Big mo’: So, now what? Say you helped organize Sunday’s humongous immigration rally, bringing a crowd roughly twice the size of Plano peacefully downtown. Amazing. Pat yourself on the back. What else ya got? Assume for a moment that Congress regains its sanity–big assumption–and doesn’t make criminals of illegal immigrants…
We Got It Covered Uncovered: Regarding Rocky Presley’s letter (Letters, April 6) about Dada and the “death” of the Dallas music scene. While I applaud Mr. Presley’s passion, I’d like to say a few things. Mr. Presley’s claims that “…Dada will continue on, but it is dreadful that it is…
If it feels like gas prices are going up every single day, that’s only because they are. AAA has a pretty nifty media site that displays gas prices for specific markets; you can see the cost of a gallon in Dallas at this very moment, yesterday, last week and last…
Andrea’s post below wholly ignores the fact that two very good concerts in the past few weeks, Dinosaur Jr. at the Gypsy Tea Room’s Ballroom and the Books at Hailey’s, either sold out or were filled to capacity. Neither of those bands covered Coldplay. Comparing national and local draws is…
Last week I got an e-mail from a guy asking me if the term “wolf pack” meant anything to me. I vaguely recognized the name at the bottom of the letter, and then it came back to me: It had been an inside joke from, of all places, driver’s ed…
When you don’t see a review of the movie The Sentinel in the Dallas Observer next week–or any weekly newspaper, for that matter–it’s not because we’re ignoring it. It’s because we aren’t allowed to see it: 20th Century Fox, the studio releasing the Michael Douglas-Kiefer Sutherland-Eva Longoria thriller on April…
It’s nice to know my good buddy G. Craige Lewis is alive and well, preaching the evils of hip-hop to the Japanese. I heard he hated my story on him, which I couldn’t really figure out since every other e-mail I got about the piece came from some preacher who…
In this very city there’s a company called Chemical Resource Solution, which specializes in a product called DOT-Pothole Filler. CRS pitches it as “a product that can fill voids and cracks in 10 to 20 minutes and be firm enough to traverse in 30 to 40 minutes!” If the mayor…
Gustavo Jimenez, a junior at Duncanville High School, explains here just what sparked his leading a student walk-out last month. One word: MySpace. –Robert Wilonsky…
Went out to the Dallas Cup youth soccer tournament at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco Tuesday afternoon and bumped into an amazing team of 12- and 13-year-olds. They were extremely skillful on the field. Polite and bubbly during interviews. And, oh, did I mention they hail from Baghdad? The Iraqi…
Something called the Business Travel Coalition, run by some dude who used to be a VP of Human Resources at CIGNA Corp., wants to shut down Love Field. Maybe I’d pay more attention if the group, if that’s really what it is, wasn’t based out of Radnor, Pennsylvania (I don’t…
Before moving to Dallas, I rarely flew on a major carrier. Southwest was much cheaper to fly home from Utah, as was JetBlue when I lived in New York. Now that I cannot fly on either (due to the Wright Amendment, I guess) I am forced to choose between United,…
On Sunday The Dallas Morning News ran a piece reiterating the myth that NASCAR was once a regional–specifically southeastern–sport that has suddenly expanded into the major urban markets. Strangely, even NASCAR officials adhere to this and other myths (such as the disregard for non-southern drivers). Long-time fans are not so…
Last night the Observer softball team convened for our weekly butt kicking. As in, we stand there, other teams do the kicking. But last night, it was personal. We played the Dallas Morning News team, a formidable crew outfitted with fancy-schmancy SportsDay shirts. One of them had on a knee…
This comes from the front page of today’s USA Today: “Zagat’s list is full of surprises. The best? Think Dallas.” It teases this story about the top restaurants found in U.S. hotels, and sure enough, the chart-topper is The French Room in the Adolphus Hotel, about which “there are’t enough…
A little Bristol, Connecticut, birdie tells me former Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin has re-signed with ESPN. The contract, which will be announced later this week, is for four years and pays the Playmaker about $1.5 million per year to continue his role on the network as NFL analyst-Terrell Owens…
I was on the fence about the whole Wright Amendment thing till yesterday, when I got on an American Airlines flight that lasted three hours and felt like a lifetime. It’s hard to figure which was worse: the flight attendant who pretty much threw a can of Coke at the…
Yesterday, Marguerite Brown took a three-hour bus ride from Dallas to Shreveport to vote early in the Orleans Parish elections. That’s a big deal. What made it even bigger is that she’s 85 years old. So, when you fail to show up at your neighborhood polling place on Election Day,…
God, please, make it all go away. The latest casting new from the land of Dallas has Jessica Simpson (who else?) in the role of Lucy Ewing. In related news, I no longer give a damn about this movie and have moved on to the big-screen redo of Carter Country,…
Rumors are flying at Internet speed, so here’s what I know for sure–the Double Wide is closing down. Their doors will not be open tonight and will not be open in the immediate future. I spoke with DW booking agent Chelsea Callahan just a few minutes ago–she answered her phone…
Though 88 bands were advertised to play the Wall of Sound Festival, the total number of acts that actually played was only 86. Huge disappointment, right? The two drop-outs were relatively notable, though–Comet, who played one of their first 2005 reunion gigs at last year’s debut WoSF, had to bail…
Gentleman, if you wanted to hook up with Dr. Mona, CBS-11’s jet setting medical correspondent, you might have missed your chance. In case you didn’t see Channel 11’s nauseating promo, the station was openly pimping out Dr. M, making her dating life depressing fodder for its depressed viewers: “How in…
