It's a Dirty Job... DPD Sergeant Ricardo Terrones learns the pitfalls of investigating fellow cops PITY THE MAN who must investigate his bosses' wrongdoings. Nothing but trouble will come his way. So it is with Ricardo Terrones, a sergeant with the Dallas Police Department working in Internal Affairs--a job in...
Culture clash at the DMA 8/7 There was a time when "art" was a social touchstone in the way that Star Wars, Desperate Housewives or that new Coldplay album is today. It brought people together regardless of critical consensus and generated thought, conversation and debate. For better or for worse,...
As VH1 recently informed us, "All reality is not created equal." Apparently, reality involving celebrities is far more entertaining, and reality that exploits the vast archive of pop music is best of all. Numerous TV shows of the latter type have turned up this summer, and though none of them...
To survey Gordon Parks' lifework in photographs is to move through a landscape of visual extremes. Make way for a collision of conflicting events, attitudes and worldviews. In keeping with such visual discord and crack-up, the Dallas Museum of Art's exhibition Gordon Parks, Half Past Autumn: Selections from the Collection...
The sun hung in the sky behind the 400-year-old oak trees that surround Thee Hubbell House. Tim Carmichael, round and bearded, paced the front lawn of the historic bed and breakfast in Winnsboro, mowing the grass. It had been six weeks since he'd seen Paul, and his hope hadn't run...
Chloe Sevigny, wearing a maid's outfit, cleans a hotel room in the new Smog video. Her right eye is bandaged. She's vacuuming. A television's on in the room, and a newscaster speaks over images of explosions. Sevigny moves in a mournful daze as the clean-cut anchor--played by Smog's sole member,...
Wait a minute. Before it slips beneath the waves forever, I would like to take a quick second look at the recent Dallas Morning News series, "Striking Differences," in which the newspaper accused the Dallas County prosecutor of racism. Race is a tough issue in town. Everything in Dallas is...
In last week's column we alluded to a drink recipe handed to us by Indy Racing League chef Eddie Wilson. Well, the Burning Question crew mixed up a few batches of the stuff, a harmless blend of apple cider, cinnamon candy, blackberry brandy and Everclear. It's almost the perfect summer...
"Hit me," says Mark Zupan--begs, actually, like a kid clamoring for a new toy. "I'll hit you back." He means it, too, and his ripped pecs and buzzed scalp and tattooed back and arms and bushy gangster goatee promise just as much menace. The dude's bad and doesn't need to...
A former accountant, prosecutor and judge, Margaret Keliher doesn't seem like the type of person to daydream idly. Still, you have to wonder if she looks at Harriet Miers, the president's besieged nominee for U.S. Supreme Court justice, and thinks how that could have been her had she ever met...
She spotted her blind date right away: the clean-cut guy in the black T-shirt that said Special Forces. Kristen Rhoad had first come into contact with Phil Haberman on Match.com in December 2003. One screen name he favored was 19thSFguy--an allusion to his role in Army Special Forces. A self-described...
Camp Death The site of Cindy Sheehan's war protest is crowded with opinions and ghosts CRAWFORD--There's a bunch of people standing across the street from the Yellow Rose, waiting to see if it'll blow up. An hour earlier, someone called the Crawford Police Department and said the general store was...
The musicians you see on these pages were not chosen by me. For the first time, we opened up the nomination process to the public, resulting in one of the most eclectic, and representative, ballots ever. Longtime bands this paper has never nominated--The Feds, Fair to Midland, Olospo--stood proudly alongside...
Glen plaid short-shorts? Check. Frilly layered tops and camisoles? Got it. Vibrant colors, retro patterns and chunky accessories for days? And how. Somewhere between the Valley of the Dolls and the return of Daisy Duke are the girly new designs of Douglas Voisin and Andrew Bayer's new Dallas-based women's fashion...
Robert Rodriguez just keeps cranking 'em out. This hasn't always been a good thing--Spy Kids 2 and 3 felt rushed in a way that the first one didn't, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico looked cheap compared with its cinematic predecessor, Desperado. But the more Rodriguez keeps at it,...
VENICE, Italy--All the ballyhoo over globalization in the last decade has turned the word into just another catchall for life in the age of electronic dispersion. Though meant to convey a new condition of cultural diversity and interconnection, it has come to describe our collective state of bland tolerance. Globalism...
Errant pet owners serve time in doggie defensive driving At 10 a.m. on the first Saturday of August, a glum group of people gathered at the Skyline branch of the Dallas Public Library, as a different group does each month. They are the rogues, the rapscallions, the "dog-at-large" violators. You...
Emily Dowdy walks into the small cinder-block room and, using her left arm to lift her right, shakes hands. At 5 feet 8 inches and 120 pounds, Dowdy appears skinny and slightly hunched, her blue eyes a bit wary. Her hair is no longer blond but brown, chopped off and...
From the look on Kris Wheat's face, he's been waiting for someone to finally say the words out loud: "The Secret Machines." He reacts immediately. "I'll bad blood some shit at those assholes." The rest of Day of the Double Agent laughs nervously, but Wheat's not joking. The New York...
Andy Bothwell wasn't supposed to lose. It was August 2002 when the SMU student, then 20 years old, drove all the way to Cincinnati to compete in the Scribble Jam, the Midwest's largest annual hip-hop event. The MC, going by his alias Astronautalis, was supposed to show and prove on...
Look out, Dallas! Ryan Adams is on his way to town. The troubled troubadour is slated to play Gypsy Tea Room on June 17, and early reports of his current tour say his antics are still up to his Replacements-like standard: disaster one night, sublime wonder the next. Shades of...
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of The Art of OneMind, the soulful hip-hop collaboration realized by New Jersey beatmaker Illmind and Dallas' own Symbolyc One, is that despite flip-flopping production duties and using more than 30 vocalists, the project has a unified sonic approach that sounds as though it sprang...
