Rawlins Gilliland

• 8 hours, 23 minutes ago
  Rawlins Gilliland's comment on:

  Book Signing: Sarah Palin (Sold Out)

  Palin in Plano. Elvis in Memphis.
  

• 3 days, 3 hours ago
  Rawlins Gilliland's comment on:

  Anti-illegal immigration "tea party" being held in Fort Worth

  What "Brittanicus" (Anonymous!) was trying to say was:

  "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?????????????????????????????????"

  Reminding me what my mother used to say when I 'acted up':

  "Where are those ear plugs when I need 'em?"
  

• 5 days, 4 hours ago
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  Sounds of life emerge from unassuming Oak Cliff theater

  What's not to love, memories generating from the venerable space that defied death more than any vampire. I was there when they kicked off this theater's reinvention construction. It was hot as hell that day. There will be hot times ahead, trust me. Can't wait.
  

• 6 days, 1 hour ago
  Rawlins Gilliland's comment on:

  Tradewinds, a DIVE BAR, re-opens in Oak Cliff

  Tradewinds is both a trip down memory lane and a look into tomorrow. Old clientele mix with Bishop Arts types and Lee Harvey's loyalists who love Phillip Jester (late Lee Harvey's GM), the co-owner. Drink specials are embarrassingly cheap and bar service uncommonly neighborhood warm. No food as yet but the old TVs were a great place to watch the Cowboys games. Karaoke ever other Saturday night is back and guest DJs. I drop in a lot at odd hours after other things and it's always unpredictable and comfortable. Try the back room back bar for people watching.
  

• 3 weeks ago
  Rawlins Gilliland's comment on:

  Steve Perry (CANCELED)

  The confusion is traceable to the leaked rumor that the DPD officer who ticketed persons for not speaking English will be raising money for his defense headlining a Journey cover band 'somewhere near downtown'.

• 3 weeks, 3 days ago
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  Cedar Hill's "Hell House" featured on documentary and NPR's This American Life

  I was on the air ,,,,supposedly glibly fundraising for Pledge Drive,,,, this past Saturday when this This American Life segment ran. Try spinning THAT in a happy-go-lucky way in between breaks.
  

  The odd thing to me is that the T.A.L. segment said this house was in Ft. Worth. If indeed it is in Cedar Hill, that's a problem. Cedar Hill is not Ft. Worth any more than Guam is in the Hawaiian Islands.

• 3 weeks, 6 days ago
  Rawlins Gilliland's comment on:

  Same-sex Homecoming bill at University of North Texas left to student vote

  The way I remember it at UNT, same sex 'couples' was redefined daily. It's the best part of college (sorry mothers); rotating the bedroom crops.

  Meanwhile back in the academic jungle, I didn't learn what 'gender neutral' meant. But I did that time when I watched Jerry Springer and watched that' plumber's face when his 'bride' confessed that she was, in fact, a man.

  Bottom (or top) line for me: if anyone really cares about Homecoming Queens and Kings(?!) by all means let's define that any way one wishes. And per same-sex homecoming candidates and their potential role for alums; it might jog the memory of those once-young male student bodies of that night at the frat house when they woke up with Donny (and Eric). Perhaps reminding the collegiate-males-of yesteryear unfaithful... when they get too doctrinaire in the course of their golfing game played with let's-pretend middle-aged gay-bashing buddies.

• 4 weeks ago
  Rawlins Gilliland's comment on:

  Redesign preview: A rose by any other name...

  To paraphrase what we asked as kids from the back seat of the car on long family outtings: "Are we rich yet?"

  Congrats in advance for the next giant leap for manned flight into the future.

• 1 month ago
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  Tori Spelling was at Its A Grind Coffee House in Deep Ellum on Oct. 15

  I compare Tori Spelling to a an off-brand honey-glazed ham that's been in an under-refrigerated case for entirely too long to even consider tasting.
  

  However, this coffee shop has incredible karma ....what with the Baylor Station (on the new and very successful DART Green Line) on their front door. And now, to Sarah's point, inexplicably featured on a national 'reality' show.... one based in L.A. no less(?)
  

  I wouldn't have that much luck unless I was sleeping with God's party planner.

• 1 month ago
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  Video: SCREAMS in Waxahachie is ultimate haunted house(s) experience

  I LOVE haunted houses, and this one is a must.

• 1 month ago
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  Naked woman surprised when Oncor worker entered her backyard

  PS: After viewing this video, I insist that Catherine Cuellar post a new photo on her Pegasus profile. Clearly the big bucks at Oncor gig has seen her being lavishly pampered at noteworthy spas, judging from her flowing and lustrous locks and the velvety skin, both dewy and radiant.... vs. her pony tail and dry skin cream daily regimens in her Pegasus era.

