This weekend is the last chance to see Phil Collins: the world won’t listen at the Dallas Museum of Art. In case you don’t recall, the installation is a series of videos of Smiths fans singing their favorite songs from the album of the same name, karaoke style. Of course, since it’s art, it’s much more complicated than that. Art critic (and long ago FrontBurnerer) Christina Rees explains. (Link tip to Holly, who points out that tonight is the last free night to see it.)
The best supply shop in North Texas, actually. They got $10,000 in hardware. Hope they didn’t trash the Frequent Buyer Club database.
Yeah, it’s based in Michigan, but Borders has six Dallas-area stories, including the one I often frequent at Lovers and Greenville. And the company just had to borrow $42.5 million from its largest investor to stay afloat, and it is mulling a sale. In the business press, we call that “murmur.”
Was a hit put out on Lynn Flint Shaw and Rufus Shaw? That’s what those “in the know” believe, according to Sandra Crenshaw. I had a 15-minute conversation with her yesterday, and I invite you to listen to it.
First, do you need to catch up? Go here. Gird yourself for a post with 131 comments. They are all worth reading. But to sum up: Crenshaw, a former Dallas City Council member, was the chairperson for precinct 3549 on caucus night. Things did not go smoothly, to say the least. And there was much blogging.
Lynn Flint Shaw and her husband Rufus Shaw are dead. It looks to be a murder-suicide pact. But serious questions remain about their involvement with the DART board and City Hall.
Against that backdrop, Sandra Crenshaw called our office yesterday. As is my wont, I recorded the conversation. With two points, I offer a (poor quality) audio file of that phone call. 1) She at no point asked to talk off the record. 2) The call originated and was received within Texas, so I was free to record it without telling her.
Listeners to WBAP-AM News/Talk 820 heard a familiar but unexpected voice this morning: that of legendary local DJ Ron Chapman. Chapman’s pinch-hitting today and tomorrow for the “dean” of radio news, Paul Harvey, whose ABC Radio Network program, “The Rest of the Story,” is heard by 23 million people on more than 1,200 stations, including WBAP. The venerable Harvey’s been a lifelong inspiration for Chapman–formerly the a.m. jock on KVIL-FM and KLUV-FM, recently absent from local airwaves–and, this morning, Ron sounded an awful lot like his broadcast hero, right down to Harvey’s trademark long, dramatic pauses. You can check out “The Rest of the Story” again today on 820 at 10:45 a.m. and 7 p.m.
The tourney starts in just under three hours. You can still join us. Right now, we’ve got 115 bracket ballers in our group, Big Shot Lodowick. It’s free to enter, and the winner gets a $200 gift certificate to Texas de Brazil. Here are some of my favorite bracket names. Good work, people.
Farmers Branch Se Puede
Tim’s Designated Driver
[a Macie Jepson joke that you'll have to see for yourself]
Spitzer or Swallow
Cliche-vry Johnson
Texas Monthly
Broke Bracket Mountain
Lupe Valdez’s Love Child
Rev. Roy Frady in Plano may sue the city for being too inclusive in some prayer deal where religious leaders come to city hall to pray. I really don’t care all that much, per se. What I do wonder is how little a person thinks of his own faith that he needs some government stamp of approval on it to give it gravitas.
And I wonder why someone gave this preacher a Bible with Matthew 9:5-6 missing. IJS.
1. Next on Mark Cuban’s journalist hitlist: writers who don’t dig mixed martial arts.
2. The Brite Divinity School’s Black Church Summit and Awards Banquet, best known as the place where Barack Obama’s polarizing pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright will be honored, has been moved off TCU’s campus. For “security reasons.”
3. Problems with those caucuses (or “cauceses,” as this puts it) will never end, apparently.