Transformers (DreamWorks) No doubt, Michael Bay’s slam-bang action-figure commercial doesn’t play nearly as well on TV, no matter how high or high-def your screen; this demands to be seen on a screen the size of a skyscraper and heard on speakers as large as jet engines. So the first half-hour…
As consistent as a metronome, and slightly more entertaining, KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) again dominates the sports-talk radio landscape in quarterly Arbitron ratings released this morning. Make that: The Ticket dominates the entire local radio landscape. Radio numbers are tricky and can be easily be twisted into deceptive appearances, but…
Middle-class Americans formerly addicted to begging and borrowing are spending less and saving more, reports Newsweek in a story about the death of the “latte era.” To make the case, the story focuses on two local couples: 34-year-old computer engineer Brian LaCroix and his wife Yvette, who make $200,000 combined…
The producers at America’s Next Top Model almost got us this week. Opening with the short, spunky Janet proclaiming herself the “house mom” and Dallas’ Ambreal getting significant screen time, we weren’t sure which model was going to get canned — but any time a model gets that kind of…
Amanda Newman sends an update concerning the health of beloved Dada doorman John “Beard” Brewer and the benefit concert scheduled for October 28: He’s doing well. They’ve moved him out of ICU and into a regular room. He’s been looking forward to being in a real room because, as he…
Earlier this month, leaders of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth said they were considering leaving the Episcopal Church, which they consider too liberal, and affiliating with “another province of the worldwide Anglican Communion,” according to this Dallas Morning News story. And as reporter Sam Hodges pointed out, “Should the…
The best reason to try out for the Dallas Desperados, we’re thinking. Scattershooting … while wondering whatever happened to this guy. The Lakers might be dumb enough to trade Kobe Bryant. But, sorry, Mavs fans, they aren’t stupid enough to deal him to a Western Conference team … If the…
I swore to myself Tuesday I wasn’t going to get into any more intimate blog-a-logs with Steve Blow at The Dallas Morning News. I’ve had enough; you probably have too. But I guess I can’t ignore this. Again. I have the cover story in this week’s paper version of Unfair…
Here’s a crazy story this morning — from no less a source than DomainNameNews, which is where Schutze and I used to work in the late 1970s. Apparently, the folks who own the domain name Cowboys.com — which is a “boot barn,” no less — were all ready to sell…
The original Dickey’s barbecue, founded in Dallas in 1941 In the St. Louis Post Dispatch, of all places, Roland Dickey Jr. talks about the plans to turn the family business into the nation’s favorite barbecue franchise — and, yeah, that’d be Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, like you couldn’t figure that out…
The Dallas Morning News just called and made us take down the photo of Jim that appears in today’s paper. And they were so serious about it too. Wanh. I’ve just spent an hour moderating comments for the item about Rebecca Aguilar’s suspension — thanks, Instapundit! I had planned on…
Dooney Da Priest Well, well, well. Bold Types is turning into quite the MP3 blog. First this, now this: Local gospel-rapper Dooney (or “Da Priest”) contributes to The Dallas Morning News’s Metro blog an anti-baggy pants, pro-pride rant called “Pull Your Pants Up,” in honor of Deputy Mayor Pro Tem…
A few days after receiving a major award, KDFW-Channel 4’s Rebecca Aguilar has been suspended from the Fox affiliate. Monday night, KDFW-Channel 4 ran a piece about 70-year-old James Walton, owner of Able Walton Machine & Welding in West Dallas, who, early Sunday morning, shot and killed a man trying…
Yesterday, in the midst of bouncing back and forth between Jim Schutze and Steve Blow’s exchange of love letters, I noticed that Blow has posted to Bold Types a mind-blowing MP3 — an anti-Proposition 1 rap Blow received from Dave Levinthal, who got it from who knows where. (Sample lyrics:…
For those who missed it last night, ESPN interviewed Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban about the rumors that Kobe Bryant might be leaving Los Angeles for Dallas. Cuban talks about the Mavs being “opportunistic” and willing “to explore” their options, but the best part of this brief segment: It was…
Clinton Kelly wants to tell you what not to wear — cargo shorts, say, or flip-flops. Yup, yer screwed. Think you may have seen an unusually dashing gent near the Grand Spa or Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport yesterday. It was probably Clinton Kelly of TLC’s What Not to Wear. The…
Former Dallas Observer writer and pin-up Adam Pitluk Since leaving the Dallas Observer a few years back, former staff writer Adam Pitluk has graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, turned one of the articles he wrote here into a book, been the features editor for Boys’ Life magazine…
Seven-year-old Caroline Turns, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of pediatric cancer Not sure what’s more mind-blowing to Kelly Howell these days. the fact that a precious 7-year-old girl can get pancreatic cancer. Getting up at 5 a.m. to run 13 miles. Or the kindness of total strangers…
And while we’re on the subject of the Trinity River — like, when aren’t we, right — this single-day shindig sounds rather fascinating: On November 16, designers from all around the country — including well-regarded lighting pioneer Leni Schwendinger; waterfront expert Ann Breen and so-called “green” landscape planner-designer Ignacio Bunster-Ossa…
Scot Miller owns Sun to Moon Gallery on Keller Springs Road in Carrollton. He’s also on the advisory board of Groundwork Dallas, the 2-year-old nonprofit charged with cleaning up parts of southern Dallas — including, especially, the Great Trinity Forest. And it’s all about getting the kids involved. (Groundwork Dallas…
Freddie McCoo’s El Dia de Los Muertos for Nawlins is among the works currently on display at the Bath House Cultural Center. The annual Day of the Dead art exhibit that opened over the weekend at the Bath House Cultural Center at White Rock Lake is far from a collection…
I wrote an item for Unfair Park yesterday in which I pointed out that The Dallas Morning News had done a poor job of informing its readers about post-Katrina critiques of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. I cited the work of Professor Robert Bea, mentioned in 365 newspaper accounts…
