“Night and Day,” December 25 How I Loves Ya I understand that Jesse Hughey was trying to be funny in regards to his blurb in the Night & Day section regarding the Backdoor Comedy Club’s New Year’s Eve show. What he failed to realize is that it’s impossible to show…
Batty: Three days before Christmas, The Dallas Morning News gave its former parent company, Belo Corp., an early gift by editorializing on behalf of building a publicly owned $525 million convention center hotel. (We say “former parent” because last year Belo spun off its newspaper biz to a new company…
At the edge of the Commerce Street bridge, a sign at the city’s Trinity Outlook encourages passersby to “watch our progress.” But on this 77-degree day in early January, any signs of progress in the more than 10 years since voters approved $246 million for the Trinity River Corridor Project…
Sean Penn did not patrol Galveston’s streets in an airboat. Kanye West didn’t offer unscripted barbs about George Bush’s opinion of black people on live television. Since Galveston has no native-born analogues to people like Dr. John or Harry Connick Jr., there were no televised musical specials. Glen Campbell’s “Galveston”…
A good Friend of Unfair Park says I missed something while perusing this week’s issue of Sports Illustrated: the magazine’s poll of 190 NBA players. In it, the question was, “Which is the most overrated team in the NBA?” I think you can see where this is headed. Answers after…
During this morning’s White House press briefing, press secretary Dana Perino laid out George Bush’s plans for January 20, which don’t involve heading directly to Dallas:President Bush will depart from Andrews Air Force Base and head to Midland, Texas, where he will participate in a welcome home event in Centennial…
Been a long time since I came to you with good Cowboys’ news, but I just received this email from the team: The Dallas Cowboys announced the release of cornerback Adam Jones today. The transaction will be made official on February 9th which is the first day that NFL…
Two years ago, Antonio Swad was all but considered a traitor to the red, white and blue when the Dallas-based pizza man started accepting pesos at Pizza Patrón locations in the DFW. Man got death threats, for God’s sakes, even as former Dallas Observer writer Rob Walker was detailing the…
With the exception of strolling over to Schutze’s office, it’s hard to find anyone in the media willing to criticize Mayor Tom, but Advocate publisher Rick Wamre is quickly rising up Leppert’s naughty list, and his blog yesterday on Back Talk might vault him up to the top spot. While…
Over on DC9, some required reading in advance of the Loco Gringos reunion Saturday night at the Lakewood Bar & Grill. Jeff Liles, whose weekly “Echoes & Reverberations” pieces are my favorite items on any Observer blog, has assembled quite the local all-star cast (Jim Heath, Mike Dillon, Tex Edwards,…
In our editorial meeting this morning, Schutze offered a book report concerning his holiday reading: Paddling the Wild Neches by Richard Donovan, which was published by the Texas A&M University Press in May 2006. Says Jim about the book documenting one man’s canoe trip through East Texas, it’s engaging and…
Once upon a time, ours was a three sports-page town. There were enough readers – enough advertisers – for the Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times Herald and Fort Worth Star-Telegram to not only survive, but thrive. Shoot, one of my first jobs at the FWS-T in the late ’80s was to…
The 2011 Super Bowl will be played at Jerryworld, of course, but the AFC and NFC champs won’t be staying in Arlington or Dallas. Nope — come February 2011, the AFC champs will stay at the Omni Fort Worth, which is pictured at right and scheduled to open this month,…
In this morning’s Guardian, SMU distinguished professor of history Edward Countryman — an author of several books, many having to do with the American Revolution — writes about how corporations in England are using a harassment law there to “stifle legitimate protest.” Which wasn’t the point of the Protection from…
Arizona Cardinals’ geezer quarterback Kurt Warner won a playoff game last Saturday. He’ll start for the NFC in the Pro Bowl. But he also wears gloves. On both hands. Even when he plays indoors. Oh yeah, he’s also a religious nut who draws a really crappy God/Jesus/Homeless Guy. (Props to Mike Fisher over at…
In the Sports Illustrated hitting stands today, Michael Farber dissects “The Trouble with Sean Avery.” In short: He’s a terrible teammate — so bad that the Dallas Stars can’t even find a minor-league team willing to take the former Vogue intern off their hands, much less an NHL team interested…
Seems like we were just here, hashing over the city’s budget. But as you may have read — and may have guessed — FY2009-10 is already shaping up to be a) lousy, b) godawful, c) yech or d) all of the above. Which is why, at this morning’s Dallas City…
Way back in Two Thousand and Eight I alerted you that radical radio ratings changes were on the horizon. Well, they’re heeere. As of Dec. 31, the data from Arbitron’s new Portable People Meters is certified as legit radio currency in Dallas-Fort Worth. Diaries have officially gone the way of the…
A short while ago, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle concluded a press conference, carried in its entirety on KDFW-Channel 4, concerning the death of Senior Corporal Norman Smith, pictured at right. Smith was an 18-year veteran of the department — his anniversary would have been tomorrow — who was killed…
We began the day with Angela Hunt; might as well end the day with Angela Hunt. Because only an hour ago, she Twittered some interesting news, as you can see from the photo at right. She offered further enlightenment when reached by Unfair Park this evening: Yes, indeed, the National…
Ever wondered what the abandoned vault beneath the old Federal Reserve Bank on 400 S. Akard Street looked like? Swell. Because HTML pioneer and blog-advice guru John Pozadzides took some folks from GeekBrief.tv on a tour, and, in return, they offer this video worth a look-see. –Robert Wilonsky GeekBrief.TV #486…
In June 2007, Jim Keyes took over as chairman and CEO of Dallas-based Blockbuster Inc. — after having been president and CEO of 7-Eleven Inc., for which he’d worked for years. And now, the circle is complete. Because last summer, Blockbuster announced that it would be installing in its stores…
