Courtesy the very Vimeo “retriever” comes the most breathless making-of ever made documenting the construction of the new Church of Scientology Center in Las Colinas, which opened over the weekend. This most likely comes from the L. Ron Hubbard birthday bash in Los Angeles at the end of March, but…
The New York Times reported this morning that Dallas-based hedge fund manager Barrett Wissman has pleaded guilty to securities fraud in New York, where he’s cooperating with the New York State Attorney General and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigations into corruption involving the state pension fund. Wissman, a St…
Granted only about 33 percent of the precincts are reporting, but The Sporatorium is projecting the 2009 Dallas Cowboys to win 10 games. Being that the Cowboys haven’t used any of their 11 draft picks or convened for the first quarterback school/minicamp/OTA/gee-ain’t-it-nice-not-to-have-T.O.-around meeting of 2009, I’d like to keep a mulligan in my…
Tom Huang, a Dallas Morning News assistant managing editor and Poynter Institute ethics and diversity fellow, posted this morning an essay titled “Living with Layoffs at the Dallas Morning News,” which speaks for itself. This excerpt seems particularly relevant a week after A.H. Belo Corp. laid off some 200 News…
Seems the former Showcase Chevrolet location near LBJ Freeway and the Dallas North Tollway was the scene of “major spray paint attack this weekend,” notes the Flickr’ing Fifi LePew, who couldn’t help but note the attendant irony. Speaking of, whatever happened to Icon’s Midtown development. (OK, settle down. I know,…
The Dallas Tea Party isn’t the only TV-ready event happening in town today. Far from it — especially if you were a big, big fan of the Laugh-In and are a big, big fan of … wait for it, wait for it, wait for it … Jenny the Elephant. At…
As we mentioned last week, the Tea Parties are here, the Tea Parties are here! So those not prepared to protest with the likes of Mark Davis, “Dave-from-London” and “Lance Hurley as Patrick Henry” at the Dallas tea’d-off affair had best steer clear of City Hall starting at 4:30 p.m…
While you were sleeping, the Dallas Mavericks officially succeeded in their lil’ game of Avoid The Noid. Thanks to the Lakers’ blowout of the Utah Jazz late last night, the Mavs won’t open this weekend’s NBA Playoffs as a no-way-in-hell-8th-seeded-underdog against Los Angeles. Not exactly how I planned it, but the Mavericks did…
A little late in the day, but the USA Film Festival just sent out the schedule for this year’s shindig, which runs April 29 through May 3 at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station. To save us all the trouble of running down this year’s highlights, I’ve posted after…
Earlier this afternoon, I finally spoke with Steve Hatchell — president and CEO of the National Football Foundation, the parent organization of the College Football Hall of Fame — concerning yesterday’s press conference during which Mayor Tom Leppert, Roger Staubach, T. Boone Pickens and a host of other bold-faced names…
View Larger MapEarlier this year, word was Charter Holdings was all set to buy Highland Park Village from Henry S. Miller Interests, with the sale scheduled to be all packed and gift-wrapped by March. A month later, and Henry S. Miller’s still in control of the Village — though Charter…
Tennell Atkins and LeVar Thomas debated for an hour last night at Paul Quinn College in South Dallas, as the two candidates in the District 8 city council race offered opposing views regarding the inland port, the convention center hotel and giving more power to Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle…
Twiddling – or I should say Tweeddling – my thumbs until the 6 p.m. release of the NFL schedule and the unveiling of the Dallas Cowboys’ path to 9-7, I stumbled upon a couple of things. 1. This year’s NFL Draft is extraordinarily weak. (More on that later.) 2. The…
Belo Corp. — the Dallas-based broadcaster that, of course, counts WFAA-Channel 8 among its 20 owned-and-operated TV stations around the country — announced this morning that on April 30, it will release its first-quarter earnings. Bloomberg today reports it could be an especially interesting read for investors, who so far…
As we mentioned yesterday, Dallas-born blues guitar great Rocky Hill will be buried today in Hopkins County, with a funeral beginning at 1 p.m. followed by a graveside service. Soon as we noted his death on Friday at the age of 62, Friend of Unfair Park LakeWWWooder sent us this…
On September 14, 26-year-old Army Sgt. Wesley Durbin of Hurst was killed at a small patrol base south of Baghdad when he and another soldier, 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson of Florida, were gunned down by a fellow soldier. As The Dallas Morning News noted in September, Durbin was a…
Now here’s the offer of a public meeting too good to refuse: today’s get-together of the Public Art Committee, which convenes at 4:30 p.m. in the fifth-floor conference room at the Majestic Theatre, nice. (Ooh, note to self: Get David Byrne tickets.) Sounds very artsy: Among the agenda items are…
Embarrassing that the Dallas Mavericks had to pull a leftover Easter rabbit out of their hat last night against the Minnesota Timberwolves at American Airlines Center. But in this economy … sorry, in this Western Conference playoff race, a two-point escape beats the hell out of laying an inexplicable, rotten…
At some point, no doubt, we’ll get an official statement. Till then, well, here’s what the Wall Street Journal (subscription-only, sorry) has to add to the story of Tom Hicks’s refusal to pay off Hicks Sports Group’s debt:Creditors to Texas financier Tom Hicks’s Hicks Sports Group have declared the company…
Here’s an interesting little fact left off the two press releases announcing the city’s efforts to lure the College Football Hall of Fame from South Bend, Indiana, to downtown Dallas: It was all Bob Sambol’s idea. Seriously. But the namesake of Bob’s Steak & Chop House on Lemmon Avenue figured,…
We reported March 30 that two South Dallas churches were potentially jeopardizing their tax-exempt status by allowing Mayor Tom Leppert to advocate positions regarding the two upcoming propositions on the May 9 ballot. Although an update in the story included quotes from a customer service representative with the Internal Revenue…
If you want to drive yourself insane, dial up the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting, where, at this very moment, the committee is discussing the Love Field concessions expansion. Because, in case you weren’t aware, Love Field’s getting a makeover, part of which will including adding more…