• 1 month ago
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  Naked woman surprised when Oncor worker entered her backyard

  Oncor changed out my old meter into the New Advanced Model faster than a gas fill-up at Nascar, being both courteous and professional.
  

  PLUS: *They gave me a coupon for an all-expenses-paid 10 day Hawaiian Cruise with first-class airfare to Honolulu. I think. Maybe I dreamed it. I was asleep.
  

• 1 month, 1 week ago
  Rawlins Gilliland's comment on:

  Winter Hugs and Warm Soles Luncheon

  I was a guest at this luncheon and he did a great job because he made it very easy to see how his reverse fortune downhill slide happened and how he managed to figure out how to bail water and cope and function for the first year until he and his son got a place of their own after his fortunes RE-reversed. Excellent presentation.
  

  Meanwhile: The woman who won the donated $9000 necklace mentioned above was already wearing so much jewlry....much of it the size of bed pillows....that it was like a volcano winning a Webber grill. But hey....

• 1 month, 1 week ago
  Rawlins Gilliland's comment on:

  The 16th Floor is quieter now

  I'll drink to that..................

• 1 month, 1 week ago
  Rawlins Gilliland's comment on:

  Inspiration springs from Regina Smith, wife of slain Dallas officer

  I have had the good fortune to meet Regina Smith and the sad fortune to attend her husband's funeral at the Potter's House. She is a hero to me, as her husband apparently was even to many of the gang members whose life he helped turn around. Never have I been more moved than I was hearing the eulogies for her fallen husband, at first the Police Headquarters and the next day's actual service. And one thing was clearer than polished crystal; theirs was a marriage made in heaven.
  

  God bless her.
  

• 1 month, 1 week ago
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  Deep Ellum looks to return to former glory

  It's exciting to hear about Deep Ellum returning to 'its former glory'. But Deep Ellum has had more than one 'Glory Day' before the 90s heyday I suspect we are referencing here. But yes, good things are ahead. I can feel it when I am there because with the new DART green line, it makes Fair Park and Expo Park and Deep Ellum all reunited like En Vogue. Making this a very Chi-Town multi-use and very urban set of adventures for the price of one ticket. Thumbs up.
  

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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  Oak Lawn's boundaries disappearing

  Well, I'm a Dallas native and I can tell you there never was an 'Uptown' until that name was invented in the 90s probably, undoubtedly, to distance the Turtle Creek/ McKinney areas fro Oak Lawn for the exact reasons you suspect.
  

  A reality check for those who feel like they can arbitrarily pronounce where something 'is'. I grew up going to the Oak Lawn park, Reverchon, only to hear WFAA refer in a live feed from 'Uptown' in said park. I later mentioned when I was on air that it was an unprecedented accomplishment of Herculean engineering magnitude that an entire park had been physically relocated.

  Then I read on Dallas Observer Blog that the editor posting believed their offices were in 'Uptown'. They office ON Oak Lawn but they are 'in' Uptown? Since when was Lee Park not in Oak Lawn? When they opened 3525 Turtle Creek high rise…and Greer Garson lived there… in the 1960s, it was in Oak Lawn. Where Papadeaux's is was Lucas B & B and that was said to be the 'heart' of Oak Lawn then. Now I know a TV local who lives behind Lucky’s who tells me he lives in Uptown. And this dude was gay and STILL didn’t think he lived in Oak Lawn. He told me, ‘My realtor told me where I live’. (When pressed, I learned his realtor moved here in 2004 from Syracuse and lives in Frisco).
  

  If we are to concede that Uptown has a genuine identity, then it should be happy to be usurping all of State-Thomas and McKinney. I'll even give then the Quadrangle although that too was in Oak Lawn when it was grand-opened. But try telling me that Turtle Creek is in Uptown and I'll tell that Love Field is West Dallas.
  

  This is typical realty-based gerrymandering all over the city. I watched decades ago as 'Lake Highlands' ate most of what is now properly called Northeast Dallas. When that peaked, Lakewood grew like a melanoma. Watch Casa Linda begin to eat Casa View. We all know how I've reported watching in this century all of southeast Dallas suddenly referred in media as Pleasant Grove when in fact that is the southern most area OF that part of town as if the other areas with their own histories and names never existed? And let's not even mention how 30% of the city 'became' Oak Cliff.

  Simple explanations are a combo of: People who move here who meet people who moved here whose realtors moved here and everyone assumes whatever they want as if Dallas is a raw frontier with no past, no boundaries.
  

