This eight-foot-long tartan couch’s for sale — not at a garage sale, surprisingly, but during an auction to be held October 4-6 at Heritage Auction Galleries right across Oak Lawn Ave. from Unfair Park HQ. Opening bid’s $1,700, though it does come with those paintings thrown in. Why so pricey?…
Try to follow along. Which, if you’re a City of Dallas leader or a Dallas Independent School District accountant, will be mondo difficult. First, because some bozos don’t know how to subtract the 4 and carry the 1, DISD announces a $64 million shortfall. That’s shortfall. Opposite of windfall. Blamed…
For those stocking up on Ike supplies that aren’t batteries or bourbon, here’s a suggestion: Snag the last of the goodies ever made by the Doughmonkeys in Snider Plaza. Because, yes, as Bill Addison noted late yesterday, once again and for reals this time, my boy’s favorite bakery in the…
For those so interested, this is the latest wind (and rain and tornado potential) forecast from the National Weather Service — and note the exclamation mark. And the NWS no like Ike: “Develop a personal hurricane plan,” it advises in its latest forecast. Mine involves a trip to the liquor…
From today’s City Plan Commission agenda. This is how you do a street name change. –Robert Wilonsky…
Sarah McDaniel For those who like to do their Sunday-morning reading on a Thursday, two local items of note in The New York Times’ sportsy supplement Play. One’s a lengthy, engrossing Mimi Swartz-penned piece on the selling of Parker’s Nastia Liukin — whose name is misspelled throughout much of the…
Cowboys. Eagles. Monday Night Football. September. All that’ll be missing is these guys. Remember September? I do. Especially when the Dallas Cowboys played on Monday Night Football. I know, it’s not the same these days on ESPN as it was in the glory days back on ABC, but it’s still…
Mike Howard couldn’t take it anymore. For the past month, the young attorney had been shouldering a caseload he had never imagined possible when he was a law student at Southern Methodist University. This morning—a sweltering day in mid-August—was a perfect example. Sitting in the Frank Crowley Courts Building, he…
“The Anti-Dittohead,” by Sam Merten, September 4 Jett Wave Hey, I’ll listen. Good luck, Jack. If you’re half as entertaining on radio as you are on your [dallasobserver.com] posts, I think you’ve got a pretty good shot. Joe, McKinney, via dallasobserver.com Jett is very well-known in Canada and more recently…
Goin’ to the chapel: If Buzz were introspective, we would pause and contemplate the creeping conservatism that has overtaken us in middle age. It’s the thing that causes a vein to throb in our temple as we cry, “Oh, come on!” whenever we hear about the latest expenditure of tax…
Bruised ribs. Stitched chin. Multiple penalties. Super start. In last Sunday’s NFL season opener in Cleveland, the Dallas Cowboys were missing two of their top four receivers, their starting left guard and a Pro Bowl cornerback. They didn’t, however, miss a beat. In their most dominant debut in 10 years,…
Jack Lowe, DISD school board president Jack Lowe, president of the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees, is in New Braunfels awaiting the birth of his seventh grandchild. But shortly before he left town yesterday, he met with DISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa, who told Lowe the bad news reported…
Intern Courtney’s at 3700 Ross Avenue this very moment, where district officials have indeed confirmed a sudden $64-million shortfall — in the 2007-’08 budget. How’d this happen? Well, see, it’s “complicated,” said superintendent Michael Hinojosa, the result of having more teachers and support staff in the schools. “The majority of…
Look, at this point we’re just killing time till the 4 p.m. emergency press conference at DISD HQ on Ross Ave., from which Intern Courtney will likely report back with the bad news that the district’s suddenly “$64 million and change” in the hole, says one source with whom we’ve…
Aren’t they so cuuute together?! Jessica ain’t bad, either. Ramiro Romo, that is. While the quarterback with the stitched-up chin continues an “I don’t talk about my personal life” vow, Tony’s dad opened up a teensy weensy bit to NBC 5’s Newy Scruggs recently. Says pops of son’s girlfriend, “To…
Kristina Bowman Last night’s Carl Reiner-Martin Short showdown at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center was all a little boy raised on teevee could dream for, as Reiner recounted the creation of The Dick Van Dyke show and discussed working on Your Show of Shows while Short explained the genesis…
What you see at right is the autobiography of Jamie Carragher, who you’d totally know and adore and maybe even worship if you lived in Liverpool, where, you know, Tom Hicks owns a soccer team. The 30-year-old defender’s book is being published in the U.K. tomorrow, and folks are giddy,…
Hey, there’s John Wiley Price! Wonder if he recalls when the old Parkland building was a black hole. Seemed impolite not to cross Maple Avenue this a.m. for the big Parkland Hospital announcement: $50 million from Annette and Harold Simmons; $25 million from Jan and Trevor Rees-Jones; millions more from…
Jeffrey Yarbrough, whose Liberty Noodles is still sorely missed A year ago, Jeffrey Yarbrough — the man behind Club Clearview, after its initial success in the mid-1980s, and Liberty Noodles — shared his secret shame with the readers of Forbes Small Business: filing for Chapter 13. His reasons for writing…
Did someone say W? Because it’s only a matter of weeks now till Oliver Stone’s depictification of “George Bush Jr.” stumbles into megaplexes with its drunk on. And, at last, some real footage from the movie’s shown up all official-like: 1:15 worth of the day George (Josh Brolin) met Laura…
A.C. Gonzalez, who, when you glance at him real quick, kinda looks like Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet Among the many items under consideration by the city council this morning is addendum item 13, which authorizes $4.4 million in costs for the convention center hotel. When the item is likely…
The Cowboys’ former battering-ram fullback is now also the Cowboys’ former Director of Alumni Affairs. At a time when memories of past Dallas Cowboys regularly come rushing in, former running back Robert Newhouse is out. While trying to track down former players to share their Texas Stadium recollections, it came…
