Eric Dickerson, whose e-mail address still contains the word “ponyexpress,” no kidding. If nothing else, SMU’s trying awful hard to get the old ponies back into the stable after what’s felt like centuries of losing records. A month ago, the school announced that for the upcoming football season, June Jones’…
Amazing how we got any work done around here about 13 years ago. At this very moment, thousands of gamers are wandering the Hilton Anatole looking to get their annual QuakeCon on. Jason Ocampo of IGN.com live-blogged the warm-up press conference last night — and, wow, sounds like id Software…
If I may direct your attention to DC9 at Night for a moment, Pete’s posted quite the present: the title track to Dallas Observer Music Awards fave Sarah Jaffe’s forthcoming six-track EP Even Born Again, which the great Robert Jenkins dropped off yesterday. It’s your for the taking; don’t even…
Time to pull back the curtain on the most vital Cowboys. Get it? After a week in Oxnard – yes, I’m back here in our lovely triple-digit clime – I think I have a pretty good handle on the Cowboys’ flow chart. Somehow I missed you-know-who’s appearance, but I did…
Temoc Back in May, Merritt noted the University of Texas at Dallas’s search for a new mascot, one that would replace the rather lazily named Temoc — which, yes, is “Comet” backwards. News of the quest makes the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Edcucation’s subscription-only “Mascot Watch,” which…
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall is a popular venue for patent infringement lawsuits; as The New York Times pointed out in 2006, right after that famous Echostar-TiVo trial wrapped, “more patent lawsuits will be filed here this year than in federal district courts…
Alternate head: “She’s gonna get trashy sluts.” Which is but one among many priceless lines of dialogue from Lifetime’s can’t-miss Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, which premieres Saturday at 8 p.m. and, of course, is based on the tale of those McKinney North High School girls gone wild. We…
Lily Tomlin, way back when there was only one phone company, summed up its attitude toward customer service best: “We don’t care. We don’t have to. [snort] We’re the phone company!” Well, AT&T may have some competition these days — sorta, kinda — but Dallas lawyer Stephen W. Drinnon claims…
Joan Marcus Jersey Boys has been dubbed “the guy musical.” It’s packed with all those great tunes by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, and it’s got more F-words than Goodfellas. There are hookers. And mobsters. And a scene where Tommy DeVito, the Season who dragged the group a half-mil…
The University of Texas at Dallas today put on its Web site this notice referring to a computer security breach that “could have resulted in the exposure of personally identifiable information of 9,100 individuals” — including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers. Says Dr. Jim Gary,…
Prepared to be dazzled. Or disgusted. Depends on your perspective, I guess. Pacman Jones is full of … tricks. On Monday the dude caught six punts, storing each ball in a different part of his torso, without ever dropping one. Tuesday he was fielding kickoffs with one hand. And yesterday…
I was looking for something on Flickr and, as usual, got distracted, this time by dozens of photos “Texas Big Boy” has snapped of his little Big Boy standing at various locales — like, oh, Augusta National during the ’08 Masters, a museum in Laos and the American Airlines Center…
Richie, who’s at Cowboys training camp in Oxnard, noted the other day that Jessica Simpson (or maybe it was Little Girl Greggo) is supposed to roll into town, like, maybe today? No matter, because she’s already making the virtual rounds today courtesy the cover of the September Elle, in which…
‘Bout three months ago, seemed like former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Quincy Carter was danged near the luckiest dude in pro-ish football, getting the call up to the Kansas City Brigade of the Arena Football League. This came about a year after he’d already screwed up his gig throwing the ball…
Dallas-based Greyhound Lines isn’t having a very good morning, following news that last night, on a bus traveling from Edmonton to Winnipeg, one passenger attacked another in front of some 36 fellow travelers. And it was a particularly gruesome incident: Notes The Windsor Star this morning, the attacker “reportedly stabbed…
Betty Culbreath Thought now might be a good time to peek at the blog of Betty Culbreath, the Laura Miller-appointed chair of the Dallas Housing Authority, which, it was revealed today, is paying CEO Ann Lott $90,000 in severance following her resignation Tuesday. Culbreath, who yesterday posted a comment to…
On Saturday morning in Norman, Oklahoma, officer John Terry was called to an apartment complex, where a man was sleeping in a car that had been allegedly stolen. Terry confronted the dude, who then tried to drive off — while dragging Terry along for the ride. The officer had enough…
Don Hill, giving the finger to his attorney’s motions to dismiss Last night, Jack Fink mentioned the two motions to dismiss former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill’s attorney, Ray Jackson, filed on behalf of his client on July 25. Hill, of course, has been indicted on federal corruption charges…
Pioneer’s gravel island in Oooguruk, Alaska, into which it expects to drill some 40 oil wells. On the very morning Irving-based ExxonMobil reports record second-quarter earnings — $11.7 billion, which still wasn’t enough for Wall Street — comes news that the company’s looking to sink its drills back in Alaska…
Roy Williams, a Pro Bowler? Horse hockey. You might say. I don’t trust Roy Williams. But I do trust Dave Campo. And Campo, the former Cowboys’ head coach who’s back as the team’s secondary coach, says we’ll see the “old Roy Williams” again this year. “From watching film of him…
The Dallas Observer has an immediate opening for a full-time restaurant critic. We want someone who is passionate about food, knowledgeable about the restaurant industry and is able to produce stylish, opinionated columns. This position requires a 1,500-word weekly restaurant review, plus additional writing, blogging and/or editing duties based on…
Farhat Chishty pushes her son’s wheelchair into the shade of an oak tree and sits down with a sigh. It’s a calm spring morning at Denton State School, the largest institution for people with mental retardation in Texas, and she has come for her morning visit. She puts a knit…
