The Texas Governor’s Mansion, at it looked till an early-morning fire today The construction of the Texas Governor’s Mansion in downtown Austin was completed on June 14, 1856. Almost 152 years later to the day, the structure at the corner of 10th and Lavaca Streets is a smoldering shell of…
Tommy Urbanski Fund Tommy Urbanski There are at least two Sunday New York Times pieces worth a look, far as locals are concerned. One’s a story about Tommy Urbanski, the Las Vegas strip-club manager on duty February 19, 2007, when then-Tennessee Titan Adam “Pacman” Jones made it rain at Minxx…
Daniel Rodrigue Robert Smith, who’s been known to give The Dark Knight the occasional hard time. Pete’s just rolled out of bed, well before the heat index reached 103, and posted over on DC9 at Night Daniel Rodrigue’s aces review (annotated setlist too!) of last night’s Cure show at American…
After the jump, a hint, perhaps, that Suze’s Lisa Garza is pretty sure she makes it past the second episode of The Next Food Network Star, which airs Sunday at 9 p.m. on, uh, the Food Network. Also forthcoming: two appearances at local Whole Foods Markets. She’ll be cooking and…
Mark Orvik Anyone who normally can’t enjoy Dallas improv comedy troupe Section 8’s weekly Tuesday-night show is in luck this week — even if it’s at the expense of one of the comedians. The troupe is having an extra show tonight to help out one of its founding members. Mark…
Ridgell McKinney, picking up his diploma last year. He gets another chance tomorrow, in front of kids who’ll just go, “Wow, his last name sounds so familiar.” On the Collin County Web site, it says Ridgell McKinney — whose great-great grandfather Collin McKinney is the man for whom Collin County…
At the bottom of this bad-news story concerning cutbacks, on staff and actual news, at Tribune Company-owned newspapers, among them The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune , it also mentions the Trib’s impending sale of the Chicago Cubs. It notes that the books will be sent to prospective…
Denny Doran From left: Some dude who’s now in the Toadies, some dude who’s now in Centro-matic, some dude who’s now in The New Year and, um, Mark Hedman Whilst cleaning out his closet, local photog Denny Doran stumbled across some never-before-developed snaps of the Dallas rock scene circa the…
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps sent out a news summary this week with a typically mild and rational heading: “Record High Crime from Illegal Aliens!” Interesting, I thought. Curious to know on what they’d based such Lou Dobbsian fear-mongering, I opened the first link. Behold: A Washington Post story bearing…
After paying only $5 to park near the Majestic Theatre last night, where Eddie Izzard was performing for the second time in three months, my sis and I strolled into a packed house of lines — lines for the bar, lines for the restrooms, lines for merch. And lines, of…
A TSA researcher volunteered to show what the body scanners will do. They’re very slimming. So, yeah, don’t be surprised when, later this month, you’re traveling through Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, and you’ve gotta first walk through one of those “security devices that reveal intimate body parts.” For the past…
Hey, Schutze. Look who else is pissed off at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Rowlett. As in: “Rowlett residents believe that a change in DART’s plan to bring the transit system’s blue line to grade level will add to the city’s already miserable traffic woes.” I believe Rowlett’s a suburb? Just…
ESPN the Magazine’s Shaun Assael this morning offers his take on the David Jacobs story — because Assael thinks he has some insight into why Jacobs, who claimed he sold his steroids to NFL players, and his girlfriend, bodybuilder Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell, were found shot to death in Jacobs’ Plano…
After the jump, the Southwest Airlines ad that appeared in today’s Wall Street Journal. Which brings me to this week’s installment of Ask American Airline Spokesman Tim Wagner: Is that ad brilliant or what? –Robert Wilonsky…
Daniel Rodrigue Ray Hunt, whispering sweet nothings into the ear of his new favorite chef, Wolfgang Puck, at today’s press conference at Union Station. For more photos from today’s event, check out our slideshow. The announcement today of the partnership between Hyatt Regency Dallas, Woodbine Development Corp. and chef, restaurateur…
Courtesy North Dallas realtor Lydia Player, we find today the perfect homestead for the race-car fanatic for whom the thought of living anywhere but within spitting distance of the Texas Motor Speedway is unbearable. For some $1.3 million, you can move right into a 1,600-square foot condo perched high atop…
Really, we were just looking for a reason to run a Dallas Tornado jersey. George Henderson is more or less the minor-league version of John Lanzillo Jr. — Zonk, to you long-suffering Texas Rangers fans. Krazy George, who’s beaten his own hand drum for the likes of the Houston Oilers…
For those thinking there’s something mighty, mighty suspicious about convicted steroids dealer David Jacobs being found dead in his Plano home today of apparent gunshot wounds, along with a 30-year-old bodybuilder named Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell, you are not alone. Over on Grits for Breakfast, Scott Henson points out a very…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins wants to address “the bigger picture” concerning wrongful convictions. One month ago, hundreds of law-enforcement officials from around the state gathered under the dome in Texas’s Senate chamber at the behest of Sen. Rodney Ellis of Houston. They came to pay their respects to…
We told you it’d be a restaurant! Over at the Union Station shindig, which is currently under way with our crack interns in attendance, it was just announced that Wolfgang Puck will handle all the catering for Union Station’s special events once the joint reopens in the fall, following the…
This awesome chair, incidentally, will only set you back $3,700. Perfect for the HP home decorator. This morning, The Wall Street Journal’s Ben Casselman is taking four news items concerning Dallas and trying to make of them a trend, which is: We no longer like our cars. First up, the…
The outside of Nicola’s in Plano Having never eaten at Nicola’s Ristorante Italiano — me, I don’t like to drive to Oklahoma or Plano, I forget which comes first — I don’t know whether this is a big deal, epicuriously speaking. But for the intersection of Preston Road and Northwest…
