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Barrel-chested, with shoulder-length white hair that very nearly falls into the category of “flowing locks,” Paul Riddell looks like an off-duty superhero standing outside his North Dallas condo. Behind him, a greenhouse takes up his entire patio save for a small stone walkway. With the insulated structure behind him, he…

Scrolling through Campus Squeeze’s list of “The 20 Ugliest Colleges in the USA” — which was sent to me by a former classmate — I figured it would have some Texas offenders. Yup, yup, sure ’nuff: Perched in the 12 spot is the University of Texas at Dallas. Poor thing…

Really, too bad Girl on Top’s on her way outta here. I so had the perfect assignment for her too, as it combines her two favorite pastimes: trying out for reality shows and hanging out at NorthPark Center. As the writers’ strike continues, here and in Hollywood, ABC will be…

Big medical news out of Dallas, courtesy a University of North Texas professor and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Turns out, from 1979 to 2001 some 2,600 men and women, whose average age was 64, took part in something called the Aerobic Center Longitudinal Study at the Cooper…

Yes, you will be able to get your picture taken on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise. And, please, don’t pretend like you’re not excited. Two space-related items, only one of which is actual “news.” As in: Leland Melvin could have been a Dallas Cowboy. The former University of Richmond…

The Criswells sure did collect a lot of cra … I mean, stuff. Wanna own a piece of W.A. Criswell? Or his wife Betty? Then clear your calendar and fill up your checking account, because Janelle Stone is holding an estate sale from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. Friday and…

All photos courtesy Ida Mae Astute/ABC At right are Phillip Jones, head of the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Brad Oldham on the set of GMA this morning. The guy on the left is Sam Champion, which is so clearly a fake name. A couple of days back we…

Noticed on our music blog yesterday that the Old 97’s have a new Christmas song available for purchase on the iTunes. As I am currently saving all my shekels for the Hanukkah — and, admittedly, a little afraid of any song in which Rhett Miller sings the word “suckled” right…

WRR-FM (101.1) During the opening of Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, Dorothy Kosinski appeared on WRR-FM (101.1) to discuss assembling the exhibition. Dallas Museum of Art senior curator Dorothy Kosinski has a new job: She’s now the director of the 86-year-old Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the nation’s first museum of…

Robert Rummel-Hudson with daughter Schuyler Three days ago, the Kirkus Review ran a rave of a book called Schuyler’s Monster: A Father’s Journey with His Wordless Daughter, which is due out mid-February from St. Martin’s Press. In its subscriber-only review, the publishing-biz trade said of the book’s author, he relates…

Dallas-based documentary filmmaker Mark Birnbaum is, at this very moment, in Wharton, Texas, prepping for a documentary about hometown boy Horton Foote — and we’ll have more about that project on Unfair Park tomorrow, on the first day of shooting. But first we wanted to preview the trailer for Birnbaum…

This is a move sure to please these folks: Lehigh Cement Company — a self-proclaimed “leading manufacturer of cement and construction materials in North America” that’s currently based in Allentown, Pennsylvania — is moving its corporate headquarters to Dallas early next year. Reports The Morning Call, “The relocation will potentially…

William Sydney Pittman, the man behind the Knights of Pythias Temple So, Mike Pumphrey from the city’s Development Services Department just called back to say he and Mark Doty, conservation district planner with the city, and Preservation Dallas executive director Katherine Seale will indeed tour the Knights of Pythias Temple,…

This is but one of Richard Ross’ pieces available for purchase. We’re thinking of buying ’em all, so act fast. Yes, yes — we know, Andrea left out some folks in her holiday-art suggestion round-up blog roll call howdee-do. Like Richard Ross, the Brutal Juicer who, this summer, had a…

This is a nice photo of the Knights of Pythias. Have you seen the more current pictures? Over on the Save Deep Ellum Web site last week, there was mention of one of my favorite Dallas landmarks — the Knights of Pythias Temple on Elm Street, about which we’ve written,…

Everybody should own at least one Tony Bones original. Buying a beautiful piece of art is an intensely personal endeavor when buying for oneself, and an intensely freaky endeavor when buying for someone else. But maybe you’ve got a loved one who is mostly tasteful human being except for their…

Morgan Freeman is still listed on Earth Biofuels’ board of directors. Hard to believe Earth Biofuels is still hiring — thought the Knox Street-based company was all but a distant memory at this late date. Alas, today comes news that the makers of BioWillie® done gone and appointed Brazilian Miguel…

Yesterday, the anonymously penned blog Don’t Tell the Donor featured an item headlined “The difference between philanthropy and fundraising,” in which the writer, who presumably has experience in the nonprofit fund-raising world, essentially argued it’s better to have 2,000 donors writing $50 checks than one donor contributing $100,000. Because, “low…