Yes, when you think intimate theater-sized venues, certainly the American Airlines Center is the first venue that comes to mind. When the Dallas Stars play in the American Airlines Center, the joint holds 18,000 people; when the Mavs are there, the capacity jumps to 19,200. But the AAC is just...
Friday is shaping up to be one hell of a night. For those of you not de-evolving with DEVO or watching Sam Jackson arm-wrestle snakes, consider this: a date with the "Devil." Southern Rock legend Charlie Daniels (and his band) will play at the Silverado Ranch in Irving, to the...
I can scream from the mountaintops about the wonders of the Internet all I want. Shout about blogs. Hoot 'n' holler about podcasts. But for all the attention and growth that Dallas music Web sites have seen in the past few years, the result is still just the sound of...
Life was so much easier when Braniff was flying out of Love Field. Remember its "Terminal of the Future," pictured here? Yeah, that worked out well. Turns out some folks in the Justice Department aren't the only ones finding "Problems with the New Wright Amendment Deal" reached by the Dallas...
The mall in Dead Rising is pretty much like any other you've visited. There's a bunch of women's clothing stores, a movie theater, and of course the obligatory food court. The only real difference is that it's teeming with enough zombies to fill a stadium. Dead Rising opens with freelance...
Toyota's latest promotional campaign is, in a word, crafty. Trying extra-hard to market their newest car to art nerds, the design-hip, fuel-efficient Yaris disguises its dog-and-pony show in the form of a DIY free-for-all. This Wednesday through Saturday (August 23 to 26), the YarisWorks Roadshow makes a stop in Dallas...
A front page story in the Wall Street Journal this morning explored how Prohibition-era state and local regulations-- originally constructed to keep single brokers from controlling the booze trade much as mobsters did during Prohibition—are crumbing under the force of court challenges on constitutional grounds. These regulations kept consumers from...
Earlier this year, Lance Armstrong and a local promotions company went to war over millions. The result: more doping allegations and a bunch of cash. Yesterday's Los Angeles Times contained a 4,359-word story that can best be summed up this way: Some bicycle racers say Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs...
First, a rat. Next, a load of bullshit. Can't wait to see what McDonald's serves up for Thanksgiving. See, Chrissy Haley isn't suing the Southlake McDonald's and its corporate parent for $1.7 million just because she and her nanny found a dead rat in her Bacon Ranch Salad last summer...
This extravagantly named pop-rock dude was born and bred in small-town Ohio, providing him with a solid Rust Belt foundation that's reflected in his sturdy meat-and-potatoes songwriting. The tunes on Full Moon Cigarette, Gran Bel Fisher's debut, explore familiar young-man lyrical turf regarding life and love, and his handsome, high-flying...
If you think the local Democratic Party achieved its victory in Dallas County last week through good luck and timing, the rise of Jim Foster won't change your mind. Now the county judge-elect, Foster hadn't even decided to run until an hour before the filing deadline. On January 2, the...
It was a fairly simply instruction. Last July, Governor Rick Perry's office wrote a letter to Dallas County Judge Margaret Keliher recommending that the Commissioners Court spend its Homeland Security dollars on--wait for it--homeland security. "The County should re-evaluate the priority of Homeland Security funding to focus on the ability...
Queso the cat, known to lap up cheese outside a Taco Cabana in Waco, was well known to students at Baylor University. The scrawny stray later went on to gain national attention when two students brutally killed it, then got off scot-free. Texas has some of the weakest animal protection...
The state's Health and Human Services Commission report, titled Hurricane Katrina Evacuees in Texas, is available online now; go here to see what we've been referring to this afternoon. There's also a story in today's Christian Science Monitor about the strain the 251,000 Katrina evacuees are beginning to put on...
Creflo Dollar: Now, there's a name you can believe in. One day a colleague dropped an article on my desk. I imagined it was an emphatic drop, as if he were saying, "Here. The Smoking Gun." So I read it. It was a New York Times story on black televangelist...
On their eponymous debut, the Futureheads played like there was no future. Everything they had they threw into that recording studio and, as a result, the album is proof of the dangers of indie-mod excess, artsy punks with a clever sense of humor and elaborate four-part harmonies run amok. Maybe...
Tom Petty has made some of the most apropos music to ever enhance windshield time, both solo and with the Heartbreakers. But despite its title, Highway Companion isn't exactly that. Instead, his new near-literally solo album--on which Petty plays a full complement of instruments down to the drums, abetted only...
For most people, the words "role-playing game" conjure images of sweaty Dungeons & Dragons-obsessed weirdos, wearing cloaks and screaming "Lightning bolt!" at each other. But even non-RPG players gave the genre a try when Final Fantasy VII debuted back in 1997. The beautiful graphics and heart-tugging story made it an...
Rose Renfroe didn't exactly call her Democratic opponent Scott Chase a pedophile, but she came awfully close. Now he's refusing to support her in her race against Republican incumbent Ken Mayfield, bucking the time-honored political convention of putting party ahead of principle. "I'm not supporting Rose Renfroe or Ken Mayfield...
Edie Brickell--and the New Bohemians, as well as husband Paul Simon--will perform in Fair Park August 26 at a benefit for one of Brickell's childhood friends. On October 28, 2005, Robert Meadows--who KXAS-Channel 5 referred to in January as a "42-year-old struggling actor"--was robbed and beaten by three people in...
PPT--named for members Pikahsso, Picnic and Tahiti--became the first hip-hop act ever signed to Dallas label Idol Records in August, a few months after their song "Rowdy, Loud and Proud" was chosen as the Dallas Mavericks' playoff theme song. If you didn't know better, that turn of events would sound...
Six weeks after my story on the truck-eating railway trestle on Garland Road near the White Rock Lake spillway, DART told The Dallas Morning News that it is looking at tearing the bridge down. Three bright yellow signs warn drivers that the abandoned trestle has a clearance of 12 feet...
