Your intrepid reporter is camped out at the Cafe Brazil at North Central and Fondren. Besides being crowded with SMU students clad in sweatpants and bedhead, this place is full of Parkies looking for some hot coffee, good food, free Internet, and a spare table to set their Louis Vuitton purse.

I just spoke to a couple from Lakewood who said that this was their third try for a place to charge their phones and check e-mail. Coffee shops and restaurants with power outlets and free Internet are all packed. Another nearby gal asked if we knew how many people were ...read more

Obviously, we jumped the gun by shutting down Overheard before we had worked out all the kinks on this site. Please bear with us.

Enough with the “lack of love for the new site” e-mails, its been up for something like 3 hours. Just remember, we all hated that super mod park at Lovers and Hillcrest and then we … oh, wait a minute, that’s not a very good example.

UPDATE: OK, to those of you asking how to read comments- It looks like you have to click on the title of the post to get the screen with comments. Will it change? See Dan.