Turning the Tables on Trinity Foundation

Ole’s at it again. Ole Anthony and his cohort at the Trinity Foundation are behind Senator Charles Grassley’s current investigation of six prominent televangelists. As a ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Grassley has sent letters to Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Bishop Eddie Long and…

Letter to UT Southwestern Medical Center’s V.I.P. Members

Dear Very Important Person: On behalf of UT Southwestern Medical Center’s staff, I wish to offer our sincere apologies for The Dallas Morning News’ recent publication of our list of 6,400 people guaranteed special treatment in the event they become patients at any of our facilities. We want to assure…

Cry Me a River|Terrible Thom

Cry Me a River Don’t listen to the 47 percent who say they are going to move to Seattle or wherever (“Cool Dallas,” by Jim Schutze, November 15). I have said the same thing on about 647 different occasions. Actually I am in school in San Antonio right now, and…

Greg Williams ‘Hammers’ The Ticket

The Hardline has never been sane. After this, it may never be the same. On Friday, October 12, the most popular sports talk radio show in the history of Dallas prepared for a routine remote broadcast at Addison’s Blackfin Pub. KTCK-1310 AM The Ticket afternoon co-host Mike Rhyner arrived on…

Kids Go Holistic at Robert Muller Center

Some years ago, I was fortunate enough to be an integral part of important research being done at a site in Tarrant County. It was an ongoing excavation project, already in progress for several years before my team arrived. While much data had already been collected, I recall well the…

Crocodile Nowitzki

Dirk Nowitzki was lost. And he was starting to stink. He had come this far, deep into the Australian Outback, and now that it was dark, he didn’t know where he was. Not exactly, anyway. He’d ended up on a patch of wind-swept dirt, surrounded by sagebrush and stiff yellow…

All Puffed Up

There, Jack E. Jett — this better? ”The only thing that will make a soufflé fall is if it knows you are afraid of it.” Thus spoke James Beard. Restaurateur Mark Maguire admits he had a fear of soufflés. When amateur gourmet Hedda Gioia Dowd — founder of the French…

Romo to Owens to Witten

Far as I know, there’s no ESPN the Magazine cover curse. Hell, far as I knew till a couple of minutes ago, there was no ESPN the Magazine — gave it up a while back, after my five-year free subscription finally ran out. But in a few days, three of…

Now, That’s the Holiday Spirit

ABC News/Good Morning America Rev. Rickie Rush and Isaac Booker appeared on ABC this morning. The things you miss by not watching morning shows. Good Morning America today hosted Rev. Rickie Rush of the Inspiring Body of Christ Church on South Westmoreland Road. And he was joined by a congregant,…

Peanuts, Worth More than Peanuts

This Peanuts strip fetched a small fortune at auction last week; you can print this version for nothing. Called it. After selling one of Charles Schulz’s original Peanuts strips earlier this year for $77,675, Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auction Galleries obliterated that figure by nearly 40 thou with the iconic…

Oak Cliff Boxer Was a Knock-Out at Golden Gloves Title Fight

Charles Hatley, world champ Oak Cliff’s Charlie Hatley may not be headed to the Olympics, but he now has another title to add to his resume: world champion. Over the weekend, Hatley won the Golden Gloves World Championship, and he couldn’t have done it in more impressive fashion. He knocked…

For Some, There’s Never a Bountiful Harvest

It was nothing short of a Major Event when Minyard Food Store opened a 50,000-square foot grocery at Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert B. Cullum boulevards in the Fair Park area in the September 1995. “I can’t believe we finally have what most people have in their communities,” a…

Ice Your Ball

I won’t pretend to know whether this is The Real Deal, but an eBay’er with much positive feedback is selling — for the low, low price of $2,000, so far — what he says is a football signed by the entirety of the 1967 Dallas Cowboys roster. Which means, yes,…

That’s a Bubble Wrap®!

A 9-year-old from Richardson came up with this invention. Oh, like you could do better. Most of the time, when I tell people what I do — which is, make fun of myself and my peers for a living — people respond with a hearty, “That’s so cool! You must…

In Limbo

More than two decades after being convicted of murder, Clay Chabot will get another trial. Susan Campbell, spokesman for the family of Galua Crosby, who was murdered in 1986, wants families of victims to be informed about developments when someone convicted of killing their loved one has been granted a…

Cowboy Up

Looks like you are paying for the new Cowboys stadium after all. If you’re a Dallas Cowboys season-ticket holder, you’ll soon be getting in the mail a silver envelope, the contents of which will be seat pricing for the new stadium. Warning: Before opening, please sit down. Got my grubby…

Free To Have a Ball

James Waller is one of the DNA exonerees expected to attend Saturday night’s DNA Blues Ball. Dunno how much posting we’ll be doing between now and the weekend — pretty sure some of us have families with whom we’d like to spend what’s apparently some kind of holiday or something?…

Broooooooooce!

Just got word that Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band will indeed make it to Dallas — on April 13. Where? No idea; not yet. I’d think the American Airlines Center, but Dallas and Houston, which follows the next night, are the only two cities on the just-released itinerary with…

A Florida Company is the Master of the Cowboys’ Domain Name

Exactly a month ago we mentioned how the folks who owned the domain name Cowboys.com thought they’d sold the moniker to the Dallas Cowboys — only, not so much, as Jerry Jones’ team wasn’t about to fork over $275,000 for the domain name. Especially not when the Cowboys thought they’d…