In case you missed yesterday’s All Things Considered, the National Public Radio show ran a lengthy segment about the Barnett Shale and, more specifically, Chesapeake Energy’s efforts to sell urban gas drilling to the folks getting drilled. And, yes, among the subjects discussed is ShaleTV, which hired Tracy Rowlett away…
Here’s something else guaranteed to drive Schutze crazy: Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s love letter to Dallas Area Rapid Transit, produced to commemorate its 25th anniversary on August 13. Odd thing is, the production values of the video actually make it look and sound as though it was actually made in…
About three months back we noted the Department of Justice’s revelation that three hackers had managed to sneak into Dallas-based Dave & Buster’s credit-card system and sneak out with customers’ credit card numbers, expiration dates and security codes. Which was bad enough. Turns out, the international operation was much, much,…
Someone dipped their cinematic chocolate in my sportsy peanut butter this morning. Hurrah! –Robert Wilonsky…
Kevin Moriarty, installed as Dallas Theater Center artistic director in June ’07, makes his debut as DTC director later this month with, of all things, The Who’s Tommy. Moriarty also makes his debut as DTC spokesman (not counting his video chitchat with Elaine in April) with this just-posted pitch for…
Dunno how much that petition had to do with it, but Your Favorite Dallas Maverick Dirk Nowitzki was indeed named Germany’s Olympic opener flag-bearer this morning during a media whassup. The main Mav will hoist the colors during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, which takes place…
Jesse Garcia Back in March, there was concern amongst some local Stonewall Democrats that the rift between its Hillary Clinton supporters and Barack Obama backers had become way too “intense.” In Clinton’s corner was Jesse Garcia, the organization’s president; in Obama’s, you had Stonewall Democrats of Dallas co-founder Gary Fitzsimmons,…
The Cowboys don’t open the preseason until Saturday night, but tonight arrives what most of you have been squirming for. At 9 on HBO: Hard Knocks. I was at camp in Oxnard last week and, trust me, there’s a camera everywhere everyone turns. Expect owner Jerry Jones to be a…
Daniel Rodrigue Daniel came back with plenty of photos from Tom Leppert’s haircut appointment this afternoon, which, as you’ll notice from the gaggle of cameramen crowded around the mayor, will go on record as the best-documented haircut in Dallas mayoral history. (Slide show, maybe?) Best part of the photo, though,…
Daniel Rodrigue We’re pretty sure Cedric Bolden pretended to cut Mayor Tom’s hair. Because it always looks the same. Always. Still, Leppert did get a lollipop afterwards. So cute. Unfair Park dropped by Cedric B’s on 321 S. Corinth at 3 today to watch Mayor Tom get his head cut…
Back on February 20, I filed an open records request with the City of Dallas to get information about the convention center hotel project, along with any communications between Mayor Leppert and council members regarding Lynn Flint Shaw, the former DART board chair who was killed by husband Rufus less…
Or bust? Everyone – from NFL Films prez Steve Sabol to gambling websites to this dork — is picking the Cowboys to go to the Super Bowl. But out at training camp in Oxnard, Calif., players, coaches and even owner Jerry Jones are being very careful to avoid hyping the…
David Gordon Green In The New York Times today, Richardson High School’s own David Gordon Green talks about transitioning from Indieland to Hollywood — specifically, how he went from making such elegiac films as George Washington and All the Real Girls to the stoner bromance Pineapple Express, which, you certainly…
Last month, the Department of the Army published War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003-2007, a textbook selling for $71 on Amazon, which is currently out of stock. It’s not exactly a coffee-table tome, as The New York Times notes today that “the pictures show shredded…
Now that the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee has recommended renaming Ross Avenue for Cesar Chavez — surprise, surprise, surprise — the great Emilio Velasquez Jr. has a suggestion that I think we should all take very, very seriously. I’ve pulled it out of the comments, because, frankly,…
Belo at its best. Dallas’ Only Daily sports columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor (wearing a white lab coat, v-neck sweater, bow tie, scruffy, proletarian mustache and Bluetooth earpiece, peculiarly speaking with a robust Irish accent): Ya know what I’ve been thinking? Dallas’ Only Daily sports columnist Tim Cowlishaw (wearing a white lab…
Following last week’s gruesome attack on one of its Canadian buses, Dallas-based Greyhound has yanked a nearly year-old ad campaign — this one, to be specific, which was aimed at the 18- to 24-year-old would-be bus rider. No doubt, a very wise move. Odd thing is, the ads were already…
Seems like the sound of fun no longer surrounds Six Flags, which, according to this front-page piece in this morning’s Wall Street Journal, is “weighed down by $2.4 billion of debt, and faces a $288 million payment to preferred stockholders next August.” The amusement park chain, founded in Arlington in…
Amusing. Entertaining. Exciting. But magical? Nope, not yet. The Texas Rangers produced another dramatic climax last night, beating the Yankees on Marlon Byrd’s 9th-inning grand slam. With fans doing that retarded “Byrd Dance” where they girlishly flap their arms like a, um, ya know, bird, Byrd launched the first pitch…
Someone totally not busted up about the shuttering of Plano-based Benningan’s last week? Jon Stewart, who, in the clip below, introduces the worst fast-casual concept since Shenaniganz. Speaking of, this morning there’s more bad news for Dallas-based Brinker International. –Robert Wilonsky…
This morning, I believe — five games back of Boston for the wild card, no problem, not with Marlon Byrd at the plate with two outs and the bases loaded. Then again, the Rangers still have the White Sox, Twins and Yanks in their way as well. Won’t be easy…
You know who kinda hearts Barack Obama today? T. Boone Pickens. No kiddin’. The Dallas oil billionaire who’s out selling his plan to “create a new renewable energy network” today released a statement following Obama’s speech in which the Democratic presidential nominee outlined his energy plan. Notes Pickens: “I’m strongly…
