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I am officially a dork. Saying that, I am refering to the fact that I have an legitimate membership to a rock star’s fan club. Seriously, like, I pay dues. But I’m not ashamed. David Bowie is worthy of my devotion–and apparently, that of the Secret Machines (and vice versa)…

To quote Groucho Marx: Whatever it is, I’m against it. Certainly that’s the God’s honest when it comes to this big-screen version of Dallas, which will star Robert Davi as J.R. Ewing, Costas Mandylor as his younger brother Bobby, Shannon Tweed as Sue Ellen and Katey Segal as Pam. (What,…

On a day when it’s supposed to reach 129 degrees, the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau is welcoming to town some 90 “travel writers, producers and public relations professionals” for the 2006 Society of American Travel Writers Central States chapter meeting, which takes place at the Hyatt Regency downtown. According…

Can’t say enough good things about Neko Case’s performance at the Granada Theatre last night. It was my seventh time to see the Tacoma, WA, singer, so you might not trust my bias when I gush about the hour-and-a-half set, but she’s never been in finer form. Her supporting cast…

Wikipedia, of all places, contains a list of bands rumored to be playing the Austin City Limits Music Festival in early fall; among those on the list are Radiohead, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beck and Bob Dylan. Pollstar also has a few more official confirmations, among them Son Volt,…

How come city council member Leo Chaney doesn’t yell at us? Why can’t we be as lucky as Sharon Boyd, who got an earful from Chaney on Monday when all she wanted was a mouthful of food? The man Boyd refers to as “Shakedown Leo” won’t even call us back,…

Dan Michalski/Pokerati.com In the “Really, That Did Not Happen” Department, Observer art director Mike Simmons stares down 2004 WSOP champ Greg Raymer. If you happen to see 2004 World Series of Poker main event champ Greg “Fossilman” Raymer around town this week, you’ll probably be tempted to ask him to…

But it sure is easy reading in a green space, according to William Sullivan, professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sullivan’s quoted in this press release touting the Thursday opening of the reading garden at the Salvation Army’s Cedar Crest Community Center. Dallas is…

I don’t know who these people are or what they want, but apparently there’s some contest going on to find the “Greatest Business Mind in Dallas.” Me, I’d give it to ExxonMobil’s outgoing chairman Lee Raymond, who’s the recipient of “one of the most generous retirement packages in history, nearly…

Tarrant County folks planning on filing 11th hour taxes tonight: The post office in downtown Fort Worth will be closed for construction. Instead, go to those at 3701 Altamesa Blvd. or 4600 Mark IV Parkway. Sure, the Fort Worth Startle Gram relates this valuable info to you in a story…

Tarrant County folks planning on filing 11th hour taxes tonight: the post office in downtown Fort Worth will be closed for construction. Instead, go to those at 3701 Altamesa Blvd. or 4600 Mark IV Parkway. Sure, the Fort Worth Startle Gram relates this valuable info to you in a story…

Some enterprising YouTuber, who goes by the moniker Dirk13, has posted this pretty nifty video of last Sunday’s megamarch on City Hall set to Rage Against the Machine’s “Guerilla Radio.” Not gonna lie: It’s kinda awesome. Even looks like a Rage video, especially the Michael Moore-directed promo clip for “Sleep…

Tonight’s installment of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, which airs at 9 on Showtime, asks, “Why does our government still support the archaic, primitive, cruel and costly BULLSHIT known as the Death Penalty?” Helping to answer that question will be SMU human rights professor Rick Halperin, one of the country’s most…

Just got the May issue of Food & Wine, the one that touts the “376 hottest restaurants in the world” on the cover, and guess what? There ain’t one in to be found in Dallas. According to the intro to the mag’s so-called “Go List,” which can go screw itself…

The Feds blow, and so does their submission for the Dallas Mavericks playoff song contest on TexasGigs.com. Legions of their brainwashed, misled, misguided and/or possibly deaf fans have voted for them, and we must combat it till the end–which is today, the last day of voting. Our only hope of…

According to this just-posted piece from the Dallas Business Journal, a location scout for the big-screen version of Dallas has extended his/her stay from three days to two weeks, giving the Dallas Film Commission folks the impression the movie might get shot here after all. According to the story, Dallas…

When Good Records announced it would close for a week to move from Deep Ellum to its shiny new Lower Greenville location, record nerds like me gasped, frightened at the prospect of not being able to buy our favorite indie releases that Tuesday. When the store re-opened at its new…