Apostle of Hustle's sophomore release doesn't have the folkloric feel of its 2004 predecessor, Folkloric Feel. Heh, heh. Frontman Andrew Whiteman's affinity for Caribbean drums and Cuban guitar flourish is still thoroughly present, though it's decidedly less predominant. Any one of the resulting 12 fuzzy, often spacey, indie-rock folk songs...
It's the second race at Lone Star Park, and the trainers are saddling their horses. A jockey dressed in black silks is boosted atop the long shot, a bay filly with a dab of white between her eyes. The horse is fit but looks skinny and fragile: Her ankles are...
If you're at the AFI this week and bump into this man, well, he's the only the festival's founder, director and chairman -- guy by the name of Liener Temerlin. And how can we kick off our AFI Dallas International Film Festival coverage today...? (Trust me, there's gonna be plenty...
So, he'll be on the list, right? Right. In case you're interested, yesterday's posting concerning the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "Definitive 200" list -- argh -- has turned into a "Definitive Dallas" discussion. So join us, if you're interested, in determining the most essential albums recorded by local...
Amory Lovins is gonna change the world, probably before he changes a lightbulb. Melting ice caps, starving polar bears and costal towns in eminent danger of submersion -- all of these depressing scenarios are at least in part the results of the stubborn belief that energy efficiency is inevitably and...
The spring light dims across a Northwest Dallas backyard. The soft glow from a cluster of white candles circling a young oak tree illuminates the freshly tended lawn. Dangling strings of iridescent paper and shimmering white Christmas lights give the yard a heavenly glow. A gray-haired man in Wrangler jeans...
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that while African Americans make up 13 percent of the population, they also account for 37 percent of all abortions performed in the United States, and that while the abortion rate has declined slightly in recent years, rates are "declining more slowly...
Overheard conversation. Guy describes seeing Explosions in the Sky live. Guy: I was kind of disappointed, because they were just improvising it all. Girl stares blankly. Guy: I mean, I thought their music was more thought-out than that. Girl: So? I'm with the girl. Whether EITS painstakingly craft each composition...
A press release has gone out announcing that the law firm of Steve Susman, the Houston-based attorney representing Mayor Laura Miller's Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition, has "successfully concluded its pro bono representation" of the coalition in its fight against TXU's 11 proposed coal-fired power plants in the state. As...
A woman should ask a man's advice about clothes? In what universe? What an easy, breezy digital society we live in. E-mails and e-cards are composed without a second thought, off to their destination before we can say "bare minimum effort required." Nobody sends real, live letters anymore -- nobody...
In case you missed it, on Sunday some thousand folks gathered at the state capitol building to protest TXU's plans to build at least 11 new coal-fired plants in the state. And, in case you missed it, Laurie "Wife of Larry" David and Sheryl Crow are embarking on a two-week...
Roughly eight years ago a group of 15 longhorns from ranches all over Texas was herded by modern cowboys through Fort Worth, from Sundance Square all the way to the northside Stockyards. Photographers documented the event—The Last Great Cattle Drive of the 20th Century—and the result is a portfolio of...
Editor’s Note: Please see our follow-up report at the end of this article. The 2004 magazine ad for Silver American Eagles that caught Maureen O'Neill's eye included a thumbnail history and some mumbo jumbo about the coins being "certified gem brilliant uncirculated" and "sonically sealed in a tamper-evident holder." But...
Dave Faulkner, singer-songwriter for Australia's legendary punk-pop combo the Hoodoo Gurus, sips coffee in his home in Sydney and talks about the band's decision to regroup and their first trip to the United States in more than a decade. "We played a festival date in Australia, and we discovered we...
In recognition of his continued charity work, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was summoned to center court before last Saturday's All-Star Celebrity Slam Jam and presented a bling-blingy diamond necklace by comedian Bill Bellamy. In T-minus two months, Cuban will be handed a far more valuable hunk of precious minerals...
A relatively unknown candidate for mayor just six months ago, Tom Leppert has garnered attention, endorsements and cash by relentlessly casting himself as a successful former chief executive officer whose stewardship of Turner Construction, one of the world's largest construction companies, was an apt prelude to leading a city like...
The prisoner, dressed in white cotton that's beginning to fray, ducks into the office and glances around nervously. The man behind the desk asks him to take a seat. The prisoner sits on a metal chair, his knees together, his scuffed work boots placed squarely on the floor. He is...
God told Moses to free the Hebrews from slavery. He wants Larry to free people from traffic. Larry Neal, a middle-aged man with a healthy crop of boyish red hair, says that by listening to the spirit of God, he's on the verge of making history, giving us the flying...
Wendy Wasserstein wrote An American Daughter more than a decade before Hillary Rodham Clinton's election to the Senate and her push toward the presidency, before Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House. Condoleezza Rice, as the newly appointed Stanford University provost, wasn't yet a major political power player in 1993,...
So, that was quick: From "first reported on Friday evening" to settled by Sunday afternoon, TXU yesterday was taken private after Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group forked over $45 billion for the Dallas-based energy provider. And eight of the 11 coal-fired plants TXU wanted to build throughout the...
Kudos: We don't usually envy daily newspaper folk. Dailies are too bureaucratic, too lacking in the smart-alecky-ness that we love. Here in alterna-world, when big papers suffer through staff cuts, as The Dallas Morning News did with a round of buyouts last year, we eat up the schadenfreude like it's...
Tom Leppert is a tall, thin 52-year-old from North Dallas who talks as if he has five more minutes to live. If you don't know by now—and judging by the dismal turnout in last Saturday's election, you probably don't—he and council member Ed Oakley are in the runoff to be...
