Patrick Michels The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts people promised a big-time speaker at their one-year countdown party this morning, and they delivered James Earl Jones. Ostensibly, the idea was to show off the kind of talent the center will attract when it opens next year. Really, though, what…
On a day when the Dow Jones has dropped another 300-plus points, Neiman Marcus went ahead and debuted its 2008 Christmas Book — that that! Or maybe you have some loose coin to spend on the most wonderful wish list, which includes “each and every 45 RPM vinyl record that…
Angela Hunt snapped this photo of the city hall in Brussels, joking it’s “just like ours.” The Dallas City Council has retreated to the Trinity Audubon Center, with council member Angela Hunt absent as she tours Europe during her Marshall Memorial Fellowship. Surely she misses the important discussion among her…
Forgive and forget? Or boo like crazy? In its latest rankings of Best Sports Cities, The Sporting News today pegged our fair burg No. 3. Behind Boston (Duh) and Detroit (What? Oh yeah, hockey). The list, however, is compiled by TSN Chief of Correspondents Bob Hille, whose ass I used…
Yesterday, the case of John D. Cerqueira, Petitioner v. American Airlines, Inc. was on the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court — which ultimately decided to not to bother. For those unfamiliar with the details of the case — for which the NAACP offered an amicus brief in support of…
If nothing else, someone at the Dallas Independent School District has learned how to turn a negative into a cozy, comfy positive! –Robert Wilonsky…
Hate to follow any news story, especially one from a pub I used to work for, but sometimes it can’t be helped. Especially when someone like brother reporter John Council looks toward the sky and notices it’s falling on the Dallas County Republican Party. In this week’s Texas Lawyer, Council…
This week’s Top 5 clash: Romo v. Warner. Two observations from last weekend: Neither Sage Rosenfelds, nor Drew Brees, will ever climb to No. 1 in these rankings. Rosenfelds, because he’s skittish enough to produce three turnovers on his team’s final 10 snaps in a gut-wrenching, come-from-ahead loss to the…
Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas News of this meeting of the minds has been slow to trickle down from D.C., but on September 26 Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in downtown Dallas and attorney Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law &…
The same. But different. Checked out the front page of SportsDay this morning – resplendent with its, hey, a clever photo of a half-empty/half-full glass! – and it got me to theorizing: a) Dallas’ Only Daily reads Sportatorium. b) Great minds think alike. c) Who am I kidding? Shit happens…
Richie discovered this photo over on the Dallas Stars’ Web site, and it irks him — something to do with Derian Hatcher, who wore No. 2 way back when. Richie’s also made the Mavericks jersey joke. Which just leaves me with this lousy headline. I’m totally fine with that. –Robert…
Spill it in your lap, and you could actually make money. We already told you about Dunkin’ Donuts’ big plans to spread franchises and apostrophes all across Texas (see Jesse Hyde’s “Time to Make the Doughnuts”), and noted that their expansion’s coming just as Starbucks is scaling back. Well, in…
Half-empty or half-full? Since NFL beauty is in the eye of the ticket holder, I was wondering where y’all fall on the Cowboys through five games. Happy? Satisfied? Concerned? Mad? Some seem generally pissy that Dallas had to squeak past the Bengals. Others are convinced the Super Bowl train remains…
Patrick Michels To Swerve and Protect Sarah Palin’s visit last Friday drew nearly about as many fans as protesters to the Fairmont downtown, and it was a charged atmosphere. Slogans were hurled across the barricades and signs were thrust high into the air — but thankfully, with the Dallas Police…
Scattered among the minutia related to the convention center hotel project lies the distinction between the political action committees started by the anti-hotel folks and the pro-hotel peeps. On August 27, hotel opponents backed by Crow Holdings started a specific-purpose committee called Citizens Against a Taxpayer-Owned Hotel, which was later…
View Larger Map A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: Is Muddy Waters on Greenville Avenue closed? Sure looks like it: The number’s disconnected; the Web site’s down; there’s a huge hole in the front of the place. All good hints. Because, yes, the longtime blues-and-booze haunt is gone; has been…
Is that lipstick? Nope, just Derian Hatcher’s sweater. In case you somehow missed it, John McCain’s running mate/Saturday Night Live punch line swooped into town last week. But instead of putting lipstick on a pig, Dallas Stars’ owner Tom Hicks gave the world’s most annoying hockey mom a hockey sweater…
Seems odd how that would happen — local businesses turning over their tax dough-re-mi to neighboring municipalities. But, sure enough, an audit released this morning reveals that 72 unnamed Dallas-based businesses are “incorrectly remitting sales tax” to neighboring burgs. But the city doesn’t know quite how that’s happening — or…
If nothing else, we can distract ourselves this week with Texas-OU, some kind of a football match set for Saturday at the Cotton Bowl, I think. The New York Times gets a jump on the pre-game festivities this morning. And, whilst on the sporting news, this clip from Terrell Owens’…
As the Dow Jones falls below 10,000 for the first time since 2004, this sign of the times courtesy the Associated Press: “In Dallas, sales assistant Yvonna Vaughan downgraded from Newport cigarettes to less expensive Kools and wonders whether she’ll be smoking generics before long.” –Robert Wilonsky…
The city council’s going on a retreat today and tomorrow — because, look, sometimes you just need to get away. But they’re not going too far: They’ll be at the Trinity River Audubon Center, which officially opens October 18. And, at this very moment, the subject at hand is “Updates…
After a week in maddening moth balls, his star is re-born. The web site says the sporty truckster is loaded with a “youthful, contemporary spirit.” This here blog says the running back comes fully equipped with “hole-eee-shiiiiiiiiiit.” Felix Jones = FJ Cruiser. In an ugly, 31-22 escape from the Cincinnati…
