I think readers of this week’s Girl On Top , wherein I parade around town with a gold mouthpiece, will be interested in the following juicy tidbit from Leon, the grill salesman who helped me with my bling. In the article, I note that after my own total lack of…
Come to think of it, we can’t recall ever seeing Bobby Carpenter in a Dallas Cowboys uniform… If the answer to the question posed above is yeah, you’d better thumb a ride to Denver, where FC Dallas begins the Major League Soccer playoffs Saturday night against the Colorado Rock…no, um,…
You probably don’t know what yesterday was. I forgot myself till this morning, when I was looking for one thing on YouTube and came across something entirely different–footage of Nirvana performing “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at Trees in 1991. Got me to thinking that, yeah, that happened some time in…
This is the man who saved NBC, and he will likely be the very man to kill it altogether. NBC Universal Television Group CEO Jeff Zucker announced yesterday his network’s cutting $750 million from the budget by 2008, and it’ll get there by canning some 700 employees not only at…
This inspirational quote of the day comes from Jackie Galecke, courtesy The New York Times. In a story this morning about the lure of Door County in Wisconsin, where 300 miles of shoreline “offer dozens of islands, 10 lighthouses and limestone bluffs as high as 200 feet” and the air…
I know it’s short notice, but if you have no plans for this evening, you might wanna head over to the Studio Movie Grill in Addison–if, that is, you have an interest in movies with such titles as Hip, Hot and 21 and Spiked Heels and Black Nylon, among some…
Prosecutor Shelley Hallman, the wife of Republican candidate for District Attorney Toby Shook, will probably not be asked to write the couple’s Christmas cards this year. In this week’s feature story about the questionable legal tactics of prosecutor Shelley Hallman, we include a rather unprofessional internal e-mail she dispatched to…
Mark Cuban says he wishes Don Nelson all the luck in the world. Yeah–luck, with a capital “f.” I’m supposed to be all jacked up about October baseball and all fixated on tonight’s Game 7 of the National League Championship Series between the Mets and Cards. But, nope, not even…
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, right, waves adios to all the folks leaving the Episcopal Church because of her. On November 4, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will become the world’s first woman primate in the Anglican Communion. When Schori was elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church earlier this year, conservatives…
Lisa Bevere knows all about church ladies. Now isn’t that special? (Sorry.) We all have our church-lady stories. Here’s mine: I knew a woman of Amazonian stature who loudly extolled the virtues of Marabel Morgan’s 1973 best-seller, The Total Woman. Her single unforgettable feature was an enormous brown beehive that…
On October 9 we reported that the Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Division has sent Letters of Inquiry to all 77 stations mentioned in the Center for Media and Democracy’s study, Fake TV News, concerning TV stations whose newscasts have used video news releases without identifying them as, well, press releases…
The ugly lawsuit between the owner and creator of the MADI Museum in Uptown has been settled. I know, you can breathe now. Seemed like every day, or every hour, in May we were running items about the federal lawsuit involving artist Volf Roitman and the MADI Museum. Maybe you…
Me, I’ve been opposed to every Bond election since Sean Connery stepped down. But I do think Daniel Craig is an interesting choice. Dallas’ Only Daily is in the midst of running one of its occasional series of stories, with this particular package aimed at explaining (and, let’s face it,…
Dunno if you’ve heard the story about Watauga Department of Public Safety officer Jason Reddick: He was fired in May “for having racial innuendos and sexual content on his MySpace Web page,” says the Fort Worth-Star Telegram, and reinstated on Tuesday due to a procedural error in his dismissal letter…
It was over a nice seafood lunch at Pappadeaux that I was introduced to the world of grills. The specially molded pieces of jewelry worn on the front teeth, popular among Southern rappers for years, were now hitting the big time: suburban malls, I was informed by my dining partner,…
Didn’t even know Dean Karnazes was in town did you, fat ass? I’m talking to you, Mrs. Gawd-I’m-sitting-in-the-Starbucks-drive-thru-for-19-minutes-waiting-for-two-muffins-and-a-triple-latte-prayin’-I-make-it-home-for- The-View. And you, Mr. I’m-stopping-for-a-dozen-wings-and-a-pitcher-of-beer-but-I’ll-text-you-later-from-my-BlackBerry-before-nestling-into-the-butt-groove-of- my-couch-for-three-hours-of-pizza-‘n-Cowboys. Damn, people. Y’all are so busy having seconds and helping Dallas to fourth on this year’s Men’s Fitness list of America’s fattest cities you don’t even…
The sound of gunfire broke the calm of a clear, cold February morning just a few hours before dawn. Rushing through the breezeway of a southeast Dallas apartment complex, the thief yelled in vain for help. The first two bullets struck him in the back, slicing through his ribs and…
Last spring, an idea Jesse Garcia had kicked around with colleagues for months suddenly seemed urgent. Controversy was mounting over a U.S. House bill that would make felons of illegal immigrants and those who offered them services, and President Bush was calling for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. As…
The Reverend Peter Johnson is a civil rights activist and former confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. who spoke at an anti-Iraqi war protest at Bush’s ranch in Crawford. Ken Mayfield is a Republican county commissioner who regularly spars with the lone African-American on the commissioners court, John Wiley Price,…
Missed the Target Don’t shoot the judge: Glenna Whitley does an excellent job of character assassination in her article “Undue Process” (October 5). The only problem: She shot the wrong person. Regardless of any assessment of the strength of his/her case, there is no lawyer in his right mind who…
During the W’s grand opening a few months ago, Craft owner Tom Colicchio gave us this invaluable piece of advice: “Rum in the summer, bourbon in the winter.” Or both, always. Hi, it’s me, your resident TiVo junkie and reality-show fanatic. Yeah, call me shallow, but to my credit, I…
John Carona loves David Dean. And David Dean loves him right back. Seems not everyone’s as appalled by David Dean’s lobbying contract with the city as the mayor and council member Mitchell Rasansky. Today, Texas Senator John Carona posted on Harvey Kronberg’s The Quorum Report a heated defense of Dean’s…
