What’s bad news for Portland is good news for Dallas. Because this morning, word’s come down that Adidas America Inc. is reorganizing its operations and laying off some 25 employees from the German-based company’s U.S. headquarters. Says Adidas America President Patrik Nilssen, “A number of Portland and field-based roles were…
Rufus Shaw The news that Rufus Shaw did not have cancer, according to autopsy results released yesterday, removes the one semi-plausible motive, however flimsy it may have been in the first place, for the March 10 shooting deaths of Shaw and his wife, Lynn Flint Shaw, former Dallas Area Rapid…
Over at the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Web site, you’ll find the best nine-hour film this side of, um, Shoah? (Sorry, first one that came to mind.) It’s the entirety of yesterday’s hearing — Critical Lapses in FAA Safety Oversight of Airlines: Abuses of Regulatory “Partnership Programs” –…
View Larger Map Folks from Granite Properties and Gables Residential Trust talk to GlobeSt.com about their latest project in Uptown: a $200-million, two-tower project tentatively named 17Seventeen McKinney, ’cause, like, that’s its address. Sounds like quite the shebang: 19-story office tower, six levels of parking and retail and “a one-acre…
A couple of days ago, we mentioned Waxahachie High School sophomore Pete Palmer, who, along with his parents, has decided to sue the school district over Pete’s getting kicked outta school for wearing a “John Edwards 08” T-shirt. Well, yesterday his father, Paul Palmer, posted a comment to Unfair Park,…
City Pointe Golf Center Richie’s done found himself a new place to take his balls. Evidenced by my crisp little 88 at this primo track last week, I need some help. For a longer sex drive, I’ll go here. But for a longer golf drive, I’ll be here. Honestly, I…
The Chicago Tribune today provides a handy recap thus far of today’s testimony in front of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, provided by Federal Aviation Administration officials who blew the whistle on the FAA’s lax safety measures. Chief among the highlights from the hearing — billed as Critical Lapses…
Richard III — he’s the one with the hump, right? The hump and the attitude. Not a happy guy for sure. But a surprisingly funny king, even in one of Shakespeare’s bloodiest plays. Kitchen Dog Theater likes to shake up their Shakespeare. For their new production of Richard III, opening…
The thing about newspaper journalism is, we have to have labels for people. It’s just how it’s done. Laura Miller’s label used to be “Dallas Observer columnist.” Then it was “former journalist and city council member.” For a long time it was “Dallas mayor.” Up until recently she was “former…
Mannatch’s Ambrotose — or, what Wired last year identified as, ya know, “sugar pills” This morning brought a chipper press release from Mannatech, the Coppell-based nutritional supplement company besieged by bad press. At its annual convention last weekend in Dallas, higher-ups unveiled a new line: an “all natural product that…
I could come in here and pour my glass-half-empty pessimism on you. Tell you how the Mavs’ 111-86 victory last night came against a team playing its fourth game in five nights. Remind you that, with weekend road games at the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns, a two-game losing…
LEGO A couple of local items of interest, courtesy nonprofit Public Citizen. After the jump, another Chantix chant, but first up, the D.C.-based consumer advocacy group’s involved in some federal litigation in Tarrant County, where Fort Worth-based Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway is trying to get Internet hosting company Network54…
The new issue of Newsweek explores “The Curious Lives of Surrogates” — though, frankly, the cover headline, “Womb for Rent,” is far more grabby. Regardless, the piece details the “thousands of largely invisible American women have given birth to other people’s babies,” and among them is Dallas’ Stephanie Scott, who,…
Andy Roddick, T.O.’s lil’ buddy New York Times sports columnist Bill Rhoden this morning details a most “unlikely friendship”: Austin’s tennis hotshot Andy Roddick and Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens. This week the two are hanging out at the Sony Ericsson Open in Florida, where Roddick’s playing and Owens is…
At the end of last year, the U.S. Sentencing Commission adopted Federal Sentencing Guidelines that reduced penalties for crack cocaine offenses, after years of study and debate determined folks popped for crack usually got about three and a half years more prison time than people convicted of powder-cocaine offenses. The…
Neiman Marcus Perhaps this was one of the 400 items Manuel Alvarez stole from Neimans. Back in December we told you about Manuel Alvarez, a former “store loss prevention specialist” at Neiman Marcus who pleaded guilty to stealing nearly half a million dollars’ worth of jewelry from the store and…
A couple of musical notes, beginning with something posted over on DC9 at Night — two surreptitiously shot videos from someone going by the moniker TOADIESsuperfan. Seems the feller had himself a run-in with the Toadies, who, sez Kirtland Records’ Tami Thomsen in the comments, are rehearsing for some June…
Back in October I wrote about a good guy and a great coach named Kevin Keane, who got politically blackballed by the Dallas Parochial League. In working that story it became disgustingly obvious that DPL athletics fall somewhere between sorely mismanaged and downright corrupt. In the months since the column…
The 67th Annual Peabody Awards were announced by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism, and, today at least, WFAA-Channel 8 has something in common with 30 Rock, The Colbert Report and Project Runway. From the media release: In a strong year for local television news, Dallas’ WFAA-TV was…
A couple of days back, we broke the, ah, news that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had come up with the world’s most unique timeshare out at Jerryworld: You and some friends could purchase a single ticket for a Cowboys game, then take turns going into the new Arlington stadium…
Hal Samples will see you this weekend. Well, actually, he kinda sees you now. So, we’ll see you Friday night at the opening of our dear Friend Hal Samples’ new gallery, right? You know — at 2814 Main Street in Deep Ellum? From 6 to 10 p.m.? Right. Awesome. ‘Cause…
Found out from looking here that a couple of days ago, Richard Florida — and stay creative classy, Richard Florida — posted to his Web site “A Singles Map of the United States,” in which he breaks down “which cities have a surplus of single men (or women) — and…
