There's no denying the convenience of iTunes or even Amazon's online store. Or, for that matter, torrents and music blogs (at least when it comes to the pirates among us). The iTunes Store launched in April 2003—seems longer, no?—and lest there be any deluded observers out there doubting the long-term...
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Standing chest-deep in the hotel pool, Ron White felt foolish. Were the people on lounge chairs near the deep end watching him? Well, screw it. If he cared what a few strangers thought and let it get in the way of his training, how would he possibly bring home the...
After approving in February 2008 the expenditure of $170,000 for a feasibility study to refinance the $260 million debt on the Dallas Convention Center, the city in October announced it would use $40 million of the refinancing to expand, upgrade and renovate the convention center. Additionally, the debt savings would...
The late Jerry Wexler, who passed away last August at age 91, was best known as an advocate and producer for top R&B and soul artists like Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett. But Wexler was also a huge fan of country music. On Willie and the Wheel, his...
For 30 years now, Roscoe Beck has worked with Leonard Cohen. It started when Beck was 24, and his Austin group, Passenger, got a call to play on Cohen's 1979 LP, Recent Songs, an album that marked a return to the Old World folk that gave Cohen's early records their...
The first night of SXSW saw four pretty major draws around town--Echo and the Bunnymen at Emo's; The Decembrists at Stubbs; St. Vincent, Department of Eagles and M. Ward at the Central Presbyterian Church; Peter Bjorn & John and Glasvegas at Vice--and a whole bunch of other worthwhile draws.....
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10 Questions: Jason Weaver
The whole sordid story began with a pile of concrete and a malfunctioning Bobcat. On a hot, sticky Monday in mid-August 2006, crews in downtown Dallas were hard at work renovating The Merc—the distinctive World War II-era bank tower known for its clock and spire. Mid-redo, the historic building resembled...
Perhaps lost amongst the abundance of year-end lists made by just about everyone in recent weeks are, well, the lists of albums people didn't listen to in 2008.Hipster Runoff took this idea and ran with it earlier this week, and, yep, the results are pretty golden. For instance: No, the...
In light of the news that American International Group -- better known as AIG -- is doling out those "distasteful" but nonetheless delicious bonuses to its execs, the House Financial Services Subcommittee is meeting at this very moment to discuss AIG and "how it got into its current situation, why...
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Mr. Jones and Me
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This Just In: Local Radio Sucks.
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See, here's the problem: The Dallas Mavericks aren't just playing the San Antonio Spurs; they're also fighting the devil. Their internal devil. Who is he, you ask? It's the little demented, destructive voice inside them. Inside us all. The one that urges you to hit the snooze button. The one...
Most of us--well, most non-Hispanics, anyway--have been eating nachos for many years without a clue as to where the term originated. You see, in Tejano culture, "Nacho" is merely the nickname for Ignacio, a rather common name in Spanish-speaking households. And according to Robb Walsh and his Tex-Mex Cookbook, this...
Well, I think I got some interesting stuff here.The city keeps telling people they're going to "fix" the Trinity River levees. Don't much think so. Looks to me like a whole lot of the existing levee system along the Trinity is going to have be torn out and replaced.My column...
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Slip Ups On The Upswing?
This week, state Sen. Jane Nelson, a Republican from Flower Mound, introduced legislation to combat childhood obesity by requiring more P.E. time for school-age children. S.B. 890 was one of three pieces of legislation she introduced this week "designed to improve the health of Texas' youth," according to her press...
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Enter Sand, Man
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Now that the truth is finally coming out about the Trinity River toll road project, it makes a difference to remember who said what two years ago. And not just as gotcha. The Trinity River toll road is in trouble now because the basic due diligence on it never took...
In the wake of A.H. Belo's recent announcement that it's laying off yet another 500 employees -- no later than March 28 -- the question is: How much money did The Dallas Morning News's parent company make in 2008, the first year it operated as a spin-off of Belo Corp.?...
I interrupt my usual smart-ass sports snarkiness for a serious item: Just a little over a week ago Megan Cherry was a talented teenager with a world of promise. She was a star soccer player for her Dallas Texans club team and Allen High School, with a scholarship awaiting at Iowa...
Does truth get more difficult the smarter you are? On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton told a Washington grand jury, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is....[I]f 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is...