At this very moment, the Unfair Park HQ cafeteria’s full of people watching Channel 4’s feed of smoke and smoldering ruins. Don’t go east. Whatever you do. It just took me a ridiculous amount of time — an hour, at least — to get from Mockingbird-Abrams to Unfair Park HQ…
A solid hit: Bootstraps Comedy Theater’s The Boxer lands some good ones at the Festival of Independent Theatres. Great poster too. The less said, the better The Boxer is. The new play by Dallas writer and Bootstraps Comedy Theater founder Matt Lyles, who also directs this production, is a clear…
Whilst perusing our latest copy of Jewish Women magazine, which we only take because we know so gosh darn many of ’em, we find on the cover the shayna punim of one Lisa Loeb — with whom, ahem, I starred in The Pajama Game when she was a Hockadaisy way…
From our Friend “Nimbus the Great,” whose fire photos we linked to below, comes perhaps the greatest pic thus far from this morning’s big bang. Oh, and the person who writes the best cutline for this photo will win a pair of tickets to see Wilco at the Palladium on…
Till this morning I’d never heard of the National Rural Funders Collaborative, a Dallas-based “collaborative philanthropic initiative” funded by some of the largest foundations in the country, among them The California Endowment, The Ford Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. The NRFC is prominently featured…
Yet again, one month to the day since the last one, through the windows of Unfair Park HQ at Maple and Oak Lawn we spy a mammoth plume of smoke rising from near downtown. (Says here it’s from an explosion near Industrial Boulevard and Stemmons Freeway. Says a colleague with…
Cas Haley keeps getting higher and higher in the ironically named America’s Got Talent contest. “Higher and higher.” Get it? No? You will. Writes “Rev. Randy L,” among Haley’s fans on the NBC site: “I am on top of the list to get a CD.” Someone needs to let the…
Jerry Yule, who apparently was a well-known pianist at local “upscale nightclubs and restaurants,” died Friday at the age of 64. This morning, we couldn’t help but take note in The Dallas Morning News of the paid obituary for local man Jerry Yule — “the step-brother of the world-famous movie…
Legal clients everywhere owe Dallas lawyer Coyt Randal “Randy” Johnson a great debt. And some steak sauce. A few days ago, an arbitration panel ordered famed Houston trial lawyer John O’Quinn to pay almost $36 million to former clients, in a trend that Johnston calls lawyer cannibalism.”When I started suing…
We told you yesterday that Rudy Mikula, among the best things about Victory’s mostly shrill dining experiences, has left Nove to graze the pastures of Consilient Restaurants. Now word comes that Kyle Kepner, the former III Forks cellar master and managerial weight behind Luqa downtown until just after it opened,…
In our “news from the future” department, we have this New York Times story dated July 25, about how Harley-Davidson’s trying to sell its bikes to the ladies. And though the story’s got a Nashville dateline, much of it takes place at a Grand Prairie dealership, where, recently, some 50…
Jim Schutze’s favorite blog points out that the sad inevitable is upon us: The Gold Rush Cafe is taking its summer break, starting, oh, now. But Jeff Siegel does come bearing good news: He says that come the cafe’s August reopening, proprietor George Sanchez will have installed “a Wi-Fi connection,…
Acclaimed novelist Mohsin Hamid recounts part of a recent trip to Dallas, where he discovered that he is both “they” and “us.” Pakistan-born, American-educated, London-living novelist Mohsin Hamid was in town during the spring to read from and sign copies of his latest novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, in which a…
Perhaps to get the jump on its Austin counterpart, which airs its Deep Ellum piece on Friday, KERA-FM (90.1) will, at noon today, air its own Deep Ellum roundtable. Think’s Krys Boyd will host Alan Govenar, co-author of the book Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White…
The Texas Freedom Network’s expecting a packed house tonight, when Jim Wallis pops in to the Wilshire Baptist Church on Abrams Road as part of the TFN’s Faith and Freedom Speaker Series. Wallis — president and executive director of Sojourners, author of the bestselling God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets…
Marlin Linville’s Arboretum oil painting is one of two Dallas scenes painted by the Texas artist for sale on eBay. A Dallas fine art collector is using eBay to offload the work of noted Texas artist Marlin Linville, who died in 2001 after a long battle with cancer. The seller’s…
So. This morning, while doing a very occasional search of Craigslist’s “rants & raves,” I came across this “freakin rant” posted at 5 a.m. today by someone claiming to be mentally ill, unemployed, broke and suicidal in downtown Dallas: So I’ve decided I’m going to kill myself. Not make a…
Courtesy one of your better MP3 blogs, Songs: Illinois, comes a link to The Quavers’ cover of “Dallas” — which is not the Jimmie Dale Gilmore “Dallas,” nor the Steely Dan “Dallas” (worth grabbing, as you’re already here), nor the Alan Jackson “Dallas,” nor the Jimmy Buffett “Dallas.” No, this…
Good God, that Antonio Swad is a genius. After making a small fortune selling pizza for pesos, the Pizza Patrón founder is at it again: Beginning Friday, his 65-store pizza chain will begin selling unlimited calling cards to Mexico, which means, according to the press release: “Unlike traditional calling cards…
If you visit the MySpace page for local hip-hop label Clout Records, you’ll find there an invite for tomorrow night’s press conference at the downtown Hyatt Regency, where the label’s CEO, Corey Cleghorn, will formally announce his new distribution deal with the mammoth EMI Records. Or you could just go…
While it may sound like a racy bowl of chili, Devil’s Bowl is instead a nasty tub of dirt where modifieds, late models, super sprints and street stock cars get sideways in the turns and throw up pinwheels of North Texas clay every Saturday night. A super sprint flipped and…
Fun is the loneliest number at the Kroger on a Friday at midnight. There aren’t a lot of things that will make me leave a good house party just as it reaches its prime, but that’s what I had to do last Friday night in order to procure my copy…
