Dang it. Look like our Polyphonic Spree update is now hourly, because over at Salon, David Marchese has posted what’s now the fourth song to leak from June 19’s The Fragile Army. He’s got “Section 22 [Running Away]” available for your downloading pleasure — a cut Marchese describes as “a…
Photo by Tod Seelie So, yeah. At this rate, we’ll have directed you to the entirety of the Polyphonic Spree’s forthcoming The Fragile Army, fragments of which are scattered across the Interwebs, long before its official June 19 release. Anyway, here’s today’s link to a leaked track — in this…
Dallas, according to no less an authority than Time magazine, is “the lavender heart of Texas.” Meaning: Yup, padnuh, we are gay. We’re also Democrats; I know, same thing. How gay? This gay: If city councilman Ed Oakley defeats former Turner Construction CEO Tom Leppert, Dallas will become the first…
Ever since we posted this item about the new vice president of news at KTVT-Channel 11 — guy by the (fake?) name of Regent Ducas — we’ve been hearing all kinds of horror stories about the goings-on at the local CBS affiliate. We’re looking into them, and so’s yer ever-trusty…
For WaterTower Theatre it’s a case of elf preservation. Yesterday the Addison theater signed Dallas actor Nye Cooper to return to a role he loves: Crumpet the Elf in the annual Christmas season production of David Sedaris’ The Santaland Diaries. Cooper, 33, did the one-man show at WaterTower for five…
Slate’s Jack Shafer is not impressed with Newsweek’s slice o’ cheese this week. To wit: How much journalistic feebleness can you pack into a 700-word story about illicit drugs? The latest issue of Newsweek explores the limits with its article “Stopping a Kid Killer: A concoction called ‘cheese’ has led…
You think you’re in a sports drought? Try being Dale Hansen. All it takes is alcohol. What you’ve felt and what KTCK-AM’s (1310, The Ticket) Mike Rhyner sensed, Dale Hansen confirmed last night. It’s official: Local sports are in an extreme state of suck. You knew it would be lean…
Walking along the southwest shore of White Rock Lake yesterday evening, I heard the mournful notes of “Taps” and wondered what was going on. Up ahead, hundreds of cyclists lined the bike path near a couple of Weeping Willows. They stood by their bikes, heads bowed, while a kilted bagpipes…
Myriad times over the last 15 or so years we’ve asked our pal Angus Wynne to tell us tales from the Texas International Pop Festival, held over Labor Day weekend in 1969. Angus put together one hell of a line-up, as you can tell from the poster — everyone from…
We just traded our Quincy Carter rookie card for a package of Ding-Dongs. Had the munchies. A month ago, Richie wrote a column for the paper version of Unfair Park about the, ahem, comeback of former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Quincy Carter, currently pitching for the Bossier-Shreveport BattleWings in the Arena2…
We’ll just admit it: We’ve always had kind of a man crush on Eric Nadel. Can’t explain it. And won’t. Happens one night, I figure it’s an aberration. But twice in two nights isn’t just a trend, it’s a characteristic. Book it: Texas Rangers radio broadcasters Eric Nadel and Victor…
So, consider this your daily P. Spree update — what, like this costs you something? Shortly after finding out our pal Chris Cantalini had posted to Gorilla vs. Bear an officially leaked track from the band’s forthcoming Fragile Army, we discovered there was another MP3 blog out there with a…
Park Cities boy Doug Wright writes in regarding our having mentioned his Tony Award nomination: “Thanks so much! I’m giddy over our Grey Gardens nominations; a loopy musical about cat ladies, living out their dreams in an overgrown Easthampton rat trap! Who’d have thought it would ever make it to…
The Alamo Plaza Courts Motel on Fort Worth Avenue made Preservation Dallas’ endangered list this week. Tomorrow, Preservation Dallas will hold a press conference announcing its list of Dallas’ most endangered properties and resources — and it’s a fascinating list this time around. There are entire neighborhoods on the list…
We round a corner to see White Rock Lake shimmering under a crescent moon. A few fishermen sit on the docks with lanterns, smoking and waiting for the crappie to bite. Michelle Nuñez is just as patient. After leading us through oak groves and up the path that winds along…
Knock on 3-wood, I’m not going to finish this column. Because at this very second I’m closer to $1 million than ever before. Than I ever will be again. All that stands between me quitting my day job and watching eternal Seinfeld reruns is 166 yards of manicured grass. Well,…
Tom Leppert is a tall, thin 52-year-old from North Dallas who talks as if he has five more minutes to live. If you don’t know by now—and judging by the dismal turnout in last Saturday’s election, you probably don’t—he and council member Ed Oakley are in the runoff to be…
Massacred: So, what lessons can we learn from the 3-to-1 stomping of the ballot-box effort to halt Farmers Branch’s anti-illegal immigrant ordinance? That Farmers Branch residents are bigoted butt-heads? Perhaps, though honestly Buzz doubts the people there are any worse than anywhere else. “All men are racists,” an old English…
Goooood Boooooy Most definitely a predator: I just finished reading Glenna Whitley’s excellent article about Anand Jon (“Fashion Foul,” May 10). As far as I can tell from the numerous books I have read regarding deviant behavior and the subsequent profiling of these types of people, Anand Jon is most…
Just in case you forgot, this is Dallas County Constable Mike Dupree with Angel Martinez — the former lover Dupree had deported to Honduras. OK, so apparently Dallas County Constable Mike “King of the Latin Lovers” Dupree wants to throw down with one of the Dallas Observer’s reporters by peddling…
Yeah, sure, fine — we’ve spent a lotta time pimping that forthcoming Polyphonic Spree disc. Guess it makes up for all those years I spent dogging Tripping Daisy (wasn’t a fan till Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb, which wasn’t a bad place to become a convert). But Chris Cantalini…
In 1967, Allen Clark received his first pair of artificial legs, after having them amputated following a mortar attack in Vietnam. Next month, Army veteran Allen B. Clark will celebrate the 40th anniversary of his “alive” date. On June 17, 1967, Clark was serving as a combat medic in a…
