Life is a Carnival, Except When Not

Jerry’s on Henderson — well, it used to be. Avi Adelman, who I think Schutze mentioned a few weeks ago, has the highlights of and lowdown on the planned redevelopment of the former Carnival grocery site on Henderson Avenue and Rowena Street, down to the conceptual site plan (nice pool…

Dallas, Google Sees You

I’ve spent the better part of the morning trolling the highways and byways of Dallas — the side streets and parking lots too, damned near every nook and cranny of our fair city. And, of course, I never left the laptop: This morning, Dallas and Ft. Worth join Boston, Indianapolis,…

Kenya See Why You Didn’t Win the White Rock Marathon?

It’s no surprise that Kenyans took the top spots at yesterday’s White Rock Marathon — or that they beat our pathetic Matt Pulle, who finished a measly 17th because of “hamstring problems” and a “lack of support along Swiss Avenue” and “Ross Perot Jr.” Anyone who has ever watched even…

Wet ‘n Wedgie

Always was a Six Flags Over Texas kinda gal myself, spending day after sweat-drenched day in black Jncos, circling the park with my best friend, hoping that a 17-year-old park janitor would pick us up and teach us the true meaning of love in Casa Magnetica. But there were occasional…

Tré Boogies

Tré Wilcox, out at Abacus Uber-cook and Top Chef competitor Tré Wilcox has resigned from Abacus to focus on leveraging his 15-plus fame minutes on a television career, according to a statement issued by Abacus’s publicist moments ago. Wilcox, who’s been with the restaurant since its inception seven years ago,…

Jerry Stackhouse’s Defense? Dogs.

Jerry Stackhouse, pictured on his Web site Two weeks after Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor was killed in his Miami apartment, pro athletes are getting a little … paranoid. Some guys are buying dogs; others, guns. And most are just trying to keep their heads down, reports USA Today, which…

T. Boone Pickens Picks Up His Son’s Bill For Stock Fraud Scheme

T. Boone Pickens just gave his son a very expensive Christmas present. T. Boone Pickens just got through ponying up $6 million in order to fund “a comprehensive revitalization strategy that will touch on education, crime, housing, employment and community services” in the Fair Park-area Jubilee Park neighborhood. Now, his…

Merry Christmas, Cowboys

DallasCowboys.com From goat to hero — it’s a fine line. Ask Jason Witten. The Dallas Cowboys will have their annual team Christmas party tonight. Psst, I know what they’re getting: A gift-wrapped 28-27 victory over the Detroit Lions. If there was any doubt about this being a magical season of…

The Revolution, One Slice at a Time

Eddie Sotelo’s million radio listeners will now get an earful about how they need a mouthful of Pizza Patron. Genius. Eduardo “Eddie” ‘Piolín” Sotelo is perhaps the most popular and influential radio-show host in the U.S. and A. (for now, anyway). Last year, through his nationally syndicated radio show (which…

Happy Birthday, Lethal Injection!

At this very moment down in Huntsville, folks are marking the 25th anniversary of lethal injection in the U.S. at the Texas Prison Museum, which is hosting a panel discussion titled, fittingly, “25 Years of Lethal Injection: What Have We Learned?” Good question — same one the Supreme Court’s scheduled…

Hollywood Henderson Will Sack a Neighborhood Activist, If He Has To

Down in Austin — Central East Austin, to be specific — they’re wrestling with how to keep giant McMansions from over-running a neighborhood filled with small lots and smaller houses, which doesn’t sound familiar at all. Yesterday the Austin American-Statesman profiled a neighborhood group trying to further tighten existing regulations…

Ad Agency, Minus a Few

Seem to recall it wasn’t so long ago that Dallas-based virtual advertising agency imc2 was recognized as a top-10 “digital agency” by Advertising Age. In May, the Dallas Business Journal ranked it as a pretty swell place to work, and only last week Adweek wrote a nice profile of the…

Dallas Man Wants Goverment to Account for All of Its Gold

C’mon, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee. Can’t you just hug it out? Far as I know, all the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else’s name. But that’s just not good enough for Dallas’ William J. Murphy III, who happens to be…

Wine, Wine, Wine

This wine tastes very … Northwest Dallas, with a hint of pepper. “This is one of the most unique and unusual holiday gifts opportunities ever available to Dallasites.” Hey, I’m all for that — especially if it’ll get you drunk. And, yeah, as it turns out there are some 300…

Something Special at Your Front Door at 3 in the Morning

From an October 2007 Today show story — ironic, right? Question for Tim Wagner, The Voice of American Airlines and Friend of Unfair Park: Is it customary for American to return lost luggage to its rightful owner at 3 in the morning? Just wondering, because it happened to Don Teague,…

Chip Moody, Ready for Action!

A video double feature this a.m., courtesy “eyeontv,” who yesterday posted to the YouTubes these ancient KXAS-Channel 5 promos featuring Chip Moody and shockingly topless sports guy Jim Brinson, who really puts the “action” in Action News. Moody, during this period, was particularly hunky — Dirty Harry, with only a…

Why You Should Never Dance In Public, People. Ever.

ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” + Neiman Marcus 100th anniversary shindig in downtown + free alcohol + rented tuxedos + white people “dancing” = exactly what you’d expect. I expect this was posted to the Interwebs yesterday as part of some kind of extortion scheme? Also, a version for those who prefer…

“Did the President Give You This Number?”

Ponder’s just a few miles southwest of Denton; ’bout 430 folks live there, give or take. HQ’d there is a private school by the name of Freedom Christian Academy, where, my guess is, they don’t teach bar mitzvah classes. Probably a safe bet to say the phone doesn’t ring off…