Julia Roberts was once a pretty spokesperson for Earth Biofuels. Now, she’s but a runaway bride. I’ve gotten several inquiries in recent days from Earth Biofuels shareholders wanting to know if there’s any news concerning their, ahem, investment. Yes, indeed: This very week, the Dallas-based manufacturer and distributor of biodiesel,…
If you have a few minutes to kill this morning, here’s our pick for Federal Lawsuit Filing of the Week. On Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Texarkana, William T. Mason filed a complaint against the City of Dallas, claiming that on September 22, 2005, he was extremely hassled by…
KTVT-Channel 11 No one has yet explained what those two women were doing in the alley to discover the cache of tossed-out books. On Tuesday, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll revealed that one in four adults didn’t crack a single book during the past year. Among those polled was a local:…
On last night’s Top Chef, Tré Wilcox just had the gone-awry look of a man who might be going home. This morning, Anthony Bourdain’s Top Chef blog entry asks the same question on the minds of the show’s most faithful followers: “So what happened with Tre?” That’s Tré Wilcox, of…
This column is being delivered in a whisper. Don’t want to wake the devil, you know. The one named T.O., which sits opposite the microscopic angel on the shoulder of Terrell Eldorado Owens. Keep him slumbering and the Dallas Cowboys just might wind up in the Super Bowl. Provoke him…
It was the kind of day when even a quick dash across a parking lot means a sticky, sweaty shirt and glistening hairline. Despite the heat, Shelly sat in her car, her hands gripping the steering wheel, her heart pounding. For 30 minutes, the blond, beautiful woman sat shaking. The…
It began in early July, when a helicopter pilot conducting drug surveillance looked down into a heavily wooded area near the Trinity River and noticed something odd. Among the trees and brush, he saw a thicket of green, leafy plants that looked suspicious. He circled and photographed the area; authorities…
He Schutze, He Scores Nothing new there: Once again, Jim Schutze strikes like lightning (“Mirror, Mirror,” by Jim Schutze, August 16). It’s true that coverage of the toll road election by The Dallas Morning News is self-serving, intentionally misleading and intellectually dishonest. Nothing new there. Does James Ragland ever write…
Pee-yew: Oh, man, you can almost smell it coming. This is only August, and the scent of what promises to be an ugly local election cycle is wafting on the breeze. That’s the sort of thing that Buzz used to greet clapping, kicking our little legs and chanting oboyoboyoboyo. This…
In the 1940s, he was famous enough to sell Coca-Cola. Thirty years later, it was Contac cold medicine—because “dribblers need us,” said the advertisement for the runny-nose curative in which he was prominently featured, bouncing a basketball. Bouncing a ball is what he did professionally, and he did it for…
It should come as little surprise that today Governor Rick Perry, whose aides have publicly questioned the existence of global warming, has appointed a career bureaucrat with no little environmental knowledge, to chair the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Buddy Garcia, one of three TCEQ commissioners, will replace Kathleen Hartnett…
While the Holy Land Foundation trial focuses attention on the role, if any, the Dallas-based charity had in financing Hamas, another Dallas-based charity has quietly dropped its lawsuit against author and former Bush administration official Matthew Levitt and his publisher over similar allegations. Writer Greg Krikorian of the Los Angeles…
It’s almost over. The Stoneleigh Hotel sends us this p.m. a press release announcing the near-completion of its renovations — which cost some $30 million, making it, says the release, “one of the largest historical renovations underway in Texas.” OK, if you say so. (By the way, the Stoneleigh blog…
Ron Kirk made a few bucks off the TXU buyout. Last week, Texans for Public Justice reported that TXU and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and TPG Capital, who are finalizing their deal to buy the energy provider, spent nearly $17 million this year “to convince state officials not to…
Thank you, Sports Illustrated. Because of you, we have a reason to finally post the following infamous clip that you should definitely not watch before, during or immediately after lunch. To wit: Someday Riley Dodge would like to be known as the first quarterback to lead Southlake Carroll High to…
These folks, at least, love the catfish and hush puppies at the Duck Inn in Lake Dallas; then again, the joint has been around since World War II was still raging, so, yeah, it’s probably not so bad. (Says the family that’s owned it since the joint was nothing more…
There’s a new death-of-the-music-biz report circulating today, courtesy the Lewisville-based Institute for Policy Innovation. Titled “The True Cost of Sound Recording Piracy to the U.S. Economy,” the 28-page study says that the music industry’s losing, oh, $12 billion in revenue each year — and thousands and thousands of jobs as…
So, in the end, the judges on NBC’s America’s Got Talent decided they liked the guy with the dummy better than the guy who sang reggae-tinged covers of creaky pop hits. Sorry, Cas Haley — looks like Dallas ventriloquist Terry Fator is the million-dollar man, and, well, there’s little doubt…
A former professor of mine at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Stephen Fried, has just released his fourth book, and while it has nothing to do specifically with Dallas, it’s a great read for any married man — or any married woman. Fried, who is best known for…
Swinging — and not, like, on the playground — is big business, says this Reuters piece. But the very last paragraph makes us wonder, like, why: Swinging also boosts ancillary services such as breast enhancements and erectile dysfunction drugs. “Viagra is definitely part of the adult scene,” said Deborah, a…
After we posted Avi Adelman’s much-commented-on short film yesterday, we got an e-mail from Allen Gwinn, who wanted to know whether we’d seen the video he posted to Dallas.org on Saturday. Not at the time, but we have now: It’s a clip from some surveillance footage provided by a woman…
You went through all the trouble of having a baby — the screwing, the swelling, the pushing, the cooing, the gawking, the beginning tinges of regret — and now what are you going to do? Cover the damned thing up, of course! With a Secure2Me baby blanket. Designed by Dallas…
