The pleasures of Be Kind Rewind do not extend far beyond the promise of its premise: Jack Black, magnetized and manic (yawn), erases every single video tape in the rental store where he hangs out and has to reshoot the movies with pal Mos Def. Theirs becomes a ramshackle filmography…
Margot at the Wedding (Paramount) Margot (Nicole Kidman, or someone who looks just like her) is a fiction writer whose tales are based, uncomfortably and unkindly, on the real-life family for whom she seems to care very little. Hence sister Pauline’s (Jennifer Jason Leigh) late discovery that Margot’s a “monster”…
Brian Harkin Twenty bucks this photo winds up on this Web site before the end of the week. A few end-of-the-day options for your viewing pleasure (or not, if you happen to be killing time till the Huckabee-in in Plano): You can view Noah Bailey and art director Alex Flores’…
Noah W. Bailey Noah snapped this photo at 9 this morning — about the time he’d usually be waking up. For most of my 27 years, Democratic rallies in Dallas have been — how should I put this? — rather intimate affairs, with maybe a few hundred people even at…
So, a couple of items down below, I wrote about a story posted on The Dallas Morning News’ Web site, which says the North Texas Tollway Authority is about to bill Dallas an extra $1.54 million for design of the Trinity River toll road. I suggested it might be about…
Brian Harkin Barack Obama, speaking today at Reunion Arena Anyone who questions Barack Obama’s mounting momentum should have been at Reunion Arena this afternoon. Thousands of people waited in line for hours, only to be turned away. And when the fire marshals cut off the line and denied them entrance…
A little while ago, Dallas Morning News transportation writer Michael Lindenberger posted a story on The News’ Web site that says, “The North Texas Tollway Authority will bill the city of Dallas $1.54 million for higher-than-expected planning and design costs for the Trinity Parkway toll road.” His story says the…
Ngan Wedemeier/University of Texas at Dallas The former First Daughter spoke this morning to a sweaty Student Union full of hundreds of University of Texas at Dallas students. Chelsea Clinton touring the area today on a college-campus trek aimed at getting The Kids to vote for her mother — you…
With the initial sticker shock having subsided and a waiting list already topping 10,000, the Dallas Cowboys are openly happy with ticket sales at their new $1-billion palace in Arlington. But, privately, they’re even more thrilled at the demand for exclusive, elitist suites. A team source tells me this morning…
Alexander Flores Some of the folks waiting in line for the Obama rally this morning A few notes from the Obama rally, courtesy Noah Bailey. At 11:53 a.m, speakers (among them Friendship-West Baptist Church’s Frederick Haynes) were warming up the crowd, but Reunion’s not full — not by a long…
Over the last couple of months, word has dribbled out that former Dallas Housing Authority president and CEO Alphonso Jackson, now the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary, is under heavy government scrutiny for allegedly bad behavior in New Orleans, Philadelphia and even the Virgin Islands. Which, reports The…
Avery Johnson, picking up his Coach of the Year award two years ago Evan Smith, the camera-shy editor of Texas Monthly, interviewed Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson for the mag’s forthcoming April issue. Evan kindly provides a sneak peak over at the Monthly’s Delay of Game sports blog, with…
UTA prof and activist José Angel Gutiérrez, no fan of the Clintons Wonks, reporters and pundits have spent the past week speculating about the role Texas’ Latinos will play in the March 4 Democratic primary, and while most signs point to strong Hispanic support for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama’s camp…
For those who actually have to work today and can’t attend Barack Obama or Chelsea Clinton’s appearances around town today, fret not: We’ll have folks at both Clinton’s speech this morning at the University of Texas at Dallas and Obama’s Reunion Arena rally. They’ll file throughout the course of the…
I know the town of Lavon well enough — used to drive through it nearly every day on my way to and from our old downtown Dallas office, way back when I flirted with the idea of bein’ a Collin County country boy, like that was gonna work out. Driving…
Bet you didn’t know Ray Hunt owned a bunch of land down in South Texas — like, oh, 6,000 acres known as the Sharyland Plantation development, where Hunt’s touting “gentle gulf breezes … swaying palm fronds … the delicate scent of hibiscus and bougainvillea flowers.” It’s a massive multi-use development:…
This old Jason Kidd poster can be yours right now, for the low, low price of $15. I’m at American Airlines Center witnessing something I thought I’d never see — no, not this guy in concert, but, of course, Jason Kidd back in a Dallas Mavericks tank top. After the…
So, Jason Kidd’s a Dallas Maverick for the second time. Richie’s got more forthcoming in a sec about today’s ’bout-time blockbuster trade. But, for grins, let’s go stumbling down Amnesia Lane, to the day Jason Kidd became a Mav for the very first time. –Robert Wilonsky…
HillaryClinton.com No way we were going to let NBC’s David Shuster near this cutline. Bill Clinton’s stumping for his missus throughout the state this week: He’s in Galveston, Beaumont, Victoria, and Houston tomorrow, then in Midland/Odessa, Victoria and Houston again on Thursday. Which makes it twice in two weeks the…
Well, thank goodness, I got a long irate e-mail from a friend this morning, so I know I’m not totally nuts. She started off: “Just when I thought I could no longer be shocked and amazed by the DMN, I read that they are endorsing Huckabee, the nimrod who doesn’t…
Today’s Boston Globe carries a lengthy profile of former Allen High School cheerleader, gymnast and class vice-president Dionne Passacantando, who, in 2003, started taking anabolic steroids when she was 17 because “she just wanted six-pack abs.” Passacantando, who now lives in Bruce Springsteen’s New Jersey hometown, says she used to…
No more Hope-ing: Jason Kidd’s back in a Mavs uni as of seconds ago. Ready or not, Jason Kidd is a Dallas Maverick. After a week of machinations and maneuvers that took the deal from imminent to insane, the NBA just minutes ago finally stamped its approval. I’ll have more…
