Picture not taken at Comdex in the 1980s Bill Gates is about to separate himself from Microsoft, not really, and CNET News got a few high-techies to offer their fave memories of the man married to St. Monica Catholic School and Ursuline Academy’s bestest grad. Among the chosen people: Steve…
This morning, Attorney General Michael Mukasey gave a speech at the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives National Conference, which takes place today and tomorrow in D.C. The title of his speech, delivered moments ago, was “Victory of the Level Playing Field,” and in it, he referred to…
Yesterday on DC9, Pete posted a note from Smile Smile’s Ryan Hamilton in which the guitarist-vocalist mentioned that the duo got one of its songs, “Anymore,” placed in a direct-to-video release, Jack and Jill vs. the World. The film — “A Freddie Prinze Jr. movie with some promise,” says here…
This morning’s first query for American Airlines’ Tim Wagner, following yesterday’s announcement that the Fort Worth-based carrier is eliminating five American and 37 American Eagle flights out of LaGuardia Airport. Will American take into account New York Governor David Paterson’s plea that American “take into account more than profit and…
Begin panicking … now. Because, according to the City of Dallas’ Web site: Dallas County announces West Nile Virus found in Highland Park: The City will increase collections and urges residents to take precautions Don’t worry, though. Mosquitoes are only …. Man’s Deadliest Foe! –Robert Wilonsky…
H. Grady Spruce High School, for now No doubt you’re aware that some time after 5:30 today, the Dallas Independent School District Board will take up the issue of what to do with H. Grady Spruce High School, as the school on Old Seagoville Road is considered “academically unacceptable” and…
Many will attempt to describe WALL-E with a one-liner. It’s R2-D2 in love. 2001: A Space Odyssey starring The Little Tramp. An Inconvenient Truth meets Idiocracy on its way to Toy Story. But none of these do justice to a film that’s both breathtakingly majestic and heartbreakingly intimate—and, for a…
Olds, rejoice! A Funland reunion—sorta, barely, naw, not really. But Peter Schmidt—sitting on a solo disc he’d best release pronto, goddamnit—will be performing with Matt and Bubba Kadane, as they preview new New Year material from the September release titled, ahem, The New Year, which, from sneak peaks, is far…
FBI Director Robert Mueller, announcing the arrests and recoveries made during Operation Cross Country The Federal Bureau of Investigation today announced that from June 18 to 23, it had law enforcement agencies from across the country involved in a so-called “national enforcement action” called Operation Cross Country, during which 389…
Matthew Tully Me, I prefer the couch and a bottle of cheap hooch with which to enjoy my Bravo, but if you dig on high-end apps, smart cocktails and pointing and bitching at the TV as a group, I can give you the scoop on two Shear Genius watching parties…
DART Couple days back, Dallas Area Rapid Transit debuted its new railcars — the Super Light Rail Vehicles, as they’re technically referred to. Word of the $200-million Osaka, Japan-designed railcars has reached Wired’s Autopia blog today, where it points out that “currently all but one stations have platforms that do…
David Byrne’s sketch for Julio, the singing robot created by Dr. David Hanson They ain’t answering the phone this afternoon over at Hanson Robotics in Richardson this afternoon. Makes sense: Dr. David Hanson’s no doubt in Madrid at this very moment, with head Talking Head David Byrne, as the twosome…
Wyatt Cenac, now available Daily Three weeks ago, Wyatt Cenac debuted as the newest regular correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. And, turns out, the hilarious 32-year-old New Yorker grew up in Dallas and went to high school at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. Cenac…
Imagine what Avi could do inside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. ‘Bout a month ago, Barking Dog Avi Adelman posted this video of “taggerettes” putting marker to a Shell station on Lower Greenville; a better version of said tape went to the police. Turns out, Avi notes, one of the…
Just a programming note, for those with nothing better to do at 10 this morning. On WFAA-Channel 8, like you didn’t know. –Robert Wilonsky…
Texas Heavenly Homes’ proposal for new Tenth Street Bottoms neighborhoods, from the city’s Bottom Revitalization Project briefing Tomorrow, the city council will approve a $500,000 zero-interest loan of city bond money to an outfit called Texas Heavenly Homes for the redevelopment of the Tenth Street Bottoms area at I-35 and…
Joe Hammeke’s a pro photographer best known for his pictures of skateboarders, most of which appear in Thrasher, for which Hammeke’s also a contributing writer. Like, in the new issue, he’s got a piece headlined “Dangerous Technology,” which isn’t online but which documents a recent trip he made to Dallas…
I hope Dallas’ Lennon Madzima did not prepare your income tax returns. Because the feds allege today that Madzima falsified some 1,100 returns since tax year 2004, with the amounts in question somewhere in excess of one … million …dollars. Like this, from the Justice Department this afternoon: According to…
Keven McAlester, at right, with Roky Erickson. One day we’ll get a different picture of Keven. One day. Couple weeks back, we posted the new Old 97’s video for “Dance With Me” off the band’s latest, Blame it on Gravity. It’s an impressive piece of work, not only because it…
Is the DFW a “cybercity?” Damn right: No. 5 in the whole U.S.A., according to AeA, which is only “the nation’s largest technology trade association representing all segments of the high-tech industry.” Today, AeA released a report titled Cybercities 2008: An Overview of the High-Technology Industry in the Nation’s Top…
For those who missed Schutze’s appearance this a.m. on KLIF-AM (570), during which he discussed his Unfair Park item concerning Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s $600,000 problem with the Green Line, morning-show host Jeff Bolton’s producer Clint Granberry was kind enough to send us , which doesn’t need your every last…
Apparently, the Sundance Channel made the most of its trip to Dallas: Last week on its Big Ideas for a Small Planet series, it featured the Current Energy store on Knox Street. Tonight, during an episode devoted to the “Animals,” the show takes a trip to the recently opened Dallas…
