At last, a reason to get XM Satellite Radio. Beginning one week from today, former Dallas Cowboys head coach Barry Switzer — who, apparently, was some kind of college coach? — will join XM Sports Nation This Morning as an analyst and predictor man every weekday from 5:30 to 7…
To one of the toniest multiplexes in the land, Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner and Tristan Simon will add a fancy-schmancy eatery. Everything that rises must converge, or so someone once said. Proof: The vertically integrated Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, who count among their cinema empire the Landmark Theatres chain,…
It’s always something with Dallas-based Lone Star Funds. First there was that never-ending — and ongoing? — battle with South Korean officials over Lone Star’s proposed sale of Korean Exchange Bank. Now, the Harwood Street-HQ’d company is gearing up for a legal battle over its proposed purchase of San Diego-based…
Southlake’s Brady Boyd made ’em proud in Colorado yesterday, sounds like. Then again, Ted Haggard did lower the bar quite a bit. Word broke at the beginning of August that Brady Boyd, associate senior pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, was at the top of the list to replace Ted…
We hear ya, kids, and next year, the only three bands allowed to be nominated for Dallas Observer Music Awards are Faux Fox, Record Hop and Nouns Group. (Speaking of the latter, “All My Daughters Are Named After Wars” is both the second-best song title in the world and the…
Jamey Newberg sends word this afternoon that should you be heading to the Rangers Ballpark tonight to see Texas take on Tampa Bay — and, really, why would you be doing such a thing? — there’s actually something kinda neat taking place before the first pitch. Jamey suggests getting there…
We were debating on whether or not to wish Highland Park native Angie Harmon a “Happy 35th Birthday” today, till we saw this way too detailed item celebrating the momentous occasion. Like, her politics don’t really do much for us — she’s been the GOP Babe of the Week, at…
Mark Graham Craig Watkins would like a word with the Friends of Unfair Park. Wow, it must be Guest Contributor Day around Unfair Park. Because next up to the virtual podium is none other than Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, who sent Unfair Park this morning an “opinion editorial”…
This week, Bible Girl turns to Jared Binder, a graduate student at Dallas Theological Seminary and a Dallas Observer intern, for thoughts on the “deadly sin” no one ever talks about in church. Bible Girl posts from Bible Girl will be sparse in the next few weeks; I’m working on…
A couple of days ago, Fingers o’ Fury and I spent the last who-knows-how-long looking up places we don’t live any more (Los Angeles for Bobsky, NYC for me) with the Google Maps street view option. In much the same way people try to make themselves part of natural disasters,…
One of the many great things about Steak n Shake: the fact its locations are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Only, not so much, turns out: A day after recording substantial losses, Steak n Shakers told analysts during a conference call that it’s looking to save…
No, seriously. An acid flash-forward, perhaps? –Robert Wilonsky…
On Monday, WFAA-Channel 8 ran a story about a guy named Chris Jones, who moved half a block away from an existing bar/live-music venue — Dallas Observer readers’ fave Lee Harvey’s — and discovered that, wow, living half a block away from a bar/live-music venue can be kinda loud sometimes…
Behind the Screen Door: Joel Harloff You may have eaten his lyrical food at the Landmark Restaurant in the Melrose Hotel, or maybe at Nana and Mi Piaci. You may have heard about Screen Door, the upcoming restaurant to feature his craft in One Arts Plaza. Still, Joel Harloff has…
Texas Rangers lefty C.J. Wilson is already Major League Baseball’s best blogger. Now, he insists he’s Major League Baseball’s Guitar Hero. Unfair Park just got a press release from the Rangers, in which Wilson throws out this challenge: Thirty-two contestants will get the opportunity to strap it on against Wilson,…
Help us decide, please: Is this cover of the Commodores’ “Easy,” performed Tuesday night on America’s Got Talent by Cas Haley of Dallas Observer Music Awards-nominated Woodbelly, great? Or is it not great? Or would be be great it if were performed ironically? Or does the obvious sincerity — he…
I was driving east on Ross Avenue, near Fitzhugh Avenue, last week when a big yellow banner caught my eye. “Aseguranza sin Licencia — Liability and Full Cover,” it read, which translates to, “No license? We provide liability and full coverage.” And that wasn’t all. The ad, hanging above a…
Oh, I know — you think St. Vincent’s overrated, a big ho-hum. Well, that ain’t gonna stop me from posting this: Annie Clark and John Vanderslice covering the Magnetic Fields’ “Yeah! Oh, Yeah!” at the Echo on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. Oh, yeah. –Robert Wilonsky…
Every year, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park goes searching for a new play upon which to bestow its Macy’s New Play Prize for Young Audiences. The winner get a $5,000 commission fee and gets to travel to Cincy a few times during the year to prep the play for…
FareCompare, with its HQ at the intersection of Preston and Frankfurt roads, gets a profile in Condé Nast’s troubled Portfolio today, and the low-airfare-finding Web site is touted as oh-so-much more: FareCompare’s most recent incarnation has been its most unexpected. It’s not just offering a reliable way to save money…
On last night’s Top Chef, Casey Thompson dolled up for a night out that wasn’t to be. So, this makes three Top Chef wins for Abacus Chef de Cuisine Tré Wilcox; favorite much? We’re essentially at the mid-point of Season Three, and no other “cheftestant” has emerged as a serious…
Nice story about Mike Bacsik in Dallas’ Only Daily today. But there’s an even better one about him in The New York Times, where Lee Jenkins paints the pitcher as “baseball’s unofficial ambassador” to the record-setting home run Bacsik served up to Barry Bonds Tuesday night. See, Bacsik was everywhere…
