Boys Will Be Boys as Boys Will Be Boys Author Meets Emmitt Smith

Jeff Pearlman, whose tremendous Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty is due in stores a week from today, appeared on ESPN’s Outside the Lines yesterday, discussing Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ penchant for taking troubled cast-offs. Joining Pearlman was The Dallas…

Dallas and Those “Scary” Chemtrails

“Chemtrails” is one of the handful of tremendous tracks found on Beck’s recently released Modern Guilt — not at catchy as “Gammy Ray,” but still. Sings the Scientologist: “I can’t believe what we’ve seen outside/You and me watching the jets go by.” Perhaps the song provided the yesterday-morning inspiration for…

Today, a City Council Committee Will Discuss Housing for the Homeless

Hal Samples/Central Dallas Ministries At noon today, the city council’s Quality of Life Committee spend a bulk of its meeting talk about Dallas’s homeless population — and how to get those folks into homes or, at the very least, “Permanent Supportive Housing.” If nothing else, the 29-page document prepared by…

North Central’s New Look? Maybe. Very Dallas, Though. Lots of Silver and Gold.

One more time, the city council’s Transportation & Environment Committee will discuss the landscaping along North Central Expressway, specifically between Woodall Rogers Freeway and Mockingbird Lane. Only, before the Texas Department of Transportation — and its various life partners — gets started on planting more freeway-friendly greenery that shouldn’t get…

A Man Rolls Into a 7-Eleven With a Baseball Bat and Pocket Knife …

View Larger Map Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse, spokesman for the Dallas Police Department, was kind enough this afternoon to shoot us the narrative to what’s surely one of the odder 7-Eleven robberies in recent months. (Update: Good ol’ Avi, always with the actual police reports. L’chaim, brother.) Happened in the…

Browns Fans Can See Into the Future

Should you happen to miss the first, oh, 10 plays Your Dallas Cowboys run Sunday against the Cleveland Browns in the Dawg Pound, the Browns forum on Scout.com has ’em for you. Here is but a taste: “Play action-fake handoff to Barber inside, Romo 13 yard pass to Witten in…

Andover Loves Ya, Dallas!

A giggle this afternoon, courtesy the Andover Townsman, which details Andover/North Andover YMCA’s 13th Annual Dallas Night held on August 27. Biggest turnout ever — “Texas-sized,” as the paper puts it, which adds up to some 475 folks in attendance, hot damn. And how, precisely, do the Massachusettsians do up…

Tony Romo’s Gonna Be Huge

Apparently, it’s Video Friday — easier than reading, at least. But for the first time, Pepsi’s partnered with the National Football League to sell … soft drinks, I think, but also MP3s, maybe? And the star of the new ad is the quarterback of Your Dallas Cowboys, who’s now tall…

Dearest Lord, Why Hath Thou Abandoned Deep Ellum?

I spotted the adult-language video below on YouTube yesterday, but it came with very little explanation; among other things, it wasn’t clear when this run-in down in Deep Ellum occurred. Which is why I e-mailed Jesse Morrell, the man behind Connecticut-based Open Air Outreach, with a few questions. Last night,…

Would-Be Dropouts Can Expect a Phone Call from Mayor Tom Today at 3

Daniel Rodrigue The media’s been invited down to City Hall today — once more, to take pictures of Mayor Tom Leppert, like, doing something. Few weeks back he got a back-to-school haircut; today, ’round 3 p.m., he’ll be making back-to-school phone calls. That’s because, as we’ve mentioned before, some 30,000…

Turns Out, the Failed Superconducting Super Collider Was Kinda Super

How the SSC never became the world’s largest skate park remains a mystery to science. It’s been forever since the words “Superconducting Super Collider” were heard around these parts. Fifteen years ago Congress axed the project due to escalating costs — what was supposed to run about $4 billion wound…