Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Pegasus News week in view: Labor Day weekend edition

By Mike Orren

Because we know you're going to knock off early for the Labor Day weekend, we're dropping the newsletter on you a little early this week. While we're still on the hunt for a new managing editor, you're stuck with this newsletter's original author for a bit -- I'm out of practice, so please be gentle,

Rock it out with AC/DC & Van Halen Tribute bands this Saturday

Metro: Seems like the whole world was fixated on Denver for the DNC this week -- Our pal Shawn Williams has been posting live from the convention floor throughout. Meantime, the Dallas County sheriff's race is shaping up to make McCain/Obama look like a lovefest, even with one of our own local billionaires in the middle of that fight. And Bill Baumbach of The Collin County Observer will leave you ready for a new election for commissioners. (Still, Plano is the most affluent city in the country ... Our content partner Dallas iMedia (who has helped us bring you lots of great video) is facing a crisis due to proposed budget cuts and could use some moral support. Meantime, Brian Allen of Great Southwest Citizen says Duncanville has budget problems of its own ... [Insert regular "suburb considering pit bull law" story here] ... Minnie had a sitdown with longtime Allen Mayor Steve Terrell.

Stage: Jocelyn Wiebe, director of Collected Stories, is in the Theater spotlight with Shawn ... Local productions of The Big Bang and Streetcar got rave reviews ... Check in on Friday for the week's openings and closings.

Flix: The Film Guy was on the red carpet for locally-produced actioner, Exit Speed ... A Dallas team is in the finals of a big movie competition ... Check in tomorrow for reviews of films opening this weekend.

Music: The long-awaited Jackopierce reunion album snuck out early. Hopefully Fair to Midland will follow suit with the album they're starting on now ... Todd caught some old-school metal at the "Metal Masters" tour.

Best Bites: Want a new location for your restaurant? Go Fish ... Is Rowlett the center of the Mango-loving world? ... Spiral Diner is looking for veggie votes again ... The war on HFCS continues unabated. Like that matters to people gearing up for chicken-fried bacon (Mmmm.... Baaacoon.)

Friday Night - Spin Doctors at Glass Cactus

Sports: The Boys are wrapping the preseason, with Texas Stadium's farewell tour of duty underway ... The Rangers haven't been impressive in the past week, although they did bring us some Hamburger ... Euless Trinity enters the football season ranked number one in the nation.

Schools: Schools are back in session, no matter what color your belt may be ... SMU's geothermal lab got a big gift from our favorite search engine.

Bidness: Look, we're Apple fans and all, but lining up for the opening of a new store in FW? Of course, waiting in line for nothing is more productive than looking for a parking space at Snider Plaza at lunch ... Are you pretty enough to work at Abercrombie & Fitch?

Pegasus Picks for the weekend

Friday

• Sing along with Oklahoma! in Concert at Addison Circle Park (Saturday too)
• Help John Nitzinger celebrate his 60th birthday at the McDavid Studio in
• Funnyman Wayne Brady joins the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Pops (Saturday too)
• Join a host of top local bands bidding bon voyage to their pal Eric Swanson.
• Get your homebelly groove on with the Spin Doctors.

This weekend only!

Saturday

• Take your dog swimming in Garland or go rowing for free on Lake Arlington.
• Another day, another (local) star-studded farewell-- this one for Dylan Sneed's "Texodus."
• The Ridglea rocks with Texas Metal Alliance / Silver Tongued Devil / Bloodstain Carpet / Evil Obelisk / Scars of Mourning.
• Delbert McClinton is at the Bass Hall.

Sunday

• Cross Canadian Ragweed's Red Dirt Roundup dominates the day with a bakers' dozen great bands.
• Or, make the trek to Possum Kingdom for Dia de los Toadies.
• Find someone you need to take revenge upon and drag them to a karaoke screening of Mamma Mia.
• Or find someone you like and go to the annual Freddie King Blues Fest.

Your, um, guy Wednesday-night(?),

Mike Orren

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