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Free Stuff Friday, Grab Bag Edition
Bedhead, just because they’re mentioned somewhere in this mess of a blog item A few desk-clearing items before heading out to meet Galaxy Quest’s Missi Pyle at the Dallas Comic Con this weekend. Turns out, I have two tix to Art Garfunkel’s Sunday-night show at the Nokia Theatre in Grand…
One Bad Apple, So, Sure, Let’s Chop Down the Entire Orchard
Rod Dreher really likes the phrase “honor killing.” Like, really likes it. Yesterday, The Dallas Morning News ran a well-reported front-page piece on the killings of Sarah and Amina Said, which laid out the sordid tale of an angry, controlling father who terrorized his daughters for years. Yaser Said, it…
You Dim Sum, You Lose Some
After nearly 22 years serving dim sum, authentic Vietnamese cuisine and Americanized Chinese, Arc-en-Ciel in Garland has shut down. Owner Mickey Luu had grown tired of running the lackluster-ing 450-seat restaurant featuring Chinese (dim sum) and Vietnamese cuisine, said a source (Luu could not be reached for comment). Arc-en-Ciel, French…
Children’s Medical Center Soon To Envelop All of Plano
No doubt the esteemed “Dr. D” knows about this, but I had no idea, till making my daily jaunt down GlobeSt.com, that Children’s Medical Center had such ambitious goals for its new Plano campus, which is taking shape in phases and stages (a very underrated Willie Nelson album, by the…
C’mon, Youze Guys, New York’s So Much Better Than Dallas
In a column sure to make locals’ heads collectively ‘splode, former Dallas Morning News sports writer Gary Myers, who departed these climes in ’89, today has a piece in the Daily News bearing the aw-jeez headline, “The Big Apple vs. The Big D.” As in, “Dallas is a pizza and…
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The Best T.O.-Jerry Jones Conspiracy Theory You’ve Ever Heard, Read or Thought About Ever
Awesome ultra-exclusive lawsuit alert, by which I mean, here’s the nuttiest handwritten single-page complaint filed in federal court you’re likely to read in the next 18 minutes. On Christmas Eve, the apparently infamous Jonathan Lee Riches© — well, that’s how he “spells” it — filed suit against Terrell Owens in…
Cowboys 34, Giants 23
Last time the Cowboys won a playoff game, Tony Romo was wearing one of these jerseys … in high school. The last time the Dallas Cowboys won a playoff game, you were paying $1.22 for gas, shouting “Show me the money!” at inappropriate times after watching Jerry Maguire and lamenting…
Not So Pretty
It’s official: Bravo ain’t got shit on Tyra Banks. At least, not after the first episode of Make Me A Supermodel. From the hosts (awkward Niki Taylor and Tyson Beckford) to the challenges to the in-house interactions, the show was as dull as the granny-panty photos in the Sears catalog…
Treating Autism, Virtually
Speaking of the University of Texas at Dallas, its Center for Brain Health gets a shout-out this morning in the subscription-only Chronicle of Higher Education: The center’s using virtual worlds — more or less a retrofitted Second Life platform — to treat patients suffering from different kinds of autistic disorders…
UT Dallas Is a Wise Investment
Last year, Kiplinger listed the University of Texas at Dallas as the 69th-best deal for in-staters among public colleges. This year, the school formerly known as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest moves way, way up to the No. 50 slot, after the personal-finance advisors factored in both academic…
City Council to DART: Don’t Screw With Those Downtown Dallas Rail Lines
We finally figured out what those orbs are in the mosquito pond in front of City Hall: the city council’s testicles. Glory be, the Dallas city council isn’t dead after all. And just when I was beginning to expect a story out of City Hall that started out, “Police were…
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Greg Williams Has “Resigned” From The Ticket. And That Is That. Right.
For the final time, Mike Rhyner and Greg Williams — the twosome formerly known as The Hardline By now, no doubt, you’ve noticed that Greg Williams’ name and photos have been erased from KTCK-AM’s Web site; your beloved (or not) Hardline on The Ticket is now hosted by “Mike Rhyner…
Clayton Holmes’ Long, Hard Fall
No doubt Cowboys fans will recall the name Clayton Holmes; he was, after all, on those Dallas teams that won three Super Bowl rings in the 1990s — a defensive back and special-teams whiz, a third-round draft pick who played like a first-rounder. “As far as the guys I played…
I Miss Rick Reilly
Because he’s the 11-time National Sportswriter of the Year. Because he can make you laugh and cry within a column ostensibly about sports but really about comedy and heartache and life. But mostly, I miss Rick Reilly because his Sports Illustrated fill-ins suck ass. Take this week. In the midst…
Rescuing Michael Vick’s Dog House
Michael Vick’s home, which a local man would like to turn into an animal shelter A Friend of Unfair Park sends us this fascinating local tie-in to the Michael Vick saga: Frisco’s Michael Morford, who has extensive nonprofit experience, is heading up an organization that’s trying to buy the (former?)…
Calm Down, Dallas’ Real Estate Market is Just Fine. Only, Till It’s Not.
GlobeSt.com reports in from yesterday’s North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors annual brokers forecast shindig at the Hotel Inter-Continental in Addison, where 540 brokers turned out to see if, indeed, 2008 is shaping up to be a year of both gloom and doom. Not so much? Hard to say. See?…
A Nice Meal’s Nice, But, C’mon
Shortly before Charles Chatman was freed from prison last week, after becoming the 15th Dallas County man exonerated by DNA evidence since 2001, State District Court Judge John Creuzot treated him to a T-bone steak — after teaching Chatman how to use the knife he’d been denied in prison. In…
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Fly the Gay-Friendly Skies
The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign Foundation — which bills itself as “the nation’s largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization” — has released its list of the Best Places to Work 2008, and four local companies made the cut: American Airlines, GameStop, Brinker International and J.C. Penney…
Dallas’ Food Friends Noodling Around With P.F. Chang
Jack Baum, chairman and CEO of Food, Friends and Company, is adding another eatery to the portfolio. Dallas’ Jack Baum has plenty of eateries under his Food Friends and Company banner, among them Wapango and Cozymel’s Mexican Grill. And he’s had his hands in plenty of other plates: He turned…
Showdown at 11:10
Punch. Counter-punch. This morning at 11, 103.3-FM ESPN debuts Michael Irvin’s show. Not just coincidentally, KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) is promoting a “major announcement” around 11:10. Don’t get your radio thong in a wad over either event. Irvin, who has been in court all week fighting a former contractor, will…
Boy Trouble
Joshua (Fox) George Ratliff’s movie, a sort of satirical take on Rosemary’s Baby, came and went upon its release; seems no one got the joke about how parents (Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga, in this case) are scared shitless of their own children — especially the titular Joshua, played by…