We're not sure if this will protect you from infectious diseases at the gym, but it will keep people away from you. You needed, like, one more reason not to go to the gym today, right? Good. Because I've got one. Turns out--shock of shocks--getting fit in a public workout...
On a sunny September morning in 2005, Preston Hollow Elementary School hosted Bike to School Day. Dozens of grinning children with fair skin played and talked outside in the courtyard, relaxing happily after rides through their North Dallas neighborhood of garish mansions and stately brick homes. Parents shared tea and...
It's only a Friday, but it feels like Christmas morning. First the movie version of Dallas takes a header, now comes word that Affiliated Computer Services Inc.'s lendor wants its money back--pronto. How much? Maybe as much as $500 million. According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission made...
Data Drive Thru says its ad, starring 6-year-old chimp Cody, is cruelty-free, which probably won't satisfy PETA. Didn't the first two times... Yesterday, we mentioned how the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was opposed to an ad for Dallas-based Data Drive Thru's new networking device called The Tornado...
The News gave you no news about Rose Renfroe and Ken Mayfield today. But the paper's story about their campaigns did answer the question: "You're so awesome, how come you're so awesome?" Kevin Krause of The Dallas Morning News normally does a very good job covering Dallas County politics, and...
The following events have been irresponsibly fictionalized for dramatic effect. However, the names have not been changed. The Dallas Banjo Band claims to have formed back in 1989, and you'd be hard pressed to find any history on them prior to that. At first, it would appear as though this...
So, you wanna piece of Marty Turco? Have a seat. Down the hall, hang a left into the Dallas Stars players' lounge. Back there, past the P.F. Chang's spread and the Super Chexx bubble hockey game. Go ahead, plop down in one of those plush black leather chairs. Kick back...
Mark Graham Craig Watkins is the new Dallas County District Attorney. You think you're shocked, imagine how Toby Shook feels. People are walking around like zombies at Dallas County courthouses today as incumbent judges who looked invincible last week began contemplating the prospect of looking for new jobs in the...
One morning, Gary Walkow was suddenly transformed into a successful Hollywood filmmaker. Gone were the hat-in-hand searches for financing, the deferred salaries, the long shooting days with undermanned crews, and the months upon years spent touring the festival circuit while seeking a distribution deal. For a moment, he was taking...
I don't want you to imagine this scene. It's not imaginary. I want you to see it. Picture this. South Dallas at night. Jim's Car Wash, corner of Myrtle Street and MLK Boulevard. Right across Myrtle Street a dope house is doing a land-office business. Behind the car wash on...
Arrested Development: Season Three (Fox) The final collection of Arrested Development discs feels sadly incomplete: only 13 episodes this time, the result of Fox's inability to attract viewers to one of TV's greatest comedies and the network's unwillingness to give it a full farewell. But none of that diminishes the...
Thai ThaiAn all-you-can-eat lunch buffet for $6 is a deal good enough to set off warning bells. How good can the food be if they can give you so much of it for so little? At Thai Thai, the answer is pretty damn good. The spicy basil beef is truly mouth-watering while the masaman curry is […]
XocolatlThe walls are painted the color of chocolate, and the tables are covered in cloths that looks like caramel. At Xocolatl, everything in the store has something to do with chocolate. Take breakfast, for example. They have chocolate pancakes, chocolate croissants and chocolate pastries; a dinner menu is on the way. The owner and chief […]
TV on the Radio's latest effort is a tad overwhelming at first. But after taking the time to fully absorb the layers and layers of incredibly dense textures woven by guitarist/producer David Andrew Sitek, it's clear that the baby justifies the labor. Wading through the fractured, shape-shifting aesthetic is made...
They're relics: Stephan Pyles' bone-in cowboy rib eye and Dean Fearing's lobster tacos. They cling to evolving menus like vestiges from a bygone era when Texas mattered. Southwestern cuisine is dead. It went out with a wheezy whimper. The city's SW power trio—Dean Fearing, Stephan Pyles and Avner Samuel—who were...
We wear the chains we forge in life. Link by link their weight increases until at last the burden is so great it drags us down into the grave. As a Christmas message, this one is sort of "open vein, insert tinsel." But it is the lesson taught in Charles...
It's not the best of vibes inside the Startlegram offices: The editors like a redesign that the writers can't stand. But you know writers -- bunch of know-it-all whiners, ain't we? In about four months, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram will go through yet another redesign. Already there's a prototype floating...
Which Wich?There might be cheaper sandwiches out there, but we doubt you’ll find anything better than the variety at Which Wich, the ubiquitous shop created by Genghis Grill founder Jeff Sinelli. For $4.33, you get to play Dagwood Bumstead, building your own masterwork from the bread up–and the fresh baked bread here actually tastes like bread, […]
On the eve of its 10-year anniversary, the Angstrom Gallery (3609 Parry Ave.) re-opens with Ab Ova, a show so conceptually bizarre it's worthy of a Charlie Kaufman screenplay. Fifty-seven artists (including Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw and Paul Noble) were involved in this project, where one group was given the...
In February 2005, Alice Lynch-Fullen visited her brother, Christopher Lynch, at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center after he was arrested on rape charges in Grand Prairie. A large, imposing man, Lynch had ligature marks around his neck, alerting his distraught sister that he had tried to hang himself. "Don't let...
Up-and-coming visual artist Tony Bones is looking forward to his next show at the Webb Gallery out in Waxahachie. Things have really started picking up for the 23-year-old in the past several months, with various incarnations of his trademark character—a stick figure with droopy hands—making appearances at local art galleries...
Bill Parcells may be an asshole, but he's a complicated, self-torturing and very likely depressed asshole. Which has to count for something. Countless times--well, just three, actually--Richie Whitt's called Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells an "asshole" on Unfair Park. Got no problem with that. From the far outside looking in,...
