may not be election time, but tonight at 7, two politicians will duke it out at Friendship-West Baptist Church: In this corner ... Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. And in this corner ... Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price -- well, maybe as the commish has been extended...
A Dallas County security officer who worked at the Frank Crowley Courts Building was fired on Monday for a number of reasons, including being a morale-buster. But Charlotte Hardy insists the real reason she was fired was because she told higher-ups that officers at the Crowley are sleeping on the...