Where was the mayor today? In Waco, d’uh, visiting with McLennan County Commissioners, who she wants to join her coalition of the willing to get rid of coal-fired plants that TXU and other energy companies want to build throughout the state. Mayor Laura and her Houston counterpart, Mayor Bill White,…
This is not director Paul Rachman, but a scene from his documentary American Hardcore. Cuz it’s so hardcore. Paul Rachman’s in Dallas today promoting his first documentary film, American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986, in which the filmmaker chronicles the rise of such bands as Black Flag,…
We have no doubt Avery Johnson can give one hell of a pep talk. But we’re also sure it sounds kinda funny. Couldn’t help but get goosebumps watching the Saints come home to New Orleans on Monday Night Football. The Saints beat the Falcons in their first game at the…
Read over the weekend that Sherry Jacobson, Metro columnist at The Dallas Morning News, had an explanation for why Dallas tops the FBI’s list of crime-ridden cities: We’re just too good at reporting our crimes. So, see, no reason to pay attention to the F.B.I.; no reason to even look…
For years, this photo of the 1913 Homestead Grays has been on Baseball Almanac’s Web site without anyone knowing that Silas Simmons, the second from right in the middle row, was still alive. There’s a fascinating story in The New York Times this morning about a man no one knew…
I seem to recall that a few years ago, we wrote something unflattering about Chris Burney, who’s second from right. Wonder what that was… Did you know Chris Burney, guitarist for Bowling for Soup, is in the new intro to Monday Night Football? (This assumes, of course, you know who…
Brad Hawkins: Why isn’t he the biggest star in local TV news? Seriously. He’s a genius. Sad to say I was watching local TV news at 11:30 p.m. Saturday night; used to be I didn’t remember Saturday nights. (Actually, not so much.) Anyway, after USC beat Arizona 20-3, or whatever,…
It’s no secret that Irving-based ExxonMobil pays scientists to say that humans aren’t causing global warming. Last week, the Guardian (a U.K. paper) reported that the British Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific academy, has “found that ExxonMobil last year distributed $2.9m to 39 groups that the society says misrepresent the…
The Rangers will probaby finish the season below .500. For that, you have these two men to thank, among many. And, no, that’s Jon Daniels at left, not Tom Hicks’ bat boy. Alas, another fall without baseball has arrived in the metroplex. I took a masochistic field trip to the…
Ever watch HBO’s The Wire? No need now; just read this, a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office about nine alleged South Dallas gang members arrested on conspiracy, drug and firearms charges; 16 of their, ah, colleagues remain at large. Among the gangsters arrested by Dallas police and federal…
A guy who thinks we’re ridiculous is somewhere in this picture. Jake Palenske runs NCompass Media, LLC out of Sachse; it’s a “multimedia production company [specializing] in rich-media projects for delivery on CD or DVD, DVD interface design,” and if you don’t know what that means, I can’t help ya…
Tiger Woods is not only a great golfer, but also a foot rest. Looking for some good ol’ American athletic domination. Hmm, where to start. Soccer? Nope, didn’t win a single game in last summer’s World Cup. Baseball? Failed to even qualify for the last Olympics. How ’bout basketball, a…
Lord knows we love our MP3 blogs; how else would we, ah, try before we buy? And we dig our local music providers most of all; the eight of you who were around the day Unfair Park popped its cherry might recall Chris Cantalini, the brains behind Gorilla vs. Bear,…
There’s a Web site out of California called TurnHere, which, says here, is all about capturing the “authentic experiences of places and leisure activities in cities and neighborhoods around the world.” What’s that mean? In short, they get would-be filmmakers to make shorts about the cities in which they live;…
The Lone Star Emmy Award nominations came out this morning, and at least three of the local network affiliates did pretty well–especially WFAA-Channel 8, which got some 53 nods in pretty much every category (including two for a piece called “Inspirational Songs For the Entire Family To Sing,” which sounds…
In case you missed it yesterday, Richie Whitt wrote about how KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) management yanked a replaying of an on-air exchange between the “Dunham and Miller” morning show and Norm Hitzges, who hosts the 10 a.m. to noon slot. It had to do with Hitzges’ dismal showing in…
Robert Rowling is the richest Dallasite. He looks like it. Forbes’ list of “The 400 Richest Americans” is out, and 13 of ’em are from Dallas. To save you some time (because time is money), we’re including only the locals here–chief among them the man who owns the company that…
The Doyle Davidson saga gets stranger and stranger. The TV preacher in Plano has taken down most of his “messages to Lisa,” dozens of letters he’s written over the last few years to Lisa Staton, a former member and employee of the church. She’s married to Harold “JR” Staton, but…
DMN Sunday editor Thomas Huang says working at Dallas’ Only Daily feels like this picture looks. Very deep stuff here, people. I can’t make heads or tails of this thing myself; sounds like Thomas T. Huang, the former Texas Living editor over at The Dallas Morning News, needs a good…
Her name was Stephanie. This much I’ve figured out: She had everything I didn’t. She was cute, with long, dark hair and store-bought clothes. She was athletic—at least more so than a skinny, awkward kid like me. Most of all she was popular. I was not. We were only 7…
George Dunham doesn’t call Gordon Keith, pictured here, “The Arsonist” for nothing. Ask Norm Hitzges about it. Just don’t say anything to The Ticket’s new owners. Nuhn-unh. No. So Gordo’s giving it to Norm pretty good, and Frito’s all riled up, and you can tell there’s no script and, man,…
For a few weeks, American Airlines has been waging a campaign to land nonstop daily service from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Beijing, China, that would begin March 25, 2007. They’re serious about this–even got the Web site to prove it. Problem is, the U.S. Department of Transportation is only…
