Not Cocaine Jesus, but can you imagine? Courtesy The Smoking Gun comes the tale of the Cocaine Jesus. (Finally, a name for our new band!) And, yes, you can see where this is going: “Federal agents last week arrested a Mexican national for allegedly paying a woman to smuggle into…
Dallas Fed prez Richard Fisher Dallas Fed head and longtime Robert Earl Keen fan Richard Fisher spoke last night to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, and he served as a sort of economic weatherman. And, like David Finfrock during a spring sprinkle, he managed to scare the…
After the jump, a very interesting communication from former mayoral candidate Edward Okpa, which just arrived in my e-box. Okpa, as the Friends know, is one of the people who got slimed in the whole Dallas Area Rapid Transit board appointment process. –Jim Schutze…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends us a link to an online petition virtually circulating amongst local motorcycle and scooter enthusiasts demanding City Hall create “off street motorcycle parking in all public parking lots, whether privately or municipally owned.” The petition offers myriad reasons for such a demand, including “skyrocketing”…
Why is this man smiling? No, seriously. Over on The Dallas Morning News’ DISD Blog, Kent Fischer has posted a memo sent today from Kimberly Olson, the district’s chief human development officer, to its executive leadership team and all district principals. In short, the district has instituted a hiring freeze,…
As we mentioned a month ago, Suze’s Lisa Garza will make her national-TV bow this weekend, when The Next Food Network Star Season Four kicks off Sunday night at 9. For those so interested, there’s plenty of video featuring Garza on the Food Network site: a profile (in which she…
Courtesy FOCH Investments The St. Regis, as it will appear, more or less, upon completion Maybe you remember how, last month, Sam posted something about the proposed St. Regis Hotel on the Katy Trail and the opposition to the development. Well, opposition be damned — with all due apologies, Mrs…
Demi Lovato was 8 when she knew. Or in kindergarten. Hard to recall precisely. That was a long time ago. Years ago. Demi’s old now, all of 15 though sometimes she looks years older. The memory isn’t what it used to be. But the when is beside the point anyway…
Lay It Down is easily the right Rev.’s best in five years—in other words, since his last Blue Note outing. This time around, though, a myriad of acolytes pay homage to the golden-throated god by guesting on a disc almost as essential as anything in the Hi Records back catalog…
Your city council today appointed Dr. Claude R. Williams Jr. to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board — which means, of course, no Joyce Foreman, the woman Mayor Tom Leppert and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway got kicked off the board when this mess all started. Council member Mitchell…
Kenneth Shropshire, director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, has authored a second edition of his invaluable and utterly readable The Business of Sports Agents. The author of six books on sports and bidness today offers a sneak preview of the tome, which has been…
This morning on KERA-FM (90.1), Sam Baker previewed tonight’s screening at 8 on Channel 13 of Sharing the Power, which examines how Dallas wound up with a 14-1 system of governance courtesy, among others, Roy Williams and Marvin Crenshaw. It’s part of a weeklong examination of the landmark lawsuit that…
Samir Patel, back when he was belle of the Bee Surely, you know the heartbreaking tale of Colleyville’s Samir Patel — the spelling wunderkind who always seemed to come this close to clinching the Scripps National Spelling Bee title before dropping the proverbial clevis. Well, a year after his final…
Also holding its annual shareholder meeting today was Dallas-based Blockbuster, where the, uh, rockin’ new-ish CEO Jim Keyes debuted the future of the video and gaming rental company: in-store kiosks from which customers can download movies onto portable devices in a matter of minutes. Only, a few caveats as the…
The Commonwealth Fund today released its rankings of states based on the quality of health care available to children — and Texas, well, we didn’t so well. Using 13 performance indicators of “access, quality, costs, equity, and the potential to lead healthy lives,” the report puts Texas at No. 46…
The protesters outside the ExxonMobil shareholders meeting this morning Things are ugly-ish here at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, site of ExxonMobil’s annual shareholders get-together. This morning, media outnumbered protesters two-to-one; Enough’s enough, looks like. But at the actual meeting ExxonMobil’s board of directors recommended the shareholders vote against…
Back in January, we warned you that Jessica Simpson was recording a country album — though, really, how she finds the time. Anyway, a single from the disc has been leaked-released, and we’re ever so … um … pleased? … proud? … well, something to provide you with the sneakiest…
W.H. Adamson High School — is it a historic landmark? Yeah, probably. Lost amidst all the talk last week concerning the preservation of the Statler Hilton Hotel was mention of tonight’s meeting of the Landmark Commission’s Designation Committee, which will get take place at City Hall at 5:45 p.m. Should…
Grapevine-based GameStop, branded damned near recession-proof only last month, gets a lengthy looking-over from Fortune this week in a piece not online. And while the joint’s making money thumb over fist — it’s expected to move one out of every five copies of Grand Theft Auto IV sold in the…
Sam Merten’s most favoritist ball player in the history of leather and wood graces the cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated, and as beautiful as the cover is, Albert Chen’s story is even better. The title: “The Super Natural.” The lead: Josh Hamilton is at peace now, at peace even…
Talk about a long and winding road. Tomorrow the city council finally votes to fill the seat on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board left vacant when the late Lynn Flint Shaw resigned under a cloud last January 30. Shaw and her husband, writer Rufus Shaw, died March 11 in…
During the first quarter of 2008, Texas Instruments chipped in $900,000 to lobbyists around the greater D.C. area — get it? Chipped in? Well, so says the Associated Press today after glancing at Dallas-based Texas Instruments’ filings, which reveal that the company’s doled out much green during the first quarter…
