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This is worse than 9/11 big tex is gone :(— Hayden Lee® (@hcclee3) October 19, 2012…
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Big Tex Fire Dispatchers: “We’ve Got a Rather Tall Cowboy, All His Clothes Burned Off”
Even the dispatchers couldn’t help but have a little fun at Big Tex’s expense this morning. (Via Texas Storm Chasers and Wilonsky’s Twitter feed.) See also: – “Big Tex is Gone. There’s a Hole in Our Hearts,” by Alice “Cheap Bastard” Laussade – “Big Tex Burned Down Today at the…
The Body of Coppell Star Jacob Logan Was Found in Possum Kingdom Lake Last Night
Late last night, divers searching Possum Kingdom Lake found the body of missing teenager Jacob Logan, who disappeared Sunday after diving into the lake with friends, the AP reported. His was the second death this week at Coppell, where senior Jonah Blackwell committed suicide on Tuesday. Logan, a senior, played…
Alan King, Dallas ISD Chief of Staff and Former Interim Superintendant, Resigns
We touched yesterday on what has been a bit of a rough start to the school year for Dallas ISD, and today’s news won’t help: Alan King, who led the district in the aftermath of former Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s departure last year, has resigned from the district. King served as…
A Man Fought Back at Sherlock’s Last Night, and Got Shot and Killed When He Did
Last night, a group of people were standing outside Sherlock’s, a bar and restaurant in North Dallas, when a man approached. He carried a pistol and, according to police, he demanded money from someone. It was a moment many of us script in our heads when we read these types…
Arturo Sandoval
If you consider the trumpet a side dish, the stuffing to some needlessly bespectacled frontman’s turkey, you’ve been procuring too many of your meals via Pitchfork. That shiny, spitty contraption is a star, and there was an era that made it such, when horn players required only one name: Louis,…
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Louis C.K. Dallas Week: The Time Emma Stone Offered to Blow Lucky Louie
Louis C.K. plays two shows the Majestic on Saturday, and since life is looking forward or looking back, we’re going to look forward to the hell out of this all week. Today: Emma Stone offers to fellate Lucky Louie…
Dallas Teachers Are Mad They Won’t Get Paid Extra for Parent Conferences. Should They?
Dallas ISD’s teachers are feeling beaten down, their union rep told me this morning: “Physically, emotionally and financially.” The latest blow, she said: no longer getting paid for time they spend at after-school conferences with parents. The News’ Matthew Haag had the story last night: DISD teachers used to get…
Louis C.K. Dallas Week: When You’ve Run Out of Louis, Turn to the Opie and Anthony Show
Louis C.K. plays two shows the Majestic on Saturday, and since life is looking forward or looking back, we’re going to look forward to the hell out of this all week. Today: Louis on the Opie and Anthony Show. Never listen to the Opie and Anthony show? Yeah, me neither…
In John Wiley Price Case, Dapheny Fain Makes it Clear: I Saw Nothing, I Know Nothing
We heard last week from John Wiley Price, who responded defiantly in the feds’ ongoing effort to squeeze him on their way to a corruption case. It’s a hail mary, he said of investigators’ effort to sieze $229,000 found in a December raid, nothing more than an effort to “fill…
Pablo Mora, UTA Psych Prof, is Missing, His Car Abandoned at Ray Roberts State Park
The Dallas police are looking for a UT Arlington professor who disappeared two weeks ago and hasn’t been seen since. Pablo Mora, an assistant professor of psychology, was last seen leaving his house in Oak Lawn on September 30. The 41-year-old’s car was found abandoned at Ray Roberts State Park…
Louis C.K. Dallas Week: To Get Started, Here’s Louis Talking About George Carlin
Louis C.K. plays two shows the Majestic on Saturday, and since life is looking forward or looking back, we’re going to look forward to the hell out of this all week. Today: Louis eulogizes George Carlin…
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FNL Author Buzz Bissinger: Show’s Creator “Should be Flattered” by Romney Using Slogan
Dallas knows a thing or 12 about being the target of one of Buzz Bissinger’s trademark tirades. So we feel for Peter Berg, creator of the Friday Night Lights TV show and the fictional rallying cry at the center of one of the dumbest campaign feuds this side of Bird…
George P. Bush’s “Future in Texas is Unlimited.” And George W.? He’s Taken Up Painting.
The latest New York magazine goes all-in on the Bush family, assessing the political hopes of Jeb before finally deciding that it’s actually George P., Jeb’s half-Mexican son and a rising star in Texas politics, who has the highest political ceiling. “George P.’s future in Texas in unlimited,” says James…
Ravens Cornerback Tells Dez Bryant to “Be a Man,” Echoing Every Cowboys Fan Ever
Toward the end of yesterday’s Cowboys game, there was a two-play sequence that more or less captured the career of receiver Dez Bryant. After Bryant hauled in a touchdown catch to pull Dallas to within two, Tony Romo chucked a perfect ball into Bryant’s chest, a pass that should have…
Avi Adelman Claims Phillip Kingston’s Campaign is the Real Reason for Wife’s Lawsuit
Avi Adelman, Lower Greenville’s resident pot-stirrer, now claims that the lawsuit against him, filed by neighborhood organizer Melissa Kingston, is actually an effort to silence him during her husband’s run for, and potential stint on, the Dallas City Council. See also: Lawsuit Calls Barking Dog Avi Adelman a “Neighborhood Terrorist”…
Ron Washington Goes Off Rangers’ Script, Admits Running Team “Into the Ground”
The Rangers just wrapped up their 2012 post-mortem press conference. It was by and large quite boring, probably by design. You can imagine the team’s PR gurus urging the team brass to keep it vague, uninteresting, answer-free. For the most part they succeeded. GM Jon Daniels and president Nolan Ryan…
Louie Season 4 Won’t Air Until 2014; Ratings for Last Minute of Wilfred to Plummet
It’s all Louis CK all the time at Mixmaster HQ, with comedy’s leading schlub set to hit Dallas next weekend. Today, though, our Google Alert brings us sad, sad news: Louie, CK’s hit FX show, is going on hiatus until 2014. From The Wrap:…
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Barneys is Leaving NorthPark; Husbands Across the Metroplex Rejoice
There is no sight more troubling than that of one’s wife making the turn into NorthPark’s Archipelago of Shit You Can’t Afford. There you are, enjoying your third Mrs. Field’s cookie and ogling $75 basketball shoes as if you played basketball, doing all the things the rest of the mall-walking…
Tig Notaro, Louis C.K., and the Best Email We Got All Week
My kid was being a handful last night — or, as Louis CK would put it, an asshole. He was being an asshole, screaming indiscriminately at some hour that looked really blurry on the clock. So there I was, back in bed after sedating the asshole, when I saw an…
Rangers-Orioles at the Ballpark: Still Plenty of Seats from which to Boo Josh Hamilton
Rangers fans seem like a relatively forgiving bunch, but yesterday’s series of events — the dropped fly above, followed by Josh Hamilton appearing bemused and totally bored by his clumsy, possibly game-killing error — seems to have sent the fan base into a proper rage. And they’ll be able to…
A Rangers-A’s Open Thread, Because You Guys Aren’t Getting Any Work Done Anyway
The good news: Meaningful day-time baseball. The bad news: It comes about a week too soon. The Rangers have one more crack at Oakland’s swinging (and walking) A’s this afternoon. It’s win-and-they’re-in, lose-and-they’re-kind-of-in. Since workplace productivity will be in the tank anyway, we figured we’d provide a place to bitch…