Shortly after we posted the item below concerning the mysterious $20 bill from David Dean that wound up in the city council horseshoe this morning, Mayor Laura Miller responded with her thoughts about what’s turning into a nasty, messy situation. This is what she has to say in an e-mail…
That David Dean sure does know how to stick it to Mayor Laura Miller. First, the lobbyist who’s gotten a cool mil from the city to lobby for the Trans-Texas Corridor since 2004 got his CPA to send an open records request at the end of last week in which…
For some the defining question is, “Where were you when JFK was shot?”; for others it’s, “Where were you when Challenger exploded?”; for others it’s, “Where were you when you lost your virginity?”or even “Where were you when O.J. rode in that white Bronco?” (For the record, my answers are:…
Some dude named Zac Crain, who’s apparently running for mayor (that can’t be right), sends this missive concerning yesterday’s posting about the Republican National Congressional Committee allegedly pulling a million-dollar ad campaign for Waco-area U.S. House of Representatives candidate Van Taylor that was scheduled, or not, to appear on Dallas…
Peter Calvin One of our fave MP3 blogs kinda, sorta suggests today that an old Bobby Patterson song sounds familiar–if you’re a fan of Ethopian soul music of the 1970s. Here’s a local music grab bag for your consideration. Today, one of the best MP3 blogs out there, Said the…
I recently got an e-mail from Quinn Eaker, the subject of my story on the “unschooling movement.” He’s a delightful young man and is always off on an adventure. Eaker, who has lived homeless in Hawaii and learned to dumpster dive, is back in Colleyville, living at home with his…
As the November elections approach, immigration has been pushed up to the top tier of voter concerns and political agendas. (If you’ve been snoozing, Kinky Friedman reportedly said he’d declare martial law on the border, while Carole Keeton Strayhorn said she’d call out the Texas Rangers, though during the recent…
Brad Ball was in charge of selling The Iron Giant. Couldn’t. Then the Iron Giant squished him and sent him to Dallas’ Moroch ad agency. The best movie of the summer of 1999 was The Iron Giant, which about 328 people saw in theaters. It has rightfully accured a reputation…
A story in a Waco paper this morning says the RNCC is abandoning Iraq War vet Van Taylor–by not buying ads on a Dallas TV station? Today the Waco Herald-Tribune ran a story about how the Republican National Congressional Committee is all but abandoning Republican Van Taylor, an Iraq War…
I started thinking about ranch dip Sunday night. With no sour cream, Hidden Valley dip mix (the only ranch I trust) or chips immediately available in my home, I was able to fend off the craving for a little while with a healthy not-even-close-to-being-a-substitute snack, Kashi. Yesterday around lunchtime, the…
We’re not sure if this will protect you from infectious diseases at the gym, but it will keep people away from you. You needed, like, one more reason not to go to the gym today, right? Good. Because I’ve got one. Turns out–shock of shocks–getting fit in a public workout…
Last night’s episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip took a shot at Bill Parcells. It was almost worth the two Sting songs. Almost. Last night, the missus and I sat down to watch what’s fast becoming my least-favorite favorite new TV show, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,…
Kinky Friedman got naked for this Observer photo shoot three years ago. No way he regrets it now. There’s a huge cover story about The Jewboy Who Would Be Governor, Kinky Friedman, in the new issue of The Weekly Standard (not even makin’ that up). It wonders of Friedman’s candidacy,…
Maybe it’s like a family feud; after all, Mark Cuban is part of the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans. Seems, though, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks was a little peeved with the magazine’s trying to compare the sale of his Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in…
There are some captains we love more than others–like, oh, Captain Kirk. Love him. And Brenden Morrow. Nice captain too. Your Dallas Stars are either setting us up for another punch to the gut come April or laying the foundation for the first 82-0 season in NHL history. In the…
The Wiggles are taking over, and their U.S. invasion begins in Frisco. Sounds about right. Yesterday we were pimping for Playboy; today, it’s the Wiggles. Speed bump much? But, yeah, if you have a kid between the ages of, oh, 1 and 3, you might want to just go ahead…
Belo Corp. chairman, president and chief executive officer Robert W. Decherd sent the troops a “Dear Fellow Employees” letter today in which he said, more or less, Hey, baby, everything’s gonna be fine–trust me, baby. More or less. Not really in those terms. You get the idea. Decherd, who was…
BlueVip.com The owners of Blue are suing the city in federal court, claiming they’ve had their constitutional rights violated. And they want a few bucks too. On the very first day we launched Unfair Park, former Dallas Observer music editor Sam Machkovech reported about a confrontation that took place between…
You know two guys who deserve each other more than Bill Parcells and Terrell Owens? C’mon… C’mon… Can’t think of any, can you? Why is it that after yesterday’s Cowboys victory over the Hapless Texans I felt like taking a shower? I mean, 34-6 is sweet. But somehow it felt…
Noticed here yesterday that Storehouse, which has 12 locations in Texas (three of which are in Dallas area), is going outta business. Says nothing else about it on the Web site, save that everything must go for 15 to 30 percent off, which is cheap, but, then, so’s the furniture…
The El Paso Times has been running a series of stories investigating the “living conditions and health care of people with mental illness in Texas, including the El Paso area.” Today comes the paper’s third part in the series, which deals with the rapid increase in the number of group…
This morning, the Associated Press picks up on a story familiar to anyone around here who reads a newspaper: the debate over coal-fired power plants, which has become Mayor Laura Miller’s biggest cause–at least, second only to the half a mil given lobbyist David Dean last week by a city…
