So, from the looks of a letter that arrived in my in-box last night, most of the airlines’ woes come from but a single source: oil speculators. At least, that’s what American Airlines’ Gerard Arpey and Southwest Airlines’ Gary Kelly — and nine of their fellow CEOs and presidents –…
The Associated Press caught up this week with Mark Duebner, the city’s director of business development and procurement charged with finding enough nickels and dimes to balance a wobbly budget. The AP wanted to ask Duebner about one of his proposals: a fuel surcharge that would be added to tickets…
Reality television is the unkindest cut, Matthew Tully. First off, Dallas hair master and former Best of Dallas™ winner Matthew Tully loves his wife. It became increasingly clear over the course of last night’s Shear Genius that it was either going to be Matt’s best night or his last night…
My dear friend and fellow T.J. Patriot Pat Mullins just called from the Starbucks on Lower Greenville Avenue, across from the Granada Theater, which is rumored to be among those on the chopping block. In fact, Pat says, “Employees here have already been told it’s a done deal.” Which is…
As we can’t get Tracy Rowlett on the phone this afternoon — left a message, surely he’ll call back, because that is how he rolls — we’ll go with what he told Uncle Barky about his controversial new gig working for Chesapeake Energy’s new WebTV enterprise: “I guess the best…
City of Richardson For a good year, Andrew Laska of Richardson has been fighting to preserve the 33-acres Heights Park near the intersection of Floyd and Arapaho Roads, famous for its space-age replicas of rocket ships and radar dishes and ringed planets upon which generations of children have climbed since…
Might as well re-post this item from last summer, the first time XM Satellite Radio’s “Sonic Sound Salutes” paid homage to golden-oldie KLIF-AM (1190) on its channel devoted to the 1960s. From the looks of what just arrived in the in-box, it’s the same press release and everything. So I’ll…
You may feel this slight sting, Dallas. That’s pride fuckin’ with you. Because there are two stories outta Dallas going national this week: the one with which we’re all wearyingly familiar by now, but also the tale of the Dallas undercover officer who discovered $400,000 worth of cocaine in the…
Big Boss Mark Donald and I were just marveling at the summer ish of The Barnett Shale: The Official Magazine of Thriving on the Shale, which has paper stock thicker than most apartment walls, when we got this press release announcing that longtime legendary local newsman Tracy Rowlett is likewise…
The Dallas Police Department, yet again, needs your help in catching a couple of bad guys — in this instance, two men who yanked the TVs out of the Pet Ritz on Lemmon Avenue. Also looks a little like a scene from a competition show that might air on The…
Tony Romo seldom looks unhappy. Quite the company Tony Romo’s keeping these days — Michael Jordan, nice. The twosome were, no doubt, awesome yesterday during their practice round at the American Century Championship celeb golf tourney in Lake Tahoe; the celeb-am just got underway. And, really, quite the guest list…
Wuh-oh, look who made Rush Limbaugh’s show yesterday (scroll down to Story No. 7): A black hole is a star we can’t see because there’s so much mass, so much gravity, not even light can escape it. The only thing that’s been known to escape it is the U.S.S. Enterprise,…
My favorite comment on Deadspin this morning, concerning Josh Hamilton’s home run last night off Los Angeles Angels reliever Francisco Rodriguez, comes from Hustler of Culture: “No joking, hiting a walk-off homerun while fireworks go off and the theme to the ‘Natural’ is played must be a fucking amazing feeling.”…
At the top, let’s be clear about one thing: Journey to the Center of the Earth is more a demo reel than a narrative feature. It’s a decent, if overly familiar and yawningly obvious compendium of look-at-me moments intended to show off the latest and greatest in stereo 3-D filmmaking,…
Only one man … nay, one boy could inspire this sort of magically delicious madness. You know who I mean — dude with the mop of brown hair, a delightful British twang and that scorched scar. As we noted a few weeks back, Portus 2008 — the national wingding for…
Central Dallas Ministries’ Larry James It’s one thing to consider closing the zoo one day a week, but proposed cuts to the city’s budget could have an even greater impact on Dallas’ poor and elderly. According to Larry James, president and CEO for Central Dallas Ministries, the city plans to…
To the genius who created this Amazon wish list for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, I salute you. (But you left off one essential item.) I also have my new band name: “Black Hole Education Society for John Wiley Price.” Here’s our set list.–Robert Wilonsky…
On August 5, The Real Estate Council is holding a general membership meet-and-greet during which some of its 1,600 members will bat around the subject “Why Big Companies Move to Dallas/Fort Worth.” Which is funny, because a couple of weeks after AT&T announced its move from San Antonio to downtown…
Ken Mayfield, who doesn’t have a calendar. Shame. Dallas County Commissioner Ken Mayfield called this morning — one guess why. As he was out of pocket yesterday, Mayfield didn’t get the chance to respond to commissioner John Wiley Price’s comments to Unfair Park in which he branded Mayfield a “racist…
Well, OK, he kinda mentions the Texas High Speed Rail and Transportation Corporation. It’s nothing too earth-shattering, mind you, but yesterday the presumptive Republican presidential nominee sat down for a chitchat with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s editors and reporters. And one of the questions posed to him had to do with…
A full book report is forthcoming; Schutze has been handed his homework — a copy of Harvey Graff’s The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City, being published this month by the University of Minnesota Press. Graff, currently a professor of English and history at Ohio State…
I like the way the Associated Press leads its story about Jerry Jones’ latest way to pay for his billion-dollar-plus Jerryworld in Arlington: “Fans of the Dallas Cowboys who might not be able to get tickets to the team’s new stadium in Arlington can leave their mark — underfoot.” In…
