So reports this morning’s New York Times, which takes a tour of the Dallas Cowboys’ new home with Gene Jones and finds the walls adorned with works by the Whitney-feted Lawrence Weiner, Franz Ackermann (who’s collected at the Museum of Modern Art), conceptualists Mel Bochner and Daniel Buren, Matthew Ritchie…
View Larger MapThere’s quite a sizable hunk of property available in the West End — 87,000 square feet of office and retail, plus about 40K in parking spots. Says the for-sale brochure, the four-addresses-big, ’bout-100-years-old West End Square on Elm Street’s gone into foreclosure — no asking price listed, though…
Speaking of the late John Hughes, one of his biggest acolytes is Kevin Smith, who told The Los Angeles Times last year, “Basically my stuff is just John Hughes films with four-letter words.” So happens that the writer-director of Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma will bring his one-man stand-up…
10. Tony Romo spent about 10 minutes after practice chatting with long-time San Antonio Spurs’ pest Bruce Bowen. Let’s hope the topic was winning, not defense. 9. For the first time in training camp the Cowboys brought in referees. Today’s lone practice focused on goal-line situations. 8. Amazingly, Flozell Adams…
Hadn’t intended to look at the Dallas Independent School District board’s meeting agendas till next week — damn, summer break went by in a hurry — but Tawnell Hobbs gives us an early warning: Trustee Ron Price would like to rename some schools for President Barack Obama and your newest…
Pardon the break in postings — I spent the last little while watching this nine-minute tribute to the eight films John Hughes wrote and directed, among them Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Weird Science (co-starring Fort Worth’s Bill Paxton) and Planes, Trains &…
Jody Dean. A prized pupil of Dallas radio icon Ron Chapman, Dean has been on the local broadcasting scene for 35 years. He’s worked at KRLD 1080 AM, KVIL 103.7 FM and Channel 11. He is currently the morning show host at 98.7 FM KLUV, has a booming voice, was once the…
As we told you Monday, today’s the big day that RadioShack rebrands itself as “The Shack.” And the Fort Worth-based electronics company opted to launch the re-launch with a Web site featuring some dude in San Francisco yukking it via a video feed with some other dude in New York…
A couple of weeks back, we mentioned that the U.S. Trustee handling Bob’s Steak & Chop House’s Chapter 11 reorganization wanted Judge Harlin D. Hale to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee to replace owner Bob Sambol. Because, see, as far as Willliam Neary’s concerned, Sambol — operating here as Silveroak…
By no later than tomorrow, we should get our first look at City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year — specifically, what stays and what goes to clear out the $190 million shortfall. (Suhm had told Unfair Park last week she expects to present the budget…
After a summer in which he bleached his hair blonde, Washington Redskins’ running back Clinton Portis is spending part of training camp explaining that he is not, in fact, gay. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) We have a history of homosexual sports stars ranging from Martina Navratilova to…
Let’s start this item over — clean and shorten this sucker up. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission finally sent over the 32-page report detailing the events of the raid on the Rainbow Lounge raid in Fort Worth; it’s below, as you can see. But Tameka Harris, the agency’s legal secretary,…
The debate surrounding the proposed health care bill can seem distant. The bill is some 1,000 pages. Those who claim to have read it become experts either for or against the legislation. But last night, a cherry-faced, white-haired politician successfully tied this unwieldy document to a singular concept his constituents…
Moments ago, folks standing outside the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse got a sneak peek at the prosecution’s next witness in the City Hall corruption trial: former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, accompanied by her husband, former State Rep. Steve Wolens. Finally.Federal prosecutors continued to gain little traction Wednesday in…
To watch the Texas Rangers-Oakland A’s game, that is. Relax. Interesting night in San Antonio. While I was gallivanting around town with both owner Jerry Jones’ caravan (even at 66 the dude can throw down) and a 1310 AM The Ticket traveling birthday party in which a member of the group…
Every local media outlet’s been waiting for it, but KTVT-Channel 11 managed to get its hands on the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s internal investigation concerning the raid on the Rainbow Lounge, and it isn’t pretty. Right, Fort Worth State Rep. Lon Burnam? “I think there’s been a foul up that…
It was two years ago that I sat down with Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels. We ate sushi. We swapped stories. We talked baseball and life and near-death and philosophies and farm systems and… We’ve barely talked since. My cover story in the July 12, 2007, issue of the…
Oh, sure, Mr. Private Sector Wage Slave, you probably get formally evaluated by your boss every year. That annual review by your boss—that idiot—is a painful, tedious, unfair rite of passage annually. Well, if it makes you feel any better, you can take comfort from the fact that local judges,…
“This is bullshit.” Normally soft-spoken, at least by defensive lineman standards, Ernie Story may be wired on energy drinks—just about everyone else is. Besides, there are six months of anticipation pent up behind this day. He stomps away from a cluster of older men, back toward the cinder-block locker room…
10. Story out of Lincoln, Nebraska of all places – apparently the writer was in Dallas for the Big 12 Media Days – says at Cowboys Stadium there is for sale $800,000 suites in which you can purchase a $90 pizza. That’s about $11 a slice by my sportswriter math. However,…
At 7 tonight, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins will speak to an audience at Irving City Hall about the county’s budget cuts — specifically, those cuts affecting his office. He has invited Dallas County Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield to join him, but if last night’s jam-packed town hall-style meeting at…
On this bargain-hunting Wednesday, a note concerning one hell of a steal for art collectors: From 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on August 16, Jeff Scott’s going to unload a major hunk of his Elvis Presley artwork at Studio 1019. One reason: Scott had been showing in Gerald Peters Gallery,…
