Ray Johnston, left, is still good pals with Dallas Mavs general manager Donnie Nelson, center. There’s no reason for you to know the name Ray Johnston; he was a former Dallas Maverick, yes, but only a summer-leaguer. He was, not so long ago, just a 25-year-old loan officer with season…
At this very moment, closing arguments are being made in the case of Harold D. Burns v. Grand Prairie Ford. They’re taking place in Judge Carl Ginsberg’s courtroom, the 193rd Civil District Court at the George Allen. And what’s the case about? Well, you really oughta read the complaint for…
A trio of late-lunch items for your light reading pleasure: It’s bad enough that WFAA.com’s running what appears to be either a bloody-nose or Hitler-mustache mugshot of 75-year-old Jason Sowell Jr., who’s been popped for selling drugs out of his Beverly Drive home. But then Brad Watson has to go…
Well, two reasons, actually. This one, natch; he’s a great boss, by the way, no lie. And this one: This morning, the Mavs man had himself a colonoscopy, and then he went home to write about it. Why? I’m writing this post because I hated the fact that I was…
Tom Leppert’s getting a lot of free radio time thanks to Ed Oakley’s decision to ditch on-air debates. Yesterday came word that Ed Oakley was backing out of a debate with Tom Leppert scheduled for Friday on Mark Davis’ show on WBAP-AM (820). This morning, Craig Murphy, one of the…
You knew it was bound to happen: Tonight, I officially join the Polyphonic Spree. Actually, it’s a bit less interesting than that — but at 8 p.m.-ish at the Magnolia Theater, I will be introducing members of the band, including frontman Tim DeLaughter, before a special screening of a South…
It was only a matter of time before a studio or Hollywood production company turned this Skip Hollandsworth article into a movie. Turns out, according to The Los Angeles Times, it’ll be Jennifer Aniston who’s producing and likely starring in Goree Girls for DreamWorks Pictures, about an infamous all-female country…
Wow, that Casey Thompson is a good…um…swimmer. Yeah, we’ll go with that. One thing became perfectly clear during the Season Three premiere of Bravo’s Top Chef last night: Head judge and the W’s Craft-man Tom Colicchio has a man-crush on Abacus’ Chef de Cuisine Tre Wilcox. After Wilcox fumbled the…
Elizabeth Albanese sat near the front of the massive ballroom, sipping champagne. The 43-year-old loved champagne. In social settings such as this one, it was all she drank. It was part of the image she sought to cultivate, that of a genteel Southern lady. The same could be said of…
Last March, at a mayoral forum at Hotel Palomar, the fire alarm began to blare as candidate Tom Leppert spoke. Instantly, as if he knew it would ring all along, his opponent Darrell Jordan quipped that Leppert must have set off a lie-detector test. The audience chuckled. Leppert smiled uncomfortably…
Wannabe kingmaker: Don Hill is still the most interesting thing about the mayor’s race, even though he’s no longer in it. One month after he finished one spot out of the runoff, Hill finds himself the subject of criticism and innuendo after he endorsed Tom Leppert over Ed Oakley, Hill’s…
Baby Brokers Adoption racket: Jennifer what’s-her-name’s story is so warped, one can hardly believe it could be true (“Ringing Up Baby,” by Craig Malisow, June 7). And as if it were not sick and twisted enough on its own…she is just one of many adoption facilitators and baby brokers who…
Last week we told you about how Steve McGonigle, reporter over at The Dallas Morning News, was trying to fight a federal subpoena. Because, see, the U.S. government wants him to testify next month when the government finally goes to trial with its case against the Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation…
So, Tony Romo wants a new contract. And he predicts the Dallas Cowboys have “a shot at winning the whole thing” this year, meaning, of course, the Super Bowl. And rumors are flying that he and Carrie Underwood are about to get engaged. And some dude made this lavish tribute…
Reggie Rueffer, left, and brother Chad are still performing, long after Mildred and Spot went adios. Received an e-mail earlier this week from Phil Lee, a filmmaker producing a doc about one of my favorite local bands from way, way back — Mildred and its follow-up Spot, both of which…
An Amarillo TV station’s reporting that T. Boone Pickens is puttin’ in the Panhandle what oughta be the country’s — and, mebbe, the world’s — biggest wind-energy production project. Pickens sprung the news on an invite-only crowd in Pampa yesterday, where the billionaire oilman said his Mesa Group would be…
No doubt Eli Roth, seen here, thinks of his Hostel: Part II as a children’s movie. David Hopkins, the great Arlington-based comic-book writer co-responsible for such well-received titles as Emily Edison and the new Antigone, sends word this morning that he’s had enough with seeing parents bringing their young ‘uns…
On Monday, a Michigan man filed a federal discrimination suit against Dallas-based Greyhound Lines, alleging that a driver booted him off a bus because he’s an…Arab. Indeed, according to 42-year-old Faroq Alfatlawi — an Iraqi native, no less — that’s just what the driver told him: “Get away, Arab.” On…
Seriously, is it us, or does this Frisco joint look like something worth picking up at auction? Because we’ve got $139 right now… Looking for, oh, I dunno, a summer McMansion in DeSoto or Frisco? Or a hideout apartment in Garland? Or maybe just a modest homestead in South Dallas?…
A couple of weeks back, as we noted, a Citigroup analyst suggested Belo’s stock was undervalued and underperforming because its newspapers were dragging down its TV stations’ value. Day after that, Belo’s stock hit a 52-week high. And a few days after that, Barron’s suggested, hey, Belo might wanna just…
Although the mayor’s race is apparently a dead heat, in a few days after next Saturday’s election, commentators will trot out authoritative explanations on why the winning candidate prevailed, as if they knew what would happen all along. It’s an age-old convention of political journalism. In the wake of a…
So, I just read this over at Dallas Blog: …A small group of influential women who work across the political spectrum raised money for Ed Oakley at a coffee Tuesday at the home of Lucy Billingsley, where Oakley said his polls show him two points ahead… And then I read…
