National Hurricane Center Up till an hour ago, Kenny Shaw, director of the City of Dallas’s Office of Emergency Management, didn’t know whether he’d even be able to use the Dallas Convention Center as temporary housing this weekend if, as expected right now, folks from the Gulf Coast flee north…
It’s official: T. Boone Pickens — for whom the answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind — is a real author. Author enough, at least, to get invited to the Texas Book Festival down in Austin, which takes place November 1-2 down in Austin and today announced its lineup…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked in recent days when and how the city will part with Reunion Arena’s seats — guess a few folks have media rooms and man caves to fill? Anyway, no word yet; an assistant in the office of Frank Poe, Convention & Event Services…
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…
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…
Note to anyone paying attention and/or still left over at 508 Young Street: Please, in the name of Sweet Baby Jesus, call Tom Maurstad and tell him he can stop Twittering from the Toronto International Film Festival. Hurry, before it’s too late. Oh … no … oh, God … too…
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…
On May 8, Jenny, a western lowland gorilla at the Dallas Zoo, celebrated her 55th birthday “by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats,” as the Associated Press noted. Jenny’s birthday was significant, as she was the world’s oldest gorilla in captivity. And, at the…
I’ve been obsessed with my body image since I was 5 years old and heard my mom talk about how she needed to go on a diet. Now, 20 years later, I’m still dieting — so’s Mom — and to say that my daily caloric intake controls my life would…
Are you single? Do you like to mingle? If so, and you live in Dallas, well done — because according to the always-listy Forbes, you’re in the third-best city in the U.S. for singles. And just how’d the magazine arrive at such a result? By factoring in “Cost of Living…
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…
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,…
You remember Matt Pulle, right? Sure you do. Used to work here. Used to write plenty of pieces about Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez — like, oh, how she didn’t pass her law-enforcement exam, for starters, and wasn’t very good at sending e-mails. Then he left for Nashville for a…
View Larger Map Anyone who’s spent a split second on Lower Greenville has dropped plenty of coin at the 7-Eleven perched right next to the Whole Foods. Well, about 10 hours ago, it was the site of a hold-up during which at least two gunmen “pointed their weapons at the…
For years, folks have whispered that perhaps one day, the city might consider selling the naming rights to the 76-year-old Cotton Bowl in Fair Park. After all, maintaining The House That Doak Built is an expensive proposition with, some would insist, dwindling rewards hardly worth the $50 million worth of…
Tom Hicks is still loathed in Liverpool — sounds like it ought to be the name of autobiography at this point. Last week, Hicks announced that the team’s new stadium wasn’t going to be built after all — looks like he and partner George Gillett kinda ran out of money,…
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…
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…
