Southwest Airlines announced this morning that it’s living up to that old motto, offering nearly every single employee what CEO Gary Kelly calls an “early out” in the wake of a first-quarter net loss, the Dallas-based carrier’s third straight decline. Southwest today announced a first-quarter ’09 net loss of $91…
Friend of the show Justin Cozart’s been digging through his grandfather’s boxes of photos again and come across this mighty gem taken during the Republic Bank tower’s construction in ’53. And if it looks familiar, maybe it’s because you’re thinking of this iconic photo taken high above the Manhattan skyline…
At the end of March, the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee took up the discussion of regulating a “relatively new practice being employed by private parking lot operators to enforce payment in their lots” — booting cars. Parking lot owners, in a letter to the council, said, Look,…
Till then, though, today we get this ad from the Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel — the group’s fourth, for those keeping score at home. But if it looks familiar, well, it is. Because, see, first there was this CATOH ad that debuted a month ago starring some dude in…
Courtesy the very Vimeo “retriever” comes the most breathless making-of ever made documenting the construction of the new Church of Scientology Center in Las Colinas, which opened over the weekend. This most likely comes from the L. Ron Hubbard birthday bash in Los Angeles at the end of March, but…
The New York Times reported this morning that Dallas-based hedge fund manager Barrett Wissman has pleaded guilty to securities fraud in New York, where he’s cooperating with the New York State Attorney General and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigations into corruption involving the state pension fund. Wissman, a St…
Tom Huang, a Dallas Morning News assistant managing editor and Poynter Institute ethics and diversity fellow, posted this morning an essay titled “Living with Layoffs at the Dallas Morning News,” which speaks for itself. This excerpt seems particularly relevant a week after A.H. Belo Corp. laid off some 200 News…
Seems the former Showcase Chevrolet location near LBJ Freeway and the Dallas North Tollway was the scene of “major spray paint attack this weekend,” notes the Flickr’ing Fifi LePew, who couldn’t help but note the attendant irony. Speaking of, whatever happened to Icon’s Midtown development. (OK, settle down. I know,…
The Dallas Tea Party isn’t the only TV-ready event happening in town today. Far from it — especially if you were a big, big fan of the Laugh-In and are a big, big fan of … wait for it, wait for it, wait for it … Jenny the Elephant. At…
As we mentioned last week, the Tea Parties are here, the Tea Parties are here! So those not prepared to protest with the likes of Mark Davis, “Dave-from-London” and “Lance Hurley as Patrick Henry” at the Dallas tea’d-off affair had best steer clear of City Hall starting at 4:30 p.m…
A little late in the day, but the USA Film Festival just sent out the schedule for this year’s shindig, which runs April 29 through May 3 at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station. To save us all the trouble of running down this year’s highlights, I’ve posted after…
Earlier this afternoon, I finally spoke with Steve Hatchell — president and CEO of the National Football Foundation, the parent organization of the College Football Hall of Fame — concerning yesterday’s press conference during which Mayor Tom Leppert, Roger Staubach, T. Boone Pickens and a host of other bold-faced names…
View Larger MapEarlier this year, word was Charter Holdings was all set to buy Highland Park Village from Henry S. Miller Interests, with the sale scheduled to be all packed and gift-wrapped by March. A month later, and Henry S. Miller’s still in control of the Village — though Charter…
Belo Corp. — the Dallas-based broadcaster that, of course, counts WFAA-Channel 8 among its 20 owned-and-operated TV stations around the country — announced this morning that on April 30, it will release its first-quarter earnings. Bloomberg today reports it could be an especially interesting read for investors, who so far…
As we mentioned yesterday, Dallas-born blues guitar great Rocky Hill will be buried today in Hopkins County, with a funeral beginning at 1 p.m. followed by a graveside service. Soon as we noted his death on Friday at the age of 62, Friend of Unfair Park LakeWWWooder sent us this…
On September 14, 26-year-old Army Sgt. Wesley Durbin of Hurst was killed at a small patrol base south of Baghdad when he and another soldier, 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson of Florida, were gunned down by a fellow soldier. As The Dallas Morning News noted in September, Durbin was a…
Now here’s the offer of a public meeting too good to refuse: today’s get-together of the Public Art Committee, which convenes at 4:30 p.m. in the fifth-floor conference room at the Majestic Theatre, nice. (Ooh, note to self: Get David Byrne tickets.) Sounds very artsy: Among the agenda items are…
At some point, no doubt, we’ll get an official statement. Till then, well, here’s what the Wall Street Journal (subscription-only, sorry) has to add to the story of Tom Hicks’s refusal to pay off Hicks Sports Group’s debt:Creditors to Texas financier Tom Hicks’s Hicks Sports Group have declared the company…
Here’s an interesting little fact left off the two press releases announcing the city’s efforts to lure the College Football Hall of Fame from South Bend, Indiana, to downtown Dallas: It was all Bob Sambol’s idea. Seriously. But the namesake of Bob’s Steak & Chop House on Lemmon Avenue figured,…
If you want to drive yourself insane, dial up the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting, where, at this very moment, the committee is discussing the Love Field concessions expansion. Because, in case you weren’t aware, Love Field’s getting a makeover, part of which will including adding more…
A longtime music publicist pal sends the sad news: Dallas-born Rocky Hill — Dusty’s big brother and one hellacious blues guitarist forever proud of his self-proclaimed rep as “The Anti-Clapton” — died on Friday, with few details other than that available at present. All I’ve found online is his obituary…
A longtime music publicist pal sends the sad news: Dallas-born Rocky Hill — Dusty’s big brother and one hellacious blues guitarist forever proud of his self-proclaimed rep as “The Anti-Clapton” — died on Friday, with few details other than that available at present. All I’ve found online is his obituary…
