As you’re no doubt aware, Jeff Pearlman’s tell-most Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty is in stores. And this morning, The New York Times features a lengthy Q&A with the author, in which he picks Michael Irvin as the most “indispensable”…
Two items of interest in the in-box this a.m. First, from the U.S. Attorney’s office, an announcement concerning the gathering of the area’s top cops at 11 a.m. today: “U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper and Special Agent in Charge James L. Capra of the Dallas DEA, will be joined by…
Just for grins, go to Get Listy. Or Shopperati. Notice anything odd? Like, oh, the WFAA bug at the top left of the screen? Those aren’t actually Belo sites, mind you. They’re just two that belong to Belo Corp.’s newest content partner Noofangle Media, which will also provide content via…
As expected, Shared Hope International released today its 10th and final report dealing children being trafficked as sex slaves — and, fittingly, the report about Dallas was released in Dallas, where the organization’s wrapping up its conference. It’s a 149-page document, and for the most part it’s got good things…
The Dallas police updated the city council’s Public Safety Committee on crime stats again today — and, once more, crime’s down in Dallas, save for residential burglaries. Those have increased from 9,686 in year-to-date 2007 to 9,739 thus far in ’08. Homicides are down too, from 142 to 106 year…
Says the Friend of Unfair Park who sent this from the Eagles show Saturday night, when Fox News appeared on the big screen during “Dirty Laundry,” the AAC went “silent.” Probably the best sound the audience heard all night? We kid, we kid! No, that’s the answer: the Guess Who…
Even though this dates back to July, when the always high-larious Josh Howard suited up for Allen Iverson’s celebrity football game, only today has the video begun making the rounds — first on You Been Blinded, then on Deadspin, where some of the comments are, as usual, genius. As in,…
Today, Penguin Press will publish Pulitzer Prize-winner Barton Gellman’s Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, which, according to the Washington Post writer’s Web site, “describes a man of deep conviction and remorseless will who reshaped his office and his times.” Last night, Gellman was on The Daily Show, and he recounted…
Many things to discuss at the city council’s Trinity River Committee briefing today — like, oh, the Dallas Floodway Extension and precisely how the city’s spent the money from the 1998, 2003 and ’06 bond elections earmarked for projects along the Trinity. But, most likely, the item in which you’re…
The Cowboys QB’s post-game interview with Suzy Kolber. Yeah, that’s probably all the introduction you need. –Robert Wilonsky…
This is not the dirt box the council will be discussing. It’d be cooler if it were. The city council’s Economic Development Committee meets this morning to address the question of where the ground is. In a special briefing on the question, Assistant City Manager A.C Gonzalez will take a…
Brad Meltzer Attorney-turned-novelist Brad Meltzer has two audiences: those who’ve made his legal and political thrillers (among them, The Zero Game and The First Counsel) best-sellers; and those who regard him as the man who more or less remade DC Comics in his own image, with such titles as Identity…
About a month ago, CBS introduced Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Starr Spangler and her on-Broadway brother Nick as two of the contestants on The Amazing Race, the 13th season of which debuts September 28. By way of further introduction, the twosome made the official howdy-do video below, in which the Horned…
Back in March, we mentioned that Shared Hope International would be releasing over the course of the year 10 reports dealing with domestic minor sex trafficking and law enforcement officials’ varied responses to reports of children being sold as sex slaves. The report dealing with Dallas will be the final…
Just so happens we took this photo yesterday, during a stroll in Rawhide Park in Farmers Branch. On Friday, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Immigrants’ Rights Project and the ACLU of Texas filed a complaint in Dallas federal court in…
The city council’s meeting this morning to discuss their suggested amendments to Mary Suhm’s proposed FY 2008-’09 budget, a more or less complete list of which is available here. Among the items most often cited on the council members’ wish lists: keeping the zoo open during the one day out…
For the last little while, the great Frank Luksa — who’s written for every single local daily in the history of ink, danged near — has been contributing to ESPN.com. For instance, a couple of months back, he offered up tales from Dallas Cowboys’ training camps past. This morning, as…
Thousands of Liverpool FC fans took to the streets on Saturday night to protest Tom Hicks’ ownership of their beloved, beleaguered team — 4,000 folks, by some counts, or the same number of people expected to turn out total for Texas Rangers home games between now and the season’s blessed…
Nice photo of Tracy Rowlett in this morning’s New York Times, in a story about Chesapeake Energy Corporation’s Shale.tv, due to launch sometime this month. As you no doubt recall, the former KTVT-Channel 11 anchor doesn’t take kindly to folks who dismiss the site as an online informercial for the…
The lead from the Associated Press’ story about Dallas buy-and-sell billionaire Sam Wyly, out promoting his book Entrepreneur to Billionaire: 1,000 Dollars & an Idea: “Sam Wyly went from growing up in a house without electricity to amassing a fortune estimated at $1.2 billion, and he says anyone can follow…
On Thursday, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will world premiere composer Steven Stucky and librettist Gene Scheer’s August 4, 1964, which is about one day in the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson — the day Johnson order the first bombing of North Vietnam, and the day the bodies of slain civil…
From Belo-owned KHOU-Channel 11 in Houston, an early Ike highlight. Coming in a close second, Geraldo all fall down. –Robert Wilonsky…
