When we last left Richard Daniels, he had been removed as a security guard at the Dallas office of KTVT-Channel 11 (Buzz, October 9). He was let go after he had a run-in with Deborah Norville of Inside Edition, who was in town and had to tape her show in...
Maybe you know the feeling. Maybe it struck you one morning as you stared in the mirror before trundling off to the job you hate, or maybe it hit you so hard one night it woke you from your sleep like a prowler in the bedroom. It's that feeling of:...
Jeremy Enigk is much shorter than he sounds. On the string of records he made as the leader of the mythmaking (and now defunct) Seattle outfit Sunny Day Real Estate, the singer-guitarist used his distinctive singing voice--a high, reedy croon that can swivel from angelic to tortured on a single...
It was one of my best stories at parties and such, a great icebreaker, sure to get a laugh. It was May 5, 2000, and I'd just seen Elliott Smith perform at Trees. He was touring behind his fifth and latest album, that year's Figure 8, and the show couldn't...
There's no foie gras at El Primero, or manicured lawns. No Arab oil sheiks or international playboys loiter at the rail sipping vintage champagne. The glamorous world of European horse racing couldn't seem farther away from this Thoroughbred training track and stables at the edge of Laredo. Here the lunchroom...
Double WideIf the XPO Lounge and the (late, great) Orbit Room had a drunken one-night stand followed by a shotgun wedding, Double Wide would be the result. Or where the reception would be held, at any rate. Open since June, the bar is already a low-culture landmark, thanks to its white-trash environs and white-gold lineup of […]
Double WideIf the XPO Lounge and the (late, great) Orbit Room had a drunken one-night stand followed by a shotgun wedding, Double Wide would be the result. Or where the reception would be held, at any rate. Open since June, the bar is already a low-culture landmark, thanks to its white-trash environs and white-gold lineup of […]
"Feed Me, Wine Me" at The Green RoomA few times a year, we ship the kids to the baby sitter, dress up like the hip kids (plus 30 pounds) and go out for a grown-up meal. Good food, good wine, good times. Our favorite place in which to do this, as it has been for about a decade, is The Green Room. […]
"Feed Me, Wine Me" at The Green RoomA few times a year, we ship the kids to the baby sitter, dress up like the hip kids (plus 30 pounds) and go out for a grown-up meal. Good food, good wine, good times. Our favorite place in which to do this, as it has been for about a decade, is The Green Room. […]
On any given day in Dallas, you can saunter in to Gerald Peters Gallery on Fairmount Street and buy a small Picasso painting for $1.25 million, or pick up a sofa-sized David Bates at Dunn and Brown Contemporary for around $80,000. At the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, you can...
Deion SandersSince we work at the Observer–the unholiest of unholies–talking about God can get a little tricky. No need to pop up on his screen, you understand, lest he take note of all the bad things we’ve done and issue a collective smiting. Still, we’re pretty sure the Big Guy has some other sinners ahead of […]
Deion SandersSince we work at the Observer–the unholiest of unholies–talking about God can get a little tricky. No need to pop up on his screen, you understand, lest he take note of all the bad things we’ve done and issue a collective smiting. Still, we’re pretty sure the Big Guy has some other sinners ahead of […]
A not terribly long time ago in an uninhabitable galaxy called Burbank, a generally astute movie studio founded by four Polish siblings alienated a young hotshot filmmaker. The studio was Warner Bros., and the project was a cold, disturbing, highly stylized vision of a mechanized future called THX-1138. Not wholly...
Given the way the United Nations has been taking a beating in the American media over the past year or so, it may not be a bad thing that the new movie Beyond Borders is at heart a two-hour infomercial for Kofi Annan's organization. As a call to action, the...
What with presidential primary season almost upon us, and what promises (one hopes) to be a nail-biting, nasty, brutish and long race for the White House right around the corner, you may be starting to feel a little itch in your votin' finger. But, alas, unless you maintain primary residence...
Watch 'Em BlowNot just "bad" teachers: I experienced nothing short of a panic attack as I read Jim Schutze's "Schoolhouse Dynamite" (October 16). You see, I teach for DISD in a school that is predicted to be low-performing after the 2003 TAKS scores are released this spring. I predict that...
For a crime fighter, Peter Fleet seems on the smallish side, his slight appearance lacking a command presence, his reedy voice a bit nervous around the edges. But two weeks ago, after his car was burglarized for the third time in three months, after the neighbors in his condominium complex...
Old Monk | SenseThere are several elements to a good bar. A good bar must have an outdoor sitting area to enjoy the six days of nice weather we have each year. (Check.) Inside, the bar must be dark, for ambience and illicit hookups. (Check.) The waitstaff must be friendly but not fake, knowledgeable but not pushy. (Check.) […]
Kids KutzWe heard about one mom who was so desperate to cut her 2-year-old’s hair that she took the scissors to him while he was asleep. Given that she wasn’t a trained professional, and it was dark, and half the kid’s hair was under his head pressed against the mattress, the result wasn’t so great. We’re […]
Kids KutzWe heard about one mom who was so desperate to cut her 2-year-old’s hair that she took the scissors to him while he was asleep. Given that she wasn’t a trained professional, and it was dark, and half the kid’s hair was under his head pressed against the mattress, the result wasn’t so great. We’re […]
Old Monk & SenseThere are several elements to a good bar. A good bar must have an outdoor sitting area to enjoy the six days of nice weather we have each year. (Check.) Inside, the bar must be dark, for ambience and illicit hookups. (Check.) The waitstaff must be friendly but not fake, knowledgeable but not pushy. (Check.) […]
At the end of a low-slung, flat-roofed, unprepossessing strip mall is a room that for some 40 years has been the site of mysterious magnetic or gravitational natural occurrences, not unlike the Bermuda Triangle. Since before the JFK assassination, whether the name on the door was The Loon, Joe Miller’s or The Villager Club, the […]
