On Tuesday, the No. 2 man at the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, Executive Chief Deputy Jesse Flores, met with various employee groups to address rumors that he made some inflammatory comments about white officers at the department. A few weeks ago, I had heard that Flores said he wanted to...
Whatever name you call him by--sHack, Simon Shackleton or Elite Force--the British DJ is widely recognized as one of the top breaks producers in the world. Shackleton's style extends beyond the breakbeat remix and is often referred to as "tech-funk," encompassing various elements of house, techno and old-school electro. Starting...
Fusion is a concept I've never been comfortable with. No one can deny the greatness that is the spork, but the skort? Come on. The problem with fusion is that in order to achieve a good end result, you would have to take two beloved things and combine to produce...
Preservation Dallas is in the middle of its Summer Preservation Institute, described on its Web site as "professional adult education classes that offer various introductions to local preservation issues and history." Courses are $20 each, except for the two—day professional courses, which run $175 a pop. One course, which takes...
Dear Mexican, The Mexican presidential elections have been a freaking mess. I voted for the conservative candidate, Felipe Calderón, who almost everyone agrees won the election. But the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador is making a mess out of this by claiming electoral fraud. Does the Mexican have an opinion...
The best way to show America how the working class lives, Esther Cohen figured, was to give janitors, cabbies and other low-wage workers cameras to document their lives. The result is a new book called Unseen America, which Cohen will sign 7 p.m. Thursday at Borders West Village, 3600 McKinney...
The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Texas redistricting is out, and by almost any measure it's a Republican victory. A 5-4 decision isn't exactly crushing, but the effects certainly are: DeLay's 2003 map, known as Plan 1374C, is left almost intact, as is his new tactic of redistricting whenever power...
Hate to break the bad news, but Austin's Sharks and Sailors may have picked the wrong city to play on Sunday. The quartet wears its love for D.C. punk on its short, black sleeves, and the result reflects the cutthroat gall of Red Animal War and the abrasive guy-girl shouting...
Stevie Ray Vaughan is assured a place on lists of important guitarists because he executes each note with a muscular confidence that convinces a listener that Vaughan believes what he is playing. The uniqueness of this quality in popular music is a shame, but the impact is all the more...
Really, by the time you get to the end of this, you'll feel much better about the Dallas Mavericks' loss last night. Really. If nothing else, you will be so confused you'll forget there even was a basketball game last night. But try. I is not very good at the...
Peregrine, the monumental sixth effort from Kansas' Appleseed Cast, represents not only a stylistic shift from their regrettable emo past but a grander development that borders on transcendent. Eclectic hardly describes the proceedings as electronica mixes surprisingly well with their more usual guitar-driven fare, all in the service of a...
Imagine applying for the top job at a company that has taken you to court. Well, in a variation of the saying "if you can't beat them, join them," Craig Watkins, the Democratic candidate for Dallas County district attorney, once had a legal run-in with the office he now hopes...
Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach's Hall of Fame Racing team finally broke through on the NASCAR circuit yesterday. Wonder how Quincy Carter's racing team's doing. On the football field, that would be disastrous news. But on the NASCAR track, it's a breath of better-late-than-never air. Giving hope to what has...
Frank Bruni, dining critic for The New York Times, today posted the results of his nine-day, 42-stop, 3,650-mile journey to review and rate the best fast food in America. From the McDonald's in Piscataway, New Jersey, to the El Pollo Loco in Torrance, California, Bruni subjected his stomach and the...
Last time we sampled chef Bruno Mella's craft, it was at Mel's on Main, a short-lived Deep Ellum restaurant and bar featuring a mounted and framed butcher knife along with dinner plates autographed by Julia Child and Emeril Lagasse on the walls. There we sampled spongy swordfish with an ammonia...
Since I've seen that one serious photo of Zac on his Web site a million times, I am using this one taken (by Aden Holt, I think) when Zac appears to have been 24. Or 8. Hard to say. Not 10 minutes after a helpful city employee faxed over my...
When Rockstar Games, the company behind the infamous Grand Theft Auto series, announced that it would be making a title for Xbox 360, gamers naturally envisioned a game featuring next-gen hookers. But then Rockstar revealed that the game was actually going to be an elaborate Ping-Pong sim, and fanboys the...
As a producer, Jim Dickinson has worked with such monuments--the Stones, Aretha, Big Star and, hell, probably Mozart--that you can't blame him for choosing a humble setting for his own work. But while this spacious set of Southern soul, front-porch country and juke-joint boogie could be called quaint, it's not...
Finger-lickin' good: Whenever an e-mail hits the AAT wire from local noise-rock progenitor Mwanza Dover, a huge groan can be heard in the office. That's because we need at least five staffers to dig through his lengthy spiels ("I am burned out on the local scene and a lot of...
At least one architect, in Houston, thinks the Calatrava bridge may be a no-go. That'd be a shame. No, really. A Houston-based architect who does some consulting for Houston mayor Bill White sends this missive, through good Friend of Unfair Park Lorlee Bartos, concerning the Calatrava Bridge cost overrun that...
If you're not too busy dashing off to see Superman return today, stop by Zeus and meet the boys who fathered Emily Edison. Right now, and until 7 tonight, two guys are sitting at Zeus Comics on Oak Lawn Avenue waiting to meet you. While that may sound unappetizing--yeah, that's...
And the winners are: Now that you've read the official awards results, you should probably get to seeing the winning acts onstage, right? Quite a few have gigs this weekend, so enough with the witty introductions; here's a handy DOMA winner list for your nighttime enjoyment. Boys Named Sue: Friday,...
