Warning: This column is about a professional football player who needs neither DNA test nor bullet-proof vest. It involves no drugs, dancers or dogfighting. No ego or ammo. No greed, weed or excessive speed. You won’t hear him being “misunderstood,” being “at the wrong place at the wrong time” or…
Picture this: Should we feel violated or famous? Out there on the Internet, for the entire world to see, is a fuzzy photo of a man outside the Dallas Observer’s offices at Maple and Oak Lawn avenues. It might not be Buzz, but since the blurry man appears to have…
After all these years, Carol Reed can still own a room. Election night in Dallas comes on a warm Tuesday in November and Reed avidly mingles with businessmen, City Hall leaders and political insiders in a side hall of a music club a few blocks south of a glittering skyline…
On an October night a little more than a year ago, 38-year-old piano player Tray Boswell got off work at an Addison bar around 11 p.m. and headed home to his Plano condo. By that time, his estranged wife, Sarah Boswell, had already made several calls to the cell phone…
Yeah, the Dallas Mavericks aren’t playing so well right now (lost last night to the Raptors, didn’t even show). But it could be worse. As Henry Abbott points out on the excellent basketball blog True Hoop, at one point the Mavs were so bad they didn’t know which hoop was…
Juan Gonzalez and his trainer, Angel (“Nao”) Presinal, are big players in the Mitchell Report. After the jump, all the sections of the Mitchell Report dealing with the Texas Rangers — going all the way back to Ferguson Jenkins and his drug arrest in Canada. As for the names leaked…
OK, if it’s good enough for USA Today, it’s good enough for Unfair Park to link to blogger Will Bardwell’s site, which contains the alleged names of the baseballers allegedly named in the steroid-juiced Mitchell Report due within the hour. WNBC-TV in NYC originally posted the list but removed it…
Irving law-enforcement officials’ fondness for the Criminal Alien Program — or, if you like, Criminal Alien Programme, fancy — makes it into the latest issue of The Economist, under the headline: “Not welcome here.” You’re welcome to read the brief piece, which even makes mention of Carlos Quintanilla’s arrest last…
CNNMoney.com insists today that Dallas Mavs owner Mark Cuban has indeed been given the OK to check out the Chicago Cubs’ financials. That means he’s still a bidder in bidness to buy (for $1 billion-plus, most likely) the storied franchise — no matter what New York magazine said in September…
Earlier we neglected to provide the URL for the Club Uropa Web site displayed in city council chambers yesterday — the one, like, with all the nekkid pictures and stuff? So sorry. Here, problem solved. Not for work, incidentally — or for home, for that matter. You can do better…
Jerry Jones, making friends all over the NFL The Atlanta Journal-Constitution yesterday broke the news that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had a hand in Atlanta Falcons coach Bobby Petrino’s suddenly bolting for the University of Arkansas a few days ago. Which didn’t please Falcons owner Arthur Blank, not one…
More from the KXAS-Channel 5 archives, courtesy our Friend “phloid,” who sends word that he’s got more vintage video forthcoming — a little Harold Taft, anyone? Till then, a hard-hitting piece on a psychic from Richardson who predicted a “Metroplex calamity” for 1990. Not this. –Robert Wilonsky…
Grimes’ latest crush, Angela Hunt As my computer died yesterday at City Hall, Angela Hunt started in on a beautiful speech about Dallas heritage. I was cursing Steve Jobs through most of it, but this is what I wrote down: “We need not to forget our heritage. We need this…
Andrea Grimes, seeking a warm, cozy place in which to curl up before moving south for the winter, is currently at City Hall for those specific use permit yays or nays. Her report, ever-updating, begins here and continues after the jump. 3:56 p.m.: Property owner Billy McCloud is talking. Something…
Let me be the first to insert a ball-gag on those “Bill Parcells deserves all the credit” stories that have already started making the rounds as the Dallas Cowboys’ success gets further examined by the national media. I’ll give him this: Parcells saw something in Tony Romo. (Just like Joe…
As I have lost all interest in Bravo’s reality-TV buffet — even with one sorta-local left on Project Runway — I post this item with lethargic disinterest: When Make Me a Supermodel debuts on January 10, there will be a local girl amongst the 24 contestants whose names were released…
The Texas Freedom Network sends word that, at this very moment, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Committee on Academic Excellence and Research in Austin is discussing and considering a request from the Institute for Creation Research in Dallas for a certificate of authority to grant degrees in Texas. And…
If I may direct your attention to our musically inclined sibling DC9 at Night, Darryl Smyers has a terrific interview with one of my earliest rock and roll idols: Jerry Dirkx, founding member of such local bands as Teenage Queers and the legendary Telefones, whose 1980 VVV release Vibration Change…
Courtesy Michael Davis, Dallas Progress-ive and Dallas City Plan Commissioner, comes word that the former Hard Rock Cafe’s now for lease — since that sale never went through. Earlier this year, the former McKinney Avenue Baptist Church, built in 1910, was the subject of a vicious fight over historic designation…
David Gordon Green, as he probably looked when he was at Richardson High — high, get it? Been meaning to post this for a week: Making the Interwebs rounds is an extended, NSWF sneak peek at next year’s Pineapple Express, the stoners-on-the-run comedy written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg…
Edson Sherwood Brown, an associate professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, says he’s come up with a new cure for those cocaine cravings: quetiapine. Whassat? Well, it’s better known by its brand name, Seroquel, and it since its Federal Drug Administration approval a decade ago, it’s been sold…
Efisio Farris, owner of Arcodoro & Pomodoro Ristoranti Italiani on Routh Street, receives a nice shout-out today in The New York Times in its round-up of cookbooks actually worth a damn. Anne Mendelson reviews Farris’ recently published Sweet Myrtle and Bitter Honey: The Mediterranean Flavors of Sardinia, and gives it…
