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Southwest Airlines Owes Passengers 5.8 Million Free Drinks

Two years ago, Southwest Airlines abruptly changed the rules of its Business Select program, which allows travelers to breeze through security, get to the front of the boarding line, earn extra reward points, and, most importantly, get free booze. Before August 1, 2010, could use their free drink v ... More >>

Dallasites Find "Dewey Defeats Truman" Paper in Garland Storage Shed

Mary Padian and Moe Prigoff are regular cast members on "Storage Wars: Texas," the Lone Star spinoff of the A&E reality show chronicling the odd souls who bid on the contents of abandoned storage units. He's an antiques dealer, she's a free-spirited collector, and both run shops in the Design Distri ... More >>

The Chicago Tribune Visits "Emerging Dallas"

Wendy Donahue's Chicago Tribune dispatch from her recent trip to Dallas begins with her family driving their rental car across the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, the "symbolic hub of Texas-sized ambitions." She notes the breeze passing over the grasses along the Trinity and that the bridge is otherwise ... More >>

Lollapalooza Suspended, Resumed After Dangerous Weather Conditions

BY ERIK THOMPSON The 2012 installment of Lollapalooza has thus far brought the requisite extremes, in terms of performances and potent weather. A two-hour delay cut through the middle of Saturday's entertainment at Chicago's Grant Park, and a good many people were wishing they had just the record h ... More >>

City of Ate is the First Loser in the Association of Food Journalists Awards

Scott was really hoping for first place.​The Association of Food Journalists met in South Carolina over the weekend, presumably engaging in heated debates over critic anonymity and restaurant-review waiting periods and whether a large slab of bacon should be carved into Mount Rushmore. (Of cou ... More >>

Food Taxes Alone Won't Keep Us From Becoming Fat Asses

Would you eat less if this burger was taxed?​Between double brunches I thumbed through the Sunday papers, hunting for relevant food news so you don't have to. Most papers are slathered with stories about the heat, but there were a few food gems ... The Morning News re-printed a Chicago Tribun ... More >>

From Baltimore Sun's Files, Even More Photos From the Texas Centennial Exposition For Sale

From the archives of The Baltimore Sun​Twice now we've been fortunate enough to discover photos from the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park being disposed of on eBay by the Tribune Company. Now there's a third stack of old Baltimore Sun photos consisting of four shots, each one a nightt ... More >>

For Sale: Cache of Baltimore Sun Archival Photos of the Texas Centennial Exposition

From the archives of The Baltimore Sun​Not sure if you're aware of it, because damned if I've seen mention of this anywhere, but we're mere days away from the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park. Gates opened June 6, 1936, and it ran through the end of N ... More >>

Just Remember, We Were Warned: The Arts District Wasn't Going to Be "A Way of Life"

​Even before the AT&T Performing Arts Center was finished, we were told: "Dallas might have to accept the arts district as a successful destination, not a way of life." That was more than two years ago. After that, the hits kept on coming, with the most recent being this deep dig outta Chicago ... More >>

Listomania: Billy Corgan's Six Most Questionable Career Decisions

Oh, Billy!​There was a time in our younger days when there simply was no bigger band than Smashing Pumpkins. Depending on who you ask, double-album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Saddness is either one of the greatest triumphs of the mid-'90s alt-rock boom or one of the most self-indulgent, overra ... More >>

If You Can't Wait Till Tomorrow Night to See The Good Guys, Here Are Seven (!) Clips

FOX has been sneak-peeking The Good Guys all over town in recent days -- at the Lakewood Theater Sunday, at a cast-and-crew viewing party last night -- in advance of its early-look tomorrow night. Early reviews have been good: Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker gives it a B-, but writes "it could set ... More >>

St. Vincent and Neon Indian Land On Pitchfork's Best Tracks of '09 List.

Don't act surprised, Annie. You knew this was coming.​Even more accolades for Dallas' St. Vincent today--plus some for the similarly Dallas-bred Neon Indian, too.Both acts, already clear 2009 darlings in the eyes of Pitchfork, landed on the taste-making site's Best Tracks of 2009 list this morning ... More >>

Dallas News Publisher Jim Moroney Really Wants to Stress, "Our Content Isn't For Sale"

News publisher Jim Moroney​Late this evening, Dallas Morning News publisher and chief executive officer Jim Moroney called to discuss editor Bob Mong's memo concerning the paper's new "business/news integration," which has some of the paper's section editors reporting directly to newly assigned ad ... More >>

Further Fallout From State's Investigation of the Execution of Cameron Todd Willingham

Cameron Todd Willingham​At 6:20 p.m. on February 17, 2004, the state of Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham of Corsicana. His crime, per the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: "On December 23, 1991, Willingham poured a combustible liquid on the floor throughout his home and intentionally set the ... More >>

ESPN to Intercept Dallas Sports Coverage?

So says The New York Times on this morning's front page in advance of ESPN's Monday-morning announcement that it's this close to launching a Web site dedicated solely to Dallas sports. The Worldwide Leader's actually muscling into three markets after testing the product in Chicago, with Los Angeles ... More >>

Food For Thought 5.8.09

"To be honest, back then, it was more about meeting a certain type of woman at these kind of restaurants--it was about free love, and it was a cool time, and the women didn't wear bras! And that was as big an appeal as the food was. You went to meet hippie girls." (Richard Melman, founder of Lettuc ... More >>

Chewing the Fat: Plastic People

The state of some food these days is enough to make a man go hungry rather than risk consuming the contents of many processed and pre-packaged items. If it's not salmonella-tainted peanuts, it's energy drinks that turn your blood into syrup. Health Canada recently found that 96 percent of sodas o ... More >>

Toasting Dallas's Wine Curmudgeon

Working with the DSO Has Exceeded Jaap van Zweden's Expectations

Cuban and the Cubs: One Step Closer

The Chicago Cubans? Say It Ain’t So

Obama and Me

It was the year 2000, and I was a young, hungry reporter in Chicago with a young, hungry state legislator on my speed dial

Wherein Jim Schutze Introduces His New Blog ... Waitaminute.

Luxury Buyer, Beware

Magnum, Pee-Yew

Chocolate, With a Side of Hog

Of Cubes and Cubs

Forever Young

Free Kelly Clarkson!

How Many Times Does a Guy Have to Say "No," Anyway?

So, Mark Cuban's About To Buy...The Chicago Cubs? What Happened to the Pirates? So Confused.

Long-time Listener, First-time Caller

And He Sounds Like Such a Nice Boy on the Radio...

Mong Hit

I Give This Idea One Thumb Up

Wading into Rough Waters

Game 1's Tonight. Uh, Don't Forget.

The Wright Location, No Doubt

Flying Squirrels

Jay Ryan rocks the pencil

Flying Squirrels

Jay Ryan rocks the pencil

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Queu's Who

How do you get past a bouncer?

Cupid's Quiver

A gift from Texas Ballet Theater

Tango and Cash

Chicago dances its way through the origins of the celebrity crook

Long Gone

Do more words make a story better? No. Unless they're my words, of course.

Jilted

The Morning News sells its, uh, soul for Boeing

Brave New World

What's new, CueCat? A redesign, a rediscovery and re: layoffs.

Sleeping with the enemy

Channel 11 and the Star-Telegram join forces against Channel 8 and the Morning News

Buzz

The official word from the DMN on its arena investment

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