After the jump, courtesy the folks at Firehouse Dallas, The Carol of the Christmas Pickle — a nod to this most mysterious of holiday traditions. Says it’s been viewed ’round 30 thousand times since debuting two weeks ago, though first I heard of it was during the annual “Dallas Christmas”…
Governor Rick Perry sent us a Christmas card — awful nice of him, though I wish I could tell where he went to college. So, in the spiriting of giving, we figured we’d share — along with his list of who’s been naughty but who he was nice enough to…
Courtesy the Obama-Biden Transition Project — which I keep confusing with the Alan Parsons Project — this photo from Friday’s press conference during which the president-elect named former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk the chief U.S. trade representative. Already made it my wallpaper. And Valentine’s Day card. Still, though, need a…
The Associated Press had the temerity to ask the banks that pocketed more than $1 billion in bailout dough, Um, so where’d the money go, anyway? To which every single one said, None of your business. Included on that list: downtown Dallas-based Comerica.”We’re not sharing any other details. We’re just…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger End of January’s shaping up to be busy, busy, busy for the Dallas Independent School District. Says school board trustee Carla Ranger on her blog this a.m., Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has set a January 19 deadline for the DISD, the Texas Education…
In the wake of this morning’s news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it’s worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town…
Editor’s note: Dave Lane, co-host of KTCK-AM’s Saturday-morning The Orphanage reports from Texas Stadium last night:Texas Stadium always looked better on TV. In person, it was a concrete-and-chain-link craphole with tacked-on suites and suspect pools of standing water. Still — as I was reminded yesterday, as early arrivals for the…
You’d best act now on this collectible comic, which came gratis with a Dallas Times Herald back in 1983 and is going for pennies on the pound for two more days. (This eBay’er wants $100, good God.) Though, come to think of it, the Texas Stadium Spidey’s probably more appropriate,…
Before proceeding further, read this here help-wanted ad:Cowboy 1 & 2 – Male 40-70 years old. Marlboro Man-type. Should feel authentically weathered, tough, rugged and they are men of very few words. Should feel very real. Not an urban cowboy, but an authentic present-day ranch hand or cowpoke that looks…
Seems the DFW is lagging way behind most of the country when it comes to making the transition from analog TV to digital reception. So say the Nielsen people, who’ve released a study in advance of the February 17 drop-dead date as mandated by the government. Says the report, some…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked in recent days whether the NFL Network would be covering all of the post-game ceremonies at Texas Stadium following tomorrow night’s tussle with the Baltimore ColtsRavens. Should be big doings, as some 100 ex-Dallas Cowboys players (10 of ’em, so they say, Ring…
Hey, hey, hey — look who landed on CBS’ The Early Show this morning to talk about President-elect Barack Obama’s controversial (no, really?) decision to choose Rick Warren as the dude to deliver the opening prayer at the inauguration. Why, it’s our old pal Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church…
On the morning their pops gave the okee-doke to a $17-billion auto industry bailout, Jenna Hager and Barbara Bush tell People they’re, well, kinda surprised by how Dubya was received during his stay in the White House. And far as both are concerned, they’re ready for Dad to move back…
On Novemebr 19, Mayor Tom Leppert and 11 council members gathered at the YMCA on Goldman Street for a special community meeting, where the subject was, among other things, the awesomeness of the Trinity River Corridor Project and what it means for West Dallas. This morning, the city posted to…
Captain Ronald Tiberius Kirk will be promoted to admiral this morning, after which time he will have to deal with the Trade Federation, no easy task there. Hunh. I feel like I’ve confused some things here. President-elect Barack Obama will name First Buddy Ron Kirk the chief U.S. trade representative…
On Wednesday, less than a week after breaking bits and pieces of the City Hall corruption trial into smaller bites, U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn issued another ruling concerning how the government will try its case (or, rather, cases) against the likes of former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, developer…
And then there were three. Eleven days after analysts predicted Brinker International would indeed unload Romano’s Macaroni Grill despite the lousy credit market, it’s happened — for about $88 million, which doesn’t seem like a lot of pasta for a chain with some 220 eateries worldwide (as in, Egypt and…
Your Dallas Mavericks are hosting some kind of karaoke contest — free tickets to Vegas, year’s worth of Coke (wait — you sure this isn’t a Dallas Cowboys contest? Hi-yo) and other spoils to the victor. But the promo video proves that we’re all winners. –Robert Wilonsky…
A glance at the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ meeting agenda for this evening reveals a few items of interest. Among them: The Stonewall Jackson PTA is trying to revive its beloved Outdoor Science Lab & Garden nearly done in during the district’s RIF in October. Which is…
Brian Grossman of the Weitzman Group called back today, after I’d left him a message on Wednesday following news of Alamo Drafthouse’s possible move into the DFW. I called him because three years back, Alamo was close to moving into the Casa Linda Plaza, which Weitzman’s repping on behalf of…
See, told you: No way former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk would be named secretary of anything by President-Elect Barack Obama — all that lobbying, yech. (Or not.) Nope, ever since Monday it’s looked more and more likely that First Buddy Kirk would be tapped for something a little less high-profile:…
Dallas Federal Reserve president and chief executive officer Richard Fisher, pictured at right, spoke today in front of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth and the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations. As always, the text of his speech — titled, hysterically, “Historical Perspectives on the Current Economic and Financial…
