Brandon Thibodeaux Lowell Cannaday and Lupe Valdez during one of their debates The troops are scattered hither and yon: with the Dems at Bishop Arts, with the Republicans at the Raddison, and we've even pulled Pulle back into the fold for a night to hang with Alan Vaught at the...
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"Are you one of the beautiful people? Is my name on the list? I want to be with the beautiful people... I wanna feel like I'm missed..." Eels - "Guest List" I went to high school with a kid named Greg Holman. His father was a painter named George, who...
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We Heart NY
This is how it all began to unravel. 6:34: 16-foot jumper, Jason Terry— Mavericks 89, Heat 76. On Tuesday, June 13, 2006, at approximately 10:15 p.m. in Miami's American Airlines Arena, the Dallas Mavericks could taste their first NBA Championship. Already leading their best-of-seven NBA Finals series against the Heat,...
Many of them were tucked away in suburban strip malls, their storefronts always the black sheep of the retail family. They were usually owned by a single lifelong music fan, someone who relished the opportunity to dog-paddle in the eye of the pop culture hurricane. Sometimes they smelled like incense...
Daniel Rodrigue Bishop Arts last night, jam-packed with drinky Dems Hundreds of people packed Bishop Street last night, filling the sidewalks of Oak Cliff’s arts district and watching the election returns on huge screens erected outside the shops and cafes. As the Happy Bullets played on stage and Barack Obama...
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Speaking of band shells, really, Fair Park, anyone? Anyone? Back in the spring, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts realized they might have a wee bit of a problem, what with the DSO playing inside the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the DCPA...
Mark Graham Haseeb Chishty On Tuesday night, Farhat Chishty got the news: The U.S. Department of Justice, after months of investigating, had completed a scathing report on the Texas State Schools for the disabled and was threatening to sue the state for violating residents' constitutional rights. Chishty, whose crusade to...
There were goblins and ghouls aplenty on the streets this Halloween weekend. And most of them even wore costumes. But whether you were ghoulish by choice or by birth it was a good weekend to embrace the inner music monster and head on out to see some shows. Here’s the...
A bump in the road? Or the beginning of the end? Couple months back I forecasted a significant change in the way the radio ratings wind would blow around these parts in the fall. Wow. I had no idea. With Arbitron finally awaking to the digital age and replacing its...
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The Cowboys’ Crappy New Year!
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Vaught’s Seat Still Up for Grabs
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The only Bond worth a damn Despite a petition drive against the convention center hotel that even proponents are certain will result in a referendum, the mayor and council members, along with developer Jack Matthews, are continuing to move forward with the final stages of the project. But as the...
I don't love Texas. I don't hate Oklahoma. But what transpired yesterday in the Big 12 is absolute bullshit. I know life ain't fair, but college football should be. Or at least it should use common sense trying. Let me apologize to Texas. I posted some of the best...
Moments ago, the Texas Freedom Network posted to its Web site a study conducted by Dr. Raymond Eve, a professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Texas at Arlington, titled Evolution, Creationism & Public Schools: Surveying What Texas Scientists Think about Educating Our Kids in the 21st Century...
You'd think that when a young band has the good fortune to see its self-produced first album re-released on a big label and then be sent to a proper Los Angeles studio to record the second, the results would be something like a kid in a GameStop store. But after...
Two entertainment notes to start your day, including news of a new CW TV show set in Dallas. Don't know the name yet, or even it will be filmed here (calls are in to Dallas Film Commission director Janis Burklund), but its roots are reputable enough: Endemol USA, the production...
There was a day, we're told, when stern instructors forced the fabled "three R's" on students who walked varying distances through the remnants of vicious blizzards (or ravaging locusts, I forget which) for lessons. Then Baby Boomers, unwilling to subject their own kids to little traumas that may affect self-actualization...
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The Boom Boom Box
No doubt, as Sam mentioned Monday, the biggest item breathing down the council's neck today is the smoking ordinance amendment, among the handful of items on the briefing agenda. But among the other interesting highlights at least worth a look-see this morning: Vonciel Jones Hill and Tennell Atkins' slide show...
Several years ago, in a somewhat disturbing trend, relatively affluent 20-somethings began donning Von Dutch trucker hats and crowding into the contrived environs of places like Double Wide. Downing cans of beer in a staged version of Podunk apparently made privileged urban types feel more real, more down-to-earth—a kind of...
Can't budge. My 22-year-old son, Will, is standing in the bow of the canoe breaking branches to allow us to go forward. I'm trying to paddle backward so we can turn, but the stern of the canoe is locked in a fist of vines and trunks, meaning we have managed...