Mary, Mary: Buzz is not what you would call a Christian scholar–or a Christian for that matter–so help us out here: If you were going to sell an icon of one of the New Testament Marys to a casino, shouldn’t it be the Magdalene version or the Bethany version but…
New Age Mumbo-jumbo Sad and silly: When I read the article “Little Boy Blue” (by Jesse Hyde) in your March 9 edition, my first and final thought was, “This is total crap!” Yes, I read through the entire article–more than once, just to assure myself that it was written on…
Steve Blow apologizes for having an opinion. I’m sure it won’t happen again. –Matt Pulle…
Touched down in Austin at around 1:30 p.m.; not too much exciting to report after going through the surprisingly quick registration line (unless seeing the only midget drummer at the festival, Christophe Zajac-Denek from Detroit’s the Hard Lessons, counts). The NX35 party is starting at Club DeVille on Red River…
Hulk smash…and is a smash too: Carlo Pagulayan illustrated Greg Pak’s work in the Marvel Comics mainstay title. My old pal Greg Pak, with whom I attended junior high at Alex W. Spence Middle School on Capital Avenue, has turned into quite the big-deal comic-book scribe. Pak, who wrote, directed…
Last November, Texas Monthly’s Mimi Swartz artfully deconstructed tort reform and its unimagined consequences in her November 2005 story “Hurt? Injured? Need a Laywer? Too Bad!” After Swartz’s much-talked-about story appeared, the special interest group Texans for Lawsuit Reform published a 5,300-word memo that attempted to rebut Swartz’s reporting, citing…
As much as I hate to put family business out there, it’s about the only way I can explain why we black folks love Madea so much. See, among African-Americans, we have something we call white-folk funny, and then there’s black-folk funny. Madea falls solidly into the category of–you guessed…
Just got this press release about the opening next week of a new club called Metro 5, which occupies the old Starck Club spot on McKinney Avenue in the West End, and three things stick out: “M5 brings a twist to the nightlife scene with weekly promotional offerings such as…
Ssssh. Hear that? Is it butterflies peein’ in a cotton field? Vince Young’s gears turnin’? Bode Miller’s Olympic medals clanging together? Nope, just the hollow clamor surrounding the World Baseball Classic. Chalk up another one for Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig. First, despite a mountain of evidence that Barry…
Dallas may well be the meanest city in Texas when it comes to its treatment of the homeless, but Wichita Falls sounds like it’s hell on Dallas’ homeless too. –Robert Wilonsky…
The underperforming stock of the Belo Corp., owners of The Dallas Morning News and WFAA-Channel 8, is getting much attention today; see here and here for commentary from those who know about such things. Both stories contain this quote from Belo chairman Robert Decherd: “The advertising market has been more…
According to its Web site, the locally based Leadership Network will “identify, connect and help high-capacity Christian leaders multiply their impact.” While only one of the words “high,” “capacity,” “Christian” and “leader” apply to me, I am fascinated by the rise of the movie-theater church; God loves a big room,…
The NarcoSphere sounds like awesome name for a death-metal band or an HBO show about the double lives of 11th-grade cops or maybe even a blockbuster movie about an underwater exploration team that’s high all the time. Try none of the above: It’s part of the 4-year-old NarcoNews site that…
Let me solve one mystery right upfront. During the two hours of Cavalia’s Cirque du Soleil-inspired spectacle combining horses, riders, acrobats and aerialists, not a single animal was seen to relieve itself. Forty-seven horses, most of which had a part in last night’s show: Not a dribble, not a turd…
Uh-oh. Our worst fears may soon be upon us. The Cowboys just released Keyshawn Johnson, minutes after the Eagles released Terrell Owens. Johnson was Dallas’ leading receiver last season. Owens would fill that need, albeit with a ton of extra baggage. (See: psycho.) Put two and two together, and will…
Yeah, you knew that already. But here’s further proof that we know how to dance with what brung us, usually at JR’s Bar & Grill. –Robert Wilonsky…
Today, Docurama releases on DVD the disappointing, underwhelming doc called Debbie Does Dallas Uncovered, which, alas, does not live up to its billing; my mom has more titillating stuff in her collection. (S’what my dad says.) Originally titled The Curse of Debbie Does Dallas, this overwrought mini-doc (clocks in at…
As Jerry Seinfeld so eloquently put it: We don’t cheer players, we cheer laundry. That’s true enough around here: We booed Deion Sanders as a San Francisco 49er and then cheered him as a Dallas Cowboy; and we cheered Steve Nash as a Dallas Maverick and now boo him as…
For those who haven’t seen the ongoing discussion on Fark.com regarding last week’s Observer cover story on Indigo kids, much of it is in response to a quote in the lead section from Dusk, the boy on the cover. The quote reads, “I’m an avatar. I can recognize the four…
Apparently, if you want your church’s cup to runneth over, all you gotta do is call Paul Gage. His Dallas-based consulting service, The Gage Group, will pass the collection plate till it’s got nearly $100 million in it. According to this item from the Agape News, a Web that that…
The Dallas dust-up, over the pretty good chance the big-screen version of the little-screen show will end up shooting in Canada or Florida or Louisiana, is getting much pub these days, and not just in the U.S. In Canada, they’re fretting about the lack of some suitable scenery but gloating…
Taking this picture of Ashlee Simpson with my cell phone made my feel creepy, but in a good way. But since you can barely tell who it is, well, what’s the dif? This item appeared on this blog for about two minutes yesterday, before vanishing into the ether; dunno how…
