On this much, everyone agrees: Steve Fleming was unlike anything the Special Olympics had ever seen. At 6 foot 3 and 240 pounds, the former Marine had an imposing presence. He was also black, and in the 23-year history of the Lewisville Special Olympics delegation, there had been few, if…
This is why I don’t go to High Holy Days services: Shit is dangerous. About an hour ago I talked to an old friend, whose mother had gone to Temple Emanu-El on Hillcrest Road and Northwest Highway for Rosh Hashanah services tonight. And my friend told me one hell of…
I dunno, but this sounds like a pretty good deal: a free movie under the stars, with gratis cocktails provided by a winemaker eager for good press to go along with the good buzz. If you’ve no plans tomorrow night, Arts Fighting Cancer and Castello di Gabbiano Winery are hosting…
So, according to the Census Bureau, Dallas-Fort Worth is kind of like Tony Randall? As part of its ongoing American Community Survey, the U.S. Census Bureau today released social, economic and housing characteristics, as well as demographic and housing estimates, for some of the biggest cities in the country. And…
Get yer iPods ready, because I am using the presence of a rare Mike Nesmith recording to direct your attention to two other boots for which you will surely find a use. Just go here, where you will find, yes, a 1974 in-concert recording made in London featuring the Monkee…
Maurice Locke was a math teacher who, in 1891, decided to open his own law firm in Dallas. Today, that firm goes by the name Locke Liddell & Sapp, which has five offices across the country, including its HQ on Ross Avenue and some fancy digs on 9th Street in…
Terax Energy, an oil and gas production and exploration company based out of One Galleria Tower, is having major troubs with the Security and Exchange Commission, which today suspended trading of the company’s securities. The ban’s expected to last two weeks, at least, during which time the SEC will investigate…
Jeffrey Yarbrough, ex of Club Clearview and Liberty Noodles Every month, Fortune magazine’s Small Business offshoot runs an as-told-to essay called “Owner’s Manual,” in which some small-bizzer offers helpful advice — the good, the bad and the fugly of doing your own thing. In the upcoming October issue, that chore…
The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts isn’t scheduled to open for another two years — which isn’t stopping folks there from announcing in two weeks what they’re calling a “special pre-opening series.” Says a media tease, the September 25 public event at the Meyerson Symphony Center will announce “a…
If I were planning on attending the Austin City Limits Music Festival down in Austin, I might care that the White Stripes yesterday canceled their Saturday performance, citing “medical reasons.” But my disappointment would be just as quickly dispatched by my elation that a Dallas girl’s been added to the…
Dave Neumann: What, him worry about the Trinity River Project? Never. Since we don’t like to say, “Told ya so,” we’ll leave it to a Friend of Unfair Park who’s earned the right this morning: “Can I just say…….told ya so, told ya so, told ya so!!!!!” Feel better? Because,…
Just give us the highlights, Scott. There won’t be a red carpet per se, but if you want to ooooh and ahhhh at the most swank of Dallas sports dignitaries all dressed up with somewhere to go, Tuesday is the night and The Fairmont Hotel is the place. It’s the…
Apparently, Cubes ain’t content just dancing with the stars. Tomorrow, our favorite billionaire will announce a new show on his cable network called HDNet Fights, which isn’t much different than the Friday Night Fights show the network has already been airing. The main difference is that instead of relying on…
Dallas resident Brandon Friedman, still fighting the good fight In July, I wrote here about Brandon Friedman, a former infantry officer in the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan and Iraq who now serves as a senior advisor to VoteVets.org. I am reading the Dallas resident’s new book, The…
This is why I will be watching the October 8 Dallas Cowboys-Buffalo Bills game with the TV sound turned down and the radio broadcast cranked up. ESPN and some record labels are hopping into bed together to pimp their product — specifically, Monday Night Football and such acts as the…
I’ve heard of people who can afford to shop at places other than Forever 21. I know they exist, somewhere. And sometimes I feel like I can even see one or two of them, especially after I’ve thrown my well whiskey all over their blouses in a fit of jealous…
In general, I don’t really care about kids. I don’t have them and don’t plan on having them any time soon. But I do believe that kids should be allowed to, oh, I don’t know, breathe. I think they deserve that much. Last week, Taylor “Tay” Candelario, a 12-year-old asthma…
New York Giants safety and Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens are, like, what? Twelve-year-olds? Millionaire middle-schoolers? Because in case you haven’t been following this “story,” seems the two men are fighting over a finger — as in, did T.O. shoot Wilson the bird during Sunday night’s game at Texas…
So, look. I know it seems like we’ve posted plenty about Neiman Marcus’ 100th — too much, no doubt, not gonna argue. But something about yesterday’s posting, concerning Neimans’ YouTube docs, is driving me a bit nuts — chiefly, the fact that the docs barely mention the late Stanley Marcus,…
A scene from Stuart Gordon’s Stuck, based on that infamous 2001 incident in Fort Worth. No doubt you recall Chante Mallard, the Fort Worth nurse who, in October 2001, struck a 37-year-old man named Gregory Glenn Biggs with her 1997 Chevy Cavalier, lodging him in her windshield; she allowed him…
Do you like to dress up in costume and dance around for kids? If so, and you’re not currently enrolled in an educational institution at which the top grade level is “12” or lower, you may be creepy. (Birthday party clowns are no exception, as anyone who, like me, is…
Some of you, when told about a locally produced Web comic called The Green Reefer, billed by its creator as Cheech and Chong meet The Tick, will roll your eyes and say, “Stupid stoner-boy humor.” You people are called adults. Others have a finer appreciation of the artistry behind the…
