Maybe there are some Freemason artifacts in Slowride’s video, which was directed by Kris Youmans (The Paper Chase, Happy Bullets) and edited by Justin Wilson, but it looks to me like a large part of it was shot inside Waxahachie’s 10,000-square foot Webb Gallery. Tom Sale’s suitcase dioramas are featured…
Been waiting a while to post this one–when I interviewed Justin Wilson (Red Animal War, Slowride, The Numbers Twist) a month ago, he showed me a rough cut of the latest Slowride music video for “Morals and Dogma,” one of the better songs from their latest album, C/S. Wilson’s a…
In case you missed it–and I know you did–the Dallas Stars’ first-round flop is looking more embarrassing by the day. With Mavs-Spurs and the EDS Byron Nelson Classic in our faces this week it’s difficult to think about the Stars. But what’s happening to the team that beat them–the Colorado…
It was 20 years ago today, or thereabouts, that David Byrne shot True Stories in NorthPark Center. NorthPark Center officially reopened Friday, with the kinda-sorta debut of the brand-new wing that houses, among other things, the retro-normous AMC NorthPark 15 and the just-slightly-better-than-the Galleria’s food court. (Who knew the Soup…
See, illegal immigration is good for business. A fascinating piece out of Knight-Ridder’s Washington bureau outlines how forgers are making tens of millions–“and possibly billions”–selling counterfeit versions of official documets (including Social Security cards and driver’s licenses) to some 12 million illegal immigrants. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
In a move announced with little fanfare, on May 1 Belo Corp.-owned WFAA-Channel 8 became one of five ABC affiliates to offer a link to the mothership that makes available free videos of some of the network’s bigger hits. It’s part of ABC’s attempt to drive traffic to its own…
To update those of you riveted to the earlier tale of the man on the roof of the former Parkland Hospital building, a few moments ago a handful of Dallas’ finest were spotted slowly, very slowly, trodding the rotten rooftop. They all then ducked back into the building through the…
Just got last-minute confirmation that San Francisco’s Birdmonster is going to rock the hell out of the Double Wide on Sunday. If I’d gotten word earlier, I might’ve whipped up a big preview about their MP3 blog hype and raucous live show, but I’m putting the final touches on our…
I’ve always known Dallasites will let their dogs crap anywhere and not do a damned thing about cleaning that shit up, but now I have proof: The makers of HEARTGARD, the doggie heartworm preventative, published a list today outting the worst cities in America when it comes to poop-scooping. Houston…
OK, so Dallas may not shoot in Dallas, but we are getting those two sure-to-be-fab Walking Tall sequels with Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo. And now comes word that the great Antonio Z. Barajas will shoot his long-awaited The Duel here beginning this very month. No, I’ve never heard of Antonio Z…
Monday oughta be a helluva lot of fun for Glenn West. Who he? Well, West is the managing partner of the Dallas offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a Crescent Court-based law firm with 1,200 attorneys across the globe serving “the most successful companies in the world in their high-stakes…
After spending an hour on the lawn of the building formerly known as Woodlawn, this is what I know about what Merritt and the editorial staff saw a little while ago: The man seen behaving erratically on the roof most likely isn’t off his meds, suicidal or in need of…
From my desk, I have an excellent view of the abandoned Parkland Hospital at Maple and Oak Lawn avenues. Currently, that means I have an excellent view of the obviously delusional man running around on the roof, scooting along the ledges, teetering on the edge of the Spanish tile roof…
More than two months ago, Parks Associates–a Dallas-based market research and consulting firm–produced a study that said the unfathomable (but obvious?): Americans are tired of the Internet. Seriously, according to the study, “few new households [are] willing to subscribe to Internet services, which will limit 2006 growth in overall Internet…
In the June issue of Vanity Fair is a riveting excerpt from Douglas Brinkley’s forthcoming book The Great Deluge, which chronicles in horrific detail how New Orleans drowned in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and just who let it happen. One of the leading suspects is New Orleans Mayor Ray…
On the one hand, I hate hipster elitism and the mentality that the fewer people who know about a thing you like, the better. On the other hand, I am a hipster elitist, but in this case I am too late to stop you from finding out about the Belmont…
Remember how the Susquehanna-to-Cumulus (spell that three times fast) switch was going to go oh-so-smooth? Um, notsomuch. The Cumulus folks officially take over Susquehanna’s metroplex radio empire today, and things, they are a changin’. Just in the last week, for example, former Susquehanna senior vice president and general manager of…
On April 25, the Austin American-Statesman’s Kurt Bohls insisted the annual University of Texas-University of Oklahoma game at the Cotton Bowl was a goner come 2008. (OK, so he reported that someone close to UT and the Cotton Bowl said it was “80-20 that Texas will leave” the Red River…
I’m not sure what’s worse: that the once-respected Dallas Independent School District board candidate Walter Lewis Price thought he could hide a conviction for stealing $516 worth of women’s lingerie from Neiman Marcus or that such a revelation could cost him the support of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price,…
In this week’s Observer you’ll find a story about WFAA-Channel 8’s use of a Video News Release (or VNR) in a story it aired in February. VNRs are TV ads filmed to look like news stories, complete with fake reporters. The WFAA segment used shots from a VNR pushing diet…
We scour the business pages so you don’t have to…and because you don’t want to. But let’s round ’em up, shall we? In the let-them-eat-cake category, two local businesses reported their first-quarter earnings today, and it doesn’t look like biz is bad for the likes of Neiman Marcus and Zale…
Last week I brought you breaking news about Maple Terrace, the boho-turned-yuppie-sellout apartment building at Maple Avenue and Wolf Street. A bunch of old tenants moved out in 2001 when the building changed hands and plans were laid for luxury condos, but a few decided to give the place a…
