Barry Annino passed along the news last night: Don Blanton, longtime Deep Ellum property owner, died last weekend of a heart attack at his second home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The funeral will take place January 5 at noon at Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home, followed by a graveside service, with military…
How many shopping days left till Christmas, Don Hill? Dang, then we’d best hurry! A couple of housekeeping items this morning, including the disappointing news of a scheduling change. You can cross January 20 off your calendar if you were planning on attending the trial of former Dallas Mayor Pro…
One of the greatest games in the history of football was played in our back yard recently. Consider it the pigskin version of It’s A Wonderful Life. Merry Christmas, sports. – Richie Whitt…
Like it wasn’t already hard enough — which is to say, eff-you impossible — figuring out how the banks are spending their bailout billions. Today comes word that the Treasury Department’s dropped $4.7 billion more in 92 local banks, proving that the TARP can always stretch just a little bit…
Say what you will about Jason Kidd being no Devin Harris, but the point guard’s no Grinch either: Last week his foundation took 40 kids from the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center on a shopping spree at a local Toys “R” Us. Each child received a $300 gift card — a…
Good news this afternoon for small businesses in the inner-city: The U.S. Small Business Administration has placed Dallas on its burgeoning list of cities tapped to participate in its Emerging 200 initiative, which IDs companies “that show a high potential for growth” and shows ’em how to, ya know, grow…
Know Your Dallas Cowboys, apparently, has an endless supply of videos from the Dallas Cowboys Christmas ’86 album. This one, featuring some old-timers, is particularly appropriate, given Texas Stadium’s tepid adios on Saturday night. And, in other local football news — actual news — in the spirit of Christmas, may…
Dallas Parkway-based Leadsonline.com got an awfully nice plug in today’s New York Times piece about the rise in shoplifting during The Great Depression II: Electric Boogaloo. And what, exactly, does the company do? Helps retailers and law enforcement officials track stolen goods as they surface online and elsewhere; hence the…
According to the Pro Bowl, Peyton Manning and Kurt Warner are the two best NFL quarterbacks of 2008. According to me, nonsense. Warner has the best receivers in the league and throws in the worst division in football. Manning was steady, but hardly spectacular. My rankings, which take into account quarterback…
Danny Bollinger’s the man who documents the moves of your Dallas Mavs; if you’re not following his fantastic photog blog, which goes more behind-the-scenes than the Wizard of Oz, you’re missing out. A week after this festive photo of Dirk Nowitzki snapped at a charity event made the rounds, Danny…
As you may know, Dallas attorney Edward “Ned” Fritz died Friday at the age of 92. Said Laura Huffman, state director of The Nature Conservancy of Texas, Fritz is often referred to as “the father of Texas conservation,” because, among other things, he was the co-founder of the state chapter…
Bishop T.D. Jakes My old friend Elvis Mitchell was in town on Friday, conducting an interview for a sequel to his 2008 star-studded documentary The Black List: Volume One, bought by HBO shortly before making its Sundance Film Festival in January. There will be two locals in the follow-up, which…
Whitney Lawson George Steel George Steel just got here — if that. Just four months ago, he was introduced as the general director of the Dallas Opera, following his celebrated tenure as executive director of the Miller Theater at Columbia University. But long before his new home at the Winspear…
That’s what the Dallas County Commissioner tells Women’s Wear Daily today — pardon me? — in what’s likely to be an endless stream of stories like this till the day George and Laura move back to their old stomping grounds. Says the soft-spoken Democrat, “It’s bad enough he’s from Texas,…
In news that should surprise no one, Michael Crabtree’s last college game will be Jan. 2 in the last Cotton Bowl played in Dallas. No official announcement, but I hear the Texas Tech All-World receiver and two-time Biletnikoff Award winner is making plans for the future. And they include more…
After hosting Robert Jeffress on Friday, Harry Smith and the CBS Early Show dipped into the DFW again today — this time to tell the story of 9-year-old Jordan Taylor, the Hillsboro boy saved by docs at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth who reattached his head to his…
That’s what The Oklahoman is speculating this afternoon: OU and Brigham Young will kick off the 2009 college football season at Jerryworld in Arlington. And Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops didn’t do much to stifle the speculation when asked for a comment today. Said Stoops, “Has that been released? All…
A Friend of Unfair Park points us to this announcement from WFAA-Channel 8 concerning its being dropped from Charter Cable come New Year’s Eve, and wonders, “WTF?” So happens, reports Television Broadcast today, that the local brouhaha is part of a larger battle between Belo and Charter, which is likewise…
10. Mayor Tom Leppert presents a Mavs jersey to Mayor Huang Xingguo during his trip to China…
After the jump, courtesy the folks at Firehouse Dallas, The Carol of the Christmas Pickle — a nod to this most mysterious of holiday traditions. Says it’s been viewed ’round 30 thousand times since debuting two weeks ago, though first I heard of it was during the annual “Dallas Christmas”…
I do weird things while (only technically, it appears) on vacation. Like, for example, wonder if the sport of boxing is alive and wonder if Duncanville fighter Luis Yanez is well. The answer: Yes. And Yes. A lil’ boxing birdie whispered to me this morning that Yanez – who flamed out amidst…
Governor Rick Perry sent us a Christmas card — awful nice of him, though I wish I could tell where he went to college. So, in the spiriting of giving, we figured we’d share — along with his list of who’s been naughty but who he was nice enough to…
