Went to my 9-year-old son’s baseball game in McKinney last night and came away with two revelations: We really shouldn’t name our sports teams after natural disasters, and people, even coaches, are stupid. You’ve heard all the uproar and NCAA mandates that universities no longer use “Indians” or variations of…
At the end of March, we reported about how downtown Dallas-based Lone Star Funds, a powerful international investment firm and equity fund, landed in some kinda big trouble in South Korea. There were myriad allegations of tax evasion and embezzlement and other dirty deeds to the tune of a few…
Yesterday, Dallas Fire Rescue released the findings of an investigation into cheating at the training academy that raises more questions than answers, while simultanously serving as a treatment for a movie best described as “Crash meets Backdraft .” First, some background: In October, trainee Desmond Luster resigned from the department…
So, this sounds like one hell of a score. If it’s true. The Chicago Tribune’s reporting this morning that the Food Marketing Institute’s trade show is leaving Chicago after next year. Sounds real sexy, right? Well, it does when you consider this stat: “The trade show, one of Chicago’s biggest…
Alphonso Jackson, former Dallas Housing Authority chief, came back to town and got himself in trouble. The Dallas Business Journal’s May 5 story about U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson’s April 28 speech in Dallas is turning into one hell of a piece. Turns out Jackson’s “admirable candor”…
Fort Worth-based RadioShack Corporation’s stock jumped in value yesterday: It closed at $18.28, up $1.07 (or a whopping 6.22 percent). The reason? Rumors started circulating yesterday that Best Buy was going to buy Radio Shack–news that some traders find a little hard to swallow. Nobody’s talking about the deal, or…
According to this story, Dallas is about to be the subject of a half-hour HBO comedy series called 12 Miles of Bad Road, created and exec-produced by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason (Designing Women, Evening Shade). The Hollywood Reporter’s reporting only that it’ll be about “a Dallas matriarchy,” that the…
Haven’t gotten your free tickets to tonight’s Dallas Observer Music Awards? You still have a few hours to pick some up from Tower Records or Good Records. Doors at the Granada Theater open to the public at 7:30 p.m.–you’d be wise to arrive well before the scheduled start time of…
I want it established here and now that I have no personal vendetta against Tony Danza, and that I have no specific or secondary knowledge of the nature of his private parts. But I do think that a press release headlined “Sisters Have Balls On Tony Danza” is one of…
Get used to this. In a few weeks, you will not be able to escape the withering 15-year-old glare of Frisco “rock superstar” Cheyenne Kimball. “Hanging Out,” the new single from Frisco 15-year-old Cheyenne Kimball, is out today; iTunes has it for the standard 99 cents, which is about 43…
The June issue of Ebony magazine contains a list of the top graduating African-American high-school seniors in the country. (The link has an incomplete list, but trust me.) “This year’s top seniors are remarkable examples of the talent and intellect that today’s Black youths possess,” claim the editors, who put…
Planning is just not something I do a whole lot of. I woke up last Saturday morning and decided that a haircut was in order, and that Saturday was as good a day as any to chop off nine inches of hair. I’d been inspired by Sex and the City,…
Dirk had best nut up for tonight’s Game 2 against the San Antonio Spurs. Dirk Nowitzki is a great player, but if the Dallas Mavericks star keeps passing up crucial shots, he’ll never be an elite player. Dirk missed eight of 11 shots in the second half of the Game…
This sign–which says, in case you can’t read it, “Councilman Rasansky What are YOU Doing to Expedite Needed Repairs To Our Parkway? NOTHING???”–is actually a few houses down from the Pegasus that’s for sale below; what the hell’s happening on Royal Lane between Webb Chapel Road and Marsh Lane, anyway?…
Dallas Soars! Then lands on a northwest Dallas lawn. Whilst driving down Royal Lane, I spotted this odd lawn ornament: a Pegasus left over from the 2001 Dallas Soars! campaign that never seemed to really take flight. (There’s a whole herd of them in the shopping center at southwest corner…
The woman’s voice on the other end of the line is strong and perky: “You’ve reached the national headquarters of the Continental Baseball League,” she says, as though you’ve just dialed a proud, tradition-rich enterprise. But at the moment, the Continental Baseball League doesn’t exist apart from its offices on…
I am not sure I believe this story, but nonetheless the Los Angeles Times’ Ann Powers insists today that the new anthem of the Latino immigration movement is…Neil Diamond’s “America”? I have a hard time believeing that, unless my mother is DJ’ing the protests; I’ll never forget Neil in the…
When is no news conference news? When the No. 16-ranked high-school basketball prospect in the country decides he isn’t quite ready to tell folks where he’s going to school. (Same thing happened to me; I get it.) That’s what happened today when power forward Darrell Arthur of South Oak Cliff…
…President George W. Bush sure is obsessed with his library (and his legacy). Say so right here in today’s New York Times, which details his desire to merge “a public policy center with his presidential library after he leaves office in 2009.” And the paper still has Southern Methodist University…
Now George Dubya done gone and pissed off a whole new constituency: soccer players (and, of course, their moms). Today’s Los Angeles Times takes issue with something the president told Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper for its Sunday editions. “As a boy, I never even saw a soccer ball,” the…
Looks like the city’s pitch to outta-town travel writers last month has already started to pay off: Pauline Frommer, of the famous Frommer franchise of travel tipsters, has written this little guide to our fair city that includes stops at all the usual suspects: the Mansion on Turtle Creek, the…
Bono had proven he was serious about helping Africa long before he took the Music Hall stage at Fair Park on Friday. It took a few years and a sycophantic 60 Minutes story last year, but my cynicism gave way to real respect for his campaign against poverty. He doesn’t…
