University of Texas at Dallas economics prof Stan Liebowitz, heretofore hailed for his music-biz research, has the cover story in the latest issue of the National Review; a rather timely one too, as it performs an autopsy on the “mortgage market meltdown” and points fingers in, well, everyone’s general direction…
Patrick Michels In case you missed it, our slide show from The Palin Protest at the Fairmont Hotel is up here, with some of the most impressive turns of phrase and slant rhymes we’re likely to see in a while. And, while you’re at it, the Dallas Peace Center has…
In case you missed it, Art Hoffman posted to Wednesday’s record-store flashback item an absolutely amazing, how’d-we-forget-that photo of Roger Daltrey causing a ruckus at Valley View Mall back in 1975. So happens that Hoffman was the manager at Sound Town at Valley View when Daltrey stopped by before a…
If I am not mistaken, Glenn Carano started a single game during his six-season tenure as a NFL career-long Dallas Cowboys back-up QB — and he won it too, 37-13 over the Baltimore Colts in December 1981. These days, though, he’s better known as the dad of Gina Carano, who,…
This is, alas, likely our last Rep. Jeb Hensarling item of the week, as, but an hour or so ago, the House of Representatives approved — and President Bush signed — the juiced-up bailout bill by a margin of 263 to 171. The Dallas Republican, who voted against the bill…
Patrick Michels New guy Patrick Michels went down to the Fairmont Hotel this morning, where, at 9:30 a.m., protesters began massing to cheer and jeer Gov. Sarah Palin, in Dallas today to raise money for the GOP. Three hours later, the pros and cons were still there, their shout-down separated…
Somehow, Channel 8 let Erin Hawksworth move to Boston. Damn you, Hansen! Since former Channel 8 sports reporter Erin Hawksworth up and moved to Boston, long-time Mavs’ sideline reporter Laura Green packed her bags for Portland and ESPN’s Suzy Kolber flew the Cowboys’ in-house production coop 15 years ago, it’s…
Dan Foote, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald Baylor University’s W. R. Poage Legislative Library is “celebrating the art of editorial cartooning” with the exhibition “Drawing Power: Original Editorial Cartoons,” which features such familiar locals as Bill DeOre, ex of The Dallas Morning News, and Dan Foote, with whom Schutze…
Photo courtesy Debra Jane Seltzer The old Pearl Beer billboard, in a 2006 photo Everything you need to know about the old Pearl Beer “waterfall billboard” on Stemmons Freeway, construction of which was completed in 1962, you’ll find here and here; the landmark’s past has been well documented. But what…
It’s Friday. I know, let’s implement a new feature. And let’s call it: Video of the Week. To get the party started, how about 10:36 of a Cowboys-Bengals preview featuring “King Solomon”, “concubines” and “the Emperor”? Oh, and “really abrupt editing.” In picking Cowboys 31, Bengals 17, this guy –…
Dallas Observer contributor Brandon Thibodeaux shot this yesterday outside of Dallas Independent School District HQ, where, inside, the DISD school board was voting to lay off 1,100 employees, including 550 teachers. –Robert Wilonsky…
Maybe you’re planning a trip over to Canton this weekend — it is, after all, October market at First Monday Trade Days through Sunday. No doubt, the vendors there would most certainly appreciate the business, which has gotten so bad in recent months that, this morning, Reuters took notice. And,…
Why do people want to protest Tina Fey? She’s so talented! Twelve hours after wrapping up her debate with Sen. Joe “He Totally Won” Biden, Gov. Sarah “She Didn’t Lose” Palin is coming to Dallas to collect some coin for the GOP at the Fairmont Hotel — where she’ll be…
Courtney Clenney Candace Bushnell, second from left, in what appears to be a touring company production of Sex and the City On Wednesday evening, the Garden Room at the Crescent Court Hotel was brimming with Grey Goose and twinkling with candles, Christmas lights and the setting sun as the crowd…
Mark Graham Haseeb Chishty Earlier this year, we told the story of Haseeb Chishty, a 34-year-old mentally retarded man who was beaten into a coma by a caregiver at Denton State School six years ago. The story chronicled the efforts of Haseeb’s mother to bring attention to what she describes…
The Dallas Independent School District board of trustees is meeting, yet again, to discuss laying off some 675 teachers courtesy the $148-million budget shortfall. The link to the live feed’s here, as the “budget workshop” began promptly at 3:14 p.m. Feel free to watch along and pipe in with comments…
Going … going … buh-bye. The Texas Rangers are one of only seven Major League Baseball teams to not make the playoffs this millennium. The Texas Rangers are standing pat. Fresh off another losing season, the Rangers are going to keep the owner, president, general manager, manager and most of…
Jeb Hensarling casting his vote against the $700 billion bailout bill. If you thought last night’s blowout victory in the Senate meant the bailout bill was going to pass the House without a fight … well, you probably didn’t, actually. Which is why this USA Today piece on Dallas’s Jeb…
Till I read this story, about London’s National Portrait Gallery and its attempt to secure one of Marc Quinn’s Self sculptures, I had no idea that the Dallas Museum of Art currently has a Quinn in storage. But, yes, turns out that the DMA, courtesy owners Cindy and Howard Rachofsky,…
Because nothing says golf like, um, a printer? This just in: Next year’s Byron Nelson golf tournament will be sponsored by HP. Which begs the question, who was last year’s title sponsor? If you’re like me – and I went to the dang thing – you had to think a…
The so-called Dallas Medical District — which includes, like you didn’t know, Parkland Hospital, Children’s Medical Center and UT Southwestern Medical Center — is on its way to securing its very own live-work-shop. A Mockingbird Properties property, it’ll be called Butler Manor and consist of “460 luxury apartment homes, retail…
Never been to the Havana Social Club in Victory Plaza, recently tapped by D as the “Best Place to Roll ‘Em If You Got ‘Em.” But the Austin outpost of Washington-based Americans for Prosperity recently made a trip to the joint, and today posted a video about how Dallas’s proposed…
