The annual NBA.com general managers survey is out, and they’re hit-and-miss when it comes to Dallas Maverick Dirk Nowitzki. Of the seven ballers picked as MVP contenders, ain’t one of ’em named Dirk; instead, the GMs’ early-season picks are, in order, LeBron James, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Kevin…
According to at least two magazines we’ve read this week, Dallasites look something like Robert Crumb. Things we’ve learned from reading magazine surveys this week: According to Travel + Leisure, we’ve got great barbecue and ugly people, and no way in hell would you wanna bring your family or company…
Dan in Real Life has this much going for it: It is not the worst Steve Carell film of 2007. That honor, of course, goes to Evan Almighty, which even the Lord walked out of during the second reel. Fact is, Dan in Real Life isn’t really much of a…
Rick McCallum had nothing to do with the original Star Wars. He was just 23 years old when it was released in 1977 and chasing his first job in the film industry. So, please, don’t age him unnecessarily: “I’m portrayed as 70 years old on the Internet because somebody thinks…
The Boys Are Back Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick (Warner Bros.) Most of the old Kubrick DVDs were crap: full-screen editions with poor pictures and virtually no special features. This set makes up for them with 2001, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut (hey, who…
Yes, we know — this picture’s out-of-focus. Thanks. Not our fault. Neither is the defacing, by the way. Swear. Jim Schutze can’t account for his whereabouts 30 minutes ago, which is interesting, because right around that time, someone vandalized some Vote No! Save the Trinity signs at two early voting…
ESPN the Magazine accompanied Terry “Tank” Johnson — the not-quite-yet-a Dallas Cowboy nose tackle — when he went to rent a Dallas apartment a couple of weeks back. Couple of things you learn from the story: One, he really wanted to live in The Ashton on Cedar Springs. And two,…
Whoops — looks like ol’ Coach Joe let his domain name expire. Because, see, former Dallas Cowboys special teams coach Joe Avezzano is co-owner with his son Tony in Suede Bar & Grill on Lower Greenville Ave. Only, whatever you do, do not go to the formerly official Suede Bar…
Go figure: Dallas Mavs owner Mark Cuban gots the boot from Dancing With the Stars last night, and Donald Trump’s mighty proud of his long-time nemesis. Seriously — so sayeth no less a source than Access Hollywood, to whom The Donald said of Cuban’s hoofin’: “I think he did a…
So, whadya wanna see: the assistant band director from Lake Dallas High School tackling a “streaking” student from The Colony High School before their teams played last Friday night? Or how about a woman recounting the legend of the Lady of the Lake? Or maybe some cheerleaders root-root-rooting for the…
Club Dada doorman John “Beard” Brewer phoned with some heartfelt thanks for those Friends who’ve posted their kind words in recent days, following his hospitalization in October 12 following a seizure. “It’s real touching,” Beard says. “I always thought people thought I was a prick because I made them show…
This is the 1955 Peanuts strip Heritage will auction off next month — yours for, oh, a hundred thou, maybe? A few months back, Heritage Auction Galleries set a world’s record for the sale of an original Charles Schulz Peanuts Sunday comic strip: The Dallas-based auctioneer got $77,675 when it…
Dr. Joe Clifford, senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church downtown When, 12 days ago, I first mentioned that the First Presbyterian Church downtown was allowing up to 150 homeless folks to sleep in the church’s parking lot every night, some of our Friends weren’t terribly fond of the idea. But…
Well, maybe not Wonder Woman, not yet. But 25-year-old Sophia Bush has been oft-mentioned as a candidate to fill the star-spangled costume for Joss Whedon’s alleged 2009 big-screen redo. But, see, that’s burying the lead, because only a few days after Carrie Underwood said Cowboys QB Tony Romo’s heart belonged…
Jeremy Schaap From DART to New York’s No. 7 train, Jeremy Schaap used our fair little burg as a step, step, stepping stone to stardom. Schaap’s one of the ace reporters on ESPN’s new E:60, which airs its second episode this evening at 6. Schaap hasn’t always been the street-tough…
Mark Graham Steve Fleming, the former Special Olympics coach, laments the state of Lewisville’s delegation since his dismissal. The current issue of Sports Illustrated has a story on Steve Fleming, the firebrand Lewisville coach who tried to change the nature of the Special Olympics and was kicked out in the…
Judge Sharon Keller — or “Killer Keller” or “Sharon Killer,” depending on your level of clever Folks who consider themselves tough on crime love, love, love Dallas-born Judge Sharon Keller, who, in 1994, was elected as a Republican to the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals. (The Greenhill School and SMU…
This morning, Salon’s Broadsheet contributor Catherine Price posted an item on the excellent ladyblog about a recent push in Dallas-area schools to crack (hah) down on sexual harassment. In the item, Price asks, “Is it sexual harassment when a 7-year-old at a school in Duncanville, Texas, tells a classmate to…
Office Terry Peters, better known as the Dallas Police Department’s “whore cop,” has gotten to know, and tried to help, prostitutes populating local truck stops such as this one. This morning I got a call from my favorite cop regarding my favorite crackhead, a former truck driver named Country who…
Before the month of October fully unravels, we mustn’t forget that it has been officially designated National Popcorn Poppin’ Month. Which means Dallas lawyers are conceivably having a banner time of it, what with the recently reported emerging lethal disease called popcorn lung linked to a buttery flavoring additive called…
Whilst doing a little MP3 blog trolling over the weekend, we stumbled across a pleasant surprise: The night after Unfair Park fave St. Vincent joined the likes of Peter and the Wolf, Doug Burr, Tame…Tame and Quiet and many other notables at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, music…
Jason Schwartzman as affable a movie star as you’re likely to meet — and you’re likely to meet him tonight at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station, come to think of it. It’s not often an actor comes into pitch a movie after it’s in theaters, but in conjunction…
