When a crap director leaves a movie he’s scheduled to direct, you just know said movie has to be dreadful. For a week it’s been rumored Robert Luketic was gonna leave the big-screen adaptation of Dallas, which Mayor Laura Miller’s so desperate to get shot here. The initial reason offered…
To: The West End Historic District From: Andrea Grimes, Rick Kennedy and Matt Pulle, Dallas Observer staff writers Dear West End, Last night began fabulously at the Sixth Floor Museum with a Scotch tasting hosted by Chivas, at which Grimes re-re-affirmed her love for non-Chivas whiskys. Pulle, meanwhile, laughed a…
On Wednesday night, a Deep Ellum club employee said he had a scoop for me: “On April 10, all of the cooks are walking out.” He talked about rampant rumors he’d heard about a Dallas-wide initiative that involves all Latino restaurant employees skipping out of work on the Monday after…
Robert Decherd’s gotta be scratching his head. Yesterday, he got the good news that the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, was dismissing a shareholders’ suit against the owners of The Dallas Morning News over the company’s circulation scandal that turned into quite the mess in 2004. But for…
The best radio announcer in Dallas Cowboys history is staying, and the best offensive lineman in Cowboys history is going. Of course, if you rely on the area’s mainstream media these days, you’re clueless to both transactions involving Brad Sham and Larry Alllen. The Cowboys new flagship radio station–KTCK-AM (1310),…
Some folks have asked about the change in our Unfair Park blog banner–the chalk outline, the crime-scene tape. Well, yesterday we said goodbye to Big Tex, the original mascot of Unfair Park. We’d been told that we “can’t have Big Tex” because he’s a registered trademark, and the State Fair…
There’s been an interesting drama developing in the pages of SMU’s The Daily Campus this week involving the university’s Spanish lecturer George Henson. It began when the student paper reported that Henson showed up to work Monday to find that someone had scrawled the word “FAGGOT” across his office door…
Since August, we’ve been writing about local filmmakers Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck’s The Big Buy, which deals with Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle’s investigation into the allegedly dirty doings of DeLay’s Texans for a Republican Majority political action committee (TRMPAC). Last week, we had the item about how…
On Thursday, the Frisco RoughRiders begin their 2006 campaign for the Texas League Championship (that’s Double-A baseball, y’all), hoping to rebound from last year’s disastrous 24-games-under-.500 campaign. Who the hell cares, right? Well, if you are ever up in Frisco (which just so happens to be my neck of the…
Man Factory (Arlington): For my first assignment as the full-time music editor, I drove to Eric “Fishboy” Michener’s house to draw cartoons. It was a good, strange time–we drank punch, brainstormed kooky art ideas and listened to whatever CDs of his I didn’t recognize. Of all the CDs he played…
My old Fort Worth buddy and local music fanatic Jasun Lee (no, not the actor…see the “u”?) wrote me a few weeks ago to promote his new Austin City Limits 2006 Rumors Blog; today, he landed his first big, confirmed scoop. I’d give it away, but then what’s the point?…
Thought I would share with you this quote from Republican Sen. John Cornyn that’s making all the rounds. Seems Cornyn, who beat former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk in the 2002 election, is no fan of…what’s the word?…uh…oh, yeah…democracy. Says so right here, see? “Well, you know, that’s the problem in…
After partaking in last night’s incredibly loud Dinosaur Jr. concert, I hightailed it to Tom Cats on the opposite end of Deep Ellum, where New York’s Percee P was scheduled to headline the Video Killed the Rapper Tour. The venue listed doors at 9 p.m., which meant that when I…
I may spend my days getting hollered at and hung up on by lawyers and politicians, but occasionally I get to spend my evenings drinking free booze at promotional parties. Last night I followed a Scotsman in a kilt into the Sixth Floor Museum and got loaded up on premium…
Wuh-oh. Looks like downtown Dallas-based Lone Star Funds, a powerful international investment firm (to the tune of $13 billion, which I think is a lot), is in some kinda big trouble in South Korea. Something to do with tax evasion, embezzlement and “other allegations,” which cannot be good. Apparently, South…
I guess Raymond “Rain Man” Babbitt would be happy about this development. And my pal Tearlach Hutcheson, that Landmark Theater-lovin’ Aussie who flies to Sydney regularly (which is to say, more than you or I). “Imagine you’re from New York and have to fly to Los Angeles, whch is five…
Apparently, Dallasites really do like to pay their taxes. One more reason why we’re better than Houston. –Robert Wilonsky…
You gotta love the Texas Rangers. No, seriously, you have to. They need your affection, because going on 35 years of misery and misfortune, someone up there in the most exclusive luxury suite has it in for them. Since 1972 we’ve been screaming for the Rangers to get some pitching…
In case you, like, didn’t know already, Kevin “Coattails” Federline will be at the new Club X this weekend–and he might even bring his knocked-up sugar mama. An editor for Life & Style Weekly even called the Observer offices Wednesday, desperately seeking that well-connected someone who could tail Mrs. and…
On Monday, The Dallas Morning News reported how school board candidate Adam Medrano evaded arrest after the Dallas police conducted a sting of homosexual activity in a Dillard’s men’s room…six years ago. Medrano’s estimable political consultant Anna Casey was fuming. She felt that DMN reporter Kent Fischer misled her about…
The foggy haze of nostalgia was in full effect at last night’s Dinosaur Jr. reunion show–especially at the urinals. Seemingly everyone in line had seen the band except me (I was a little young the first time around), and they all had a story about Lollapalooza ’93, that Edgefest where…
Hell hath frozen over. The Red Sox and White Sox won a World Series. The Seahawks played in a Super Bowl. The Clippers will make the NBA Playoffs. George Friggin’ Mason is in the Final Four. And somewhere Wile E. Coyote just nabbed the Roadrunner. Yet there, left standing at…
