10. Fox’s Pam Oliver stinks. While she was busy reading some shallow, pre-orchestrated featurette, we went three series before learning that Gerald Sensabaugh was out with a bum thumb. And though Marion Barber played just one snap in the second half, we never received an update. 9. Not only is Kyle…
While fast forwarding through a TiVo’ed version of Friday night’s 6:30 p.m. rerun of The Office on KDFI channel 27 (the one where Ryan burns his cheese pita in the toaster oven), none other than Mayor Tom Leppert appeared in a commercial break for yet another ribbon cutting — this…
In response to DMN’er Sherry Jacobson’s story about the city’s frustrating permit process and its effect on neighborhood farmers markets, council member Angela Hunt has requested the investigation of the permitting processes in other cities so the city council can consider changes as soon as possible. Ed Lowe, owner of…
Earlier this year, Deloitte LLP went down to Dallas City Hall and said it was thinking of consolidating its Dallas and Irving operations under one roof … in Irving. The accounting firm had crunched the numbers, and “there was a multi-million dollar cost advantage to Deloitte LLP if it chose…
Much like Wednesday afternoon, I got another itch to sit in during the day’s last couple hours of jury deliberations in the City Hall corruption case, but I was quickly disappointed upon seeing Don and Sheila Hill in the lobby of the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse. Turns out…
Sure, our economy’s grim, but consider this: In Haiti, 80 percent of the population lives under the poverty line and two-thirds lack formal jobs. Altering such circumstances is the mission of the Chiapas Project, a local micro-finance group that raises money for loans to impoverished women in Latin America. While…
So, you’re busy reading this blog at your desk (or on your phone … at a stop light … or in the HOV lane). At the same time you’re replying to an e-mail, checking your voice mail, answering a coworker’s question and doing whatever it is you do to make…
A colleague in Miami thought we might find this interesting: “The Consummation of Dirk,” penned by one Jonathan Callahan. It comes from the latest issue of something called The Collagist, an online literary journal. Right. You know the drill.At first, I thought maybe it was a chopped-and-screwed variation on Jesse…
Southern Methodist University and Dr. Robert Tafel have agreed on an undisclosed settlement regarding the lawsuit filed by Tafel and attorney Gary Vodicka in which they allege that SMU defrauded residents of the 350-unit University Gardens Condominiums in a land grab for the George W. Bush Presidential Library. “Dr. Tafel…
The 6-year-old who lives in my house is a big They Might Be Giants fan — because, after all, they did teach him his ABC’s and 123’s, and they twosome are currently in the process of learnin’ him about the science. The one TMBG product in which he’s never shown…
On our midday show at 105.3 The Fan, I nervously asked Jerry Jones this morning if he had, um, seen the video of two fans “christening” Cowboys Stadium last Monday night in Arlington. After joking that he had called several committee meetings to investigate the situation, Jones simply said: “Yes. …..
In the October 12 issue of Newsweek, Cathleen McGuigan takes a visit to the AT&T Performing Arts Center and tells Lincoln Center to watch out. Well, more or less: “Lincoln Center is still the country’s premier cultural complex, but it’s getting competition from an ambitious project in — are you…
In the paper version of Unfair Park this week I took a longer look at Re:Vision Dallas — you know, that self-sustaining development John Greenan and Brent Brown want to build on a parking lot behind Dallas City Hall sooner than later. Right, that one. Anyway. In the piece, Greenan…
Danny Hurley, who’s never met a grown-up playing dress-up he didn’t like to photograph, found himself amongst the living dead last night at the Zombieland sneak, held at the Studio Movie Grill on Royal Lane and N. Central Expressway. It’s Halloween already? Apparently — hence, the bloody slide show. And…
Merritt Martin, your usual recapper, has let her personal life interfere with her TV watching schedule, so I have been drafted to fill in for her this week. With 10 designers remaining, and Heidi’s ominous warning in previews that “one OR MORE of you will be out,” we were really…
Back in April, the Dallas City Council gave Berkeley-based Moore Iacofano Goltsman, Inc. $515,000 out of the Downtown Connection TIF District Project Budget to come up with a downtown Dallas “area plan.” Because, look, Dallas has a mountainous stack of studies and plans — the Downtown Parks Master Plan, the…
Phillip David Wainscott, who’s been licensed to practice law in Texas since 1995, says Dallas County is interfering with his ability to make a living — and by Dallas County, he really means Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price in his position as a member of the county’s Bail Bond…
“Perry sets up pay for recruiters”—headline in The Dallas Morning News about Governor Rick Perry’s Amway-like campaign program that pays cash incentives to “volunteers” who recruit additional “volunteers” Coming soon to a cable channel near you: Perry, dressed in an electric-blue dress shirt, white belt and tan slacks, rushes from…
Imagine, if you will, a utopia smack in the heart of downtown Dallas. In this green, sustainable building of tomorrow, you might roll out of bed, take a shower and find your runoff water feeding vegetation growing on the roof and walls, upon which you’ll feast later that night. Or…
Seems like forever ago that Plano-based Metromedia Restaurant Group shuttered Bennigan’s and Steak & Ale — but, nope, it was just July of last year. A few Bennigan’s locations resurfaced shortly thereafter, when Richardson-based Bennigan’s Franchising Company, LLC assumed the position and reopened 100 eateries, half out of the country…
But that’s just because the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals doesn’t want the Rangers’ shortstop to become a bullfighter. Oh, you missed that? Yeah — a couple of days back, the former Indians great said bullfighting is “one of my things on the to-do list.” That’s only because…
… William “Tex” Moncrief Jr., the Fort Worth oilman and Internal Revenue Service fan who comes in at No. 366 on Forbes’ latest list of the 400 Richest Americans. So, what does the man in possession of 20,000 acres of undeveloped Barnett Shale property have to say in the magazine’s…
