Media Matters
There’s an interesting story in the Dallas News today by Matthew Haag (it’s behind the paywall) about DISD Supt. Michael Miles becoming the media punching bag for Dalla[...]
30 Apr 2013
Music artists Lizza Connor, who we wrote about in January, snagged the prestigious Parent’s Choice Silver Award for her family-friendly music CD, Commander Salamander, a musi[...]
16 Apr 2013
Dallas is full of artists at all levels of experience and exposure. We probably all know someone who we believe has to be the greatest undiscovered artist in the city — or po[...]
20 Mar 2013
The Mondells have been married for 43 years and working together for 35. [...]
19 Mar 2013
If you’re an indie film fanatic, this might just be your lucky week. There are three independent documentaries you can catch this week in the neighborhood. The first, as was [...]
07 Jan 2013
Lawrence Wright, the 1965 Woodrow Wilson High School graduate who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book, The Looming Tower, is taking on the Church of Sci[...]
14 Nov 2012
EDITOR’S NOTE: If you missed attending the televised Woodrow Wilson High School football pep rally, here’s a link to the three-minute video of football players mugging [...]
08 Nov 2012
City officials have been pondering a change to Dallas’ solicitation ordinance since at least this spring; the goal seems to be to find some way to limit handbills, business cards, [...]
09 Oct 2012
Neighborhood resident Travis Hopper and his business partner, Brian Owens, helped create the Pin Point Heritage Museum in Georgia. Their story is featured in the October Advocate. [...]
03 Oct 2012
Architect Russell Buchanan was accused in the 1984 rape and murder of SMU student Angela Samota. He never was charged with the crime, but police repeatedly interrogated Buchanan, w[...]
03 Oct 2012
I have spent a week trying to figure out how to take advantage of the Observer anointing me as the Best of Dallas columnist for 2012. After all, this is the United States in the 21[...]
28 Sep 2012
The Observer does a Best of Dallas every year, and picks a best columnist as part of the process. This year, for some reason completely unknown to me, they picked me. Which is not [...]
20 Sep 2012
