Before you hop on the Dallas North Tollway this weekend, you really need to read this bulletin from the North Texas Tollway Authority. Actually, if you’re even thinking you might have to take the tollway this weekend, print it out and tape it to your dashboard. Or something. Because starting…
Our good friend Frank Campagna wants us to remind you of tomorrow’s one-night-only show at the Kettle Art down in Deep Ellum. And why not? Campagna’s gallery will feature the work of one Richard Ross, “a self-taught artist from Irving, Texas,” Frank reminds, who’s also way formerly of Brutal Juice…
Daddy needs a new baby grand — and a nice fountain, which, come to think of it, would look amazing in the front yard. Good thing we know where to get one: tomorrow and Sunday, from 9 a.m to 5 p.m., at the great Gordo’s on Lovers Lane. Hard to…
If you see “Big” Bucks Burnett coming, this is the book he’s after. Do not cross him, bookseller. So, now Barnes & Noble feels just awful about chucking all them books behind the Preston Royal Shopping Center location. “They were clearly wrong,” Barnes & Noble regional director, Stephanie Horblit, told…
John Travolta is still the only cast member in The Movie That Will Not Go Away. Say it ain’t so: Dallas — the movie that will not die — is still alive, despite the best efforts of several screenwriters and two now-former directors (Robert Luketic and Gurinder Chadha) who couldn’t…
Tokio, Texas, resident James Hand is the real deal, a pure country singer with the all the gravitas of the greats — from Hank to George to Jerry Lee. Like all great country singers, he is also bat-shit crazy, as evidenced by this June 2006 interview on National Public Radio’s…
In honor of the Ranger’s 30-3 ass-whupping last night of the Baltimore Orioles, ESPN has compiled a list of the “greatest beatdowns” in sports history. The Ranger’s epic win last night (which left the network’s resident seamhead, Tim Kurkijian, so giddy his voice was cracking as he broke it down)…
“If I give you good price, will you please put in pussy magnet?” Today, you may have read on FrontBurner this item concerning The New York Times’ article about the “Inappropriate Yoga Guy” phenomenon, featuring a creepy dude at the Dallas Yoga Center who had to be reigned in after…
Here’s another music video — this one, a brand-new offering from Fort Worth’s Keite Young, whose debut The Rise and Fall of Keite Young is due out next week, courtesy Hidden Beach Recordings. Here’s just some of the impressive press Young’s gotten pre-release; one day I too hope to be…
By now you’re likely well aware it’s one of the most historic scores in the history of baseball: 30-3, with Your Texas Rangers topping Baltimore in the first game of a two-fer yesterday at Camden Yards. You know this already, but you should check out today’s The Baltimore Sun, which…
Dallas Observer Music Awards nominee The Hourly Radio is once again on the verge of the big time thanks to MTVu. Their video for “Deaf Ears,” in which they take on the film Harold and Maude, has landed on the channel’s The Freshmen show with five vids up for a…
Julia Roberts was once a pretty spokesperson for Earth Biofuels. Now, she’s but a runaway bride. I’ve gotten several inquiries in recent days from Earth Biofuels shareholders wanting to know if there’s any news concerning their, ahem, investment. Yes, indeed: This very week, the Dallas-based manufacturer and distributor of biodiesel,…
If you have a few minutes to kill this morning, here’s our pick for Federal Lawsuit Filing of the Week. On Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Texarkana, William T. Mason filed a complaint against the City of Dallas, claiming that on September 22, 2005, he was extremely hassled by…
KTVT-Channel 11 No one has yet explained what those two women were doing in the alley to discover the cache of tossed-out books. On Tuesday, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll revealed that one in four adults didn’t crack a single book during the past year. Among those polled was a local:…
On last night’s Top Chef, Tré Wilcox just had the gone-awry look of a man who might be going home. This morning, Anthony Bourdain’s Top Chef blog entry asks the same question on the minds of the show’s most faithful followers: “So what happened with Tre?” That’s Tré Wilcox, of…
This column is being delivered in a whisper. Don’t want to wake the devil, you know. The one named T.O., which sits opposite the microscopic angel on the shoulder of Terrell Eldorado Owens. Keep him slumbering and the Dallas Cowboys just might wind up in the Super Bowl. Provoke him…
It was the kind of day when even a quick dash across a parking lot means a sticky, sweaty shirt and glistening hairline. Despite the heat, Shelly sat in her car, her hands gripping the steering wheel, her heart pounding. For 30 minutes, the blond, beautiful woman sat shaking. The…
It began in early July, when a helicopter pilot conducting drug surveillance looked down into a heavily wooded area near the Trinity River and noticed something odd. Among the trees and brush, he saw a thicket of green, leafy plants that looked suspicious. He circled and photographed the area; authorities…
He Schutze, He Scores Nothing new there: Once again, Jim Schutze strikes like lightning (“Mirror, Mirror,” by Jim Schutze, August 16). It’s true that coverage of the toll road election by The Dallas Morning News is self-serving, intentionally misleading and intellectually dishonest. Nothing new there. Does James Ragland ever write…
Pee-yew: Oh, man, you can almost smell it coming. This is only August, and the scent of what promises to be an ugly local election cycle is wafting on the breeze. That’s the sort of thing that Buzz used to greet clapping, kicking our little legs and chanting oboyoboyoboyo. This…
In the 1940s, he was famous enough to sell Coca-Cola. Thirty years later, it was Contac cold medicine—because “dribblers need us,” said the advertisement for the runny-nose curative in which he was prominently featured, bouncing a basketball. Bouncing a ball is what he did professionally, and he did it for…
It should come as little surprise that today Governor Rick Perry, whose aides have publicly questioned the existence of global warming, has appointed a career bureaucrat with no little environmental knowledge, to chair the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Buddy Garcia, one of three TCEQ commissioners, will replace Kathleen Hartnett…
