I’m gonna go out on a limb and say this is probably the most outstanding premise for a comedy show ever. Sinus Show , a comedy troupe out of Austin, is tooling on up to Big D for two performances based on the movie Dirty Dancing. If these guys can…
Last night, I met a man I have known only in legend. Todd Deatherage, that elusive bard formerly of The Calways and the EDT, played an acoustic set at the All Good Cafe in Deep Ellum to a crowd of riveted admirers. I was surprised to find a low-key but…
The city’s new “verified response” burglar alarm policy was supposed to cut down on the number of false alarms to which the police respond. Turns out, it just allows for a rise in the number of burglaries: “Business burglaries in March 2006 shot up 17.9 percent compared to March of…
The listener-supported, commercial-free radio station WPKN-FM, based out of Bridgeport, Connecticut, produces a weekly public-affairs show called Between the Lines; it’s lefty of the dial, as it were, and good stuff. This week, the show featured an interview with Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center–and a former…
Lone Star Park opened its 10th season of racing last night, but judging by the horse racing coverage in The Dallas Morning News, a rat peed on cotton somewhere in Grand Prairie. Ten years, folks—at a time when horse racing is struggling to survive as a spectator sport in various…
It is as if they have locked up a delicious, taunting selection of Peeps behind impenetrable glass doors, and I can do nothing but stand outside, hoping beyond hope to be satisfied by their sugary goodness. Kind of. I mean, I desperately, desperately want to be a part of SnubClub,…
With the re-signing of legendary play-by-play voice Brad Sham and sideline reporter Kristi Scales, we all assumed the return of Dallas Cowboys’ radio color commentator Babe Laufenberg was a slam dunk. We were wrong. Next season the Cowboys will have a new radio home on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) and…
Sometimes art imitates life, sometimes life imitates art, and sometimes a guy with no life creates art by imitating the bottom of the 10th inning from Game 6 of the 1986 World Series using the 1988 Nintendo Entertainment System game RBI Baseball. Yes, that’s the inning where Boston Red Sox…
A local company is investing $50 million in a new plant in southern Dallas. Let’s see, how can we make that seem like a bad thing? Hmm… See, the trouble is that the company is Belo Corp., which announced the groundbreaking for the plant on Langdon Road in a press…
Hey, I never thought former Dallas Observer music editor Zac Crain’s mayoral bid was a joke (my wife, on the other hand…kidding). But now that I can read about it here, in the hallowed pages of Dallas’ Only Daily, well, now I will take it very, very, very seriously. Good…
Just got off the phone with Kim Finch, one of the three new co-owners of the Double Wide. The longtime DW staffer, along with fellow DW ladies Jill Saveh and Whitney King, have taken the lease over from Jim Sibert in an equal partnership effective immediately. The bar name remains…
I’ve been sick today, so this is a little late, but the message up at the Double Wide Web site is a lie. Last night, I got a phone call from DW booking agent Chelsea Callahan: “We’re open again on Friday.” Turns out Jim Sibert was serious when he said…
On a clear, blue Thursday morning–which is to say, today–Dallas City Council member Gary Griffith announced his candidacy for mayor on the stone steps of Woodrow Wilson High School, where he was a student some 40 years ago. As he stood atop the podium, a life-sized poster of him as…
Here’s a kinda-icky story about how Texas gubernatorial wannabe Carole Keeton Strayhorn is hiring people to get her the 45,450 signatures she needs by May 11 to become an official candidate. Turns out her campaign’s using the Dallas-based National Voter Outreach to find her volunteers to collect those pesky petition…
The USA Film Festival has just announced some of its bigger guests and screenings for this year’s shindig, which is set to take place April 28-May 4 at the brand-spankin’-new AMC NorthPark 15 between Foley’s and Nordstrom at the revamped NorthPark Center. Gotta say, it’s a pretty decent-looking lineup; doubt…
By all accounts, the Dallas real estate market seems to be on the upswing; plenty o’land for anyone who wants it, right? It’s cheap too, and there’s enough space so that nobody has to get riled up over not-in-my-backyard! issues. Except when the land is literally your backyard, and someone…
OK, so let’s hear it. It’s been a week since SMU fired basketball coach Jimmy Tubbs and promised the reasons went far beyond the wrist-slap NCAA violations of buying players hamburgers and lending them cups of laundry detergent. If there’s more to the story–and there’d better be–it’s time for outgoing…
Speaking of SMU, the university’s Student Film Festival takes place April 18 and 19, and it’ll feature some 40 student-made shorts. While I am sure some are as “awesome” as fest director Erin Littlestar promises, if you’ve seen one or two student shorts in your life, the idea of sitting…
Yesterday, about 60 people–students, mostly, but at least one professor–marched on the Southern Methodist University campus, protesting an editorial that appeared in The Daily Campus last week bearing the headline “Gays, the new Jews?!?” According to this piece in the SMU student newspaper, “Voices silent, mouths gagged with rope —…
The little boy cried. His mother’s words didn’t make sense, but he knew enough to be afraid. “You’ll never see me again,” she said in the car. Then she dropped him off at his stepmother’s house and drove away. Sam Gross was 9, his mother’s only son, a boy everyone…
Like he does before every start, Rangers pitcher R.A. Dickey attended chapel last Thursday asking for God’s guidance on the mound. Presumably praying just as hard, Detroit Tigers catcher Ivan Rodriguez made a quick sign of the cross before digging in to take his third-inning cuts at Dickey’s faith-based knuckleball…
More than a year after Dallas County debuted a disastrous criminal justice computer system that kept inmates locked up long after they were supposed to go free, defense attorney Deandra Grant tells her clients to expect the worst. “I tell them, ‘Even if your sentence is up today, it’s very…
