When it was revealed in September 2006 that the Deep Ellum Film Festival would be shuttered to make way for the AFI Dallas International Film Festival, and its attendant big-money corporate sponsors, local cineastes fretted that DEFF founder Michael Cain had sold out to the highest bidder. Which proved absolutely…
Ben Mezrich’s 2002 best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas For Millions was a smart narrative about…well, you did see the subtitle, right? Mezrich more or less recounted a fantastic tale spun by an old acquaintance from Boston, an M.I.T. grad named…
Arrested development: Two years ago, at a cost of around $3.5 million an episode, HBO began production on a new hour-long series called 12 Miles of Bad Road, set in Dallas but shot mostly in Los Angeles. The series was to be the latest from the co-creators of Designing Women…
Los Bros Kadane: Matt and Bubba On Friday, we provided you a link to some long-lost live Bedhead, circa 1998. Well, the same MP3 blog today offers something perhaps a little more special: 11 songs Matt and Bubba Kadane performed in Germany in November 2004. (The site says ’01, but…
This lovely couple was spotted by the missus just moments ago at Destiny’s Antiques, near the intersection of Forest and Marsh lanes — ya know, where the old Park Forest Theater used to stand way, way back when. (Saw Young Doctors in Love and M*A*S*H on a double bill there…
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has a super — and superdelegate — idea that includes Dallas. Awful nice of the Tennessee gov to throw some bidness Dallas’ way. But over on Politico.com today, there’s an interview with Phil Bredesen, who’s yet to cast his lot with either Hillary Clinton or Barack…
Two things you never expected to hear in the same sentence: “Chuck D” and “Ghostbar.” Or is this some elaborate April Fool’s Day joke? Only in its second year, the AFI Dallas International Film Festival’s already acting like a real film fest — which is to say, plenty o’ post-screening…
Rev. Jeremiah Wright has decided to skip the award ceremony in his honor. Well, that was fast. This morning came word that Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s scheduled Saturday appearances at Friendship-West Baptist Church and Paul Quinn College might not take place due to “security concerns.” Now, on the same Web site…
Well, besides seeing if they’ll make the playoffs, course. But courtesy Odenized (and, like, um, Fox Sports Net) comes this video from last night’s Mavs-Clippers game, during which a very tall benchwarmer with a bum ankle is sorta, kinda interviewed by Mark Followill during the latter half of the third…
Two awkwardly worded lists today: “Top Suburbs to Live Well,” courtesy Forbes; and “The 100 best places to live and launch,” so sayeth Fortune. Forbes, shocker, picks Highland Park and University Park as Dallas’ top suburbs — Plano too, with its “median household income of $77,038” and DART stops. And,…
The Boys on the Bus is a great book, but Thompson’s did have the better cover. It remains the greatest book ever written about covering a presidential campaign — Timothy Crouse’s 1973 The Boys on the Bus, which began as a series of articles written for Rolling Stone. Of course,…
Most kids we know like this kind of cheese — the string cheese. Turns out, there are still some 9-year-olds in Dallas who prefer theirs cut with heroin and Tylenol PM. This morning National Public Radio ran a story on Dallas’ cheese heroin problem — you remember that, right? The…
What if it turns out Malik Allen was the most important of Dallas’ trade with the Nets? I went to Mavericks 103, Clippers 90 last night, and came away with some distinct impressions: Fresh off his three-hour appearance on The Michael Irvin Show, Adam “Pacman” Jones was on hand with…
Rev. Jeremiah Wright was to be in Fort Worth this weekend. Then Dallas. Now, he might not show at all. Well, maybe the Rev. Jeremiah Wright won’t be coming to town after all. Sure, he’s still scheduled to show Saturday at the Friendship-West Baptist Church on Wheatland Avenue — the…
Lewis E. Calver’s “Hole in the Ground,” his winning entry in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Bush Library design contest With a good ol’ “what the hell,” UT-Southwestern”s Biomedical Communications Graduate Program chair Lewis Calver entered The Chronicle of Higher Education’s contest in which folks submitted their designs for the…
For the most part, Adam “Pacman” Jones’ day on The Michael Irvin Show sounded like this: “I had a horrible childhood” and “It was blown outta proportion.” Finally, in hour three of his sit-in, we got to the relevant stuff. Jones, currently the property of the Tennessee Titans, does indeed…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement What this photo of the T. Don Hutto detention center doesn’t adequately communicate is the smell of urine and fear. This month brings some interesting and troubling tidbits on our favorite immigrant detention center, the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility — which, as you…
On Sunday, some folks flying into Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport from Europe will be doused with, ah, “Showers of Affection” courtesy the airport’s fire department. Well, technically, only the plane’s will get doused as they taxi to the gate; passengers are free to get wet however they see fit after…
Rev. Jeremiah Wright will actually be in Dallas this weekend, not Fort Worth. On its Web site for the State of the Black Church Summit, which takes place this weekend, TCU’s Brite Divinity School reveals the new location for the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s appearance — and, hey, now it’s smack…
Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson Friends of Unfair Park know all too well the hot water in which former Dallas Housing Authority president and CEO Alphonso Jackson’s bathing these days, so no point in rehashing it when the history lesson’s but a click away. But for those in need of more…
Lewisville-based Institute for Policy Innovation — the Dick Armey-founded “non-profit, non-partisan public policy ‘think tank'” — will be in D.C. this week, hosting a chitchat at the National Press Club called “Trade and the Race for the White House: Exploring the Candidates’ Positions.” John McCain’s sending someone: a former director…
Seven years ago, Lyons Partnership — the Allen-based company best known for feeding and bathing Barney — paid the dino’s creator, Plano’s Sheryl Leach — some $65 million as a “contract termination payment” when HIT Entertainment took the leash. Only, says the Internal Revenue Service now, that lump-sum payment wasn’t…
