Sunday night’s 60 Minutes will feature a piece on the Dixie Chicks, whose new album Taking the Long Way will be released May 23 (and reviewed in the Observer next Wednesday). The Chicks talk to Steve Kroft about the threats the band received after singer Natalie Maines shouted her infamous…
Usually I don’t do brunch outside of Sundays, but today was the exception. Who can turn down free eggs and sausage when Ray Nasher is handing it out? The Nasher Sculpture Center hosted a press preview and breakfast buffet for its new exhibit, On Tour with Renzo Piano. You know…
At the risk of feeling dirty–and not in a good way–I’m going to part company from Jim Schutze and Morning News columnist Sherry Jacobson and, ick, take the mayor’s side in the whole Dave Levinthal/AMR stock tempest. Jacobson this morning picked up on a point made by Schutze on Unfair…
Tom Cruise, you’re nuts and probably holding Katie Holmes hostage, but Dallas still buys what you’re selling. Why, I have no idea, but I find this kind of staggering. By now, you all know that Mission: Impossible III had a “disappointing” opening weekend, raking in a mere (heh) $47.7 million…
I was wrong yesterday when I cracked that the new HBO series 12 Miles of Bad Road, about the wimmins of Dallas, would be shot in Louisiana. Turns out it’s gonna be made in Los Angeles, to which one might add a great big d’oh. “I think it’s going to…
The annual EDS Byron Nelson Golf Classic gets underway today at the Four Seasons Resort and Club in Las Colinas. For some guys, it means putting on your golf spikes, acting like dorks and watching golf all day. For the rest of us, it means somehow finagling a coveted badge,…
The June issue of Esquire, sporting the most uncomfortable photo ever taken of Tom Hanks on its cover, contains a “Best Bars in America” special section. Pretty much every major city in America (and minor–s’up, Hurley, Wisconsin) gets its entry, and there’s Dallas on page 112 with…the Inwood Lounge? Says…
Who says property doesn’t sell–for a lot, no less–in southern Dallas? According to this story, just a few days after Buckner Plaza South went on the market, it sold to San Francisco buyers for the full asking price of $3.6 million. It’s n0thing remarkable to look out–just another generic strip…
The Dallas Business Journal planted the seed, and it’s taken root in some 200 news outlets across the country today: The paper’s piece about Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson’s April 28 speech in Dallas, in which he claimed to have killed a contract with a President George…
Today at noon, MoveOn.org will present a check for $99,185 to Republican Congressman Pete Sessions at his Dallas office. As you might expect, there’s a catch: It’s a giant novelty check, symbolizing the money Sessions has gotten from pharmaceutical companies over his career. In the 3rd District next door, a…
“SSSSSssssss…” “Stop that!” Carolyn Thomas snapped. Her best friend Dena Schlosser was driving with her eyes closed, hissing like a snake. “SSSSSSssssss…” “Open your eyes and look at the road!” Thomas said. “Put your mind on Jesus.” The weird behavior had started as soon as Schlosser and her three girls…
Fighting back after his ouster for sexual harassment, former assistant fire Chief Roland Gamez has filed a federal lawsuit that depicts him as the victim of an elaborate plot while portraying the department’s communications division that he once led as a bizarre outpost of Machiavellian plotting and odd sexual innuendos…
Hugo Olivarez’s T-shirts will make you uncomfortable, and not because of the fit. It’s the messages on the front that inspire the kind of nervous laughter Stephen Colbert got recently at the White House correspondents’ dinner, and like Colbert, they just keep getting more popular. The first time the public…
LeBron James was fathered by an ex-con. Alison Eastwood’s hotness somehow evolved from Dirty Harry. Luke Skywalker’s lineage is directly traced to the unholy sperm of Darth Vader. George W. Bush is…OK, extraordinarily bad example. And, in the tradition of conquering rotten roots, the San Antonio Spurs’ founding father was…
Line in the sand: Thousands dead on September 11 weren’t enough to move Congress to secure the nation’s borders. A dangerous trek across miles of desert isn’t enough to stop impoverished illegal immigrants heading northward in search of jobs. What ever will we do about illegal immigration? Hey, Buzz knows!…
Fan-friggin’-tastic The bilge that plagues FM: It takes some big ol’ cojones to write an article like “Brown October” (by Jesse Hughey, April 20). I am in love with Jesse Hughey’s line, “Look, Brant Coulter, just because your guitar teacher supped from the buttholes of Vai and Satriani doesn’t mean…
Cynthia Magnuson at the Department of Justice just e-mailed us a copy of the consent decree regarding the city of Dallas’ violations of the Clean Water Act, which contains a few more specifics than the press release mentioned below. We’ll read it a little more closely tonight (wow, what an…
We thought the Mavs’ owner was being unusually quiet this time of year. Guess we were wrong. Though, by Mark Cuban’s standards, this seems like pretty lame stuff, no? But is that really worth $200,000? –Richie Whitt…
In March we reported that the city was being investigated by the Department of Justice for violating the Clean Water Act by illegally dumping pollution into the city’s stormwater system. Today, the DOJ and Environmental Protection Agency delivered their punishment: Dallas will be spending more than $3.5 million “in a…
Even without having anything to drink, I barely remember what whizzed by last night. I think it was an awards show. Were awards given out? Nobody died, I hope? One of the Happy Bullets took a 4-foot dive from the podium after rushing the stage, I recall, but he seemed…
Tonight against the Chicago Cubs, Barry Bonds will try once more to tie Babe Ruth’s mark of 714 career home runs, which would put him second on the all-time homers list behind Hank Aaron and his 755 dingers. Of course, at this late date it’s a record about which most…
Went to my 9-year-old son’s baseball game in McKinney last night and came away with two revelations: We really shouldn’t name our sports teams after natural disasters, and people, even coaches, are stupid. You’ve heard all the uproar and NCAA mandates that universities no longer use “Indians” or variations of…
