Tom Hicks is still loathed in Liverpool — sounds like it ought to be the name of autobiography at this point. Last week, Hicks announced that the team’s new stadium wasn’t going to be built after all — looks like he and partner George Gillett kinda ran out of money,…
I snapped this pic at my friendly Tom Thumb last night. It is 57 days until Halloween. The Cowboys, who don’t get started for another three days, will have played half their season by then. Look, I embrace vampires and witches and the dark side in general. But seriously, trick-or-treating…
Daniel Rodrigue The media’s been invited down to City Hall today — once more, to take pictures of Mayor Tom Leppert, like, doing something. Few weeks back he got a back-to-school haircut; today, ’round 3 p.m., he’ll be making back-to-school phone calls. That’s because, as we’ve mentioned before, some 30,000…
How the SSC never became the world’s largest skate park remains a mystery to science. It’s been forever since the words “Superconducting Super Collider” were heard around these parts. Fifteen years ago Congress axed the project due to escalating costs — what was supposed to run about $4 billion wound…
Kay Bailey Hutchison For those who missed it yesterday, Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy joined MSNBC’s Chuck Todd for a little Sarah Palin bashing they thought was off-mike. During their chat, Noonan, Ronald Reagan’s former speechwriter and a Wall Street Journal columnist, called John McCain’s decision to run with Sarah…
In the final analysis, no, actually, it wasn’t that great. Interesting, but not great. HBO’s Hard Knocks is over. Which means the season is beginning. After a five-week series that showed that – surprise! – two of the Cowboys’ leaders are Terrell Owens and Tank Johnson, we no longer have…
When Jack Jett sits in front of the microphone on September 6 and hits the airwaves for the first time, he’ll be trying to succeed in a market that might not be prepared for what he brings to the table. Jett has never done radio before and is trying his…
Father murdered. Mother imprisoned. Drugs. Fights. Guns. Lies. Suspensions. Handcuffs. Electronic monitoring devices. Irrepressible urges. Intuitive receivers. Irrational media. The works. Adam “Pacman” Jones has been in his share of pickles during his exigent 24 years. But this predicament in Oxnard, California, is one he welcomes. One he can handle…
In the cards: Only a fool would predict the outcome of a hotly contested election more than two months out. So, all righty then, here goes: The election for Dallas County sheriff will go 52-48. You read it here first. What, you say you want to know who will win?…
“César Chávez, Texas,” by Jim Schutze, August 28 A Blatant Diss As a Texan, I must stand up for the principle that César Chávez is worthy of Dallas, and that renaming Ross Avenue is the one and only choice to commemorate such an important leader. It is a disgrace to…
And it’ll only cost you $100, or thereabouts … With the Cowboys set to kick off the regular season in Cleveland Sunday, there really is no better time to get in the mood — even better if your flavor of football soundtrack skews toward the triumphant exultations of the marching…
SMU would like to get more folks to come to football games. And since losing doesn’t appear to be working, the university today announced several in-game changes to begin this Saturday, when the Mustangs host Texas State. Among the add-ons: “extensive use of replay board; live scoring updates; use of…
All I know about Kenny Burns is that he’s a self-styled “lifestyle specialist,” a former vice president at Roc-A-Fella Records with a clothing line and a professional party-thrower with an Interwebs show. Oh, and he has a Neiman Marcus charge card, which he proudly whips out in front of the…
Tsk, tsk. NBA players – including, turns out, former South Oak Cliff star and 2006 Dallas High School Player of the Year Darrell Arthur – loves them some marijuana. But, like the Mavericks’ Josh Howard so infamously noted, in the off-season, man. The OFF-season. Not at rookie orientation. Dude?! –…
Harold Simmons Just returned to the office to find in my in-box the press release from the Dallas Zoo in which it proclaims the Harold Simmons Foundation’s gift of $5 million “the largest private gift in its 120-year history.” In other words, Harold Simmons like animals just slightly more than…
When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way. With a cast of 30 and a 32-member orchestra onstage, the production of West Side Story that opens Friday is one of the biggest shows Irving’s Lyric Stage has ever produced. It’s directed by Grover Dale, a veteran Broadway dancer…
Well, since this here blog’s namesake was the old tin-roofed rasslin’ joint down on Industrial I feel obliged every now and then to post vintage Von Erich footage. But my only review of Kevin Von Erich, um – how do I put this delicately? – horsing around with son, Ross,…
UT Dallas Tammy Leonard Late last month, Tammy Leonard, a Ph.D. student in the UT Dallas’s School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, went to Germany — not on vacation, but to speak to the 2008 Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences, very fancy. UTD’s initial media release…
View Larger Map What you see above, of course, is the Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers at 4501 Cole Avenue. Only, you won’t see it there for much longer: Late yesterday, Alison Lynn, who handles PR for the eatery, called with the news that the landlord is doubling rent and giving…
Shortly after the Dallas Observer launched in 1980, Marian Henley’s comic strip Maxine became a weekly feature, almost as popular as the personals. The Dallas native’s strip, featuring her alternately giddy and neurotic alter-ego, wound up becoming a national hit: In time it would spread to the LA Weekly and…
Missed this Sunday morning — really need to remember to turn around and Face the Nation more often. Anyway, from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Fort Worth native Bob Schieffer had plenty to say — and sing — about being from “the Fort Worth-Dallas area.” And for those…
No. 1 in Jessica’s heart. No. 3 on my list. Not playing fantasy football for the first time in 20 years this fall has its consequences: More free time. More disposable income. Less contact with the geekdom subculture. But it also has me woefully unprepared for the NFL season, which…
