Mike Jones blew Ted Haggard's cover. Patty Calhoun, editor of Denver's Westword--one of the Dallas Observer's sister papers--suggests in her column this week that Ted Haggard was deeper into the gay lifestyle than his statements might have led you to believe. Mike Jones--the male prostitute who blew Haggard's cover last...
On the evening of November 13, hundreds of people swarmed Farmers Branch City Hall. The small council chamber quickly reached capacity, and most of those trying to get in were relegated to the lobby. Some jostled for a view of the meeting through the closed glass doors while others watched...
The "thinking-man's metal" tag that hangs on Isis seems bad for business, but guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner and his comrades don't appear to mind. After all, the jacket of their new CD includes the quote "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" that inspired the album's title, as well as a quasi-footnote...
Clearly nobody needs a primer on indie rock. We all have our own idea of what it is, right? Nonetheless, why is it that so few of us can agree on who deserves such a designation? Fact is, attempting to define indie rock universally is as futile a task as...
Here's your new Secretary of Defense, Texas A&M president Robert Gates. Gig 'em. You might wanna turn on your TV right now: President George W. Bush is yelling at reporters, to whom he just said Donald Rumsfeld is out as Secretary of Defense. In is Robert Gates, former National Security...
The last of the original Lemonheads, Evan Dando has been through a lot in the last decade or so after becoming yet another casualty to the "next Kurt Cobain" hype machine. He got clean, got married, released a widely underappreciated solo effort (Baby I'm Bored) and even fronted the MC5...
Take a good look at Proctor Hall, which currently sits at 1206 N. Haskell. It's been there since 1921. Probably won't be there much longer. Awesome. On Wednesday afternoon, Katherine Seale, the interim executive director of Preservation Dallas, sent an e-mail with the subject heading, "Lincoln Hall to be demolished."...
In December 2004, Roy Combs, a career criminal who ran a South Dallas car lot, was named as one of 23 members of a criminal organization that smuggled hundreds of pounds of cocaine each month from Mexico to Dallas and beyond, including Oklahoma, Mississippi and Ohio. The U.S. Attorney's Office...
You know how much we're fascinated by the whole Afflilated Computer Services Inc. stock-option manipulating scandal; it's been all over Unfair Park in recent months. Well, if you read the Wall Street Journal this morning, you know it just got a little better: "The options-backdating scandal claimed more high-level officials,...
Mitchell Rasansky got his poll results. Says they look good. Then, that's what the doctor told us last time, and, ah, not so much, buddy. Mitchell Rasansky assured me that as of 1500 hours Central Standard Time October 3, 2006 he still had not made up his mind whether to...
The judge who presided over Emily Dowdy's three trials was voted off the bench this week, giving Dowdy's family hope for a new trial. Here's some election news from our neighbor to the north; no, not Canada. Oklahoma County Judge Susan Caswell, the pro-prosecution jurist who has presided over three...
Amanda Salcido was standing in line clutching a package of ground beef when she saw the $100 bills. The man in front of her at the United Supermarket opened his wallet to pay for groceries, and she watched over his shoulder as he riffled through the bills, looking for a...
On their self-titled debut, the Scissor Sisters dipped their hands into a multitude of genres, which is what made the songs fun. In contrast, Ta-Dah overflows with nothing but pop and dance ditties. If the Bee Gees entered the studio with Elton John cohort Bernie Taupin and Beatles producer George...
Since coping with a near-fatal bout of hepatitis C, Alejandro Escovedo returned to the studio late last year to put out his first non-live album in four years, The Boxing Mirror, and to the road—just not with the same fast pace or recklessness as days past. Getting new music out,...
We're getting old. Remember the days when skateboarding, BMX, inline skating and freestyle motocross were called extreme (or, for that matter, even punk)? Well, those days are gone—we are now pleased to inform you about the LG Action Sports World Championships for the above mentioned activities. Qualifications for this event...
When it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Bobcat Goldthwait's Stay, now rebranded as Sleeping Dogs Lie for some inexplicable reason, was the talk of Park City, Utah, before anyone had even seen the movie. Based on pre-screening buzz, most folks figured the movie—shot on digital video, though...
Hardball: First, one of their players threw a folding chair that hit Craig Bueno's wife in the face and broke her nose at an Oakland A's game two years ago. Now the Texas Rangers are throwing mud at A's fan and heckler extraordinaire Bueno in a San Francisco Bay Area...
Zac Attack Mumblin' mess: Zac Crain ("The Zac Factor," by Jim Schutze, November 30) was one of four mayoral candidates I listened to one Sunday morning a month or so ago. (One of the others was Mitchell Rasansky; I don't remember the others.) The candidates were uninspiring. As I left,...
And, for once, it ain't T.O. Dallas' Only Daily has two fascinating Cowboys-related tales today, one featuring Terrell Owens and the other inviting punch lines about the volatile receiver's alter ego. On a semi-serious note, a special advertising section insert (for the life of me I can't find it online)...
For the past six years, A. John Rush of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has been leading a federal study on depression; it's been released in bits and pieces over the past few months, with some findings being published as recently as March. But Rush, who's the vice...
Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck were not in London in March 2003, when Dixie Chick Natalie Maines told a Shepherd's Bush Empire audience, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." The filmmakers wanted to be there—they had begged to be there, in...
Dear Mexican, My fiancé is trying to learn Spanish so he can speak to my grandmother when we get married next month. Lately, he's been listening to CNN en Español to get an ear for the language. A couple of days ago, he told me that, after several weeks of...
