Happy Birthday! Our country turns the ripe old age of 232 tomorrow. Between burgers and beers and bikinis, let us not forget how fortunate we are to have a variety of sports and the freedom to choose which ones we love and loathe. In honor of the Fourth of July…
While the All-Star Game is two weeks away, Your Texas Rangers are officially past the halfway point in the season and sit seven and a half games back of Los Angeles in the American League West following last night’s drubbing at the hands of the New York Yankees. Which means…
As getting someone from Google to respond to a media query is nigh upon impossible, for the moment we’ll have to take Philipp Lenssen’s word for it, which oughta be good enough. He’s the German-based bossman behind Google Blogoscoped, which today is reporting that Google is shuttering its Dallas office…
Yesterday, Allstate released its 4th Annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report™,” which manages to get pretty specific — not only are cities ranked according to traffic safety, but also by such categories as “Males” vs. “Women,” “Pre Baby Boomers” vs. “Baby Boomers” and “Generation X” vs. “Generation Y.” But when…
Last night I took a shower with Shawn Williams of Dallas South — no, wait, that did not come out right. Let me rephrase: Last night at 9, KERA-FM (90.1) got around to airing Wednesday’s episode of National Public Radio’s News & Notes, during which Williams joined host Farai Chideya…
We’re the first, because we’re the best! Coming to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in August: “Baggage Carousel advertising.” Or, as it’s more commonly called, “screw-you money.” AdWeek’s blog is much more sensitive: “More reasons to be annoyed at the airport.” –Robert Wilonsky…
After last night’s debut, I hope he didn’t throw away this jacket. As I’ve mentioned a couple times this week, the Rangers are suddenly watchable again. Fun, even. But last night’s 18-7 loss to the Yankees proves why their still not legit contenders for anything more than a healthy appetizer…
On the occasion of Ghostbar’s second anniversary, the folks at N9NEGroup Dallas posted to Vimeo what must be the world’s longest video slide show — I bailed at the 12:47 mark (and stopped paying attention long before that), which isn’t even halfway through the epic. Though, really, I’d have ended…
Daniel Rodrigue Ray Hunt The Dallas Morning News’ A1 story concerning a Congressional committee’s investigation into the Hunt Oil Company’s controversial deal with the regional Kurdistan government is a fine summary of yesterday’s revelations. But The New York Times had Jim Landers outnumbered five-to-one, and it shows in a detailed…
“American Girls,” by Glenna Whitley, June 19 Daddy Dearest As a now-adult daughter of an Egyptian father and American mother (along with having one sister as well), I was more than horrified to read “American Girls.” Thankfully, my experience with my father has been different. My father has given to…
Caro’s 205 N. Garcia St. Rio Grande City 956-487-2255 Since 1937 and Caro’s 3505 Blue Bonnet Circle Fort Worth 817-924-9977 Since 1954 What to get: Tostadas and puffed tacosBoth locations are run by the third-generation of Modesta Caro’s family, and both offer hot, pillowy tostadas and puffed tacos in a…
It’s been a hard-knock life for Jenny the elephant. She was captured in Africa in 1976 and came to the Dallas Zoo in 1986. Her time there has been marred by self-inflicted abscesses on her right rear foot and “aggressive-dominance behaviors” toward a fellow elephant named Vasha, leading to three…
Organic brick: The cry went up almost immediately after the story broke in The Dallas Morning News last week that investment firm Beck Ventures was looking into buying 10 acres in Deep Ellum, presumably for redevelopment. “We don’t want West Village II!” the clamor went. “Save our beloved history!” The…
Editor’s note: This story was published in print on July 10, 2008. The Hammer is half-cocked. The hammer is cocked. His resolve eroded, ego fed to the furnace and suicide notes written, Greg Williams is a trigger pull from eternal mute. He is besieged by pain, haunted by guilt…
Just got this from a Peruna-proud Friend of Unfair Park, concerning the football team’s uniforms for the upcoming season: The SMU football team will don new uniforms in 2008, it was announced today. SMU will return to white helmets and white pants and will have three jerseys to choose from:…
Right now, there are some dudes over at the Crescent going, “What the hell did we just invest in again?” Crescent Court-based Maverick Capital — which, says here, is “a $10 billion hedge fund” — has gotten into the online video business. It’s done sunk some $30 million into Youku,…
Thomas Urquidez and his wife, with some of the T.J. Patriots who’ve achieved Academic Success Sure, fine — you can “T.J. Who?” me all you want. Won’t make a difference. Not today, as Friend of Unfair Park and Dallas Independent School District yeasayer Louisa Meyer sends word that 21 kids…
Later this summer, Zenescope Entertainment will debut a comic book titled Beyond Wonderland, featuring cover art by J. Scott Campbell, a fave among the fanboys who dig his drawings of the rather busty danger girls. This morning, Zenoscope sent us a completed cover, and it looked a tad like one…
Welcome to Dallas, Sean Avery. You’re so awesome. –Robert Wilonsky…
Director Barak Epstein, a local boy who got his start being Troma-tized by Lloyd Kaufman, sends word that he’s spilling his made-around-town Blood on the Highway July 11 at the Lakewood Theater. Also on the bill with the tongue-in-neck vampire film, notes Epstein: “a few other local short films and…
Motor Trend weighs in on Texas’ Drive a Clean Machine program — by, more or less, encouraging folks from outside the state to drive their exhaust-spewing beater to the Dallas, Houston or Austin areas so they can cash in on the $3,000 exchange program. Looking to upgrade to a shiny…
Last time local scrivener Will Clark published a short story in a tome edited by John McNally, he was blessed with the caterwauling of a Rhode Island mother who called for his shiny pate on a platter. She didn’t take kindly to her kiddo being taught Clarke’s autobiographical tale “How…
