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…
Over on the Web site for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents American Airlines’ flight attendants, comes word today that the airlines is furloughing 900 flight attendants. Not surprisingly, American says the furloughs are necessary “due to the reduction in our fleet” and the recent axing of flights…
ABC News reminds us this morning of the North American Solar Challenge that revs up on July 13 — a sort of 10-day solar-powered Cannonball Run that will find 25 collegiate teams racing from Plano to Calgary, which measures some 2,400 miles. Notes the story: What began as a modest…
Don’t mince words, Sam, how do you really feel about Mayor Tom? –Robert Wilonsky…
A curious note in the in-box this a.m. from Tanna Gilder, wife of the legendary Charlie — man behind Circle A Ranch, the Twilite Room and, of course, Bar of Soap. Has to do with some kind of “misunderstanding” between the owner of the Exposition Park building — Lou Reese,…
Could you take this dude? Do you even care? At the risk of getting my ass kicked by a 106-pound 19-year-old, Luis Yanez should shut his pie-hole and follow the rules. That is, if like he says, his dream is to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. Duncanville’s Yanez,…
Hetal Jannu, left, and Anuja Balasubramanian Courtesy USA Today, word of a local cooking show — on the YouTubes and out of Frisco. Stay-at-home moms Hetal Jannu and Anuja Balasubramanian are the hosts of the Web-only Show Me the Curry, for which they’ve made some 100 how-to videos for everything…
Sam Merten Sheriff Lupe Valdez and District Attorney Craig Watkins, trying to put the commissioners’ threat of a lawsuit out of commission. As you may know by now, the Dallas County commissioners voted unanimously this morning to seek a court order stopping the Discovery Channel from filming a documentary inside…
So much for there being a Starbucks on every corner. Because today the company announced it’s shuttering “approximately 600 underperforming company-operated stores” in the U.S. — only, it hasn’t announced where, not yet. That may come in a few minutes: At 4:30, Pete Bocian, the coffee seller’s chief financial officer,…
Trademark Property Company Oddly, we have this same painting hanging over the bed. For those bored by today’s news, how about something from tomorrow’s New York Times. Like, oh, this business story about how Fort Worth-based Trademark Property Company developed the 52-acres Watters Creek Shopping Center up in Allen –…
KTYS program director Vic Thomas Vic Thomas, midday host and program director at the relaunched KTYS-FM (96.7), which went from new country to old pop yesterday, called Unfair Park with further details concerning the change — which, turns out, stems from Citadel Broadcasting Corp. bossman Farid Suleman’s love affair with…
Deja Diop? DeSagana Diop? Matt Barnes? Shan Foster? Be still my bouncy basketball heart. Because the Dallas Mavericks are apparently going to next year look a lot like they did last year. Or, come to think of it, a lot like they did in 2006. NBA free agency started with…
From Australian public television, host Richard Snashall rides the Dallas Area Rapid Transit rail. Looks like he had a g’day, mate! –Robert Wilonsky…
Josh Venable, still a member of The Edge’s Adventure Club Josh Venable, who called yesterday with some news he wanted to share, needs to put down his cellphone for a second. He’s out in Los Angeles and on the air, working the day shift at KYSR-FM (98.7) — among Southern…
Sean Greene, the Dallas Zoo’s director of community relations, read yesterday’s item about folks protesting the zoo’s moving Jenny the elephant to the Africam Safari Park in Puebla, Mexico. Then he read the comments, which keep piling up from people who’d rather see Jenny sent to an elephant sanctuary in…
As you’re no doubt aware, the Institute for Creation Research wanted the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to let the joint hand out master’s degrees in science — and failed at the end of April. Which doesn’t mean the Royal Lane-based institute’s giving up: Today, Henry Morris, the institute’s CEO,…
