I ask only because this morning, Variety reports that ESPN and the National Football League are collaborating on a biopic called Lombardi — you’ll never guess who it’s about. Notes the trade, the film about the Green Bay Packers coach will be released in theaters the weekend before the 2011…
Low-income housing developer Brian Potashnik appeared frustrated and confused Monday in the federal City Hall corruption trial as a trio of defense lawyers rattled the prosecution’s star witness while attacking his previous testimony. Near the end of a long day on the stand, he asked and answered his own question:…
Got a call back from former 103.3 FM ESPN radio host Dale Hansen yesterday afternoon, explaining how/why he kinda sorta abruptly walked away from the station last week. Seems Hansen – who told me last month he wasn’t happy at ESPN – quit amidst the worldwide leader’s self-imposed muzzling of the…
But that’s precisely where our Danny Hurley found himself over the weekend — at the Monty Python Madness Charity Festival, which was chock full o’ Spam eating, movie watching, tribute making and silly walking. Danny’s got the slide show, as usual, but keep in mind the event wraps this weekend:…
It would appear Norm Hitzges alone cannot keep Lone Star Park’s numbers from suffering a dramatic decline in the midst of a recession. The 65-day spring meet wrapped in Grand Prairie yesterday, and track officials noted with great disappointment the drop in both attendance and wagering, on-site and off. According…
Can’t understand a word of the intro to Forbes’s latest listicle — “Best Cities For Singles 2009,” apparently compiled using Match.com data and other info — so let’s skip it and head straight to the entry for Dallas, which comes in at No. 17:Dallas is high on the list for…
After serving eight years as a city plan commissioner and another eight as a council member representing some of North Dallas’s more upscale neighborhoods, 72-year-old Mitchell Rasansky is no longer roaming City Hall when he’s most needed. Replaced last month by Ann Margolin because of term limits, Rasansky now must…
Guess this could go under the “From the RTF Department” category, since Miles Fisher has quite the estimable demo reel — which includes a snippet from the video in which he parodies Tom Cruise’s infamous Scientology promo. Or maybe “Business News for People Who Don’t Read Business News,” since Miles’s…
Last week came word that KTVT-Channel 11 had gone to the Federal Communications Commission to get a new frequency following the digital transition. And why was such an emergency petition necessary? Because, according to KTVT docs on file with the FCC, the local CBS affiliate “has received thousands of complaints…
A year ago at this time I was pegging the Dallas Cowboys for the “Super Bowl.” Last time we saw them however – 44-6 losers in Philly on Dec. 28 – it was “or bust.” Coming off 2008’s 9-7 disaster, the Cowboys have shedded from their roster the leading receiver (Terrell Owens),…
Check out more photos in our slide show.It took talent and intensity just to make it past Saturday’s first round of auditions for the 2009-’10 Mavericks Dancers squad, but for Sunday afternoon’s finals, they’d have less than a minute to perform, competing with four other dancers for the judges’ attention.Even…
I just found on YouTube a few clips in which Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s talking health care reform with members of the Dallas Tea Party. As it turns out, the senator met with several of their representatives Saturday morning at her Dallas offices; the Tea Party’s report from the get-together…
When Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm briefed the city council on proposed budget cuts in May, she all but left the 311 Customer Service Center untouched: $1,398,060 was proposed in order to fund 92 full-time employees who answer those pesky non-emergency service requests. Noted the May briefing, “The City is…
For Ira Glass, the 50-year-old host of Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life, doing radio is like talking on the phone to somebody late at night. “There’s an intimacy to just hearing someone’s voice,” said Glass, Saturday’s keynote speaker during the University of North Texas’s fifth annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction…
As I told you back in June, Dale Hansen is a tip-toeing toward burnout these days. As of today, his work load is a little lighter. A radio industry source told me over the weekend that the iconic voice of Dallas sports will not sign a new contract at 103.3 FM ESPN…
Two media matters this morning, beginning with A.H. Belo releasing its second-quarter numbers: “Advertising revenue, including print and Internet revenue, was down 30.2 percent, due to declines in retail, general and classified revenues in all AHC markets.” The press release has all the stats concerning The Dallas Morning News’s parent…
No, literally. It would appear the Trinity River Audubon Center wasn’t good enough for Mayor Tom Leppert. That’s where the Dallas city council met last year for its annual retreat, a much closer-to-home and, at around $2,700, slightly less expensive alternative to ’07’s choice: the Garrett Creek Ranch Conference Center…
And the consolation prize is … Drew Gooden. To which I say, not bad. Not bad at all. He’s no Marcin Gortat or Carlos Boozer or Emeka Okafor, but the 6-foot-10, 250-pound 27-year old journeyman can be a nice fit on a nice team. Gooden seemingly has the size and…
On Saturday afternoon, around 100 people gathered at Dealey Plaza to protest the Iranian government and show support for pro-democracy demonstrators in that country, where the regime has been retaliating against widespread protests since the June 12 election. Saturday’s demonstration, one of several locally in recent weeks, was part of…
Jeff Liles called early this morning with the astonishing, sad news: Brian Barnaud, photographer and longtime Deep Ellum fixture, died suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday at the age of 46. Teresa Gubbins has the details: “According to a family friend, Barnaud hadn’t been feeling well and collapsed after taking a shower;…
Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm informed city council members in a missive today that projected property tax values increased by approximately $9 million after certified tax rolls from Dallas and Denton counties and updates of tax roll data from Collin and Rockwall counties showed a 3.5 percent decline compared to…
After the jump you’ll find a lawsuit filed earlier this week in Dallas federal court in which three Dallas Area Rapid Transit cops are suing the agency over overtime pay they claim they’re owed. But Derek Johnson, Ronald Lindsay and Tracy Vice (one of the best cop names ever) aren’t…
