Fashion designer Tim Gunn — of Project Runway super-fame — has a new book out, and to honor the occasion he dropped by the Kate Spade New York shop in the Galleria last night. It was the man’s second stop in Dallas in as many days, after his visit to…
Last December, we received word that come November ’09, the Dallas Convention Center would play host for three days to a mammoth video-game expo — the Southwest Video Game Expo, to be precise, which promised to fill more than 200,000 square feet of exhibit hall space with all manner of…
By now, perhaps you’ve heard that earlier this week, Addison-based American Community Newspapers –publisher of the Plano Star Courier, the McKinney Courier-Gazette and the Frisco Enterprise among dozens of papers scattered across four states — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company said there would be “no change in…
Quite the shocker to pull up Courthouse News and see a big ol’ Texas Rangers logo. Then again, when Daddy needs his money, Daddy needs his money, and he’ll go to Tarrant County District Court to get it. Because, according to the complaint filed yesterday, Dallas-based Highland Capital Lending owes…
Best. House Energy and Commerce Committee Meeting. Ever. From this morning in D.C.: “The Bowl Championship Series: Money and Other Issues of Fairness for Publicly Financed Universities.” Smokey Joe Barton of Arlington wants to ditch the BCS and go to a college-football playoff system, and he’s got the legislation to…
“Bummer.” That’s how Dallas Independent School District board trustee Edwin Flores initially responded yesterday when Unfair Park asked for comment concerning the Texas Attorney General’s opinion yesterday that the board “was not authorized to change the length of its members’ terms of office” from three to four years last November…
I sincerely hope I’m wrong about this, but I have a feeling we’re all about to get really pissed. Watching the most athletic – and by far the most animated and arrogant – team in the NBA knock the Dallas Mavericks out of the playoffs could be very painful. Get out your hate…
Used to be a time when procuring a real Imperial Pure Cane Sugar Dr Pepper meant hoping that case of bottles you ordered from Dublin arrived mostly intact; though, years ago, my old man bought a few cases of the 12-ounce cans from a guy in a parking lot on…
GlobeSt.com notes that Dallas-based 7-Eleven is making a list of stores and checking it twice to see whether it’s paying too much for leases in some locations. Everyone’s doing it — trying to get a break on rent in these tough times, looking for a little landlord love just to…
For weeks at the end of 2008, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger insisted the DISD board of trustees’ decision to extend its term limits from three to four years was illegal. She posted to her blog items in which she wrote that the decision to do so “was…
Something called the Food Marketing Institute was scheduled to hold two events in Dallas beginning May 4: a “Future Connect leadership development conference” on May 4-6, followed by a “MARKETECHNICS® technology event” May 5-8. According to Tradeshow Week, the events were to take place at the Hyatt Regency and at…
The kind folks at SpikeTV have passed along this sneak peek at Michael Irvin’s Fourth and Long, his limited-run series featuring a bunch of washed-out Dallas Cowboys wanna-bes set to debut on The Dude Network next month. The series was shot earlier this year at the Cotton Bowl and features…
Regardless the outcome of this afternoon’s pitching duel between Vicente Padilla and Bobby Bragan, it’s already – I’m sorry, I’m being told the Oakland pitcher is actually Dallas Braden – a successful April for the Texas Rangers. Not only has Texas not had any players succumb to the international flu…
So, this morning we heard Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s reasons for supporting the convention center hotel. Today, on her Web site, Angela Hunt offers several reasons why she’s against it. She also has some words for those who insist that Dallas will become a “ghost town” without the…
Last week, when District 13 city council candidate Ann Margolin started circulating to the media a copy of a $482,337.09 federal tax lien filed by the Internal Revenue Service against Brint Ryan, who’s also running for Mitchell Rasansky’s soon-to-be-vacated seat, I contacted the IRS for further explanation. At the time,…
Just got off the phone with Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander, who, moments ago, announced that the district is closing Daniel Webster Elementary from tomorrow till May 11 due to one confirmed case of the swine flu at that campus. (It will remain open throughout today to accomodate…
On The View this morning, when Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said Dallas County has exonerated 19 wrongly imprisoned men using DNA evidence, he received an enormous round of applause. But the appearance was less about Watkins than it was his office’s Conviction Integrity Unit and Johnnie Lindsey, who,…
Screw the closet, I’ve got bigger issues today. In a word: Mothereffin’squirrels! First we hear scome scratch-scratch-scratching on the ceiling. Next some creepy scurrying in the walls. Then, while doing some spring shrubbing, I spot not one, but two holes in the corners of our roof. Softball-sized, swear. I go…
In February, the Dallas Business Journal ran a Q&A headlined “Two Minutes with Saul Meyer,” referring to the founder of and partner at Harwood Street-based Aldus Equity. In the piece, Meyer said that what set Aldus apart from other private equity firms is its “degree of governance and transparency,” which…
We missed the pro-convention center hotel wingding in front of Dallas City Hall last night. Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway did not. Here’s his pitch for the hotel, and it apparently has something to do with … cell phones?…
An out-of-state colleague wondered late yesterday, “Is it true that the state of Texas has canceled all sports events till May 11? Does that include Astros and Rangers?” Um … no. Alas, such was his reading of a breathless, since-vanished New York Times story concerning the University Interscholastic League’s decision…
I still – as always – wouldn’t have pulled the trigger on Jason Kidd and two No. 1 draft picks, etc. for Devin Harris and Antoine Wright, etc. But I’ll admit, Kidd has been better than any of us expected. And today – as the Mavericks prepare to enter the second round of…
