Regan Adair, honored by the DFW Theater Critic Forum for a season’s worth of work — including his by-God hilarious turn in Dallas Theater Center’s The Misanthrope Win a DFW Theater Critics Forum award and you get … absolutely nothing. No bronze trophy. No crystal gewgaw with your named etched…
The Village at Allen, where the parking lots go for miles Gar Herring, president of MGHerring Group, is opening two malls more or less right on top of each other in coming months: The Village at Allen in October, followed by The Village at Fairview in August ’09. Combined space:…
I know — this is very last-minute. But, if nothing else, you will have a second chance to catch KERA-TV’s second installment of Nowhere But Texas if you miss tonight’s airing, which begins at 7 p.m. on Channel 13, natch. There’s a Saturday-morning rebroadcast at 11:30, and it’s worth a…
See, it really is a Bridge to Nowhere. We’ve just posted the slide show from Sam’s trip to the Trinity Trust, where they unveiled the world’s most expensive and incomplete model in the history of glue. Seriously, after spending half a million dollars and taking two years, they couldn’t debut…
Two years ago, University of Texas-Dallas economics professor Catherine Eckel co-authored, with a Rice U. prof, a paper called Judging a Book by its Cover: Beauty and Expectations in the Trust Game. The premise: There’s such a thing called “the beauty penalty,” which, if I’m reading this right, means folks…
Man, American Airlines is getting the worst kind of PR imaginable today, as the Tale of Teresa Olaya spreads far and wide. And, look, the first part was bad enough: Miguel Olaya said he sent his wife’s corpse from Brooklyn to her native Ecuador for burial after she died in…
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Came across a quote from Texas Rangers’ bench Art Howe this morning that summed up the perverted perspective of our local baseball team: “ … if we finish second, we’ve had a heck of a…
Sam Merten Mayor Tom points to the two Trinity bridges, but does he know which is which? The big unveiling of the model for the Trinity River Corridor Project was held today at the Trinity Center, and, as expected, all the Trinity folks gathered to pay homage. A short press…
In February 2007, Rev. Nicholas Katinas — described by The Dallas Morning News as “the longtime, beloved pastor of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in North Dallas” — was suspended from the church because of allegations he’d sexually abused minors. At 1:30 today, one of those allegations will become yet…
We were at Dallas Farmers Market over the weekend, when, for the first time in a hundred or so visits, the boy spotted the plaque above, which is sort of obscured in its spot next to the still overwhelmingly empty Shed 2. (And the city’s still looking for vendors, for…
Our Man Merten’s over at Trinity Trust Foundation HQ for the big unveiling of the 20-foot-long model of the Trinity River Corridor Project, which should be happening right … about … now. His show-and-tell is due shortly. I only hope it’s more exciting than the public invite above, as in:…
Speaking of Mayor Tom, as we were below, turns out you can speak to the man himself in a couple of hours. He’ll be appearing on KERA-FM (90.1) at 1 p.m., as the guest on Krys Boyd’s Think. As for the subject: “What does the future hold for Dallas and…
Mayor Tom in China, pondering the global economy and the nice breeze. This morning’s China Daily, which is now being tossed on the front lawns of locals making more than 75,000 yuan, makes mention of Dallas’s efforts to do business with China. No surprise there; city officials, including several council…
Less than nine months after Charlie Palmer opened an outpost at The Joule downtown comes this exclusive announcement from GlobeSt.com: Downtown Dallas will, by summer 2009, have yet another steakhouse to gnaw on. It’ll be called Dallas Chop House, and it’ll go into the restaurant space currently sitting empty in…
From undrafted free agent to the cover of SI to the top of my rankings. Not bad, kid. Not bad at all. My first installment was such an, um, hit, that I decided, what the heck, let’s make this is a weekly staple. Everyone loves quarterbacks. Sports geeks love rankings…
In 2002, by way of public service, Patrick “Buzz” Williams and I taste-tested various flavors of legal highs, among them salvia divinorum, then a burgeoning novelty in your finer lifestyle accessory shops. The result: moving colors and fits of laughter, which lasted two minutes, and the hellacious headache that followed…
Kimberlee Hewitt The Washington Post said it would happen, and it did: Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued Dick Cheney, insisting that the vice president comply with the Presidential Records Act that demands he release his all records, including his rare collection of klezmer 78s, following the…
Probably should have mentioned this, like, oh, I dunno, Friday maybe? But, yes, I did host a late-night music show on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) on Saturday night that lasted till the wee small hours of Sunday morning. It’s called Till 2, as in: Nothing good ever happens after 2…
As we mentioned almost a month back, Carl Reiner and Martin Short will replace John Travolta tomorrow night at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, where Travolta was scheduled to show for a Q&A as part of the Brinker International Forum benefiting the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Of…
National Hurricane Center Up till an hour ago, Kenny Shaw, director of the City of Dallas’s Office of Emergency Management, didn’t know whether he’d even be able to use the Dallas Convention Center as temporary housing this weekend if, as expected right now, folks from the Gulf Coast flee north…
Surprise, I’m here. Cowboys’ head coach Wade Phillips, whose crisp, hard-edged hair line looked not unlike Jimmy Johnson’s (when Sunday’s game started at least), just finished his Day After press conference at Valley Ranch. At look at what he said. And, of course, what I think about what he said:…
It’s official: T. Boone Pickens — for whom the answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind — is a real author. Author enough, at least, to get invited to the Texas Book Festival down in Austin, which takes place November 1-2 down in Austin and today announced its lineup…
