Kay Bailey Hutchison For those who missed it yesterday, Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy joined MSNBC’s Chuck Todd for a little Sarah Palin bashing they thought was off-mike. During their chat, Noonan, Ronald Reagan’s former speechwriter and a Wall Street Journal columnist, called John McCain’s decision to run with Sarah…
In the 16 years since the “Bedside Table”/”Living Well” 7-inch scored a direct hit, Los Bros Kadane (Matt and Bubba, where you been?) have never disappointed and always delighted—astounded, even, by which I mean usually. Theirs has always been a singular brand of quiet-loud-LOUDER that, upon first impression, felt a…
And it’ll only cost you $100, or thereabouts … With the Cowboys set to kick off the regular season in Cleveland Sunday, there really is no better time to get in the mood — even better if your flavor of football soundtrack skews toward the triumphant exultations of the marching…
SMU would like to get more folks to come to football games. And since losing doesn’t appear to be working, the university today announced several in-game changes to begin this Saturday, when the Mustangs host Texas State. Among the add-ons: “extensive use of replay board; live scoring updates; use of…
All I know about Kenny Burns is that he’s a self-styled “lifestyle specialist,” a former vice president at Roc-A-Fella Records with a clothing line and a professional party-thrower with an Interwebs show. Oh, and he has a Neiman Marcus charge card, which he proudly whips out in front of the…
Harold Simmons Just returned to the office to find in my in-box the press release from the Dallas Zoo in which it proclaims the Harold Simmons Foundation’s gift of $5 million “the largest private gift in its 120-year history.” In other words, Harold Simmons like animals just slightly more than…
When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way. With a cast of 30 and a 32-member orchestra onstage, the production of West Side Story that opens Friday is one of the biggest shows Irving’s Lyric Stage has ever produced. It’s directed by Grover Dale, a veteran Broadway dancer…
UT Dallas Tammy Leonard Late last month, Tammy Leonard, a Ph.D. student in the UT Dallas’s School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, went to Germany — not on vacation, but to speak to the 2008 Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences, very fancy. UTD’s initial media release…
View Larger Map What you see above, of course, is the Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers at 4501 Cole Avenue. Only, you won’t see it there for much longer: Late yesterday, Alison Lynn, who handles PR for the eatery, called with the news that the landlord is doubling rent and giving…
Shortly after the Dallas Observer launched in 1980, Marian Henley’s comic strip Maxine became a weekly feature, almost as popular as the personals. The Dallas native’s strip, featuring her alternately giddy and neurotic alter-ego, wound up becoming a national hit: In time it would spread to the LA Weekly and…
Missed this Sunday morning — really need to remember to turn around and Face the Nation more often. Anyway, from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Fort Worth native Bob Schieffer had plenty to say — and sing — about being from “the Fort Worth-Dallas area.” And for those…
Love the concept (and the logo): free tickets to Dallas stage productions, no strings attached. It’s called Free Night of Theater, go figure, and it takes place not only in Dallas, but in dozens of cities across the country — a far cry from the three (Philadelphia, San Francisco and…
Finally, for those so inclined, the complete album version of “You’re My Sunday” by Mrs. FBD. That is all. Nothing else to see here. Move along now. –Robert Wilonsky…
Over the weekend, Jan Hubbard found plenty of Chicago Cubs praying Mark Cuban will become the team’s next owner — unless I misunderstood first baseman Derrek Lee’s pronouncement, “I hope he gets the team.” John Cusack was a little more skeptical: “I think what he has to do is convince…
Cal Jillson Cal Jillson, political science prof at SMU, must have a Batphone in his office — that, or a cell-phone implant. Man’s quoted more often than the Bible, Mark Twain and The Big Lebowski combined. Just this week you can find him talking about local law enforcement groups’ endorsement…
For those so interested, the agenda for today’s Dallas County Commissioners Court meeting includes the county’s contract with Touch Productions, which will produce a documentary series for the Discovery Channel about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and efforts to exonerate innocent prisoners using DNA evidence. The county’s all for…
We’ve invested in a solar-powered water taxi company, along with former city council member Al Lipscomb. Was that a wise move? At this very moment, Sam, that glutton for punishment, is at a meeting of the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Committee, whose agenda is chockablock with interesting items, chief…
Ike Pappas was working as a newsman for CBS’ radio operations on November 24, 1963, when he was sent to the basement of Dallas Police Department HQ to cover the transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald. The shooting of Oswald by Jack Ruby was captured on film, of course, but Pappas’…
Merritt Martin Pete Freedman spotted the freshly painted sign this a.m., and Merritt Martin photographed it — that’s teamwork. Only, there is no such Web site, only SaveRoss.com; whatever. After the jump another photo — and, turns out, there was already a blank spot on the wall at Ross Avenue…
In 1966 the City of Dallas acquired Elgin B. Robertson Park, which encompasses some 257 acres where Dalrock Road dead-ends into Lake Ray Hubbard. Only, the city’s never done much with the prime piece of property — too remote, for starters, and the fact it’s sliced in half by I-30…
Just a few months after we launched Unfair Park, we profiled Dallas public defender Mike Howard, then running the tell-all site Wretched of the Earth, on which he’d write about counseling the indigent on the county’s dime. But Howard yesterday sent out a virtual change-of-address notice: He has left the…
Sure, it’s a day-off Monday, but that doesn’t mean we can’t kick off the week with an Avi Adelman Production. Because, sure enough, the Antoine Fuqua of Lower Greenville was yet again stalking the mean streets with his trusty video camera to prove that nothing good ever happens after 2…
