Headline from The Dallas Morning News, posted at 7:50 a.m.: “Brinker predicts 40% gain in earnings.” Lead paragraph: “Brinker International Inc. Monday predicted its second-quarter earnings per share from continuing operations will be up nearly 40 percent, despite falling customer traffic at some of its restaurants.” Headline from the Associated…
In 1992, Stewart Weiss was the rabbi at Congregation Tiferet Israel on Hillcrest Road. He then picked up and moved his wife and six children to Israel — specifically, to the town of Ra’anana, a suburb of Tel Aviv populated with English-speaking immigrants. Weiss went to Israel to run the…
The original Continental Gin Company building was constructed in 1914 and turned into apartments 83 years later. In 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Dallas’ Only Daily brings word this afternoon that three of Deep Ellum’s most historic properties — all of which were converted…
As promised, the Museum of Nature & Science today announced the architect who will build the $155-million facility at the northwest corner of Woodall Rodgers Freeway and N. Field Street — and it’s none other than “the bad boy and angry young man of Los Angeles architecture” hisself: Pritzker Prize-winner…
Continuing our tour of local all-girls prep schools and the women who prepped there, we now bring you news of Hockadaisy Lisa Loeb’s latest endeavor: advice columnist. Only, sorry, it’s Jews-only. OK, fine, not necessarily — but, see, come Monday she’ll been A’ing your Q’s over at the Bintel Blog…
The real question is, what will June Jones do with his no doubt estimable collection of Hawaiian shirts? New SMU coach June Jones is the 15th highest-paid coach in college football. Fifteenth. Let that sink in for a second. At five years and $10 million, the Mustangs are paying for…
In May 2006, The Dallas Morning News ran a piece about the rise in requested Caesarean sections amongst the area’s “affluent, well-educated women.” Turns out, according to the government, that was the year during which so-called maternal request Cesareans rose to an all-time high — and the trend shows no…
Melinda French doesn’t do just a whole lot of interviews — she usually lets her husband, departing (or is that, departing?) Microsoftie Bill Gates, do the couple’s heavy high-profile lifting for the two of them, as she’s off running their foundation and raising their three kids. But this week, the…
Editor’s note: Now’s as good a time as any to introduce Unfair Park’s newest contributor, Sam Merten, whose work we’ve long enjoyed over at Dallas Blog. Sam will be writing for the blog and the paper version of Unfair Park, beginning … now. A new and improved timeline for the…
And here I thought I was the narcissist. I ain’t got nothing on Chidi Ogbuta of Allen, who, according to CNN’s Web site today, had a wedding cake made that looked just like her. Oh — and it was “person-sized.” Said the bride: “The cake actually fulfilled my childhood dream.”…
And now, on to something that should scare Cowboys fans much more than Tony Romo in Mexico. Like, Terrell Owens in street clothes. If you were hoping coach Wade Phillips would pronounce the receiver good to go during his afternoon press conference moments ago at Valley Ranch, prepare to be…
On Saturday I was in the AT&T store on Northwest Highway when I got a call on my new cellphone. Couldn’t make out a damned thing my friend on the other end was saying. I turned to the AT&T employee who’d just put me on the waiting list. Asked him,…
Tony Romo, at left, and Jason Witten, far right, have the damnedest way of studying game film during an off weekend ever. Just ask the odds-makers. I know it shouldn’t matter, but it does. Just doesn’t feel right, ya know? Seeing Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo in Mexico over the weekend…
This just in from ESPN.com: “June Jones will be introduced at a news conference today as the head coach at SMU, according to three sources familiar with the decision.” And if three people said it, it must be true. –Robert Wilonsky…
At noon today, the city council’s Public Safety Committee will meet at City Hall, and among the items on the agenda is “Proposed Adjustments to Sworn Disqualifiers.” In short, the committee will discuss whether the Dallas Police Department should lighten up on folks who want to become cops. There are…
Didn’t know it was hard to get, but thanks to The Dallas Morning News, it’ll now be easier to get The New York Times round these here parts. As in: The New York Times announced today that it has entered into an agreement with DFW Printing Company, the commercial printing…
They’re muy delicioso! And Lee Harvey Oswald smokes ’em too! –Robert Wilonsky…
I had no idea it paid so well to be a DISD student. That’s what it says in the new issue of U.S. News & World Report: In Dallas, high school students can pocket about $100 for every passing score on college-level examinations. The Advanced Placement Incentive Program “has created…
John O’Malley The New York Times this morning carries the obituary for John O’Malley, the Fort Worth-born, Plano-trained dancer and choreographer who died on December 26, at the age of 46. Says his paid bio this morning: He trained at the Chamberlain School of Ballet in Dallas before receiving scholarships…
June Jones said on Christmas Day he wasn’t coming to SMU. What’s he thinking today? Coulda sworn over the Christmas break that Hawaii head coach June Jones said no way he was interested in the SMU gig — as in, “I’m not gonna hear from them.” Two weeks later, and…
Fine, so Tony Romo might have been watching the New York Giants-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game from Los Cabos, Mexico, where the Cowboys QB and Jessica Simpson allegedly spent the weekend. But that ain’t Antonio Ramiro Romo in that People mag pic smuggled off the patio — not unless he grew…
Josh Venable, headin’ to the City of Angels Turns out, Josh Venable still works for Clear Channel after all — only, now it’s in Los Angeles. Clear Channel’s Dallas market manager, J.D. Freeman, sends words that today, it was officially announced that the former Adventure Club host and KDGE-FM (102.1)…
