Akin Ayodele’s getting into the eatery biz in Plano, partnering with the very rich Yomi Martin. Yomi Martin, co-founder with Nelly of $100-million-dollar urban apparel line Vokal Clothing outta St. Louis, is getting into the restaurant business — in Dallas. And he’s partnering with a Dallas Cowboy and three Dallas…
This isn’t on DallasNews.com yet, but Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal is reporting that: The Braves are on the verge of acquiring Rangers first baseman Mark Teixeira. The deal is done, pending a review of the medical records of the players involved, according to major-league sources. The Braves will receive Teixeira…
Look, Los Angeles Times, we read you. Why don’t you read us? From today’s paper, in a story headlined, “Romancing the source: When journalists become involved with newsmakers, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve written their professional obituaries”: • In Dallas, television reporter Sarah Dodd and Police Chief David Kunkle married…
David Shaw, at left, was recently featured in the HBO documentary Funny Old Guys. There are plenty of famous faces populating this morning’s obituaries: filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, talk-show host Tom Snyder, infamous Houston TV newsman Marvin Zindler. No less notable is David Shaw, who wrote more teleplays for such legendary…
Brian Harkin Because we’ll be damned if this picture, which goes with this item, isn’t the first thing you see all weekend. We’ve already awarded it a Pulitzer Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, the Humanitas Prize and, of course, four Katie Awards. See ya tomorrow, or whenever the city secretary…
One day after Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick pleaded not guilty to federal dogfighting charges, he gets the bad news: Nike’s dumping him, and Reebok’s decided not to sell his No. 7 jersey. And closer to home, Arlington-based Donruss Trading Card Company is yanking Vick’s cards from its 2007-’08 football…
Brian Harkin “My only indulgence, I guess, would be that I eat a lot of frozen yogurt. But it’s non-fat.” While out shopping for a new office chair (speaking of, if you have $900 to spend on a chair, the ones at Design Within Reach feel like you’re sitting on…
There’s not usually a whole lot of crying at comedy clubs — not while people are actually on stage, anyway. I’ve definitely seen — and possessed — some watery eyes of shame after particularly bad sets. But last night, stand-up comedian and Backdoor Comedy Club owner Linda Stogner was on…
Ginger Allen isn’t the only journalist boasting about a dubious journalism prize. On its Web site, USA Radio Networks still lists the nine Katie Awards the station received from 2004 through 2006 — even though the Dallas Press Club, which hosted the contest, now acknowledges that its former president, Elizabeth…
Thanks to Eugene Lockhart, more than 500 kids are off the 1,800-long Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas waiting list. That. Is. Amazing. If you listened to KTCK-AM (1310) last week, you no doubt noticed that several of the station’s shows were broadcasting on and off throughout the week…
More news this morning from KTVT-Channel 11. A day after the newsroom there learned that ace reporter-anchor Sarah Dodd had departed 12 days earlier comes word that Ginger Allen has been named the full-time co-anchor of CBS 11 News This Morning — alongside Scott Sams, lucky girl. Allen, of course,…
Dallas Video Festival guru Bart Weiss stopped by the office this week to talk about the 20th DVF, which gets underway next week and promises a meaty schedule — and I don’t just mean the ’70s porn homage Viva, which screens … um … look, the DVF’s site isn’t exactly…
The sight of Nate Newton, all 340 pounds of him, trying to hide behind a tree would have been funny. If he hadn’t been trying to avoid being spotted and arrested by police. At an illegal dog fight. As Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick prepares for the first of what…
The most memorable sentence from Belo’s second-quarter earnings results, released this morning, is this one: Newspaper Group segment costs and expenses decreased 9.2 percent versus the second quarter of 2006, due in part to the 2006 headcount reductions at The Dallas Morning News and The Press-Enterprise, and lower newsprint and…
Well, Andy Uhler’s piece about Deep Ellum just aired on KUT-FM, and despite Jeff Liles’ earlier concerns, no, it wasn’t a story about how Austin’s so much better than Dallas. Fact is, Uhler was awfully respectful of the area’s musical legacy and its potential; if nothing else, the story serves…
Two days into Dallas Cowboys training camp down the street from the Alamo, and it’s clear that new coach Wade Phillips is folksy and boring and folksy and country and folksy and really, really close to being human NyQuil. Oh, yeah, and, if you pay attention long enough, he’s kind…
Just ran into George Michael over at the Washington Mutual at Knight Street and Lemmon Avenue. I almost didn’t recognize him, considering he looks like a wax approximation of what George Michael is supposed to look like. I was filling out my deposit slip when I heard someone with an…
Say it ain’t so: KTVT-Channel 11’s Sarah Dodd is no longer KTVT-Channel 11’s Sarah Dodd. Unfair Park just received a copy of the memo Channel 11’s president and general manager Steve Mauldin sent to the staff today, and he celebrates Dodd’s myriad achievements at the CBS affiliate without offering a…
Here’s SMU’s new marketing gimmick for the upcoming college football season. Get it? A pony? And an “up” arrow? Pony. Up. Awesome. And who’s behind the whiz-bang promotion? Says SMU’s athletic department on its Mustangs Musings blog: Why a Pony and a drawn arrow? No SMU lettering? The marketing department…
I know — all you really want are links to bootlegged recordings, right? So here’s another with tenuous local ties: Derek And The Dominos recorded live in Cincinnati on November 26, 1970. Sure, Eric Clapton has recorded at the very same famous Dallas address, 508 Park Avenue, where Robert Johnson…
As there was no new Top Chef last night, here instead is some actual food news. Over the weekend, the missus and I noticed a curious sign planted near the intersection of LBJ Freeway and Webb Chapel Road. It read, “Le Cordon Bleu.” You don’t say. How fancy. And in…
Based on the first day of Dallas Cowboys training camp, Tony Romo is ready. Ready to put last year’s disappointing end behind him: “I’m not a holder anymore, thankfully.” Ready to become the undisputed leader of America’s Team: “I really think we can do something special this season. I need…
