We can’t tell Jamie Foxx from Ray Charles anymore. That’s how much of a genius he is. So he says. Just yesterday I was reading in The New York Times a review of Terrell native Jamie Foxx’s Monday-night concert at Madison Square Garden. Sounded kinda…awful. Sample sentence: “He began with…
Just one hour after we posted that item about the missing Giuliani docs, which were posted to reporter Ben Smith’s blog only yesterday, they’ve already been taken down. Good thing we didn’t save the .PDF file to our hard drive. Yeah, that would have been a very bad idea. Gosh,…
We can take no credit for this; nope, all due propers to Josh Benton at The Dallas Morning News, who yesterday on BoldTypes penned an item about those infamous Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign plans that went, uh, missing from a hotel room in November. Ben Smith, the New York Daily…
Big story yesterday about a Boston couple who was booted off a flight because their 3-year-old was throwing a tantrum and refused to be buckled in to her seat. Fair enough, considering that you’ve got another 115 or so passengers waiting to take off. The story ran on KDFW-Channel 4,…
Who says the newspaper business is dead (well, besides, like, everybody)? Don’t tell that to the folks over at American Community Newspapers, the Minnesota-based publisher of 16 papers in the North Texas area — including the Plano Star Courier, McKinney Courier-Gazette, Frisco Enterprise and Mesquite News. (The North Texas papers…
Get your tickets now: As if this year’s Coachella music-fest (April 27-29) lineup wasn’t stellar enough, boasting acts from Rage Against the Machine to Willie Nelson to Roky Erickson, there’s one more reason for Dallasites to pack up their tents and make the long journey to the deserts of California:…
Uh, note to DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa: You’d best tell your spokesperson the definition of “legal” before this gets ugly. Oh, wait. Too late. Our bad. Breaking news: The Dallas Independent School District is investigating whether a crime was committed at Preston Hollow Elementary School in the wake of a…
Sometimes, I love being wrong. OK, not really. I pretty much hate it all the time, but if I have to be wrong about something, I’d like to be wrong about ways in which Dallas sucks. See, in my column a couple weeks back, I mused that the last time…
Somewhere beneath this Dolphins helmet is former — and, maybe, future? — Dallas Cowboy Jason Garrett. Uh…Coach Garrett, perhaps? That’d be kinda cool. Took a break from guessing about Bill Parcells’ replacement long enough to breathe in the fresh air of the NHL All-Star Game last night. And, of course,…
Angela Hunt, known around the office as the future former Mrs. Jim Schutze, last night forwarded us this link to her blog, specifically the item about how doggies can now dine outside. Man, the city council sure does tackle the important shit, even when it’s canine-manufactured. Next up: giving kitty-cats…
The late Howard Forbes, who is no doubt very amused wherever he is So, let’s backtrack for a moment. On Tuesday, the missus wakes me in Utah to tell me about an obit in The Dallas Morning News for a man named Howard Forbes. Then, a few hours later, Paul…
Susanne Johnson, SMU Christian prof, isn’t so rankled by the Dubya library no more. Shame. You have two choices this morning: You can read the Associated Press’ piece about SMU profs softening their stance on the George Dubya Library, or you can go to my new favorite blog — The…
My chin and forehead are pressed against a white plastic apparatus that is, presumably, sterile. Jaime, the pretty woman in the black scrub-like garments, did wipe the diagnostic bubble down with a couple of moist towelettes before I stuck my head in it, so I’m feeling pretty good about what’s…
Bill Parcells is gone. And I know his replacement: Bill Jones. When Parcells went into hiding after the Dallas Cowboys’ season-ending loss in Seattle, it was the long-time metroplex TV sports personality who jumped into the head coach’s seat for the final two tapings of Channel 11’s Cowboys Huddle. “I…
I am concerned for my people. Last summer a neighbor spoke to me on my lawn in Old East Dallas—an artist, one of the original urban pioneers, a person who has lived an entire life of collapsing rooflines and spotty plumbing on our street midway between White Rock Lake and…
Although he’s been ordered to leave the country, the supposed ex-lover of Constable Mike Dupree may be of interest to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. Last week, Dallas County Commissioner Ken Mayfield asked new District Attorney Craig Watkins to investigate the bizarre plight of Angel Martinez, the friend and…
Official oppression: What was “Papa” Dupree doing by having intimate relations with his “adopted” son? (“Cold as ICE,” by Matt Pulle, January 4.) Why did this law enforcement officer harbor a known offender at his apartment? Using his official capacity for personal gain is what some would call official oppression…
An even dozen: That’s how many innocent people in Dallas County have been sent to prison in the last two or three decades, at least based on DNA tests. That’s more than any other county in the country. Last week, James Waller was the latest convicted sex offender in Dallas…
Buzz is a little late getting to the party with this, but it behooves us to say something about the city’s plans to tighten regulations and raise the fees for newspaper racks on city right-of-way—including the Dallas Observer’s. Ahem…here goes: It’s an outrage, an assault on our precious First Amendment-guaranteed…
I just got back in town — seriously, bags are still packed — and, c’mon, this shows up in my mailbox: a missive from Kenny Brattain, otherwise known as the guy who was going to reopen Trees. Or, looks like, not. As you no doubt recalls, a few weeks back…
Saturday a packed Good Records hosted the CD release party for the two-disc Zac Crain for Mayor comp, with performances by Baboon, Dove Hunter and Erika Wennerstrom of Cincinatti’s Heartless Bastards, who certainly appreciated the audience, despite most likely not knowing who this Crain character was. For those of you…
These are your lungs on air pollution. It’s good to hear President Bush is yet again giving lip service to cutting down on oil consumption and boosting alternative fuels. Problem is, his nice little State of the Union nod to global warming wasn’t his first attempt at pretending to be…
