Red Monroe (Dallas): After I first saw Red Monroe in concert more than a year ago, I begged then-music editor Sarah Hepola to lemme say something–anything–about the impressive show. Her section was already filled up for the week, she said, but she had room for a short blurb (scroll to…
Last night, I was watching my fave late-night newscast, MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, during which the former ESPN’er twice aired the clip of WFAA-Channel 8 reporter Bert Lozano’s close encounter with a streaker on Sunday night. The first time Olbermann aired the clip–unedited, yech and hee-hee–was during his nightly…
One sentence in this Dallas Morning News story about the redo of 20-year-old Plaza at Bachman Creek shopping center on Northwest Highway caught my eye: “‘We are going to try and create a European town square feeling,'” Archstone-Smith’s Tom Scaling said Monday.” It’s notable mostly to those of who grew…
Anyone who thought that the Department of Justice’s investigation of the Dallas County Jail would be a whitewash is sorely mistaken. This morning, at an otherwise uneventful Dallas County commissioner’s court subcommittee hearing, budget director Ryan Brown was talking about how the county is almost tapped out on various technology…
With the addition of Troy Aikman and Rayfield Wright to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in January, the Dallas Cowboys’ ridiculous roadblock to eternal honor finally crumbled. But just lookie what it has begat: a Dallas Mavericks bias. I know the Mavericks have generally sucked during their 26 years…
I always heart Poynter, particularly Jonathan Dube’s Web Tips newsletter in which he bestows wise words upon the Web-using, journalistically inclined masses. Yesterday he talked about the Beta version of Yahoo! Local, a news aggregator meant to compete with Google News. Instead of searching for “Dallas” with all kinds of…
The Southern Sea (Plano): Since I’m really not feeling very well after this damned time change, I’m going to push the burden of today’s WoSF band preview onto Gorilla Vs. Bear’s Chris Cantalini, who has an impressive song off the new Southern Sea EP, Simple Machines For Complex Problems, available…
A newspaper-writin’ reader sends this missive regarding his days living in Little Forest Hills: When I moved to Dallas from Fort Worth in 1996, I landed in a tiny rent house on Daytonia Avenue smack in the middle of Little Forest Hills. Believe the hype: Little Forest Hills has a…
Found a copy of Quick next to the toilet today and opened it up (hey, I like Sudoku) to find a blurb about a proposed graffiti crackdown in Dallas. If the City Council gets its way, $500 fines can be issued for carrying spray paint around town. Sure, fine, whatever…
Is weepy the new douchebag? Friday night, Observer Night & Day co-editor Merritt Martin and I hauled out to the Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie for the Franz Ferdinand-Death Cab For Cutie show and were surprised to find ourselves in the company of a remarkably large population of frat guys…
In FC Dallas’ 3-2 win over Chicago Saturday, the local kid made good, scoring the winning goal in the 70th minute–just five minutes after entering the game. But that kid wasn’t Mario Torres, the local Latino league phenom whose story we chronicled last July. Nor was it fellow Dallas products…
Maybe one day The Dallas Morning News will do a story on Bill Parcells’ feelings about the Terrell Owens signing. Till then, we’ll just have to take Peter King’s word for it. By the way, that is good enough for me. –Robert Wilonsky…
If you missed The Writer’s Garret’s inaugural Writes of Spring Literary Festival of Books and Authors over the weekend, you didn’t miss much. The fest took place Friday through Sunday at the South Side on Lamar lofts, and it was sponsored by the likes of Borders, DART, KERA, Comcast and…
The Dallas Stars may win the NHL’s Stanley Cup this spring. Regardless, it’s already been a positive season, mainly because after tonight’s clash against the San Jose Sharks at the American Airlines Center, the Stars’ ridiculously hideous alternate third sweater will be loaded on a truck and sent to Goodwill…
The bad news: Dallas-Fort Worth has a severe gang problem–has for years, in fact, and it’s only getting worse, say officials with the Department of Justice. The good news: DOJ’s going to make an effort to do something about, announcing on Saturday it’s going to channel $2.5 million in grant…
My Associated Press pal Christy and her husband, formerly of local Fox affiliate KDFW-Channel 4, are in town this week for the Texas Rangers opening series against the Boston Red Sox–not to see the Rangers, mind you, but their beloved Red Sox. Also in town is their pal Dan Shaughnessy,…
If you see Kevin Sorbo walking around town, it’s because he’s Walking Tall. And because The Rock wasn’t available. I think the key phrase in this particular story is “each with budgets of $2 million,” which oughta go into that fund the mayor’s trying to build up in order to…
I noticed two things this weekend during a visit into the quaint, quirky White Rock Lake neighborhood known as Little Forest Hills: the astounding number of hideous McMansions springing up like weeds in the woods, and the tiny signs trying to fend them off like disposable Davids dueling Tyveked Goliaths…
A few weeks ago we wrote about the phenomenon known as the indigo children. The New Yorker has a follow-up about the latest step in kiddie evolution: the Dandelion Child. Best. Story. Ever. –Robert Wilonsky…
See for yourself…
Dear Cafe Express on McKinney Avenue, Things you may not want to publicize to your customers in the form of an “award”: Lowest Crew Turnover — 64.5 % Lowest Food Cost — 28.8 % Perhaps you might place these placards in the back room as motivational tools instead of on…
Pink Nasty (Austin): This blurb was originally directed towards the jagged, worn-down blues-rock of Denton’s jetscreamer, but we got a little good-news-bad-news this afternoon: Spune Productions’ Lance Yocom e-mailed to say that jetscreamer guitarist and lead singer Samantha Moss broke her hand and had to back out of next weekend’s…
