Terry Glenn’s leverage is running on empty. It’s preposterous to think the Cowboys will release veteran receiver Terry Glenn. Why? First of all, they need him. Secondly, they have him. As in, over a barrel. Before pondering anything else about Glenn’s trials and tribs during minicamp, remember this: Last year…
A few months back, my pal Bob Musgrave — and that’s Bob Mapplethorpe to you — was giving some dude from Criterion Collection a tour of the local sights and sets from Bottle Rocket, which is only, like I said before, the best movie ever made in Dallas. We knew…
Yesterday, during our weekly staff meeting, the question was raised concerning the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report for 2007, a preliminary version of which was released last week. We wondered if perhaps we’d missed it in The News; all I can find concerning the report’s release is this very general Associated…
Fascinating piece in the new Economist about how some Americans are choosing the neighborhoods to which they’re moving — based on a little something called “political segregation.” Using Bill Bishop’s new book The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart as its jumping-off point, the…
A Friend of Unfair Park, by which I mean The Big Bossman, shot me a missive early this morning in which he alerted me to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s revamped Web site. Seems it’s a big deal now, what with the real-time Flight Tracker and search engine that allows you…
A close-up of Jeff Koons’ “Balloon Flower (Magenta),” from the Christie’s interview with the artist As we noted last month, Howard and Cindy Rachofsky are selling one of their beloved sculptures: Jeff Koons’ “Balloon Flower (Magenta).” Christie’s will handle the sale on June 30, so the Rachofskys can expand their…
Last month, while turning our big bills into singles, we noted that Houston-based Rick’s Cabaret was expanding its presence in the DFW with the purchase of the Platinum Club II on Northwest Highway near Stemmons Freeway. Today, Rick’s has sealed the deal by closing the $7.5-million purchase: $1.5 million “in…
Gone, but absolutely not forgotten. A very curious note this morning, courtesy The Miami Herald. Because in its story about the Seminole Tribe striking a deal to put a Hard Rock Cafe inside the new $1.3-billion Yankee Stadium, along with an eatery called NYY Steak, there was this reference to…
Sure they’ll score tons of points, but are you convinced? The Cowboys are having a mini-camp. Terrell Owens is making headlines. And, a sure sign that football season has indeed arrived in the middle of the June, this morning I got my grubby little hands on Dave Campbell’s 2008 Texas…
“Bushwhacked,” by Jim Schutze, June 5 Methodist Madness I am pleased that Mr. Schutze has written about this very painful issue. I have lived in Dallas most of my life and am filled with shame every time I think about a library being built here to honor a presidency that…
As the electorate’s disgust with its leadership deepens and the general election approaches, Republicans, even in Texas, are suiting up to defend their posts. Face-offs are unfolding in numerous local and statewide contests, but the showdown between Senator John Cornyn and state Representative Lieutenant Colonel Rick Noriega—and the recent seesawing…
Time warped: Man, Buzz really must stop washing down the Ambien with a bottle of cough syrup at night. It’s giving us the weirdest dreams. For example, we mistakenly thought that a major American political party had chosen a young, black, politically ambitious newcomer to run for president on a…
On New Year’s Day, Patricia Said stood at the door of a small house in a Hispanic neighborhood of Lewisville, pleading with her daughter Amina to come home. The girl cried and clung to her boyfriend, Eddie, a college student who lived in the house with his mother and sister…
William Dean Singleton Journalists love to gossip — so much easier than picking up a phone. And word around the anxious Fort Worth Star-Telegram newsroom is that the budget-slashing McClatchy Company is making such deep cuts over there — 130 staffers are losing their jobs, 50 of those from the…
Marc Laureys: a little man with a big appetite for Skittles and meat Yesterday, we told you about Dallas’ first-ever qualifier for the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest and introduced you to homegrown rookie Bryan “The Chazzer” Lipchitz. In his Q&A, Lipchitz said he hopes…
The cover of publisher Little, Brown and Company’s September 2008-March 2009 catalog, which can be perused in its entirety here, features the cover for The Heretic’s Daughter, due in bookstores in, well, September. But you’ll likely hear about it well before then, as the author, Kathleen Kent, is a Dallasite…
Tiger Woods: 3 minor knee surgeries, 14 major championships. With news today that he needs another knee surgery and time to heal a broken leg, Tiger Woods’ U.S. Open victory just became even more miraculous. In conjunction, Dallas golf guru Hank Haney just got jiggy with the “clear” button on…
Having attended a Star Wars convention or two — for the kid, swear — I’m certainly in no position to gig folks gathering for a four-day shindig devoted to series of books (and movies, course). Besides, everything I know about Harry Potter I could fit inside a Golden Snitch, wee!…
Not a scene from DFW’s air traffic control, swear One week ago today, the Government Accountability Office released a report that noted the Federal Aviation Administration’s stepped-up efforts to hire new air traffic controllers, to compensate for “the projected departure of over 15,000 air traffic controllers between 2008 and 2017.”…
Yesterday in Dallas federal court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office unsealed a 71-page, 51-count indictment against 11 people the government claims defrauded banks and mortgage lenders out of millions of dollars. Among those indicted: 55-year-old Eric Rulack Farrington Jr., who, if found guilty, could wind up spending a maximum of 600…
Observer contributing photographer Brian Harkin contributes the photos for USA Today’s stories today on SMU and head football man June Jones, who figures he can get the Mustangs to a BCS bowl within the next five years. (Optimism tastes just like pineapple!) There’s also the piece headlined: “SMU spends big…
Knowing very little about this, save for what I’ve just read on the TXU Energy site, I’m intrigued by the device the Dallas-based electricity provider’s offering beginning today: the TXU Energy iThermostat. Two cool things, at first glance: Says TXU, it will allow you to “control your home’s temperature from…
