Did you wake up this morning and go, “Man, enough about convention center hotels and Barack Obama and Trinity Parkway cost overruns — how the hell are Tony and Jessica doing, anyway?” ‘Cause if you did, it’s your lucky day: They’re getting engaged. OK, fine. So that’s stretching it by…
Hear that? It’s audible. But so quiet and muffled, almost tranquil. Is it the refurbished Mercantile Tower clock, silently ticking high above downtown? Two moths texting in a cotton field? Charlie Chaplin espousing the virtues of Roger Clemens? Nope. Just another winter hot streak by your Dallas Stars. Admittedly stripped…
Priorities, priorities: Man, Buzz needs a vacation. Here we are about to tell you that the Collin County District Attorney’s Office is preparing to start requiring all persons accepting felony plea bargains to provide DNA samples, and our lefty knee isn’t even twitching, let alone jerking. We must be tired…
Die, peyote, die! I would like to express my support for the ranchers to continue to fence their land and destroy the peyote plant (“The Flesh of God,” by Russell Cobb, February 14). The main threat to true Native American culture is this evil thing. The only people that should…
That stench—horribly foul, like excrement sprinkled with cheap, rosy perfume. It had been 24 years since she smelled it last, but the odor was unmistakable. Someone had spread powder all over Joy’s front porch. That’s where the odor was coming from. She refused to touch it. Rain would wash the…
Contrary to what the national media had you believing, the Democratic presidential primary did not end on Super Tuesday, and Texas is now in play. You figure it’s time to get involved. After all, you’re a Dallas County Democrat. For the first time in a generation, you are relevant. It’s…
Brian Harkin Twenty bucks this photo winds up on this Web site before the end of the week. A few end-of-the-day options for your viewing pleasure (or not, if you happen to be killing time till the Huckabee-in in Plano): You can view Noah Bailey and art director Alex Flores’…
Noah W. Bailey Noah snapped this photo at 9 this morning — about the time he’d usually be waking up. For most of my 27 years, Democratic rallies in Dallas have been — how should I put this? — rather intimate affairs, with maybe a few hundred people even at…
Brian Harkin Barack Obama, speaking today at Reunion Arena Anyone who questions Barack Obama’s mounting momentum should have been at Reunion Arena this afternoon. Thousands of people waited in line for hours, only to be turned away. And when the fire marshals cut off the line and denied them entrance…
Ngan Wedemeier/University of Texas at Dallas The former First Daughter spoke this morning to a sweaty Student Union full of hundreds of University of Texas at Dallas students. Chelsea Clinton touring the area today on a college-campus trek aimed at getting The Kids to vote for her mother — you…
With the initial sticker shock having subsided and a waiting list already topping 10,000, the Dallas Cowboys are openly happy with ticket sales at their new $1-billion palace in Arlington. But, privately, they’re even more thrilled at the demand for exclusive, elitist suites. A team source tells me this morning…
Alexander Flores Some of the folks waiting in line for the Obama rally this morning A few notes from the Obama rally, courtesy Noah Bailey. At 11:53 a.m, speakers (among them Friendship-West Baptist Church’s Frederick Haynes) were warming up the crowd, but Reunion’s not full — not by a long…
Over the last couple of months, word has dribbled out that former Dallas Housing Authority president and CEO Alphonso Jackson, now the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary, is under heavy government scrutiny for allegedly bad behavior in New Orleans, Philadelphia and even the Virgin Islands. Which, reports The…
Avery Johnson, picking up his Coach of the Year award two years ago Evan Smith, the camera-shy editor of Texas Monthly, interviewed Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson for the mag’s forthcoming April issue. Evan kindly provides a sneak peak over at the Monthly’s Delay of Game sports blog, with…
UTA prof and activist José Angel Gutiérrez, no fan of the Clintons Wonks, reporters and pundits have spent the past week speculating about the role Texas’ Latinos will play in the March 4 Democratic primary, and while most signs point to strong Hispanic support for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama’s camp…
For those who actually have to work today and can’t attend Barack Obama or Chelsea Clinton’s appearances around town today, fret not: We’ll have folks at both Clinton’s speech this morning at the University of Texas at Dallas and Obama’s Reunion Arena rally. They’ll file throughout the course of the…
I know the town of Lavon well enough — used to drive through it nearly every day on my way to and from our old downtown Dallas office, way back when I flirted with the idea of bein’ a Collin County country boy, like that was gonna work out. Driving…
Bet you didn’t know Ray Hunt owned a bunch of land down in South Texas — like, oh, 6,000 acres known as the Sharyland Plantation development, where Hunt’s touting “gentle gulf breezes … swaying palm fronds … the delicate scent of hibiscus and bougainvillea flowers.” It’s a massive multi-use development:…
This old Jason Kidd poster can be yours right now, for the low, low price of $15. I’m at American Airlines Center witnessing something I thought I’d never see — no, not this guy in concert, but, of course, Jason Kidd back in a Dallas Mavericks tank top. After the…
Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez, more than willing to spend between $40 and $100 million of your money As we noted yesterday, Angela Hunt and Mitchell Rasansky are the only council members fighting for more information before the city uses taxpayers’ money for a proposed convention center hotel. During this…
So, Jason Kidd’s a Dallas Maverick for the second time. Richie’s got more forthcoming in a sec about today’s ’bout-time blockbuster trade. But, for grins, let’s go stumbling down Amnesia Lane, to the day Jason Kidd became a Mav for the very first time. –Robert Wilonsky…
HillaryClinton.com No way we were going to let NBC’s David Shuster near this cutline. Bill Clinton’s stumping for his missus throughout the state this week: He’s in Galveston, Beaumont, Victoria, and Houston tomorrow, then in Midland/Odessa, Victoria and Houston again on Thursday. Which makes it twice in two weeks the…
