KTVT-Channel 11 John Copeland, CEO of Copeland Ministries Way back in November, Sen. Charles Grassley — Iowa Republican and the party’s top man on the Senate Finance Committee — told six televangelists to turn over their financials, lest they suffer the wrath of Congress, which wants to make sure these…
Like our apologies, our popcorn is ready. Terrell Owens, gulp, team leader? Despite his flabbergasting drops and simmering potential for volatile locker-room destruction, T.O. has proven he deserves his new four-year, $34 million contract. And you know what else? He deserves our apologies. I’ll start with mine…
The Dallas City Council’s decision to buy land in front of the convention center for $42 million removed the first major obstacle in building a publicly owned hotel. The city now has plenty of room to build Mayor Leppert’s hotel, along with meeting space and other development. Council members Angela…
Sad that the proud ol’ joint is being saddled with Division II football. Seems every week we’re learning what $1.1 billion (with a B) will buy. A Super Bowl here. An NBA All-Star Game there. Throw in some classic college football rivalries and a Big 12 Conference Championship Game. But…
Among the group of baseball jerseys in my closet — behind Pudge’s and A-Rod’s Rangers ones — there’s an old, unworn Tampa Bay Devil Rays jersey with no name or number on it. When Tampa took Josh Hamilton with the No. 1 overall pick in 1999, I bought the jersey…
Every time I drive by Taylor Publishing’s corporate offices and printing facility on Mockingbird, I’m reminded of the countless trips I had to make there when I was editing the Thomas Jefferson High School yearbook, The Document, in the mid-1980s. Some kids at a Pennsylvania high school will never have…
Is it just me, or does it feel like Mike Modano is about to take his Cup and go home? So, Stars fans, do you feel any better knowing that your team put up a better fight against the Detroit Red Wings in the West finals than the Pittsburgh Penguins…
Saw this morning where an American Airlines flight, from Dallas/Fort Worth International on its way to Fort Myers, Florida, made an emergency landing last night back at DFW “after a window pane broke and was ingested into one of the plane’s engines.” Which sounds bad. Of course, the windows are…
We extend this a.m. a hearty mazel tov in the direction of one Christopher Kelly, best known ’round these parts as the film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a Texas Monthly columnist. Only, this morning we note the huzzahs Chris received over the weekend from the Los Angeles-based…
Local, state and federal law enforcement officials are offering a reward of up to $90,000 for “information leading to the arrest and conviction of The Scarecrow Bandit[s],” suspected of being responsible for at least 21 violent bank robberies in North Texas since last July. They might get to save their…
Lisa Garza, awaiting her fate at the end of the first episode Having been called far worse than baffling, “rigid” and “overpowering” — which, come to think of it, sound more like compliments — I’ll ease up on Suze’s Lisa Garza, whose rambling dissertation on her “three C’s” almost got…
Now the greatest kicker in all of Canada. We know kickers are a weird breed. Not in an immoral FLDS compound kinda way. But just a little off, ya know? Watch them in their natural habitat – isolated from real football – and you come away scratching your head as…
Been waiting for days to read the city’s Reunion Arena update, which will be among the topics discussed this morning during a meeting of the city council’s Economic Development Committee. Turns out, as expected, it’s still a substantial money-loser:”Operating losses continue: $900k – $1.6m,” reads the 17-page report made available…
This morning, while reading The New York Times Sunday Book Review’s summer-lit round-up, I came across this glowing mention of the perfect present for a few of our more outraged in-flight Friends, as well as spokesbot Tim Wagner: Dear American Airlines: A Novel, described in The Times as the “fine…
The city council had plenty on its plate Wednesday, including replacing Lynn Flint Shaw on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board and a vote on the zoning for the St. Regis Hotel. Also on the agenda: a controversial ordinance to tow uninsured vehicles, which led to more than two hours…
Just two guitarslingers from Dallas way: Jimmie Vaughan and Steve Miller On Monday on Fong Songs there appeared the damnedest thing I’ve ever heard: a Steve Miller Band demo titled “Take the Joker and Run,” which must be the earliest mash-up in recorded history, as it’s more or less the…
The news out of Mexico this week was filled with stories of dwindling remittances — which is to say, money sent by immigrants in the U.S. to relatives in their home countries. Mexican immigrants living in Texas, who comprise a large part of Dallas’ Latino population, are sending less money…
No doubt you’ve seen the picture of President Bush chest-bumping an Air Force Academy graduate snapped during Wednesday’s ceremony in Colorado. Well, in case you missed it, the grad’s name is Theodore Shiveley, and he hails from Richardson. And it’s that local connection that brings us to this clip from…
To the list of locally connected pornography, we can add an oldie but oh-goodie heretofore unknown ’round these parts, as least: 1981’s Dallas School Girls, un film de John Christopher. Truth is, we knew nothing of this tale till today, whilst browsing the eBay for rarities worth our hard-earned; the…
The museum’s gonna need a new logo. Here’s a pretty awesome way to reach your “$100 million milestone”: Get Margot and H. Ross Perot’s kids to give you, like, $50 million. Which is precisely what was announced today: Katherine Perot, Carolyn Perot Rathjen, Suzanne Perot McGee, Nancy Perot Mulford and…
In other local sports-ticket news … One of my oldest friends is plenty pissed at the Dallas Cowboys — much like, oh, Terry Glenn, maybe? This morning, he discovered that after 37 years of sitting at the 50-yard line at Texas Stadium — where his family bought bonds in the…
Courtesy I.B.M. Sure, like you need a chart to tell you how much you hate driving these days. In a survey released this a.m., I.B.M. ranks 10 cities’ “Commuter Pain.” And Dallas has plenty of it. As in: We’re among the top cities in the U.S. and A. in which…
