In 2004, when Beastie Boy Adam Yauch discovered a fan's cell phone concert photo, an idea was born: give cameras to the fans and let them shoot enough footage to make a feature-length film. The result is awesome. Literally. The film Awesome: I...Shot That was made by 50 camera-toting fans...
A few people fell for our Dirk Nowitzki April Fool's prank, including Mike Rhyner and Greg Williams, hosts of "The Hardline" on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket), but most people didn't. The song did make its way around the Internet, though, which was good enough for us. One blogger called it...
In the awed silence, you can almost hear the mouths watering as 50 or so people in the audience stare at the screen. The numbers are staggering. BioPerformance, Inc. was founded not even five months ago in Irving, but in that short time, Scott Chandler, standing next to the screen...
Because everyone loves lists, here's one from the Texas Department of Insurance listing the Top 10 insurance-fraud offenders in the state--and, golly, a whole bunch of 'em are from Dallas and Fort Worth. To give you a sneak peek, here's the chart-topper: Plano's very own Walter Neuls, former president of...
When kids of all ages discuss comic books and superheroes, there is inevitably one question that comes up time and again: If that one guy and that other guy had a fight, who would win? Comics companies occasionally indulge these debates with special issues pitting Thing against Hulk or Wolverine...
There was a time, before the lawsuits, the criminal complaints and the machinations of a has-been actress, when the Saabs and the Rhoduses were friends, although what they had in common besides Park Cities addresses is a mystery. Tom and Debbie Rhodus are both attorneys, nearly as intelligent as they...
Should Forward Dallas! pass, the city of the future could look a lot like the city of the past. But in a good way, right? Wednesday ought to be one hell of a day at City Hall: Not only is the city council scheduled to vote on Forward Dallas!, the...
Losing our Virgin-ity: Come June 18, this place is going buh-bye. On June 18, the Virgin Megastore in Mockingbird Station is closing its big glass doors for good. About 10 minutes ago, I was told this was a mere rumor. Then I found this on the local location's Web site:...
It's well past midnight in Leander, Texas, and as usual, Travis Wilson can't sleep. His skin is itching. It's always itching. He tries not to think about it, but it's been itching for more than a year, and he cannot make it stop. It's driving him crazy. He paces the...
On a Saturday afternoon in January 2005, a short Indian minister stormed into Gallery Furniture in Houston and demanded to speak to owner Jim "Mattress Mac" McIngvale. There are few places as crowded as Gallery Furniture on a Saturday, but the man, surrounded by his entourage, was insistent. A staff...
Red Monroe (Dallas): After I first saw Red Monroe in concert more than a year ago, I begged then-music editor Sarah Hepola to lemme say something--anything--about the impressive show. Her section was already filled up for the week, she said, but she had room for a short blurb (scroll to...
Ejiofor plays Simon, aka Lola, a flamboyant drag queen who gets to sing show tunes, issue snappy putdowns, and look fabulous. (He is not, he explains, a transvestite, because while drag queens look good in a dress, trannies "look like Boris Yeltsin in lipstick.") Lola is also nursing some deep...
The dripped bumpy surfaces of Charlotte Smith's paintings and the bulbous pneumatic contours of William Cannings' sculpture convey explosions. You'll find no destruction or apocalypse in the exhibition Pop Up at Pan American Art Gallery. Rather, theirs is an artful blast that, in the case of Smith, makes for patterns...
Somebody Say Omen Rantings of an idiot: At last, someone is writing about what can only be described as completely narcissistic, despicable and criminal behavior by Davidson ("The Devil and Doyle Davidson," by Glenna Whitley, May 18). I am astounded that so many people would listen to and follow the...
The Dallas Morning News came out today in favor of Dallas Independent School District superindendent Michael Hinojosa's reform plan, Dallas Achieves!, which is designed to root out the waste in the system and make it more accountable to students and parents. No one could argue with the plan's core mission...
That's you, Kyle Rowe, former president of the Dallas-based brokerage Salomon Grey Financial Corp. According to this piece yesterday, the securities industry's self-regulatory arm known as the National Association of Securities Dealers (or NASD) got nasty and not only expelled Salomon Grey on Thursday, but also permanently barred the 39-year-old...
The piano greets me before I even reach the main entrance to the Dallas apartment where I'm meeting the pAper chAse. I wait for the playing to pause before knocking...it's just polite. The greeting is appropriate--that very instrument symbolizes the thread of transformation, and even maturation, that the Dallas band...
The other night, I got a call from an old high school buddy who wanted to catch up. When we met for dinner, we asked each other the usual questions--jobs, relationships, did you see how fat what's-his-name got--and then he asked me a point-blank question that, for whatever reason, caught...
Andrea's post below wholly ignores the fact that two very good concerts in the past few weeks, Dinosaur Jr. at the Gypsy Tea Room's Ballroom and the Books at Hailey's, either sold out or were filled to capacity. Neither of those bands covered Coldplay. Comparing national and local draws is...
Fan-friggin'-tastic The bilge that plagues FM: It takes some big ol' cojones to write an article like "Brown October" (by Jesse Hughey, April 20). I am in love with Jesse Hughey's line, "Look, Brant Coulter, just because your guitar teacher supped from the buttholes of Vai and Satriani doesn't mean...
On a clear, blue Thursday morning--which is to say, today--Dallas City Council member Gary Griffith announced his candidacy for mayor on the stone steps of Woodrow Wilson High School, where he was a student some 40 years ago. As he stood atop the podium, a life-sized poster of him as...
By all accounts, the Dallas real estate market seems to be on the upswing; plenty o'land for anyone who wants it, right? It's cheap too, and there's enough space so that nobody has to get riled up over not-in-my-backyard! issues. Except when the land is literally your backyard, and someone...
