It’s been a while since we peeked in on the Stoneleigh Hotel blog, which has been keeping tabs on the historic hotel’s $30-million makeover due to debut in a few weeks. But a Friend of Unfair Park suggested we mention the latest entry: a Q&A with project manager Anne Sasso…
CNN’s Rick Sanchez Irving, you just knew this was bound to happen, right? First Farmers Branch got the national spotlight in May, when the Today show brought its cameras to capture the fight over Ordinance 2903. Now, CNN’s in Irving — specifically, anchor-reporter Rick Sanchez, who tonight will broadcast live…
Takudzwa Ngwenya, just your average radiology student at Brookhaven College Remember the name Takudzwa Ngwenya. Fine, try to pronounce it, then remember it, because the Zimbabwe-born Dallasite is about to become the biggest thing in rugby. It’s more or less because of the one play below, which comes from the…
Casey Thompson, bottom right, wasn’t Top Chef, but that doesn’t mean she can’t make some dough. Yeah, sorry ’bout this. We also thought we were done with Top Chef, but last night we caught the third-season reunion episode — where, turned out, Shinsei’s Casey Thompson was awarded the show’s “fan…
Our fair Ambreal got the cut this week … the haircut, that is. On the beloved makeover episode of America’s Next Top Model, some girls got ye ol’ bottle blonde, some got extensions, and one girl got flat-out buzzed. Like, with barber’s clippers. Dallas gal Ambreal, however, got her short…
Say this much for Latika Monique Breed and Anicia Vonna Oretada: They worked very, very hard at being alleged criminals. The two Dallas women were arrested last week in Bossier City, Louisiana, where police say they’re suspected of being part of a Dallas-based organized retail theft ring that targeted stores…
Ol’ man river: In our effort to decide how to vote on the Trinity toll road initiative, Buzz spent a fun day last week looking through databases we didn’t really understand and talking to unhelpful people at the EPA and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality seeking an answer to a…
On top of sales and profits, business owners in certain industries may soon face additional, more sleuthlike priorities—digging up government records, investigating employees’ identification paper trails and even firing large numbers of workers. Since the Department of Homeland Security last month announced new immigration enforcement rules that would require employers…
Dallas writer Joyce King, who recently joined the board of the Innocence Project of Texas, is spearheading the organization’s month-long campaign called “Justice Delayed” to raise $1 million to benefit the DNA exonerees in the state of Texas and to fund research on other cases. Hate Crime: The Story of…
Rock ‘n’ roll is dead. It was crushed under the leathery $400 heel of a record exec as he blithely made his way out of a Los Angeles restaurant. Or, ravaged by cancer, it succumbed with Joey Ramone at 3:21 a.m. on April 15, 2001. Or it blew its own…
I am 10 or 20 or 50 feet underground. It’s hard to tell exactly how far I’ve just climbed down. Once you’ve slithered into a dark, dirty hole with only a headlamp to light the way, everything starts looking more or less the same. My knees are bruised, and my…
Mr. Crunchy Con Speaks Not a flip-flopper: Thanks, I guess, for naming me “Best Angst-Ridden Republican” (Best of Dallas, September 27). Given the woebegone state of the GOP this year, I know I faced quite a bit of competition from my political tribe. But it should be pointed out that…
With minimal upgrades and a fragile psyche, this season could stroll off in any ol’ direction A. June 19, 2008—Inspired by a whiff of the trophy in ’06 and fueled by a colossal collapse after a record-setting regular season in ’07, the Dallas Mavericks tonight ultimately persevered and won their…
© Michael Goldfarb/MSF Seriously, you do not know enough about Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières just from watching ER or listening to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Actor Goran Visnjic undoubtedly offered a commanding (and, yes, really attractive) look at the organization and those involved during the show’s 10th season,…
Mark Cuban took a break from dodging another bullet on Dancing With the Stars to speak with SI.com’s Luke O’Brien about the Benefactor’s new mixed martial show on HDNet. O’Brien, a former columnist for the Village Voice Media chain, wrote a great piece on MMA earlier this year for Washington…
Norm Hitzges, probably the second most famous grad from Canisius College So, we just gave KTCK-AM (1310) 10 a.m.-noon host Norm Hitzges one our prestigious, delicious and lightly smoked Best of Dallas® awards — “Best Local Sports Radio Show,” natch. Which means nothing, no doubt, compared to the latest honor…
Schutze, it looks like we’ve found the people behind the Trinity River toll road. This is the Citizens Council, right? I don’t see Steve Blow, though. Maybe one of these kind folks can point him out. –Robert Wilonsky…
Gregg Eklin was one of the only guys on the Rangers’ payroll who did his job well. So of course Tom Hicks had him canned. Terrell Owens’ humility coach. Marion Jones’ image consultant. Lindsay Lohan’s liver. And at the top of the list of the world’s most difficult jobs: Senior…
The Washington Post reports this morning that the NCAA’s “death penalty” is dead — thanks to what it did to SMU, which hasn’t been to a bowl game since 1984 and is a woeful 1-4 this season. Coach Phil Bennett, who is 17-42 during his six years on the Hilltop,…
James Chippendale James Chippendale is the president of Dallas-based CSI Entertainment Insurance, which provides liability coverage for concerts — among them, Pearl Jam, the Dixie Chicks, the Austin City Limits Music Festival and Lollapalooza. CSI’s offices are on Taylor Street in Deep Ellum, but you won’t find him there in…
Writer-director Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton is easily one of the better films of the year — a taut, smart legal thriller starring George Clooney as a broken “fixer” at a law firm and Tilda Swinton as the in-house counsel for the agrochemical company that manufactures lethal fertilizer. Swinton’s character, Karen…
We’ve been told to run more pictures of Zac Efron, Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers to attract that hard-to-lure ‘tweener audience, so here goes nothing. When High School Musical 2 debuted in August on the Disney Channel, it shattered all kinds of cable-TV ratings records: Some 17.2 million people…
