The perfect rollin’ model? Because I like Josh Howard (remember, I used to love him), I’m going to attempt to write this item with a straight face. You, however, knock yourself out. Insert your own marijuana-related punch lines whenever you feel the urge. Fresh off a horrible and horribly short…
Jay Burress See, sooner or later everything in Dallas winds up in Arlington — even the folks who sell Dallas to tourists and convention-goers; “trading up,” I think it’s called. Notes the The Startelegram today, Jay Burress — currently the senior vice president of sales and marketing for the Dallas…
Press release or public service announcement? Again, hard to tell. Nonetheless, here’s a fiscal win-win for those who not only like the Chick-fil-A but also like it free: On Thursday, the chicken eatery that seasons its meat with a touch of Jesus will offer a year’s worth of Chick-fil-A Combo…
Via The New York Times’ DealBook blog comes word — or, perhaps in this instance, The Word — that Dallas Theological Seminary student Chris Wyatt’s GodTube is flush with dough-re-mi courtesy a NYC hedge fund. Reports PaidContent.org, New York-based GLG Partners has blessed the site with $30 million, which is…
Sports radio war? Eh, sorta. In response to this item, I’ve received several inquiries asking for a detailed tale-of-the-tape between The Ticket and ESPN Radio. Ask and you shall receive. At least this time. Among the coveted and targeted demographic of men 25-54, The Ticket has roughly twice as many…
As expected, the new appraisals from the Dallas County Appraisal District on 13 parcels owned by Chavez Properties was a small sample of a massive increase in appraised values downtown. A random sampling of downtown appraisals, conducted using DCAD’s Web site, shows a consistent revaluing of parcels from $30 and…
We got a logo! Can February 6, 2011, be that far off? At the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s initial press conference today out at the Cowboys new stadium, all sorts of dignitaries — Troy Aikman, Ross Perot Jr, Tom Leppert, Terdema Ussery — pledged their support and…
A preview of what Brett Landes has planned in the former Hard Rock location on McKinney Avenue Developer Brett Landes of the Landes Group has unveiled his development plans for the 0.85-acre plot at Routh and McKinney that was home to the Hard Rock Café and, before that, the McKinney…
Those Friends for whom the sight of, oh, hedge clippers plunged into eye sockets is a bit too much may wanna stay away from this interview with Dallas filmmaker Israel Luna. The rest of you are welcome to visit Fangoria for just-posted sneak-peek pics from Luna’s latest offering, Fright Flick,…
According to the New York Daily News today, President Bush ain’t none too happy with the housing prices in his once and future hometown. Notes Tom DeFrank on the paper’s D.C. blog, George W. has … … been muttering about the spike in real estate prices in Dallas since he…
Nasher Sculpture Center Raymond D. Nasher Those Friends of Unfair Park wondering what to do with the spare change scrounged from their couch, take note: Sotheby’s in New York is set, this Friday, to auction off some 200 pieces in the collection of Ray and Patsy Nasher, among them works…
Whilst cleaning out my office the other day, I came across a copy of Esquire that, just so happens, hit newsstands exactly 40 years ago this month. The cover, conceived by the legendary George Lois, was a publishing first, insisted the legendary Arnold Gingrich in the publisher’s note: “the first…
Numero uno. Pretty sure I should call in Gustavo for a round of Ask a Mexican on this, but with it being Cinco de Mayo and all I thought I should at least give it a go. How about a very unofficial list of the five greatest Mexican athletes in…
Excuse me, where are the crayons? Oh, expecting lots of kids, eh? Sure, makes sense to hide their materials then. Took the 4-year-old who lives in our house to the Dallas Museum of Art yesterday, to check out the just-opened Center for Creative Connections making a freebie sneak peek over…
In case you missed the end of Stars-Starks Game 6 (and 7 and part of 8) — only because the end came long after yesterday turned into today, ’round 1:24 in the a. m. — here’s the conclusion, which sends Dallas to the Western Conference Finals for the first time…
For those who missed last night’s 60 Minutes — about how Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and the Innocence Project are taking on “the Wade legacy,” in the words of Scott Pelley — the entire 12-minute segment is after the jump. Among the reasons the story is especially extraordinary:…
While most of you were sleeping, this guy scored. Exciting. Excruciating. Exhausting. … Exalting. In an epic hockey game that climaxed a fantastic series and prompted lots of bleary eyes, Brenden Morrow scored in the fourth overtime — at 1:23 a.m. thank you very much — to give the Dallas…
Frank Campagna, as mentioned here Thursday, had all of four hours yesterday to make Rogers Waters a brand-new piggie for the former Floyd’s show last night at Starplex. We were gonna document the start-to-finish, but the Kettle Art-ist was too under-the-gun to allow interlopers. Alas, it was too bad, as…
Is it just me, or does the next coach of the Dallas Mavericks look like Jim Carrey? In news that’ll jazz you about as much as finding an old penny in your jeans pocket, it looks more and more like the Mavericks are going to hire former Pacers and Pistons…
Paybacks are hell, eh? That sound you hear is coming from Buffalo. In the form of laughter. It took almost a decade, but the hockey Gods may have finally evened the score with the Stars, as Brenden Morrow had what clearly looked like a legal goal disallowed in a Game…
The impact from yesterday’s big news about the massive increases in downtown land values by the Dallas Central Appraisal District will not be fully realized until other appraisals are released in coming days. But two distinctly different schools of thought have emerged, along with both sides playing the blame game…
Tonight, Chelsea Handler, the star of E!’s Chelsea Lately, takes on two Dallas venues with her stand-up-slash-book tour, during which she’s pimping Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea. I got a call from the no-holds-barred comic and heard about her obsession with the small and fat, her passion for…
