As of today, Greg Wallis is suing everyone he believes responsible for his wrongful imprisonment. For the second time in two weeks, a Dallas County man exonerated with DNA evidence has filed a federal civil rights and malicious prosecution lawsuit. And this one has a couple of twists. Greg Wallis,…
Haven’t seen Girl on Top today — sure hope she knows about tryouts today and tomorrow for an unspecified Jennifer Lopez video, which is sure to be fantabulous. They’re over at Minc Lounge on Exposition Avenue — and they’re being sponsored by Secret, which is strong enough for a man…
Until Dallas gets a proper local music museum, the most impressive — and dare I say important? — collection of photos I’ve ever seen is right here. Bands, venues, posters and the collected detritus of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s is available — as well as a NSWF snapshot of…
For some reason, Richie does not approve of Mike Modano’s marriage to Willa Ford. Last season Mike Modano had the captain’s “C” ripped off his Dallas Stars sweater. And last week, he apparently had his testicles removed. By his new wife. Watching the newlyweds give a tour of their Dallas…
This week’s news of Owen Wilson’s attempted suicide, and Matt Seitz’s essay about Owen, got me to thinking about the whole reason Owen got famous in the first place: 1996’s Bottle Rocket, which remains — easily — the best film ever made in Dallas. I was wondering specifically why that…
Need a stamp? Because they’re selling ’em at the University of Texas at Dallas tomorrow — specifically, the brand-new Gerald Ford 41-cent’er that makes its bow on Friday with special ceremonies only at UTD, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and at Ford’s former home in…
A few weeks ago, backstage at the Granada Theater during the Dallas Observer Muic Awards, I mentioned to Paul Slavens how much I love his Sunday-night show on KERA-FM (90.1). Then I spent the next 20 minutes bitching about how it’s such a damned shame that KERA doesn’t play music…
We received word this morning that Timothy Bray, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas, has been named the new director of the J. McDonald Williams Institute, effective September 1. Bray replaces the institutes’s co-founder, Marcus Martin, who’s going to head up Education is Freedom,…
Hear that? The silence. The eerie nothingness. The unequivocal lack of support. It’s quiet confirmation that Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick really, really, really screwed up, evidenced by rare zipped lips from Gene Upshaw, Jesse Jackson, the Reverend Al Sharpton and anyone else with half a brain and a quart…
Excelsior!: Sometimes news comes that puts a spark of optimism even in the cold, bitter lump that is Buzz’s heart, reminding us that yes, indeedy, hope never dies. Sometimes that ray of light comes from the oddest corner—from former Dallas police Chief “Weepin'” Terrell Bolton, for instance. You remember Bolton,…
Pod People Dim bulbs: Jim, OK, the pod people theory might have worked (“Body Snatchers,” by Jim Schutze, August 23), but we live in Dallas and therefore we don’t have basements. They’re just dimwits, not pods. David Via dallasobserver.com Cheap Bastard Dallas, Vegas, same diff: Alice, I love your cheap…
As a girl growing up in Mumbai, Niloufer Bustani viewed the United States the way generations of ambitious youngsters always have, as the pinnacle of opportunity for those who want to make their mark on the world. Now, she’s not so sure. After earning a master’s degree at the University…
The line of cars stretches a few hundred feet back from the window where a clerk in a tie-dyed shirt is handing a case of Corona over to a guy in a low-rider pickup truck. Standing somewhere down the line between a Kia and a Ford is Jazmin, who wears…
Late-breaking news from Oklahoma: “A retired horse trainer from Sallisaw who used Dallas Cowboys players’ jerseys to select her lottery numbers won $600,000 in Saturday’s Powerball drawing.” For those playing at home, those numbers were 2-8-23-29-35. And what will Nita K. Jacobs do with her winnings? Why, attend her first…
Hey, hey, Paula — Bible Girl’s losing faith in you. I learned everything I need to know about living a sexually pure life in the ghetto. You heard me right. I came to a tough neighborhood — to a black Pentecostal church in the heart of South Dallas — with…
Mark Allen is a contributor to The New York Times and National Public Radio — and, of course, he maintains a blog that’s updated every now and … then. Today, Allen posts about what’s clearly one of his favorite movies: 2004’s Primer, the Sundance-award-winning debut from local filmmaker Shane Carruth…
According to Dave Richard, CBS Sportsline’s senior fantasy writer (a job I used to hold at Hustler, incidentally), “There isn’t a team in the NFC with as many startable Fantasy options as the Dallas Cowboys.” Among his every-week picks to click: Tony Romo, Julius Jones, Marion Barber, Terrell Owens, Terry…
This morning, we received word that a former Fort Worth Police Department officer has written and self-published a history of the department. Thirty-year vet Dale Hinz’s book is titled Panther’s Rest: History of the Fort Worth Police Department 1873-21st Century, and while we can’t cop to the quality of the…
A couple of Carrollton-living Friends of Unfair Park — Tavis Schriefer and his wife Jill — have a son in Iraq: Nicholas serves in Apache Company of the 1-501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. At the moment, Jill says, Apache Company is located in the Triangle of Death — “a lawless, seething…
Too bad Senator Larry Craig didn’t go trolling for tail at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, rather than in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport bathroom stall. Because here, Craig would have had far less of a chance of getting into trouble, according to this morning’s New York Times: At Dallas/Fort Worth…
It was either a photo of Mark Cuban or Gisele Bundchen, so we flipped a coin and it came up tails. Nope, sorry, Mark, but it ain’t gonna happen. And, yeah, the official announcement was only this morning on Good Morning America, but already a Dallas-based marketing firm has compiled…
Bishop James Stanton, who is not a lesbian The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting this morning that Rev. Tracey Lind — a lesbian priest — is among the finalists for bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. Also being considered are two other women — and this is the first time…
