The kids have walked out of DISD classes again. I can look outside my window, at the corner of Oak Lawn and Maple avenues, and see a steady stream of students–probably some 50 or 60–walking south on Maple Avenue, hollering and waving their arms. A couple are carrying Mexican flags;…
The most amazing thing about the Wall of Sound Festival on April 8 and 9 isn’t the quantity of bands, but the quality. There aren’t many stinkers to be found in the crazy eights, but that doesn’t make sifting through the list of good stuff any easier, so Unfair Park…
If news happens, but no one is there to issue a press release, is it still news? There’s a koan for all you tree-hugging hippie stoner types to mull over while we offer up some rather old news to the less easily distracted: The League of Women Voters of Texas…
Here’s an Associated Press story about The Redeemed Christian Church of God, the Lagos-founded church now operating out of an Irving office tower. (Make sense: What else is God gonna do when the Dallas Cowboys leave Texas Stadium and He can no longer watch football games through that hole in…
I’ve already bought my tickets to Wall of Sound. Have you? If you live in Dallas or Fort Worth, prolly not, according to Lance Yocom, owner and head of A&R at Spune Productions, the local force behind the two-day, 88-band festival scheduled for April 8 and 9 at Fort Worth’s…
So it won’t seem like a big surprise when The Dallas Morning News debuts its new section geared toward busy mommies, here’s the premature announcement…oooh, perhaps that’s the wrong choice of words. No matter. Actually, the News is one of six newspapers (out of 18 that applied) dipping into the…
Josh Garza, drummer for the beloved Dallas-to-NYC band Secret Machines, gave an interview to the U2 fansite Interference.com, during which he talked up the band’s forthcoming album (Ten Silver Drops) and, of course, what it was like to open for U2 in Mexico last month during The Vertigo Tour. During…
At this very moment, KXAS-Channel 5 is reporting, students from Skyline, Sunset, Kimball, Adamson and Molina high schools are gathering in Kiest Park in Oak Cliff t0 protest Congressional proposals that would strengthen immigration policies. (That, or to get outta class.) Speaking of, my cousin (well, my aunt’s third husband’s…
Robert Greenwald’s best known as the agit-doc filmmaker behind such fists-in-yer-face as Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism and Uncovered: The War on Iraq. But as we reported last week, Greenwald, through his Brave New Films production and distribution company, is also releasing…
Because there’s no way you saw this yesterday, Dallas Stars goalie Marty Turco hearts new Chicago Bears quarterback Brian Griese. In related news, when I was 10 I thought that 1979 M song “Pop Musik” was about Brian’s dad. Seriously, didn’t the chorus always sound like the guy was singing,…
The Cowboys signed Terrell Owens and Mike Vanderjagt last week. The Mavericks have flirted with having the NBA’s best record all season. The Rangers open their season a week from today. And the Stars…eh, didn’t hockey die? While you were busy not caring even a little bit, the NHL skipped…
If I had the time or the interest–or a car I thought could withstand a drive further than 12.8 miles–I might head out to Marshall on Wednesday for what oughta prove an interesting trial that just might have an enormous impact on the satellite and cable TV business. At long…
The MP3 blog Strange Reaction, which specializes in obscure punk bands from the 1980s, touches the local base with this generous posting: The Hugh Beaumont Experience’s entire four-song EP Cone Johnson , released in 1981 (and forgotten in, well, 1981). I would direct you to our archives for some info…
Seems the Plano Independent School District was pretty surprised about Liberty Legal Institute’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Sherman on Monday, that claims the district is engaging in religious discrimination regarding its treatment of a Christian organization called Students Witnessing Absolute Truth (or S.W.A.T.). As first reported on…
So now that you know the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is reinforced and ready to blow (they carry portable breath testers), surely you’re wondering, “What bar will they hit next?” Please note, we’re not judging here. You could be wondering that because you’re looking for a bar free of obnoxious…
You should’ve been at the Cavern last night. Doesn’t matter if the crowd (and the stage) were too cramped or if the room was too smoky or if you had to wake up early for work the next day–Pegasus Now is a band worth enduring all of those burdens for…
Lushes are falling all over themselves to protest the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s latest outrage: arresting people in bars for being drunk. Today, The Dallas Morning News ran the sad tale of a guy who downed a sixer but never even left his own hotel–until the TABC carted him off…
One presumes this is not what Woodlawn will look like as a boutique hotel, if and when that ever happens. Unlike so many of my unhealthy obsessions, my fascination with the old Woodlawn Hospital building held such promise. Day after day, I gazed out at the abandoned former home of…
SMU’s athletic administration will take tackle its future by relying on the Dallas Cowboys’ past–and not the recent past, but the waaaaay back past. The good past, that is. Steve Orsini will be announced this afternoon as the Mustangs’ new athletic director, replacing the retiring Jim Copeland. Orsini got his…
When Tom Sime quit his job last year as theater critic at The Dallas Morning News, some of his colleagues (including me) thought he was nuts. He took a pay cut to go to work for one of his best friends, Sue Loncar, as general manager of her Contemporary Theatre…
So, Southern Methodist University and the University of Dallas are still in the running for the George W. Bush Presidential Library (and, look, I could probably fit that thing in the closet with all my comic books and old porn). Texas Tech University ain’t. I didn’t really think that would…
I am starting to feel awfully bad for Leo Barron Hicks, the administrator of the embattled South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund. In November, the Observer ran a cover story about the fund’s history of making lousy loans to business owners who wind up making busy work for folks in the…
