On a day when the Dow Jones has dropped another 300-plus points, Neiman Marcus went ahead and debuted its 2008 Christmas Book — that that! Or maybe you have some loose coin to spend on the most wonderful wish list, which includes “each and every 45 RPM vinyl record that…
Yesterday, the case of John D. Cerqueira, Petitioner v. American Airlines, Inc. was on the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court — which ultimately decided to not to bother. For those unfamiliar with the details of the case — for which the NAACP offered an amicus brief in support of…
If nothing else, someone at the Dallas Independent School District has learned how to turn a negative into a cozy, comfy positive! –Robert Wilonsky…
Hate to follow any news story, especially one from a pub I used to work for, but sometimes it can’t be helped. Especially when someone like brother reporter John Council looks toward the sky and notices it’s falling on the Dallas County Republican Party. In this week’s Texas Lawyer, Council…
Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas News of this meeting of the minds has been slow to trickle down from D.C., but on September 26 Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in downtown Dallas and attorney Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law &…
Richie discovered this photo over on the Dallas Stars’ Web site, and it irks him — something to do with Derian Hatcher, who wore No. 2 way back when. Richie’s also made the Mavericks jersey joke. Which just leaves me with this lousy headline. I’m totally fine with that. –Robert…
Jack Lowe, DISD school board president For eight months, while the Dallas Independent School District was fiddling its way into financial conflagration, we heard radio silence from the business community. But now the Dallas Citizens Council and chambers of commerce are suddenly flapping around like somebody fired a shotgun underneath…
View Larger Map A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: Is Muddy Waters on Greenville Avenue closed? Sure looks like it: The number’s disconnected; the Web site’s down; there’s a huge hole in the front of the place. All good hints. Because, yes, the longtime blues-and-booze haunt is gone; has been…
Seems odd how that would happen — local businesses turning over their tax dough-re-mi to neighboring municipalities. But, sure enough, an audit released this morning reveals that 72 unnamed Dallas-based businesses are “incorrectly remitting sales tax” to neighboring burgs. But the city doesn’t know quite how that’s happening — or…
If nothing else, we can distract ourselves this week with Texas-OU, some kind of a football match set for Saturday at the Cotton Bowl, I think. The New York Times gets a jump on the pre-game festivities this morning. And, whilst on the sporting news, this clip from Terrell Owens’…
As the Dow Jones falls below 10,000 for the first time since 2004, this sign of the times courtesy the Associated Press: “In Dallas, sales assistant Yvonna Vaughan downgraded from Newport cigarettes to less expensive Kools and wonders whether she’ll be smoking generics before long.” –Robert Wilonsky…
The city council’s going on a retreat today and tomorrow — because, look, sometimes you just need to get away. But they’re not going too far: They’ll be at the Trinity River Audubon Center, which officially opens October 18. And, at this very moment, the subject at hand is “Updates…
University of Texas at Dallas economics prof Stan Liebowitz, heretofore hailed for his music-biz research, has the cover story in the latest issue of the National Review; a rather timely one too, as it performs an autopsy on the “mortgage market meltdown” and points fingers in, well, everyone’s general direction…
In case you missed it, Art Hoffman posted to Wednesday’s record-store flashback item an absolutely amazing, how’d-we-forget-that photo of Roger Daltrey causing a ruckus at Valley View Mall back in 1975. So happens that Hoffman was the manager at Sound Town at Valley View when Daltrey stopped by before a…
If I am not mistaken, Glenn Carano started a single game during his six-season tenure as a NFL career-long Dallas Cowboys back-up QB — and he won it too, 37-13 over the Baltimore Colts in December 1981. These days, though, he’s better known as the dad of Gina Carano, who,…
This is, alas, likely our last Rep. Jeb Hensarling item of the week, as, but an hour or so ago, the House of Representatives approved — and President Bush signed — the juiced-up bailout bill by a margin of 263 to 171. The Dallas Republican, who voted against the bill…
Patrick Michels New guy Patrick Michels went down to the Fairmont Hotel this morning, where, at 9:30 a.m., protesters began massing to cheer and jeer Gov. Sarah Palin, in Dallas today to raise money for the GOP. Three hours later, the pros and cons were still there, their shout-down separated…
Dan Foote, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald Baylor University’s W. R. Poage Legislative Library is “celebrating the art of editorial cartooning” with the exhibition “Drawing Power: Original Editorial Cartoons,” which features such familiar locals as Bill DeOre, ex of The Dallas Morning News, and Dan Foote, with whom Schutze…
Photo courtesy Debra Jane Seltzer The old Pearl Beer billboard, in a 2006 photo Everything you need to know about the old Pearl Beer “waterfall billboard” on Stemmons Freeway, construction of which was completed in 1962, you’ll find here and here; the landmark’s past has been well documented. But what…
Dallas Observer contributor Brandon Thibodeaux shot this yesterday outside of Dallas Independent School District HQ, where, inside, the DISD school board was voting to lay off 1,100 employees, including 550 teachers. –Robert Wilonsky…
Maybe you’re planning a trip over to Canton this weekend — it is, after all, October market at First Monday Trade Days through Sunday. No doubt, the vendors there would most certainly appreciate the business, which has gotten so bad in recent months that, this morning, Reuters took notice. And,…
Why do people want to protest Tina Fey? She’s so talented! Twelve hours after wrapping up her debate with Sen. Joe “He Totally Won” Biden, Gov. Sarah “She Didn’t Lose” Palin is coming to Dallas to collect some coin for the GOP at the Fairmont Hotel — where she’ll be…
