When MLK Visited SMU

Yesterday, of course, was the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service; hence, Emmitt Smith and family’s visit to Congo Street, where they joined Brent Brown and bcWORKSHOP. But SMU has actually deemed this MLK Week 2010, with a kick-off King Celebration scheduled for noon today at the Hughes-Trigg Commons…

Dallas Will Pleasantly Surprise You

This isn’t exactly the hardest-hitting interview in the history of ever — in fact, I only post DCVB boss Phillip Jones’s brief Q&A (as in: one fawning and rambling question, one answer) conducted during last week’s Professional Convention Management Association convention and just posted so I’ve got good reason to…

Raves for Dallas-Based Rave Theater Chain

Our pal Allison V. Smith has a rather nice photo in this morning’s Los Angeles Times: a portrait of Thomas W. Stephenson Jr., whose Rave Motion Pictures is on the fast-track to becoming the fifth-largest movie-theater chain in the U.S. once Rave’s acquisition of 35 theaters from Sumner Redstone’s National…

Dallas, It’s Time for a Budget Brainstorm!

Hard to believe — we’re only seven months away from our first look at next fiscal year’s budget. Which is why, on Wednesday, the city council’s holding a FY 2010-2011 budget workshop, during which City Manager Mary Suhm will provide the council with a win-some-lose-some revenue outlook that suggests further…

Everyone Sing: “Dallas, You Are So Very Chic!”

As promised (um … Wednesday, my bad), Steve Dirkx sent along a copy of the that long-forgotten ’83 classic anthem “Dallas,” written by Mimi Guten and Toni Mazzola and performed by the great (far as you know) Mark Franklin.But far be it from me to deprive you of the keepsake,…

To The Full Ex-Stent of the Law

More than two years ago, Kevin Colquitt filed a lawsuit in Dallas federal court in which he alleges “the makers of stents approved to treat digestive tract cancers had illegally marketed them for years to treat blocked blood vessels in other parts of the body,” as The New York Times…