All week, Wall Street has been anxiously anticipating Blockbuster’s first-quarter results, which were released moments ago. Analysts didn’t expect good news from the Dallas-based company, whose efforts to reinvent itself we’ve documented at great length in recent months. And the news is indeed mixed, at best: From Elm Street HQ…
By far, the best-reviewed doc of ’09 thus far is Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Sacha Gervasi’s rockumentary about a Canadian thrash-metal band’s fall and rise. Noted The Village Voice’s thumbs-up, it’s “A Hoop Dreams for heshers,” so, ya know, all right, all right, all right. It finally gets a…
The body was still warm. The emotions, still raw. But when it comes to the Dallas Mavericks, Charles Barkley doesn’t give a damn. “They got problems,” the rotund, ridiculous TNT analyst said last night in the minutes after Dallas’ elimination by the Denver Nuggets. “They gotta get younger and more physical…
After the jump, Michael Irvin’s appearance on FOX News yesterday, where it took Sean Hannity all of one minute and 48 seconds to bring up “drugs, adultery.” Irvin, of course, was on to talk up — sort of — his new SpikeTV series 4th and Long, wherein a dozen pro-football…
USA Today directs our attention to the following tweet sent this morning from Children’s Medical Center Dallas and UT Southwestern: “Who’s an early bird? Transplant Twittering starts Mon. at 6 a.m. central!” Yup. On Monday morning, a 3-year-old named John Gilbreath is set to get a kidney from his father,…
Big weekend planned on the SMU campus, where Laura Bush will deliver the commencement address Saturday morning at Moody Coliseum to the some 2,000 Mustangs escaping the Hilltop. But in advance of the weekend shindig, there are tomorrow’s honorary degree recipients symposia featuring some fairly bold-faced names: Harold W. Attridge,…
Tonight, of course, is the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ called board meeting, at which the board will discuss and approve campus staffing formulas for the 2009-’10 school year; Schutze is attending, but of course. But at this very moment is the lengthy warm-up: a regular ol’ board…
Before we hop onto the bandwagon of your first-place Texas Rangers, let me chunk one more rock at Alex Rodriguez. And myself. Back in 2004 – in the couple months between leaving the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and joining the Dallas Observer – I got word that A-Rod twice frequented the Dallas…
View Larger MapThere are several items of interest on the City Plan Commission’s agenda this afternoon, chief among them a Planned Development District under consideration for the southwest corner of Gaston and East Grand Avenues. At the moment, the five-acre site is mostly empty save for some unused retail space;…
As mentioned Monday, KERA-FM (90.1) is running throughout this week a series of stories about where Dallas gets its water and how we use it. Which brings us to today’s contribution from B.J. Austin concerning water consumption. Says the story, the average Dallas homeowner is billed for 100,000 gallons used…
Hindsight, they say, is 20/20. Sometimes, unfortunately, so is foresight. On Friday, May 1 I picked the Denver Nuggets to eliminate the Dallas Mavericks in five games. Last night it came to pass, in the form of Nuggets 124, Mavs 110. Dirk Nowitzki was as gritty as he was great…
Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast sent Unfair Park a note to point out this “amazing” development from yesterday: Burleson’s Shanda Perkins bid to become a member of the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles was killed dead in the Senate yesterday. Happened just a week after the Senate Committee…
Standing chest-deep in the hotel pool, Ron White felt foolish. Were the people on lounge chairs near the deep end watching him? Well, screw it. If he cared what a few strangers thought and let it get in the way of his training, how would he possibly bring home the…
Save Ferris: Elsewhere in this week’s paper, Jim Schutze is mounting a spirited defense of DISD’s magnet schools for talented and gifted students. The district’s magnets and its learning centers for disadvantaged students were threatened with staff cuts thanks to a federal funding formula that requires each DISD campus to…
If things go badly in Denver, the Dallas Mavericks have lost this series. But Dirk Nowitzki should’ve won your heart. Despite being sucker-shoved by Kenyon Martin, lambasted by TNT’s chorus of critics, privately duped and publicly humiliated by his former fiancée, screwed by the referees and frustrated almost to tears…
“Whine Flu,” by Richie Whitt, May 7 You and Him Fight You are a jerk. Why don’t you get out there and try playing and see what happens to you in the same circumstance? You gain nothing by retaliation, and statistics show that the one who delivers the retaliation blow…
We sent Hal Samples to the House of Blues this morning to shoot Erykah Badu and friends offering a lengthy discourse on blues history to students from St. Philip’s School, Prestonwood Elementary and Holy Trinity Catholic School. More photos and some video are to come tomorrow, after we get it…
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Yesterday, Miss Texas and Miss Teen Texas announced they were relocating from Fort Worth, where they’ve been for the past 46 years, to Arlington in an overt attempt to pump life into a dying tradition pageant officials insist is as American as apple pie. Jean Magness, executive director of the…
We all know the NFL’s ultimate game will be played at Jonestown Coliseum on Feb. 6, 2011 – or 633 days from now. But, after yesterday’s grand gala in Arlington, here’s the roster of Super Bowl XLV’s other coming attractions: NFL Headquarters: Hilton Anatole Hotel NFC Team Hotel: Omni Mandalay, Las Colinas…
Moments ago, the Dallas City Council voted on the 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.daytime curfew ordinance — and, not surprisingly, it passed almost overwhelmingly, by a vote of 12-2. The vote was taken shortly after Mayor Tom Leppert stressed that the ordinance (which you can read here, beginning on Page…
In a ceremony outside the old landmark at the very end of Dallas’s West End, the original staff of the Starck Club gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate the club’s 25th anniversary, and to witness the start of a new venture built on the club’s legacy.The Starck Project, led by Michael…
