A scene from Brian De Palma’s Redacted Keith Olbermann and Bill O’Reilly are probably secret-handshake homies, squawk boxes from the left and right, respectively, who use each other’s predictable talking points as selling points for their basic-cable bully pulpits. Hard to get too worked up about either guy — the…
The man of Merritt Martin’s dry dreams Things I love: 30 Rock, the suspense of waiting for Project Runway to start tomorrow night, cereal and Dyson products. For clean freaks, germophobes and tech fans, James Dyson is a bad-ass. His whole reinvention of appliances so they work “properly” is so…
Doug Armstrong’s still the Stars’ GM, far as the team’s Web site is concerned. So, Tom Hicks finally figured out what the rest of hockeydom’s known for ages: The Dallas Stars need a change. So he’s fired general manager Doug Armstrong, which is a start. But folks who know hockey…
Uptown Left Turn: (noun) A traffic violation occurring at a lighted intersection, wherein a vehicle turning left does not yield to oncoming traffic when his or her signal turns green. Instead, the driver of said vehicle attempts to preemptively enter the intersection ahead of the first cars coming in the…
Thought I’d follow Schutze’s back-patting with a little more Unfair Park, ah, news. Ahem. You can run, Bible Girl, but you cannot hide. Thanks for playing. –Robert Wilonsky…
Just a bit of inside Unfair Park news. I covered a meeting last night at which people on both sides of a neighborhood controversy submitted evidence to a hearing board. More on this heart-stopping news in the next edition of what we still refer to fondly as “the paper.” What…
As we predicted a while back, Terrell Owens is happy. Something about the disappearance of Bill Parcells magically removing accidental overdoses, narcolepsy and shouting matches with assistants from his daily diet. Weird, the Fat Fish’s departure did the same trick for me too. If you’ve been paying attention, T.O. is…
Ginger Cockerham When I heard the name Ginger Cockerham, I immediately thought, “Porn star!” Nope, turns out she’s a life coach in Dallas — and one who’s so good at her job, apparently, that this morning she merits a lengthy feature in The Times of London, which describes her as…
Because it totally makes sense to announce the schedule for the 2008 baseball season on November 13, the Texas Rangers today released next season’s schedule and game times — so, really, no pushing or shoving as you line up for season tix. For them’s so interested, the first regular season…
Jenna Bush was at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center last night, joining Gramps and Nana for the Celebration of Reading fund-raiser benefiting the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. And, go figure, the First Daughter flew from Washington, D.C. to Dallas in coach, according to The Washington Post –…
There’s been no mention of this in The Dallas Morning News, far as I can tell. And till it turned up during an unrelated Google search, I had no idea Mark Cuban’s HDNet was suing DirecTV in U.S. District Court in Dallas — and I used to have a show…
Rrustem Neza’s case has been front-page news in his native Albania. If you haven’t been following the case of Rrustem Neza, an Albanian seeking political asylum in the United States, you’re missing a gripping ongoing tale. The 32-year-old Neza, who settled in Lufkin and opened restaurants there and is represented…
There’s news, sort of, in the case of The City of Dallas v. H. Dale Hall, et al, currently sitting in U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis’ court — and that news is that the case isn’t expected to budge much till at least next spring at the absolute earliest…
Authorities are fitting Clay Chabot with an electronic monitor this week in anticipation of his release from prison Wednesday. Judge Lana Myers ruled on Friday that Chabot be released on bail pending a new trial — if the Dallas County District Attorney decides to retry him for the murder of…
There appeared this morning the story that Tom Hicks was looking to score yet another soccer team — AS Roma, to be precise. Hicks, of course, already owns Liverpool’s famed club with fellow American businessman George Gillett. So it kinda made sense he’d want to keep growing his football portfolio…
A programming note: As the writer’s strike is keeping your favorite talk shows off the air till who knows when, there’s always … oh … I dunno … Charlie Rose? Might as well, if you’re up at midnight tonight, if only because U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s one of Rose’s…
A homier, and cheaper, Bennigan’s is set to bow in Dallas in early 2008. Things aren’t looking good for the so-called “casual dining” industry, which refers to such eateries as T.G.I. Friday’s, Ruby Tuesday, Chili’s, Bennigan’s and the lot. Reports today’s USA Today, the chains are resorting to offering deep…
For policy and city-planning wonks looking for a way to kill 73 minutes, Theresa O’Donnell, Dallas’ director of Development Services and co-author of the forwardDallas! Comprehensive Plan, was down in Austin on Friday afternoon speaking to the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. Attending the shindig…
At 11:33 Saturday night, our house in northwest Dallas began to shake — not like earthquake shake, really, more like under-attack shake. The windows rattled; the 4-year-old who lives in our house woke up. I turned down the TV and heard in the near distance what sounded like a mortar…
Formulating Christmas gift lists and pondering what in the world to get the Dallas Mavericks fan who has everything? I mean, in recent times the Mavs have rid themselves of the albatross, made the NBA Finals and finally beaten the Warriors. Short of a time machine that could zap us…
A few items of local interest worth peeking at this a.m., among them some musical highlights — and high notes — from Saturday night’s Bugle Boy GayBINGO at the Lakewood Theater, benefiting the Resource Center of Dallas. Also: some excerpts from Mark Cuban’s address to the Blog World and New…
Carrollton-based Heelys this morning announced a “new national skate team comprised of some of the nation’s top skaters.” The nine skaters range in age from 21 to 7, and the point of their new team is to “further develop the sport of hybrid skating, the combination of walking and running…
