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The Make Believers Break Up

"Thanks," Aaron White says to the crowd gathered in the living room of Dust Congress' Nick Foreman. "We're The Make Believers, and that was our last song," White's remarks, which could be dismissed as everyday post-performance banter, carry a dual meaning: Though no one acknowledged it during the Saturday afternoon...
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Handle The Proof: Fundador

Sometime in our youth, however well spent, we picked up on the existence of Cognac. Maybe it was from ads in Sports Illustrated, or something--it's not like anyone really remembers when or in what context; the awareness just happened. Maybe in our 20s we learned about Armagnac. But this information...
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Wade Phillips: Gag Me with a Spoon

Wade Phillips should wear a skirt on the sideline next season. For never in the history of the Dallas Cowboys has a head coach been so castrated of authority, power and respect. This, my friends, is the result of Jerry Jones' preposterous gag order. For what it's worth, Wade probably doesn't...
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Man Of Many Faces

There are a few schools of thought on how to fill empty walls in a new house. You can go dark and moody, with an auction piece from some little-known Serbian painter, or hang some pastel beach scenes for that "Motel 6 in Galveston" vibe. You could go conceptual, with...
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Mavericks-Nuggets: A Requiem in 5 Predictable Parts

Hindsight, they say, is 20/20. Sometimes, unfortunately, so is foresight. On Friday, May 1 I picked the Denver Nuggets to eliminate the Dallas Mavericks in five games. Last night it came to pass, in the form of Nuggets 124, Mavs 110. Dirk Nowitzki was as gritty as he was great...
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Pinch Yourself: Mavericks 106, Spurs 93

On second thought, forget The Alamo. And the San Antonio Spurs. What began as a competitive series that some of us skeptics thought the Spurs would win in seven games magically morphed into a hockey power play. Afforded basically a 5-on-2 advantage, the Mavericks ultimately skated past old, slow, buried...
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Sin City

"Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven." (Genesis 19: 24-15) "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example,...
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

I'll leave it to Sam to interpret the convention center hotel documents that went online Sunday in advance of the city council's Economic Development Committee's jam-packed meeting this morning. (Takeaway: Open by January 1, 2012; costs $346 million; contains 1,016 rooms.)  In addition to the 113-page briefing titled Convention Center...
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DOMA XXI: And The Nominees Are…

A few weeks back, the 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards balloting process began--somewhat quietly, I admit.  Distinguished area musicians, producers, booking agents, sound engineers, bloggers, journalists and others from around the region received an email asking them to nominate the artists they most respected and enjoyed from the past year. Once they were...
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Crime, Ann Margolin’s Top Campaign Issue

Few weeks back, we directed you to an online survey Dallas City Council candidate Ann Margolin was taking as she vies for Mitchell Rasansky's District 13 seat at the horseshoe. Well, the results are in, and Margolin writes in a mass e-mail sent to her would-be constituency today that the...
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Mavs-Spurs Game 5 Preview: Uh-Oh

*Unless Mark Cuban smears Swine Flu on Tony Parker, I'm afraid the desperate and prideful San Antonio Spurs beat the Dallas Mavericks tonight, forcing a Game 6 Friday night at American Airlines Center. Why? Because home teams down 3-1 always win Game 5. Because Greg Popovich has won 75 percent...
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Tom Leppert, the Trinity River Remix

Someone not named "Jim Schutze" just posted the above video to YouTube -- just in time for the Friends of Unfair Park who've not yet read Schutze's very related column in this week's Observer. An excerpt, to whet your appetite:At the end of last week, I had a detailed and...
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Your 2009 Dallas Cowboys: 10-6

Granted only about 33 percent of the precincts are reporting, but The Sporatorium is projecting the 2009 Dallas Cowboys to win 10 games. Being that the Cowboys haven't used any of their 11 draft picks or convened for the first quarterback school/minicamp/OTA/gee-ain't-it-nice-not-to-have-T.O.-around meeting of 2009, I'd like to keep a mulligan in my...
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Did Mike Jacobs Save Ron Washington’s Job?

Because the Kansas City Royals couldn't catch the ball, the Texas Rangers hung on to their manager. For now. After a 3-0 start that feels like months ago, the Rangers are 5-7. Not good, especially considering nine of those 12 have been at home and half against the lowly Orioles and...