  PS: To the author of this piece, David Webb: In fact, a great guy who WRITES for your paper,...meaning The Voice, Arnold Jones, once told me (I mind you grew up off Henderson Ave. between Barcadia and Cuba Libre) that 'no one knows where Lakewood is' per boundaries. I pointed out that: I can assure you that anyone who belongs to the Lakewood Homeowner's Association would be happy to tell him that they know exACTly where Lakewood 'is'. And isn't. Take that one to the bank.
  

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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  Don't take your shiny new iPod Nano to Life Time Fitness -- The chain has banned them, fearing illicit lockerroom video

  FYI, on weekends, etc. there are also kids in the locker rooms, etc. lest one think this issue solely concerns mano a mano new-age techno-lust pixel peccadilloes. That said:
  

  Last summer at the (upscale) health club, I watched a married dude snap a shot of another guy who was naked and clueless. I wondered, what's up with that? It didn't take long to see.
  

  FYI #2: My new health club forbids any cell phone usage in the locker room. I suspect someone's snapped shot secrets ended up on Facebook. Hey--- 'social networking' circa 2009!

• 1 month, 4 weeks ago
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  .03% of Cowboy game attendees were arrested

  To Rick's point; If sports is the opiate of the American masses, it's free-basing football.

• 1 month, 4 weeks ago
  Rawlins Gilliland's comment on:

  CNN 1190 Radio host Clifford Robertson arrested for fraud

  That should keep FOX busy.

• 2 months ago
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  Residents push for more humane euthanasia at Garland shelter

  I knew someone who used to administer the death shots. She is still traumatized years later.
  

  I know it's easy to talk about 'no-kill' shelters...but this often can mean an animal who is year after year caged and unadoptable, unsocialized,etc.
  

  And then to use gas for mass killing vs. individual death, one on one, is asking a lot of people to do what you and I could not.
  

  The only 'answer' here is to:
  

  1)EMPHAsize spay and neuter programs and subsidize them and outreach the lower socioeconomic demographic areas where dogs and cats are treated like 'things'. And

  2) Make genuine efforts to appreciate what is actually housed AT the shelters. Animal shelters everywhere. Wonderful creatures. Yet the semi-stigma continues that 'pound' dogs (and cats) are 'strays' and lower forms of the desirable trait yadayada.
  

  In fact, mixed breeds are stronger, better genetically, on and on.... Again, we cannot allow perception to pass as fact w/o a challenge.

• 2 months ago
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  New KERA station puts focus on North Texas music scene

  Rich, FYI, only about 10% of what fuels KERA and NPR is taxpayer funds. And that amount is dwindling. It's a yesteryear myth that we happy taxpayers are the ever ready sugar daddy. We do however contribute. But the lion's share (and then some) is listener/ member funded and bequeathal endowments, etc. (Remember that when the station has it's next 'Pledge Drive' in October, please!)
  

  And as far as I know, this new station will be funded altogether differently than a standard NPR affiliate....which is what KERA is...although it far exceeds the 'standards' of the industry.

  As for Troop's question: (That WAS a question, right?) 'What does KERA know?'. A lot. As anyone listening to Paul Slavens (or having a beer with Gini Mascorro) etc. etc. knows. There is a very hip and worldly undercurrent of music lovers and followers and devotees at the station. Thank GOD they can now put those musical chops to work! “YMCA”

• 2 months ago
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  One of my favorite places, family owned, Colombian food and Sat. nite dancing to live music. What's not to love? Josey and Belt Line.

  Well, David, it's closer than Bogota.

• 2 months ago
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  Therapy dog comforts patients in Parkland burn unit

  This wonderful animal is communicating with burn patients because they can see in this dog's eyes that he has a comforting and sensitive caring soul. There is a dog like this waiting today for you.

  Last year 4 million shelter dogs were euthanized. This dog speaking to strangers at Parkland....people who are being tested in ways most of us could never bear nor imagine...is typical of the dogs I have met (and yes rescued and adopted) who were otherwise destined to be 'put down' because we drove past instead of stopping. Because no one went to see them at our animal shelters, no one knew they lived or died. We cared but in real terms we did nothing.

  Look at this dog who is bringing such humanity to those suffering and let him remind us how; when you save a dog's life, you may unknowingly help more than just that dog, in ways that are ongoing and profound.

• 2 months ago
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  UPDATED: Dallas Top Chef Tre Wilcox signs on at Loft 610 in Plano

  La Gubbins has more scoops than a Ben and Jerry's factory tour guide.

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