There are two kinds of people I live to please: public figures and publicists. Nothing makes me happier than when I’ve worshipfully (or dutifully) touted their products and causes. Thus, in the spirit of commercialism and Christmas, I’ve decided to dole out the various pieces of free swag I’ve received…
This is Ronald “Buffalo” Chambers when he was 21 and sentenced to die the first time. That was 30 years ago. Ronald Chambers has been on death row for 30 years, making him the longest-serving inmate waiting to die in Texas. He’s there for kidnapping, robbing and killing one college…
Barry Zito may be a Texas Ranger yet. Or not. Probably not. Definitely not. But, I’m warnin’ ya, not a second before. So far this off-season the Rangers have added a journeyman spare part, a 39-year-old “stop-gap” center fielder and a reliever who’s missed the last two seasons with elbow…
George Dahl’s Highland Park house, which he designed and constructed and lived in 80 years ago, was torn down yesterday. Hooray for history. Preservation Dallas executive director has left the building — actually, he’s left town entirely. As we reported in October, Jones has taken the gig as exec director…
Dallas sports legends don’t get much bigger than Dallas Texans owner and American Football League founder Lamar Hunt. Dallas sports icon Lamar Hunt is said to be in grave condition in a local hospital, his family desperately holding out for miracles at this point. In a year that’s already seen…
I tore apart Dallas’ Only Daily this morning looking for the story about how, on Monday, attorneys representing Holy Land Foundation asked a federal judge here to dismiss charges the U.S. government filed against it after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Didn’t see anything; nothing on the Web site…
Leo Chaney’s campaign treasurer is the executive director of the Ferguson Road Initiative. Only took us a day to put that together. Yesterday, we posted an item about a city-issued press release in which council member Leo Chaney said he was desparate to help the poor, poor people of the…
Just so happens that I scooted out to Southlake today to speak with Carroll High School coach Todd Dodge for next week’s column. Ta-da! Whaddya know? On my way it was announced that Dodge has accepted a job to coach the University of North Texas. This, of course, pisses me…
Leo Chaney says he wants to help the folks of Ash Creek Mobile Home Park. They say that’s the first they’ve heard of it. Seems council member Leo Chaney isn’t terribly fond of the allegations that he did nothing to help the 100 or so residents of the Ash Creek…
Lone Star Funds buys Lone Star Steakhouse — and gets a NASCAR deal thrown in, which is cool, unless it’s for a driver who doesn’t place higher than, oh, 33rd. Shareholders of Wichita-based Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon just approved a cash buy-out by Dallas-based Lone Star Funds for $27.35…
A week ago, Dallas Housing Authority CEO Ann Lott was fired. Today she’s having her contract extended. Say what? What a difference a week makes. On December 5 it was revealed that the Dallas Housing Authority board was getting rid of agency president and CEO Ann Lott, who’s adored by…
Before she takes this item down, we thought we would direct you to the blog of Betty Culbreath, the chair of the City Plan Commission, to which she was appointed by Mayor Laura Miller. She has some thoughts regarding the city’s closing down of the Ash Creek Mobile Home Park,…
Reel busy: Tearlach Hutcheson, pictured here during construction of the Magnolia Theater in 2002, is now managing director of the AFI Dallas film fest. Some time this week, the newly established AFI Dallas International Film Festival will announce its new (by which I mean, its first) managing director: Tearlach Hutcheson…
Who isn’t on Dallas County District Attorney-Elect Craig Watkins’ transition team? Seriously, this thing looks like one of those randomly generated, ironically cobbled-together lists that used to appear in Spy magazine. That, or a guest list to a party at which you do not want to show up stoned. Here…
Dallas gets thrown under the bus in this morning’s Los Angeles Times. In a story about how the Fox series The O.C. — which went from beloved to…uh…beloathed (?) in record time — is likely to get the ax, there’s also some question about how the show affected the image…
Well, the numbers are in, and it seems that all the door-knocking and phone-calling may have paid off after all. A report due to be released tomorrow by the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project shows that more Latinos voted in Dallas County in November than in the last mid-term election…
Department of Justice officials have concluded that conditions at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center amount to a house of horrors. It was even worse than anyone expected. Just more than a year after it launched its investigation of the Dallas County jail, the U.S. Department of Justice on Saturday sent…
I spent Sunday watching the White Rock Marathon from Dolly Parton’s cleavage, and it wasn’t as warm there as I thought it would be. But the spot between the 19th and 20th mile markers is the best possible vantage point to observe all the dedication, determination and drama that accompanies…
Terrell Bolton: the only guy up for the top cop gig in Georgia who’s been fired. Terrell Bolton may have won the right to take his wrongful-termination suit against the city to the federal level, but he still doesn’t know whether he’ll fight City Hall in court as the next…
We were at Toys “R” Us yesterday shopping for the 3-year-old who lives in our house; apparently it’s gettin’ close to Hannukah or something. Whatever. Anyway, while browing the action-figure aisle (though, oddly, not for the 3-year-old who lives in our house) we came across more than a dozen of…
Seventy-year-old Mitchell Buchanan has been missing since October 24. But rescuers haven’t given up looking for him. Over the weekend, there was a search for Mitchell Buchanan, a 70-year-old Dallas man who has been missing since October 24. The Tyler Morning Telegraph reported that about 60 volunteers and members of…
The Nightcaps, pictured here during their 1960s heyday, influenced the Vaughans and the Top. And, yes, the word is still “Thunderbird.” So, enough with the young paying homage to the old. Seems like the old — well, c’mon, you know what I mean — can manage just fine on their…
