Earlier today, the National Basketball Association lifted $25,000 from Mark Cuban’s pocket for comments Twittered after Friday night’s game against the Denver Nuggets. Tweeted the Dallas Mavericks’ owner, “how do they not call a tech on JR Smith for coming off the bench to taunt our player on the ground?”…
Hell of a time not to have Patrick Michels around — ’round midnight this morning at the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Avenue, where nude and semi-nude women turned a life drawing workshop into a performance-art piece amidst other computer animation exhibits, open bars and a laptop deejay trying out…
Last night at the AMC NorthPark, where he accepted the AFI Dallas Star Award following a screening of Chinatown, the film’s writer, Robert Towne, spoke of how films were once the place where audiences and filmmakers met to share their stories. In the 1930s and ’40s, he said, those who…
I just spoke with Nicholas Cariotis, chief of the Check Division/Task Force on Identity Fraud at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office — and the man charged with prosecuting Bob Sambol, who, as we mentioned this morning, has been accused in an indictment of stealing $300,000 from investor and (former)…
Patrick has posted his bang-up slide show from last night’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival kick-off, which comes with the most adorable photo of Rinko Kikuchi you’ll find anywhere and several others of Adrian Brody. Patrick also grabbed this one of writer-director Robert Towne, who will be at the AMC…
In Portland, where a former mayor once toyed with the idea of turning an overpass into a park, one columnist is very jealous that in Dallas, we’re actually doing that very thing with the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. And getting some of it funded with stimulus dough to boot. Because,…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has just sent word that Alvaro Ivan Adame — a 40-year-old lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety who’s worked in the Drivers License Division as a supervisor at offices on Northwest Highway in Dallas and in Wichita Falls — was arrested this morning at…
Barack Obama has Pete Souza. And Tom Leppert has Patrick Michels…
Given the reaction of Friends of Unfair Park and Friends of Bob Sambol’s this morning, he’s perhaps the least likely most-wanted man in town, but there’s no disputing a Dallas County grand jury’s true bill indictment that landed in our in-box this morning: The namesake of the 16-year-old Bob’s Steak…
Later today, a longer recap from last night’s opening of the AFI Dallas International Film Festival at NorthPark Center, where Rian Johnson at last gave Dallas audiences a first look at his long-awaited The Brothers Bloom, starring fellow attendees Adrien Brody (an Oscar winner) and Rinko Kikuchi (an Oscar nominee)…
After the jump, the song for which the late, great W.W. Samuell High School graduate Dan Seals was best known: “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight,” performed, of course, with classmate John Ford Coley shortly before they moved back to Dowdy Ferry Road. But here’s the truly classic title…
Several neighbors and friends of the show attended yesterday’s public hearing of the Texas State Board of Education down in Austin in advance of today’s evolution vs. creationism vote — which ended in a 7-7 draw, meaning the board will not add, at the moment, language that requires public schools…
Dallas Morning News Managing Editor George Rodrigue just posted his latest “Ask the Editor” column. And, even though nobody asked — we are soooooo blushing right now — it’s mostly about the Dallas Observer, otherwise known as “a sexually oriented weekly tabloid,” which sounds significantly more interesting than the paper…
Yesterday, the SPCA of Texas began transferring to McKinney 150 dogs seized from a Paris, Arkansas, puppy mill. In all, some 400 animals — including miniature ponies, cats, exotic birds and turtles — were seized from the “horrific” 82-acre facility on Monday, with the Humane Society of the United States…
A Friend of Unfair Park noticed this note at the end of ESPN.com’s recap of last night’s Mavs-Warriors recap:Movie director Spike Lee, a noted Knicks fan, sat courtside with Mavs owner Mark Cuban. Lee is in town for a film festival.Can only think of one, but so far no confirmation…
At this very moment, AFI Dallas International Film Festival CEO and artist director Michael Cain is attending a funeral in Euless: His father-in-law, Allan McKinnon, died on Monday after a long battle with cancer. So do not expect Cain’s wife — Melina, as much a force and familiar face on…
I had intended to watch the Texas Transportation Commission meeting this morning — it’s being Webcast over here, for those so interested — because among the agenda items for this morning was approving stimulus dough for those so-called “shovel-ready projects” ’round the state, among them the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park…
Richie has the recap of last night’s Ticket-Lake Highlands High all-girls squad basketball game, and no doubt he’ll post the sports-talk radio ratings for February sooner than later. (Spoiler alert: KTCK’s No. 1 overall in the market with men 25-54 from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, posting…
Last week, Angela Hunt was close to posting on her Web site a Trinity River Corridor Project Plan B — the name of Jim Schutze’s new band, so happens. Instead, she fleshed it out with a flash-forward and gave it to The Dallas Morning News, where it appears this morning…
If I were to spend this space mentioning every AFI Dallas International Film Festival title worth at least a look, there’d be room enough only for a queue of names. So plentiful are this year’s recommended offerings—a majority of the 70-plus features, not to mention even more shorts—that it’s tempting…
At the end of 2008, DreamWorks Animation bossman Jeffrey Katzenberg embarked on a cross-country tour, toting 20 minutes’ worth of Monsters vs. Aliens. The reason for his trek? To convince critics that 3-D movies are no longer the snake-oil salesman’s hustle, but the future of filmmaking—if not the very savior…
Earlier this afternoon, I spoke with Joel Elliott, the Canton-based attorney for Caruth Byrd, who, for the last two years, has been embroiled in a contentious legal battle with Aubrey Mayhew over which man owns the actual sniper’s perch lifted long ago from the Texas School Book Depository. Alas, as…
