Bros Jay and Mark Duplass’ Baghead — a smart, deadpan, oh-so-indie rendering of the bad-man-in-the-woods horror-film genre — has already stalked the film-fest circuit, debuting at Sundance in January before making its way to South by Southwest and the AFI Dallas International Film Festival. And it was scheduled to open…
KTVT-Channel 11 John Copeland, CEO of Copeland Ministries Way back in November, Sen. Charles Grassley — Iowa Republican and the party’s top man on the Senate Finance Committee — told six televangelists to turn over their financials, lest they suffer the wrath of Congress, which wants to make sure these…
Hey, take a close look at the ridiculous grand-standing going on over Reunion Arena, and then ask yourself the key question about our city council: Would I buy a used car from these guys? Led by Ron Natinsky, who’s calling for a special meeting next week, and Dwaine Caraway, the…
Every time I drive by Taylor Publishing’s corporate offices and printing facility on Mockingbird, I’m reminded of the countless trips I had to make there when I was editing the Thomas Jefferson High School yearbook, The Document, in the mid-1980s. Some kids at a Pennsylvania high school will never have…
Saw this morning where an American Airlines flight, from Dallas/Fort Worth International on its way to Fort Myers, Florida, made an emergency landing last night back at DFW “after a window pane broke and was ingested into one of the plane’s engines.” Which sounds bad. Of course, the windows are…
We extend this a.m. a hearty mazel tov in the direction of one Christopher Kelly, best known ’round these parts as the film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a Texas Monthly columnist. Only, this morning we note the huzzahs Chris received over the weekend from the Los Angeles-based…
Local, state and federal law enforcement officials are offering a reward of up to $90,000 for “information leading to the arrest and conviction of The Scarecrow Bandit[s],” suspected of being responsible for at least 21 violent bank robberies in North Texas since last July. They might get to save their…
Businessman, former mayoral candidate and very brief candidate for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board Edward Okpa complained last week that former city council member Al Lipscomb might have scotched his chances for a board seat by bad-mouthing him at last week’s city council meeting. Okpa said Lipscomb, who was…
Lisa Garza, awaiting her fate at the end of the first episode Having been called far worse than baffling, “rigid” and “overpowering” — which, come to think of it, sound more like compliments — I’ll ease up on Suze’s Lisa Garza, whose rambling dissertation on her “three C’s” almost got…
Been waiting for days to read the city’s Reunion Arena update, which will be among the topics discussed this morning during a meeting of the city council’s Economic Development Committee. Turns out, as expected, it’s still a substantial money-loser:”Operating losses continue: $900k – $1.6m,” reads the 17-page report made available…
This morning, while reading The New York Times Sunday Book Review’s summer-lit round-up, I came across this glowing mention of the perfect present for a few of our more outraged in-flight Friends, as well as spokesbot Tim Wagner: Dear American Airlines: A Novel, described in The Times as the “fine…
Just two guitarslingers from Dallas way: Jimmie Vaughan and Steve Miller On Monday on Fong Songs there appeared the damnedest thing I’ve ever heard: a Steve Miller Band demo titled “Take the Joker and Run,” which must be the earliest mash-up in recorded history, as it’s more or less the…
The news out of Mexico this week was filled with stories of dwindling remittances — which is to say, money sent by immigrants in the U.S. to relatives in their home countries. Mexican immigrants living in Texas, who comprise a large part of Dallas’ Latino population, are sending less money…
No doubt you’ve seen the picture of President Bush chest-bumping an Air Force Academy graduate snapped during Wednesday’s ceremony in Colorado. Well, in case you missed it, the grad’s name is Theodore Shiveley, and he hails from Richardson. And it’s that local connection that brings us to this clip from…
To the list of locally connected pornography, we can add an oldie but oh-goodie heretofore unknown ’round these parts, as least: 1981’s Dallas School Girls, un film de John Christopher. Truth is, we knew nothing of this tale till today, whilst browsing the eBay for rarities worth our hard-earned; the…
The museum’s gonna need a new logo. Here’s a pretty awesome way to reach your “$100 million milestone”: Get Margot and H. Ross Perot’s kids to give you, like, $50 million. Which is precisely what was announced today: Katherine Perot, Carolyn Perot Rathjen, Suzanne Perot McGee, Nancy Perot Mulford and…
In other local sports-ticket news … One of my oldest friends is plenty pissed at the Dallas Cowboys — much like, oh, Terry Glenn, maybe? This morning, he discovered that after 37 years of sitting at the 50-yard line at Texas Stadium — where his family bought bonds in the…
Courtesy I.B.M. Sure, like you need a chart to tell you how much you hate driving these days. In a survey released this a.m., I.B.M. ranks 10 cities’ “Commuter Pain.” And Dallas has plenty of it. As in: We’re among the top cities in the U.S. and A. in which…
Brad Oldham, left, and Reel FX’s Brandon Oldenburg with something resembling … a glass snake, maybe? And, yes, that is the Knights of Pythias Temple in the background, Brad Oldham and Reel FX Creative Studios now have a sizable chunk of change courtesy Dallas Area Rapid Transit: $1,365,000, to be…
Luna Tortilla Factory, also on the Endangered list For the fourth year, Preservation Dallas has announced its “Most Endangered Resources” list, which features everything from specific buildings to general neighborhoods — and includes this year a plea for the city to change its teardown procedures, lest more historic properties get…
This fascinating nugget’s been unearthed in an internal National Hockey League report on ticket revenues: Your Dallas Stars lead the league in ticket giveaways. Surprising, because Tom Hicks is a notorious cheapskate. And … not entirely surprising, because the owner likes to see a full house. Which is why his…
The Yearning for Zion Ranch just outside Eldorado This just in: Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services had no right to take the children from the mothers in the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado. In its ruling today, the justices wrote…
