Funny, we’d just been thinking we hadn’t heard from our local Lingerie Football League franchisees in a while — especially with the ABA throwing its weight around Dallas last week — when the Dallas Desire sent an invitation out to catch the team at scrimmage Friday morning.Friday’s media day –…
Had a few thoughts about the Trees reopening, which I posted here in the wee small hours of this morning; pardon the old man’s ramblings. But till yesterday, Pete had never been in Trees, which shuttered well before his arrival in Dallas; our music editor is not burdened by expectations…
What — that headline doesn’t do anything for you? Well, then. So, fine, Mr. Steve Martin then. Or Strove Mortman to his friends. Anyway, Central Dallas Ministries’ honcho Larry James hopes you might want to attend his wingding October 27 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. James says more…
The spending gap between the two convention center hotel campaigns predictably didn’t mimic the narrow margin at the polls, as Harlan Crow’s $5.2 million anti-hotel effort dwarfed an otherwise impressive haul of more than $1.9 million by three pro-hotel committees. Nearly all of the funding for Crow’s campaign came from…
The painfully modest former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver’s new reality show bows on VH1 Monday (psssst … you can watch the debut episode in its entirety right this very second, if that’s what you’re into). Which is why he was on Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC late-night show Thursday — talking, yet…
More than two weeks after Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission Administrator Alan Steen acknowledged an internal investigation following the raid on the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth — which left Chad Gibson hospitalized with serious head injuries — Steen finally gave an interview concerning what might have gone wrong that night…
Yesterday, several of you wondered why the city of Dallas wasn’t doing anything to keep the United States Postal Service from moving some of its operations from the Dallas Main Post Office on I-30 to Coppell, as the USPS is considering. Well, this morning, Sam got hold of this missive…
Yes, yes and yes to all those wondering if Dr. James Phoestus Schutze will still brighten up KERA-Channel 13’s airwaves tonight at 7:30 with sand-in-the-levees talk. Says right here:WHAT’S ON TODAYTopicThe Trinity SagaGuestLee Hancock, Jim Schutze & Philip HaasDescriptionWhere does Dallas stand on the Trinity River Project? Will the recent…
Over on the city of Dallas’s Web site you’ll find this warning: “Do you have an outstanding citation? If so, you could be arrested at your home or office.” Yup, must be the Summer Warrant Round-Up, yee-haw. And if you’re not sure whether Johnny Law’s hot on your trail, the…
Remember how, earlier this week, we mentioned that Austin venture capitalist John Thornton was starting an online newspaper, the intention of which is to cover Texas and specifically Austin? Well, now we know who the CEO of that paper’s gonna be: none other than Texas Monthly’s president and editor-in-chief Evan…
Far as I can tell, there are no 99 Ranch Market groceries in Texas — most are way out west, in California, Washington and Nevada (with the stray site in Atlanta). To the relatively short list, add Plano: GlobeSt.com reports this morning that the 25-year-old Asian grocery store chain will…
This morning, U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater dismissed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s complaint that Mark Cuban violated insider-trading laws in 2004, when he sold off $750,000 in Mamma.com stock. Why the heave-ho? You know what, just read the judge’s opinion and order for yourself, which I’ve included below. The…
Ever gone to rent a movie when, suddenly, the urge to buy what some consider a so-so netbook just, you know, hit you? If so you’ll be tickled with Blockbuster’s morning announcement that beginning whenever, the Dallas-based videotailer is stocking the shelves with the Archos 10 netbook, which will sell…
It’s doubtful you’ve ever heard of Border Media Partners: It’s a miniature radio conglomerate founded in 2002 in McAllen but now HQ’d in the same shiny N. Central Expressway office tower as Richards Group, and it owns and operate more than two dozen Hispanic-centric stations from Waco down to Austin…
A condensed version of Richard Sandomir’s visit to Cowboys Stadium, which appears in this morning’s edition:Jerry Jones, tour guide, was showing off. Lost in the excitement of the show and tell, Jones trampled a couple of traffic cones and nearly flattened two fans walking to the $15-per-person stadium tour. He…
Club Dada’s closed. Again. For at least two months. Says owner: “This is bullshit.” But, hey, Trees is about to reopen … with Faster Pussycat, which isn’t even the original lineup. This is bullshit. At least Course of Empire’s still got the beat…
So, yes, Jay Bowdy and I have made peace. If you haven’t been playing along this morning, the owner of the North Texas Fresh — that’d be Fort Worth’s new entry into the American Basketball Association — called me out this morning for ugh-ing the name of the franchise. (Wonders…
Much to the chagrin of the half dozen city attorneys attending this morning’s Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee meeting, members voted 5-1 to postpone a decision on a new ordinance regarding the demolition of structures in historic districts. The motion to postpone, made by vice-chair Ann Bagley, also urged Preservation Dallas…
J.D. Freeman, Clear Channel’s Dallas market manager, just called with the bad news: Bo Roberts, co-host of the Bo & Jim Mornings show on Lone Star 92.5 and a local radio fixture dating back to his days on Q102 beginning in 1982, suffered a heart attack late Tuesday. Freeman says…
After the jump you’ll find a copy of a letter sent on July 10 “to the citizens of Dallas, TX” by the local chapter of the American Postal Workers Union, in which union president Larry Crawford warns of the United States Postal Service’s plan to close the Dallas Main Post…
At last year’s QuakeCon, held at the Hilton Anatole, id Software’s John Carmack made a few announcements considered quite major at the time, among them word that the Mesquite-based developer was looking at getting in the iPhone bidness whilst updating such classic titles as Doom and Castle Wolfenstein. But on…
Says here that on August 22 at Mountain View College, the American Basketball Association’s Dallas Generals will hold it final tryouts and a combine — seriously, the ABA returneth? Dunno how we missed it, and I’ve yet to find mention made anywhere else, but at the end of May, the…
