As I mentioned Tuesday night, T.D. Jakes, of The Potter’s House, was all over MSNBC during its Election Night coverage — up until he was bumped at the moment Ohio was called for Barack Obama. Jakes is about to get his own TV show courtesy Dr. Phil, and Broadcasting &…
The letter Lincoln may or may not have written to a woman who may or may not have lost her sons in the Civil War Last night, KXAS-Channel 5 ran a short piece about the Dallas Historical Society’s big find in its archives at Fair Park: a condolence letter from…
Neiman Marcus this morning posted its October revenues report — and the Dallas-based luxury retailer’s income for the month dropped decreased 27.6 percent, from $383 million in October ’07 to $281 million in ’08. In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Burt Tansky, Neimans’ chairman and CEO, said…
Our neighborhood was trashed overnight as dozens of A.H. Belo’s Briefings were dumped along the curbs and into the streets like it was some kind of prank. As you can see in the photo, I sorta, kinda got two of the freebies intended for non-Dallas Morning News subscribers — even…
At the end of trading today, Blockbuster will release its third-quarter report — and it’s expected to be a downer. Notes the Associated Press this morning: “The Dallas-based company already has said it is comfortable with analyst estimates projecting a third-quarter loss of 16 cents per share on revenue of…
Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints him. He’s frat-boy handsome and therefore almost anonymous when he stands in a movie-star lineup; in Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things (2003), Rudd received a supposedly extreme…
Your suggestions for our Tom Leppert poster were, for the most part, undeniably strong, to the point where there’s been much bickering amongst Unfair Parkers today concerning the winning choice. There are four clear front-runners: “RAZE,” “SPEND,” “ERECT” and “HOTEL.” (Other personal favorites: “COPE,” “MARCH,” “DINERO” and “LEGACY.”) But, if…
Dianne Wray Among the items for sale last night at the Obama for America party at Gilley’s In our last last-night round-up, a tale of three parties – most of which involved drinking and staring at televisions. We’ll begin with the biggest: the Obama Dallas for America party at Gilley’s,…
The Dallas Video Festival moves into its new home — the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station — tomorrow with a slightly abbreviated schedule that takes it through Sunday. As always, Bart Weiss has scheduled a tremendous lineup of offerings, among them the first official Dallas screening (far as we…
Flickr photo: Obama__Dallas (Adam Jefferson) Love this picture of Ron Kirk taken last night at the Obama victory shindig at Gilley’s on 1135 S. Lamar Street, not the one in Chicago. Very handsome. Almost … mayoral. Cabinet material, at least. –Robert Wilonsky Update: Just spoke with Kirk’s assistant at Vinson…
Word out of 508 Young Street is that George Rodrigue, Dallas Morning News managing editor, has informed the staff of Dallas’s Only Daily that it’s fired up the presses this afternoon for a special reprinting of today’s paper, which is apparently historic or something? Turns out, folks have been streaming…
Betty Culbreath Terdema Ussery, president and chief executive officer of the Dallas Mavericks and a former Nike bigwig, has been tapped by Mayor Tom Leppert to become the new chair of the Dallas Housing Authority’s board of commissioners. Which is quite the coup — after all, it was but five…
Dallas’s new convention center hotel, seen here as a conceptual rendering, now strikes us as “iconic” after all. This morning’s Wall Street Journal wonders whether Blackstone Group LP is still real happy about its $26-billion leveraged buyout of Hilton Hotels Corp. last year — because, er, “more hotel owners and…
Daniel Rodrigue Bishop Arts last night, jam-packed with drinky Dems Hundreds of people packed Bishop Street last night, filling the sidewalks of Oak Cliff’s arts district and watching the election returns on huge screens erected outside the shops and cafes. As the Happy Bullets played on stage and Barack Obama…
The debut issue of Eric Kimmel’s short-lived Ouch mini-magazine Among the myriad phrases used over the years to describe Eric Kimmel: “Dallas’ foremost man-about-town.” “International used rag hawker extraordinaire.” “’80s-90s Dallas man-on-the-scene.” “Ubiquitous scenester.” “Eternal trendoid.” To which the U.K. Independent adds another this morning: “The Texan king of trashion.”…
No doubt, as Sam mentioned Monday, the biggest item breathing down the council’s neck today is the smoking ordinance amendment, among the handful of items on the briefing agenda. But among the other interesting highlights at least worth a look-see this morning: Vonciel Jones Hill and Tennell Atkins’ slide show…
Daniel and Megan, frustrated by crapped-out WiFi all night, send this brief dispatch from the Democrats’ victory bash in Bishop Arts. More from them tomorrow, with plenty of pretty pictures. Leading the crowd in triumphant cheers of “Yes, we can!” and “Yes, we did!,” State Sen. Royce West and plenty…
Brian Harkin Barack Obama, speaking at Reunion Arena in February — nine months before he was elected President of the United States … Barack Obama is the president-elect, say Fox News and NBC and CNN. And he crushed John McCain in Dallas County. With 654 of 708 precincts reporting, Obama…
Well, uh, here we are at the big Election Night bash in the home of our only Park Cities friends. And, uh … nobody else is here. It’s kind of, how you say, awkward. We parked three blocks away because we know how parked up it gets in the Park…
Matt Pulle Although Allen Vaught is still locked in a tight contest with Republican challenger Bill Keffer — it’s Vaught by 51 percent to 46 percent with 43 of 55 precincts reporting — the Democratic state representative doesn’t seem too nervous as the results trickle in. I swear his campaign…
With 200 of Dallas County’s 708 precincts reporting, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez maintains her lead over challenger Lowell Cannaday: 313,083 (or 56.24 percent of the vote) to 243,632 (43.76 percent). Sam’s with the Republicans and will have more comments and photos from the GOP un-shindig shortly — only, as…
T.D. Jakes of The Potter’s House in Dallas was, moments ago, in the middle of telling David Gregory on MSNBC that “it’s anybody’s game” and that “in many cases, we’ve underestimated Sen. McCain,” when Gregory broke in with the news: NBC News has called Ohio for Obama. Dallas County now…
