Jesus, Lisa Garza, Just Win This Goddamned Thing Already

From next week’s episode, when Lisa Garza asks a Girl Scout, “Do you like steak?” No more avoiding the — yawn — inevitable: Your Weekly Next Food Network Star update, starring Suze’s Lisa Garza. Though what’s to say about last night’s episode, when Garza was nearly done in by the…

Damn, That Was One Expensive Balloon

Jeff Koons Well, looks like Howard and Cindy Rachofsky done got ’em a little extra spending cash, as they finally parted with their beloved Jeff Koons sculpture, “Balloon Flower (Magenta),” for $25,648,698 — or, about $1.5 million more than experts initially guesstimated. No wonder, then, that Christie’s is heralding the…

Human Rain Delay: Part Deux

If this ball went foul, we’d be waiting another three minutes for a pitch. I see your Texas Rangers continued to hover around .500 in my absence. Which is a good, amazing, frustrating thing. Tonight they try (again) to get two games above .500 for the first time in the…

Living Up to Great Expectations

Brian Harkin Matt Kadane, left, and brother Bubba Saturday night at the Granada I see over on DC9 that Pete’s posted quite the rave for Saturday night’s triple-header at the Granada: The Theater Fire, Matt and Bubba Kadane and Centro-matic. To which I’d only add that it was a bit…

Modano, Cuban and Irvin Gather For Charity Game That Looked Like Baseball

Sam Merten Willa you sign these? Mike Modano and the missus in Frisco Saturday, during that celeb charity baseball thing. Temperatures hovering around 100 degrees and the slight chance of rain were likely causes for the lackluster attendance at Saturday night’s Reebok Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game. But it didn’t stop…

Beating the Bushes With Ollie Stone

Among the myriad chuckles from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times piece on the making of W, Oliver Stone’s biopic concerning once and future Dallas resident George W. Bush, was this note: Major League Baseball refused to cooperate with the production. Don’t know how that will effect references to the Texas Rangers,…

So, I Miss Anything?

Back to the grindstone. Ok, so where were we? First, a review of my week-long sabbatical: Dad’s house: Painted. Guadalupe River: Cold. Hootie & The Blowfish: Eh. As for sports, I’m playing catch-up today. The thing that has first struck me is that the Mavs nabbed a nice player with…

Jesus, That Sure Looks Like Shaq

Yesterday, we found the Jesus in a slab of granite stored out near Mesquite. (And, yes, The Jesus in a Slab of Granite is an excellent band name and/or flavor of ice cream.) But we end the week that was with this, courtesy a good Friend who dropped this off…

That District Looks Very Artsy!

A friendly note to the Billingsley Company: If you’re going to create a Dallas Arts District promo to better sell spots in the lovely One Arts Plaza, next time maybe go with some music created by someone educated at Arts Magnet, which is prominently featured in the short. Because, really,…

Dallas, Where It’s AT(&T)

On its Web site moments ago, AT&T posted the news that it’s moving its HQ from San Antonio to Dallas. Why come? “To gain better access to its customers and operations throughout the world,” notes the announcement, “and to the key technology partners, suppliers, innovation and human resources needed as…

About That Deep Ellum Town Hall Meeting: Love It Live!

Breaking news today, just as the mayor’s Deep Ellum Town Hall Meeting is about to get underway at the Sons of Hermann Hall: Merit Drive-based Beck Ventures has done gone and bought up some 10 acres worth of property in Deep Ellum. Which means, what, Deep Ellum’s about to go…

American Teen

After the jump, from Sting Dallas on the Dallas Parkway, a glimpse into the future. –Robert Wilonsky…