Ronald “Buffalo” Chambers, as he looked 32 years ago Dallas Observer editor Mark Donald and I have written about Ronald Chambers on and off for years — Mark, for D, way back in the spring of 1986. (Ancient Observer stories, alas, have not been been so rigorously archived.) For 32…
In February, Time ran a nice bit of advertorial for the Knox Street-based Current Energy store, where it’s a bright, fancy shade of green. Now, the joint’s set to get a little more national pub tomorrow, when it’s featured on the Sundance Channel at 8 p.m. locally during an episode…
An addendum to the downsizing at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: According to several sources, 17 staffers in the newsroom were let go this morning, among them managing editor Gary Hardee, science writer Carolyn Poirot, arts writer Todd Camp, Lifestyles columnist Mary Rogers, travel editor Judy Wiley and three librarians. Writers…
See here, I been to a race or two. I’ve been to the Daytona 500, attended several races out at Texas Motor Speedway and even penned one of my first Dallas Observer columns about racin’. It’s always been a little fascinating/unsettling seeing all the white faces, red necks and confederate…
Wow, we were way off: Woodbine Development ain’t getting the convention center hotel after all. Matter of fact, it finished dead last among the three contenders being considered today by the city council’s Economic Development Committee during its closed-door executive session. The top choice: Matthews Southwest, which, as we noted…
“The Return of Ross Perot?” asks a The New York Times blog post this morning — which means, awesome, it’s time to whip out my ironically purchased Ross for Boss T-shirt that’s held up remarkably well 16 years later. The Times site actually links to David Broder’s Washington Post column…
As mentioned below, The McClatchy Company this morning announced it’s laying off and buying out some 1,400 employees amongst the dozens of papers that make up the newspaper chain. Moments ago, the McClatchy-owned Fort Worth Star-Telegram announced precisely how many of its employees will be excised during the coming days:…
Shalom, Y’all Good thing I didn’t let my subscription to Jewish Living lapse (got it for my bar mitzvah, along with a bunch of savings bonds and fountain pens). Because now I know that North Dallas is No. 5 on the list of the Chosen People’s top 10 neighborhoods in…
The U.S. Open trophy will reside in Dallas. Sorta. Since Father’s Day is all about eating and sleeping and not mowing the lawn and eating some more – oh yeah, and watching golf – doesn’t it officially spill over into today? Thought so. No one in sports delivers more dramatic…
Ray Garfield As mentioned earlier this morning, the city council’s Economic Development Committee will name the convention center hotel developer today — behind closed doors in executive session, the Dallas way. And, yes, odds are it’ll be Woodbine Development emerging from those closed doors as Your Convention Center Hotel Developer,…
This morning, The McClatchy Company announced it is going to “reduce its workforce by about 10 percent,” or 1,400 jobs, ASAP — and, yes, that will likely include some cuts at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where several Friends tell us the mood is one of apropos doom and gloom. It’ll…
Snapshots from an abandoned downtown: water damage in an unspecified hotel and exposed wiring. Another interesting item on the council’s Economic Development Committee agenda: discussion of a pilot program aimed at dealing with the vacant and abandoned buildings downtown, 10 of which were inspected from June 5-13 in preparation of…
Daniel Rodrigue Look, we all know Ray Hunt’s 33-percent chance is a little better than most folks’ 33-percent chance. Good God, just look at all the things on the city council’s Economic Development Committee agenda for this morning — so many items, matter of fact, that there’s even a caveat:…
Daniel Rodrigue Get thee behind me, lucky 13: Oliver Peck gets back to bidness Friday and Saturday as he sets the world record for most tats delivered during a 24-hour period. Oliver Peck set the world record early yesterday morning for inking the most tats in a 24-hour period –…
Noah W. Bailey Gallager has actually turned into a sledgehammer, turns out. Ten minutes into last night’s sold-out (!) Gallagher set at the Granada Theater, I wondered if I’d somehow ended up at Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie for the Friday-night performance by another legendary comedian: Bill O’Reilly. The night…
Lookin’ good, Don Hill! One by one, the 14 folks indicted in the feds’ City Hall corruption case are pleading guilty; thus far, it’s been Allen McGill and Andrea Spencer. So, how long till Darren Reagan sings about his involvement in the low-income housing scheme? After all, he’ll have plenty…
Hell of a thing. This morning, before posting the T. Boone Pickens item below, I came across an interview the Dallas billionaire gave to Charlie Rose last year. Turns out, on that same episode was Meet the Press host and NBC’s Washington bureau chief Tim Russert — who died today…
The press release from the Texas Attorney General’s Office that just arrived in my in-box had a familiar ring to it. (It’s after the jump.) A Texas sheriff is accused of accepting bribes from Mid-America Services Inc. in exchange for awarding the Dallas company food and commissary contracts at the…
Dallas lawyer Laura Shockley told a Utah newspaper she is considering filing a civil rights lawsuit against the state of Texas stemming from the April 3 raid of the polygamist compound in Eldorado. A spokesman for the polygamist group, Salt Lake City attorney Rod Parker, also said he is considering…
This LEGO has proved a rather remarkable educational tool in at least one household I know of. Something to keep an ear out for today: In a couple of hours, National Public Radio will post to its Web site the audio for a story titled “Using Video Games to Get…
Whilst visiting Business Week for the item below, I came across a list on which Dallas scored pretty high — and does so pretty often. The mag asks the question: “Are You in the Best City for Your Job?,” by which it means, quite simply, are you getting the most…
T. Boone’s not going to give them oil prices. He’ll give them quail prices. T. Boone Pickens gets the Daniel Plainview treatment on the cover of this week’s Business Week, in a story detailing the Dallas billionaire’s quest to bring water from the Panhandle to Dallas at the cost of…
