It’s been a week since Mitchell Rasansky was fitted for a muzzle. Turns out, though, he’s not the only one unhappy with his being shut out from the discussions surrounding the proposed convention center hotel. Enter Anne Raymond, who has worked for the Crow family (owners of the Hilton Anatole…
Marjane Satrapi On Friday night, I attended a lecture delivered by Marjane Satrapi, author of the comic books Persepolis and co-director of the 2007 Oscar-nominated film of the same name — the English-language version of which opened locally on Friday as well. Satrapi, who spoke at University of Texas at…
Bible Girl was all ready to wax indignant about the prospect of children being ripped from their mothers, and then I read about the bed. Which is to say: the bed in the temple in Eldorado, where dirty old men got their freak on with underage virgins. Yep, right about…
Following Herb Kelleher’s stand-up act in front of rhe House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure a few days back, The Onion today serves up a “news” story that’s so not funny I initially thought it was a news story: “Southwest Airlines Now Taking Passengers To Destinations By Shuttle Bus.” And,…
Dallas Stars OK, sure, we believe, already. For now, anyway. After spending their first and only day over .500 in the Ron Washington Era, the Texas Rangers got swept at home by the Toronto Blue Jays over the weekend. Even more humiliating, they found a pitcher worse than Chan Ho…
View Larger Map Reports GlobeSt.com this morning, a high-rise abutting Stevens Park Golf Course has a new owner, a Boston-based investment group, which plans on turning Wedgewood Tower into the far sexier-monikered Indigo. From the sound of it, the mixed-use development will be a little bit of everything — including…
At first he wanted to be a Dallas Cowboy; then, the Dallas Cowboys kinda-sorta wanted him to be a Dallas Cowboy. Then it seemed like the prospect of Adam “Pacman” Jones becoming a Dallas Cowboy had diminished and disappeared altogether. Only, comes word out of Tennessee today that, well, if…
Mesa Energy main man T. Boone Pickens sits down today with the U.K. Guardian to discuss his investment in 500 Panhandle wind turbines, which cost, oh, ’bout $2 million each. And even the Dallas billionaire, who’s about to turn 80, is mighty impressed with his $10 billion investment in the…
The University of Texas at Dallas provides a sneak peek at “False Space and Time of the Apartment,” the first exhibit to occupy Centraltrak — the school’s gallery and artists’ residency opening Saturday in the spot formerly occupied by the Fair Park Post Office. The obvious draw at first glance?…
Dr. Kern Wildenthal, president of UT Southwestern A lengthy, scolding essay in the subscription-only Chronicle of Philanthropy this morning reads like a mash-up: It touches on KTVT-Channel 11’s canning Robert Riggs earlier this month; UT Southwestern Medical Center’s list of 6,400 VIPs the hospital swears don’t receive special treatment; and…
As Schutze pointed out earlier, Trey Garrison posted his thoughts on FrontBurner about a zoning case involving City Plan Commissioner Neil Emmons — something about him being a Blue Meanie or some such. I’ve been following this issue as well and came up with a different perspective, mostly because I…
Luisa Ravelo-Guedes, at left, and her husband Carlos, in the middle, at today’s anti-Hugo Chavez protest downtown A few dozen of Hugo Chavez’s compatriots gathered in Ferris Plaza today to protest the Venezuelan leader. The rally was part of an international day of demonstrations organized through Facebook, and while there…
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport All the seats in Terminal C at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport were empty late Thursday afternoon. At each gate, 20 to 30 people, most loaded down with duffel bags or with small suitcases at their feet, stood bewildered in queue. I was scurrying to gate C20…
From Lyric Stage’s production of Carousel last fall Could it be? Yes, it could. Something’s coming, something good. To Lyric Stage, that is. Big musicals on a small budget are what the 16-year-old musical theater company in Irving does best. But its 2008-’09 season lineup, announced today by company founder-producer…
I’ve only seen the late Larry Buchanan’s 1964 film Naughty Dallas once, back when Jason Cohen had it amongst the stacks at Forbidden Video in Expo Park. To the best of my knowledge, it’s never surfaced on the YouTube — till today, that is, courtesy our pals at Cringemedia. Alas,…
It’s a great day to be a Dallas sports fan. And an even better day to be Randy Galloway. In light of Thursday night’s cumulative success, the media icon can do lots of talkin’ as he celebrates his 5,000th radio show on ESPN 103.3 FM starting at 2. He can…
I know you already knew this, but a reminder: The Flower Power Beauty Pageant’s taking place tomorrow in Plano, and it promises to be a glorious occasion filled with little miss sunshines from all over. There’s even a contestant coming all the way from England — and she’s bringing with…
One Robbie Van Winkle, who used to sell my baby bro beer out of the trunk of his car on Forest Lane on Friday nights, is back in the news — though not in a good way. Seems Vanilla Ice — oh, sweet baby Jesus, how it hurts to type…
Last summer, we mentioned that University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor John D. Kasarda was predicting the rise of “the airport city” — or, ya know, The Aerotropolis. Chief among those new central business districts is, of course, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and GlobeSt.com today fresh news of…
Liverpool FC chief executive Rick Parry One day after Tom Hicks demanded the resignation of Rick Parry — chief executive of Liverpool FC, which Hicks co-owns with frienemy George Gillett Jr. — the English newspapers have pretty much had it with the Ugly Dallasite. Says The Sun in one piece…
Last night, Laura Bush spoke at the Robert S. Folsom Leadership Award Dinner at the Hilton Anatole; dunno where our invite went. From the looks of the transcript, provided by the White House Press Office, she gets a lot of laughs. And applause. It is so great to be here,…
The New York Times this morning recounts the tale of seven Navy recruits stranded at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, courtesy American Airlines’ copious cancellations this week. Among their lot: 25-year-old Karin Peyregne, a mother of two from Mobile trying to get to the Great Lakes Naval Station in Illinois, who…
