This morning, Harper’s tallies up the lists of President Bush’s pardons past and present and comes up with the following conclusion: “Texas S&L Swindlers Need Apply.” Seems almost retro in retrospect — nostalgic, even, like new-wave hits of the ’80s, as the magazine even brings up the 2004 pardon of…
From the sound of this morning’s announcement, Dallas-based 7-Eleven has decided that sooner or later, everything in the joint will be branded with the brand name. Three months ago, word was the convenience store chain was expanding into the Jamaican beef patties business — which was fine with a handful…
Donovan McNabb benched? Matt Cassel with back-to-back 400-yard games? Just when you think the quarterback world has gone crazier than George Clooney, Tony Romo finally returns to being, well, Tony Romo. Moving around in the pocket to produce 341 yards and three touchdowns. Moving up in the rankings to produce…
On the Technological Breakthrough Tuesday Before Thanksgiving, this news: Dallas-based Blockbuster has a set-top box it’d like to sell you for $99, through which you can beam into your home the latest and greatest in what passes for big-screen entertainment these days. Buy the OnDemand now, just in time for…
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We’ve spent the last way too long looking for our DSpot; no luck, damndamndamn it. But we do know where John Crawford’s DSpot is, if nothing else: On Friday, via GlobeSt.com, we learned that Crawford and his DowntownDallas organization is moving out of its old digs — in Center City…
It took a few days — five, to be specific. But Texas Department of Public Safety, Dallas Police Department and Dallas North Tollway Authority authorities have issued a warning to folks driving along the Dallas North Tollway: Someone’s throwing rocks off the Cedar Springs overpass. Turns out, it’s been happening…
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy’s assassination down at Dealey Plaza — so you didn’t have to. His slide…
Dallas Fed prez Richard Fisher This morning, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — those bloodsuckers! — released the latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. In a word: Oy. In two: “Plunged sharply.” Or, as the Associated Press puts it: “Texas manufacturers are painting a bleak picture of current and future…
Former Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox, who died in his sleep Thursday at his home in Dripping Springs, will lie in state today in the Texas House of Representatives chamber of the Texas Capitol; hours are from 3 to 7 p.m. As the Star-Telegram noted over the weekend, “The last…
I wasn’t at Saturday’s party unveiling this year’s Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ Swimsuit Calendar at the Gaylord Texan. But, for some reason, the mayor of Nayarit, Mexico was. And now, thanks to our friendly lil’ slideshow, you can be there too. — Richie Whitt…
Courtney’s headed back to City Hall at 11:30 this morning, where, yet again, the City Smoking Ordinance Special Ad-Hoc Committee will spark up the debate over where you can’t and can’t light up in this town. For a sneak peek of where this discussion’s headed today, the council has posted…
Three years ago we opened the books of the South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund and found that many, many folks who’d borrowed money from the city in order to open businesses in the area never paid back their loans. Some couldn’t; others just wouldn’t. And plenty of cases had been…
Earlier this month, Dallas City Council member Mitchell Rasansky — or, as he’s referred to around the big table at the Hall of Justice, the Calculator — asked to see how the city’s investments were faring during the Great Recession of 2008. This morning, during the council’s Finance, Audit &…
Over the weekend, A Scanner Darkly star (well …) Alex Jones made the trip up to Dallas to take on the Federal Reserve — though, really, how many folks are in the building on a Saturday? Those folks who ditched out on Dealey Plaza brought their bullhorns and placards to…
Okay, not really. But we can dream, right? Because if Pacman Jones did get his own show with The Ticket’s informative and entertaining Bob Sturm and Dan McDowell, the corrupt Cowboy returning to practice at Valley Ranch today would mysteriously fall on hard times and slink quietly…
The good news: Terrell Owens put up. The bad news: Now he’ll never shut up. With the smoke not yet cleared from his obnoxious — but not even a little bit surprising — interview with instigator Deion Sanders on NFL Network, T.O. produced his best day in a Cowboys’ uniform…
So, yeah, right — anxiously awaiting Tuesday, when Criterion Collection finally makes available that fully loaded Bottle Rocket two-fer that’s long overdue. While we’re waiting for the package, let’s spend a couple of moments with the man who designed the package: artist Ian Dingman, responsible for the cover you see…
Won’t be seeing this for a while. And, honestly, probably won’t be hearing alot about the Stars, either. Hate to head into the weekend on a downer, but this is pretty significant – and bad – news. Stars’ captain Brenden Morrow, the team’s heart and soul, is out for at…
Courtesy Justin Cozart Yesterday, I came across a Flickr page maintained by Justin Cozart, who’s been uploading in recent days photos of a Dallas that no longer exists — as you can tell by the photo of the Baker Hotel above, taken as it was being imploded in June 1980…
Seriously, how can you not love Texas Tech coach Mike Leach? His favorite weather: “When it rains mud.” His half-ass name for the live radar: “The beam.” His favorite creed: “You’re going to be dead in 100 years anyway. Live dangerously.” Still hope he somehow winds up in Dallas. Not…
Wyatt Cenac as Barack Obama Tina Brown’s Daily Beast reports that four contenders are in the running to oust Fred Armisen as Saturday Night Live’s Barack Obama — and two of them, heyheyhey, happen to be Dallas private schools graduates. One we introduced back in June, when Jesuit College Preparatory…
