After the jump, the view from Plano yesterday, where, as we mentioned a couple of weeks back, 15 collegiate teams revved their solar-powered engines for the 2,400-mile trek from North Texas to Calgary, Alberta as part of the North American Solar Challenge. Only, sweet baby Jeebus, from the looks of…
Tom Jenkins No assignment too small: Tom Jenkins could turn a nice meal into a work of beautiful art. The memorial service for Dallas Observer contributing photographer Tom Jenkins, who died a week ago of a heart attack, is set to begin at 1 p.m. at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary,…
Richardson Echo Crews have spent the morning dismantling Heights Park, where the old radar dish awaits its trip to storage. Andrew Laska, who tried valiantly to get the city of Richardson to preserve at least a piece of historic Heights Park, sends word that the city’s wasting no time this…
The guy on the left is my brother, Major Mike Wilonsky, USMC. The dude on the right, who doesn’t have the camera aiming his direction, also looks familiar. I know where CSI: NY star Gary Sinise was over the weekend: drinking my baby brother’s last Perrier, not an easy item…
Gloria and Kenneth Copeland Back in November, Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican and his party’s top man on the Senate Finance Committee, demanded the financial info from a handful of televangelists who the senator — and Trinity Foundation’s Ole Anthony — believes are abusing their tax-exempt status. Dunno why…
Maybe if Starbucks just sold Slurpees and Big Gulps, they wouldn’t be shuttering 600 locations throughout the U.S. and A. — including novelist Brendan McNally’s favorite Lower Greenville location. Because GlobeSt.com this morning brings news that Dallas-based 7-Eleven, Inc. is looking to expand the brand by hitting the 300-location milestone…
One’s into women and wedges and the other’s coming back after a four-month retirement. You decide. Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo finished third in a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe over the weekend. He also fell into a lake when he lost his balance hitting a shot, hosted a party…
Thursday night’s Rangers-Angels game was the final game of one of the more entertaining series in recent memory at the Ballpark in Arlington. The series finale featured Josh Hamilton’s second two-run homer in as many nights and Brandon Boggs nailing Torii Hunter at home plate with Max Ramirez holding on…
Spencer Campbell Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy appear to be far closer in real life than in the books. Can see why. All conferences, whether they’re for insurance salesmen or would-be wizards, have something in common: They’re about as exciting as Ben Stein reading from a medical dictionary. Conventions devoted…
Sir Pauly Shore In an effort to revitalize his career, Pauly Shore wrote, directed and starred in Pauly Shore Is Dead in 2003. In the mockumentary, Shore tries to, well, revitalize his career by faking his own death, but his next film Adopted, due out in 2009, may indeed get…
Noted Regional Comedian Dave Little, this item is not for you. Clearly, you hate the Starbucks on Lower Greenville and the people who sup joe there. No, this is for the regulars there who think that it’s a nice little place to hang out and grab a cup of coffee…
How very Hef of you, Daryl Reaugh. Funny posting from Daryl “Razor” Reaugh on his official Dallas Stars blog today — something about the new iPhone. Only, he’s not referring to the second-gen phone that’s thick as a brick for most of the frustrated early birds. Nope, Razor’s in Canada…
Bob Shacochis on the cover of the Mayborn’s mag There’s an awful lot of pressure on this year’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest. After all, the ruckus Nan Talese caused at last year’s conference, when she unleashed her double-barreled comments about Oprah Winfrey and her fans skewering…
There’s Greggo. Jeez, Richie, seems Ed Bark really dug your story on Greg Williams: “It may well be the best media piece ever written in this market.” Wow. Guess I should read it. Greg Williams did. But, first, who’s Greg Williams? –Robert Wilonsky…
BBC Three 11-year-old beauty queen Sasha Bennington Back in April, we mentioned 11-year-old Sasha Bennington’s trip from the U.K. to Plano, where the most controversial preteen in all of England competed in The Flower Power Beauty Pageant. In tow was a crew from the BBC, which was shooting its second…
We do have closure, right? Like you, I listened to The Hardline discuss my story and Greggo yesterday afternoon. It’s impossible to tie a pretty bow on it all because it remains an ugly situation. But, one way or another, we gotta wrap it up and move on. As a…
Spencer Campbell Not sure about Harry Potter, but we think we see Chris Elliott standing in the back. Yesterday, hundreds of Harry Potter fans — Potterphiles, Potterheads, whatever – arrived in Dallas for the annualy salute to the boy who made J. K. Rowling rich. The magical gathering’s underway at…
Late yesterday I had the pleasure of hearing Tracy Rowlett say the word “vajayjay.” And, no, he wasn’t using it as a pejorative. We were talking about the changing face, or something, of news and how it’s all one big commercial nowadays anyway. “Anything who’s accusing me of selling out…
So, from the looks of a letter that arrived in my in-box last night, most of the airlines’ woes come from but a single source: oil speculators. At least, that’s what American Airlines’ Gerard Arpey and Southwest Airlines’ Gary Kelly — and nine of their fellow CEOs and presidents –…
Nope, don’t wanna see this again. Not with the game on the line. Okay? That, ladies and gents, was the most scintillating, entertaining four-game split in the history of The Ballpark. What we saw: The Rangers almost rally from down 8-0 in Game 1. A surprisingly stellar start by rookie…
The Associated Press caught up this week with Mark Duebner, the city’s director of business development and procurement charged with finding enough nickels and dimes to balance a wobbly budget. The AP wanted to ask Duebner about one of his proposals: a fuel surcharge that would be added to tickets…
Sam Merten Want a new Cadillac hybrid? Are you made of gold? Times are tough for the auto industry, but General Motors is taking action to stay competitive in the long term by shifting its focus from trucks and SUVs to cars and crossovers. At least, that’s according to company…
