If we were Leo Chaney, we would so not make this our Christmas card. First, a disclaimer: We are in no way saying the video after the jump contains District 7 city council member Leo V. Chaney Jr. giving a desperate constituent the “yo mama” brush-off Saturday at the Dallas…
Turns out we’re not the only ones who appreciate the Round-Up Saloon. The popular Cedar Springs country bar caught the eye of Instinct magazine in its Best of 2006 issue as the “Best Gal-dang Gay Bar in the U.S. of A.” The issue isn’t up on the magazine’s site yet,…
Photo taken by Ash Creek resident Jack Loughead On Wednesday, Mike Orren, president and founder of Pegasus News, wrote here that Steve Crossett, the Austin-based landlord of the soon-to-be-closed Ash Creek Mobile Home Park, is the very reason 100 low-income residents are going to be displaced on February 9. Wrote…
There are two kinds of hip in Dallas. There’s “designer jeans and plastic surgery” hip, and there’s “I only go-to house parties and can’t believe how corporate WeShotJR has become lately” hip. What are the rest of us to do? Shop at the House of Dang!, of course. The new…
Think you know who killed J.F.K.? Yup, you were right: super patriots. No, not Captain America, although you never know. We’re talking “neo-patriots who thought they were doing something good for the country” by offing Kennedy during his trip to Dallas in November 1963. Actually, we’re not talking anything; me,…
Just in case you somehow managed to miss all the coverage of the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington this week, here’s perhaps the best perspective yet: a silent video prepared by the Dallas Cowboys and HKS Architects and provided by the folks at Cowboys Football. It’s kind of like…
Quick guess: Is this moment the happiest in Jerry Jones’ life or, uh, not so much? This just in: Terrell Owens admits he isn’t Superman. Yathink? Gawd. If you’re not going to Saturday’s titanic Southlake Carroll-Allen High School semifinal at Texas Stadium or eschewing mainstream menus and taking in America’s…
It’s not the best of vibes inside the Startlegram offices: The editors like a redesign that the writers can’t stand. But you know writers — bunch of know-it-all whiners, ain’t we? In about four months, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram will go through yet another redesign. Already there’s a prototype floating…
In the Kansas City Star on Sunday, columnist E. Thomas McClanahan wrote that when it came to predicting how the war in Iraq was gonna turn out, he was pretty much wrong, wrong and wrong. (As in, from April 2003: “Iraq has been destroyed as a haven for terrorists.” See?…
About a month ago we mentioned how suddenly there had been a rash of stories showing up about how the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau was out working hard to woo gay tourists. Well, you know who doesn’t like that? (And, no, Bible Girl does not count as an answer.)…
Day laborers in Garland don’t like to be watched by people with binoculars. Weird, isn’t it? Garland, the setting for the cover story in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, finds itself in an awkward position. Like cities and towns across the country that have built labor centers where…
It began as a typical Sunday-morning service. Really doesn’t matter where, but since you’re curious, it was in a South Dallas church. There was an opening prayer. A handful of praise songs. A solo. Nothing that presaged much of anything. By the end of the morning it would sink in…
Christmas came early today for the Dallas Independent School District, which could use good news like it could use $8 million in grant money. That’s how much it got from the New York-based Wallace Foundation, whose mission is to “enable institutions to expand learning and enrichment opportunities for all people.”…
Lamar Hunt, right, and then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle created the Super Bowl thanks to a tiny “super ball.” It was impossible not to like Lamar Hunt. At age 28 he took on the established National Football League with a new venture founded by a bunch of businessmen he self-mockingly called…
The parents of 2-year-old Micah Diffee, who was born with deformed legs and club feet, ran in the White Rock Marathon to raise money for Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, which has cared for Micah since his birth. Don’t mean to get all sappy on you today. Or, maybe…
Though The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that the board of Aussie airline Qantas unanimously rubber-stamped an $8.7 billion buyout led by Fort Worth-based Texas Pacific Group and Australia’s Allco Equity Partners Ltd., BusinessWeek notes that Qantas later declared “the terms of the proposal are not acceptable.” The deal…
The Bronco Bowl was one of many things Dallas wouldn’t have had without Lamar Hunt. Now, both are gone. I am sure Richie will be along shortly to offer his thoughts on Lamar Hunt, who died last night of complications from prostate cancer at Presbyterian Hospital. Services will be Saturday…
It is early one Saturday in November, still dark, and Clark Kirby and his volunteers are on their way to spy on a group of Latino men waiting for a chance to paint, saw, dig or demolish. I’ll be going on this stealth mission too. I just don’t know where…
In February 2005, Alice Lynch-Fullen visited her brother, Christopher Lynch, at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center after he was arrested on rape charges in Grand Prairie. A large, imposing man, Lynch had ligature marks around his neck, alerting his distraught sister that he had tried to hang himself. “Don’t let…
Following up: This week, National Public Radio’s On the Media program broadcast a story about how the media’s love of a narrative and themes can tilt our perception of reality. Early on, reporters fixed on the “big story” notion that President Bush is a doofus who leaves the tough decisions…
Don Schutze Crooks, hucksters, etc.: I lived in D.C. in 1978, and I was a young lad working on Capitol Hill when Marion Barry was first elected mayor. That was so long ago you could drive your broken-down Toyota right past the gates in front of the White House. Fast-forward…
All he wants for Christmas is his two front feet. You’d wish for that too if, like 2-year-old Micah Diffee, you were born with disfigured legs bent backward and twisted like pretzels, the soles of your feet pressed against your bottom. “By far the toughest thing I’ve ever gone through,”…
