A few days back, we mentioned that those surveillance cameras were up downtown; even saw a couple last night, perched above stoplights on white, “Dallas Police”-marked boxes. A Friend of Unfair Park said she and her husband were getting the icky feeling those cameras were peeping into their Post Building…
By now you know Comerica’s moving a couple hundred of its top execs from Detroit to Dallas. Supposed to happen in the fall, as the company looks for downtown digs. Till then, Comerica’s chairman and CEO Ralph W. Babb Jr. is going to be hard at work at his other…
At least this is a better photo than the one The News used today. When did Zac turn into a zombie, anyway? About an hour ago, Dave Levinthal over at The Dallas Morning News broke the news that former Dallas Observer music editor Zac Crain has been removed from the…
Our Friend Avi Adelman never asks for much — well, other than we stop peeing in his front yard — so we’ll bow to his wishes and let you know about a contest taking place that will let you re-kindle the Arcadia Theatre sign on March 29. See, that’s when…
One of these guys is Roky Erickson. The other is Keven McAlester. Well, it took a few months for our boy Keven McAlester to spill the beans regarding the distribution deal for his documentary about the troubled Papa of Psychedelic Rock, Roky Erickson, but, at last, he passes along the…
I know this didn’t sneak up on you, but the AFI Dallas International Film Festival makes its bow tonight with the screening of Music Within — the true-life tale of the Vietnam vet behind the Americans with Disabilities Act, starring Office Space’s Ron Livingston — tonight at the Majestic Theater,…
Since the ol’ AFI’s officially under way now, here’s the first in what’s likely to at least feel like a never-ending parade of trailers of films screening at the cinematic smorgasbord running till April Fool’s. First up, the hometown favorite: Amy Talkington’s The Night of the White Pants, filmed all…
At first glance, it’s cool that a former Dallas Maverick is up for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. What’s that I say? Don’t tell me you forgot that Adrian Dantley played a whopping 76 games here after the trading of Mark Aguirre in 1989. Well, he did. But…
Looks like a job for…Bible Girl! Till then, how in God’s name (uh…sorry?) did we miss this one: GodTube.com, which is exactly what it sounds like — YouTube for the religious set. And, glory be, there’s quite the local connection here: Says the latest issue of Newsweek in this Periscope…
I am sure you’ve read your latest issue of Pensions Management by now, but if you’ve yet to crack the April ish, here’s a sneak peak at one column inside. Douglas Cogan, who’s the environmental, social and governance research director at Institutional Shareholder Services, writes that on the very same…
If you’re at the AFI this week and bump into this man, well, he’s the only the festival’s founder, director and chairman — guy by the name of Liener Temerlin. And how can we kick off our AFI Dallas International Film Festival coverage today…? (Trust me, there’s gonna be plenty…
Last time, I bounded down the stairs into the exclusive basement of Sipango for his going-away party. “Jay-SOWN!” I crowed, an obnoxious nod to our mutual affinity for Adam Sandler’s “Cajun Man” character on Saturday Night Live. This time, I wait for an hour in a secluded conference room at…
I’m still getting used to the notion of Joe Wells as an elected official. But I don’t think I’m having near as much trouble with it as he is. It’s kind of fascinating to see someone you’ve known for a long time, a familiar face, now suddenly in an unfamiliar…
On a Friday morning in early March, the tiny, three-room office of DFW International Community Alliance is abuzz with people entering and exiting and talking logistics, while in the background the phone rings constantly. Conducting the loosely managed chaos is Anne Marie Weiss-Armush, the nonprofit’s founder and executive director. The…
On Tuesday, February 27, Constable Mike Dupree abruptly left for vacation just hours after Dallas County commissioners ordered an outside investigation of his office after three employees said that the openly gay elected official was a little too openly gay, claiming that he came on to the younger Hispanics on…
What First Amendment?: Here it is the third week in March, and so far this month we haven’t written about anyone suing the Dallas County jail. So sorry. We’ve been distracted by March Madness. (Go Salukis!) Back to business: The latest plaintiff up to the plate is Prison Legal News,…
Black Dallas’ Powerbroker Proud Democratic judge: In his article “Go West” (March 15), Dallas Observer writer Matt Pulle describes many members of the Dallas County Judiciary as (i) “a gaggle of anonymous and thinly qualified Democrats”; (ii) “a crew of unheralded neophytes learning every day on the job”; and (iii)…
So, yeah, we’ve already pimped Hot Fuzz’s AFI screening once this week. And we’ll do it again if we bloody well feel like it. The trailer’s after the jump. Dig? Two weeks ago I was dragged into a Leicester Square movie theatre by a very hungover Englishman who insisted I…
MESA, ARIZONA — I come to you today live from HoHoKam Park, better known as Wrigley West. It’s the little ballpark here where the Chicago Cubs hibernate in the winter. The quaint joint is littered with retirees with bald heads, beer bellies and baseball scorebooks. There are as many walkers…
I so love the new video for Ben Kweller’s single “Penny on the Train Track.” Maybe you’ve seen it on MTV’s Total Request Live; if not, well, here it is. And, yeah, that is Ben’s grandmother: 82-year-old Marylin “Bubbie” Kweller. And Ben shot the thing all by hisself at the…
So, weirdest thing happened late yesterday. I was starting to write an item about the AFI Dallas International Film Festival entry The Go-Getter — featuring a cameo appearance from former Denton legend John “Corn Mo” Cunningham — when the phone rang. On the other end was a woman who identified…
Wow, so this is cool. I just got my copy of Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time, an anthology published by Dallas-based BenBella Books. Editor Glenn Yeffeth has pulled together 13 essays on the video game Halo. Yeffeth calls it the “first-person…
