My shameless procrastinating ways have caught up to me at last. When I went into the Old Town Borders Books & Music a few weeks ago to reserve my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I was told I could do so, but with no guarantee that I’d…
Bravo Abacus’ Tré Wilcox was more than a little happy at winning the first Elimination Challenge on this season’s Top Chef. Dang, dang, dang. I knew I should have acted quicker. But, turns out, tomorrow’s cooking class at the Dallas Farmers Market is all sold out. Why, well, that’s no…
Mary Frank New construction like this home in Midway Hollow has put the neighborhood on Preservation Dallas’ Most Endangered list. We’ve been hearing for weeks that Preservation Dallas has finally chosen a replacement for former executive director Dwayne Jones, who left for the Galveston Historical Foundation late last year. And…
Guess it was a slow news day on the Today show, um, today, as the NBC morning show threw a tap-water taste test pitting H20 from Dallas against agua from such towns as Portland, San Francisco, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Cleveland and Miami. (KXAS-Channel 5 was responsible for sending…
Andy Uhler stopped by Unfair Park HQ yesterday to talk Deep Ellum, for a KUT-FM (90.5) piece that’ll air on Austin’s National Public Radio outlet a week from today. And after he asked me what I thought they ought to do with the neighborhood, he told me what he’d discovered…
Dennis G. McLaughlin III, chairman and CEO of Earth Biofuels, is under siege from investors who want their dough-re-mi back. We were going to stop writing for a little while about Earth Biofuels, the Knox Street-based alterna-energy company that, on the surface, appears to have been running out of gas…
We hope some of you were able to catch the excellent Centro-matic show at the Granada last Friday (if you didn’t, Jesse Hughey’s take on the shindig can be found here). It was the following night, however, that saw the band really letting loose, playing a private wedding party at…
Last week, we reported that Washington, D.C. based Future of Music Coalition was going after San Antonio-based Clear Channel, insisting in documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission that three months after agreeing to play unsigned bands as part of a payola settlement, the media giant was again engaging in…
Now there’s a place for your Loving Tex-Mex with Limburger recipe collection. Dallas has a new food and wine magazine: Culinary Concierge Dallas/Fort Worth, a Web-based magazine, plus a four-color dead-tree quarterly, founded by New Orleans cookbook author and food stylist Kendall Gensler in 2000. Culinary Concierge bills itself as…
Here’s a lead that makes you want to keep on reading: Troy Aikman may not be happy about it, but the State of Texas has made his address and social security number available via the Internet. It comes from this story published today, which says that a fraud-prevention expert has…
KTVT-Channel 11 Why can’t a gun-keepin’, kiddie-porn-collectin’ tenant just be left alone, y’all? A Web site called Northeast Intelligence Network has a few more details on an odd story today in The Dallas Morning News about a maintenance man calling authorities after finding a large cache of weapons in an…
The Rangers want a fortune for Eric Gagne. We’d trade him for a six pack. As Richie’s out this week on vacation, we’ll instead turn to another former Startlegrammer for today’s high-and-inside pitch concerning the Texas Rangers’ moves, or not, as the July 31 trade deadline nears. MLB.com’s T.R. Sullivan…
This propaganda is on the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ watch list. Because, that’s why. Less than two weeks after kicking off its “nationwide discussion of ‘Islamophobia'” in Dallas, the Washington-based nonprofit Council on American-Islamic Relations held a similar event yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. But a…
Unfair Park HQ is just a few stop lights away from the new Texas Rangers store on McKinney Ave., so maybe you’ll see us there this afternoon for an, ahem, historic occasion: “the first ever LIVE dot race outside Rangers Ballpark,” promises the press release the very persistent Rangers Communication…
Lia, at left, gets a farewell drowning from Casey Thompson on Top Chef. Last week, Shinsei’s Casey Thompson very easily could have gotten the pointy boot from Bravo’s Top Chef for her lousy tuna tartar — should have too, for putting her two at-risk partners on the judge’s grill. This…
WFAA-Channel 8 chief weather predictor man Troy Dungan said farewell-for-now last night, 31 years after signing on at the station. For his final forecast — during which Dungan was surrounded by “a cast of thousands,” meaning dozens — he had the right attitude: “If it’s wrong, what are they gonna…
A week after their daughter Emily Dowdy was released from an Oklahoma prison and sent to a treatment facility, Nancy and Charlie Jackson say they are still in a “state of disbelief.” Convicted of vehicular manslaughter after a 1999 car accident that killed Ryan Brewer, the 20-year-old son of an…
Last week, when news broke that a violent drug dealer out on bail allegedly killed a man in an Oak Cliff drug den, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins largely blamed the murder on his office’s lack of resources. In fact, there’s a more accurate explanation of why Michael Wyatt,…
Oh, the shame: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The Dallas County GOP must be feeling pretty Dickensian right about now, Buzz figures. Between their despised fearless leader in the White House turning more Captain Queegish daily, and local first-term Dems looking more and…
A little girl in a black and white polka-dotted leotard with a pretty, frilly skirt practices her turns on the practically empty ice rink at the Downtown Dallas Westin Hotel. Her skates are bulky, like cinderblocks on the ends of her skinny legs, but she doesn’t mind. She twirls on…
Tom Hicks’ Folly Start from scratch: I’ve been watching this franchise flounder since its inception (“Boy Blunder,” by Richie Whitt, July 12), and it sickens me more to watch them with each passing year. I played three years of pro baseball myself, but for a small-market, shallow-pocket team affiliated with…
When Jerry Jones acts, we all react. He flies to Lubbock, and next thing you know the Texas Tech-Oklahoma State game isn’t relocating to Dallas after all. He builds a $1 billion shrine to himself under the guise of football, and next thing you know Arlington is hosting the 2011…
