Had to see for myself about Luis Yanez. Like you, I kinda followed his story last summer. Kicked off the U.S. Olympic boxing team in early July. Reinstated just before Beijing, only to lose in the second round. Then he disappeared. Now he’s turning pro, with his first fight Friday…
Remember “Killer” Keller?: State Representative Lon Burnam knows how to hold a grudge. The Fort Worth Democrat this week filed a resolution in the House calling for the appointment of a commission to investigate whether the House should impeach Sharon Keller, the presiding judge on the Texas Court of Criminal…
“Let’s Talk,” By Pete Freedman, February 5 What do you really think? Amazing. Inspiring. Pete Freedman, “Music Editor” at the Dallas Observer writes an article in the latest issue that is about Pete Freedman. Congratulations, Pete. While local bands are struggling to keep their day jobs, pay rent at the…
Yet again, a North Texas native has been killed while serving in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense announced today that 35-year-old Mesquite native Raymond Munden, who enlisted in the Army in August 1991, was killed on Monday in Paktika Province near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The DoD reports that Munden, a…
In separate 10-2 votes, the Dallas City Council approved developer and operator agreements with Matthews Southwest and Omni Hotels for the convention center hotel, leaving the $525 million bond issuance as the final vote remaining before the project is officially given the green light. While the city waits to float…
These have been busy days over at CBS Radio Dallas: First, it turned chatty Live 105.3 into the sportsy The Fan. Then, mid-song yesterday, all-day dance party Movin’ 107.5 became the puro Español Mega 107.5, described by Kurt Johnson, VP of programming for CBS Radio Dallas, as “Dallas’s first and…
My favorite sports book of all time is Mike Shropshire’s Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and The Worst Baseball Team in History — The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers. We excerpted the book in 1996, and Michael Hogue’s original artwork accompanying the piece still hangs in my office –…
The New York Times just posted a piece on designer Billy Reid, who peddles his “dressy-casual whiskey-soaked style” in NorthPark Center, one of only six outlets in the U.S. Which reminds dressy-casual, whiskey-soaked me: Over the weekend I received via postcard a reminder that tomorrow through Saturday is Billy Reid’s…
A year ago tomorrow the Mavs pulled the trigger on their controversial blockbuster, sending Devin Harris and two first-round draft picks to the New Jersey Nets for Jason Kidd. Lookie who’s in town tonight? It’s those same Nets and a very different Harris, fresh off his All-Star appearance and a…
Guess Jerry Jones didn’t sell off every last scrap of Texas Stadium during his everything-must-go auction, as today the Dallas Cowboys send word that this weekend, the broken-down hole-in-the-roof will host yet another fire sale. This one goes by the moniker “Farewell Fan Fest and Memorabilia Sale.” Parking and admission’s…
As we mentioned in March 2007, two days before Michael Cain’s Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary TV Junkie made its debut on HBO, Tammie Kirkham filed a temporary restraining order to keep the doc off the network. The documentary, as you may recall, was compiled from nearly 3,000 hours of…
Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd’s big-league career ended, where else, in Arlington. About halfway through 1991 season, the Texas Rangers acquired the pitcher from the Montreal Expos — only to see the righty go 2-7 in 12 starts and toss out a 6.68 ERA, highest in his career. After that, he…
This recently shot mid-week palate-cleanser comes courtesy Trey Ratcliff at Stuck in Customs, who also offers a poster-sized version of Your Downtown Dallas skyline. Pardon me while I stare at it for an hour…
Yesterday afternoon, the council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee learned about the inner workings of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from their newly appointed liaison, Kevin Craig. Described by Assistant City Manager Jill Jordan as the No. 2 civilian at the corps’ district office in Fort Worth, Craig previously…
Dallas is now home of the Twinkie. Interstate Bakeries Corporation, the Wonder Bread and Hostess host that had been in Chapter 11 since September 2004, is no longer in bankruptcy — or, for that matter, its longtime home of Kansas City, where IBC started baking in 1930. It’s moving its…
After almost two months of squirming in relative silence and anonymity, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones poked his head out, saw his shadow, freaked out and decided to give votes of confidence to has-beens George Strait and Terrell Owens and then, just for fun, strip from his head coach the remaining smidge…
We’ve been hearing for some time that the Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel would be seeking a temporary restraining order sooner than later to keep the city from proceeding with the convention center hotel without a proper vote. Turns out, sooner was yesterday: Citizens Against the Taxpayer Owned Hotel, et…
The city council’s Economic Development Committee spent most of the morning in executive session discussing an operator agreement with Omni Hotels and a developer agreement with Matthews Southwest for the convention center hotel, emerging shortly after 11:30 to recommend a full council vote on both during tomorrow’s briefing. The developer…
Few weeks back, we directed you to an online survey Dallas City Council candidate Ann Margolin was taking as she vies for Mitchell Rasansky’s District 13 seat at the horseshoe. Well, the results are in, and Margolin writes in a mass e-mail sent to her would-be constituency today that the…
Comes this 11-minute film courtesy the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the North Texas Grease Abatement Council (band name alert!) concerning the proper disposal of fats, oils and grease. Highly recommended. Poor, poor Chad…
Mission Accomplished Impossible. In honor of February’s Black History Month, I set out to pinpoint a pristine list of the world’s all-time greatest black athletes. But using what criteria? Sheer athleticism? Popularity? Accomplishment? Social activism? Transcendence? All of the above? Nothing of the sort? The task, in and of itself, is as absurd as…
Various news accounts in recent days have portrayed fifth-generation Texan Robert Allen Stanford, whose Stanford Financial Group is based in Houston, as the second coming of Bernie Madoff. Which is why the Securities and Exchange Commission today filed this complaint against Stanford in Dallas federal court, alleging “massive, ongoing fraud.”…
