Gather the kiddies ’round the warm glow of the computer monitor: The Jonas Brothers were on CNN this morning! And they were sitting on the field at Texas Stadium, where, tomorrow, they’ll perform during halftime of Cowboys-Seahawks to kick off the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Christmas charity campaign. Incidentally, this…
Wonkette this morning ran an e-mail from a Texan who wants to secede from the Union — what else is new, right? The reason for the missive, which lays out the ways in which the great state will survive all by its lonesome, thanks very much? Writes the mysterious Hotmailer:…
My son hates green beans. Faced with a plate of them, he’ll eat a couple, suck on a couple more, tear two or three apart and, ultimately, smash/push his veggies into a pile and pronounce: “Done!” Unless, of course, I consult the Parenting 101 guide and resort to reverse…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger Took her a few days for her to respond, but, at last, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger has posted a lengthy essay concerning the school board’s Thursday-night vote to extend the trustees’ terms from three to four years. Ranger, who’s already called…
Stories like this are why we’ve opted for the Termibot. Hell of a way to kill bugs. Courtesy Courthouse News Service this morning comes this story out of Plano: Laura Grant is suing Terminex in a McKinney courthouse, claiming that in March of this year a termite inspector named Mark…
Yup, says so right here on CQ Press’ 2008 City Crime Rate Rankings: The fine, fair city of Allen’s a Top 10’er when it comes to safety among 385 cities in the country — and not far below, why, you’ll find the likes of Frisco (at No. 16) and Plano…
One week into November, Dallas- and Wyoming-based BTWW Retail, L.P. — owner of, among other cowboy-wear outlets, Western Warehouse and Boot Town — filed for bankruptcy protection in the Dallas federal courthouse. Two weeks later, BTWW has decided to shut ‘er down entirely: Beginning tomorrow, everything must go, as Western…
A couple of months back, D ran David Feherty’s riveting account of his collision with a pickup on Park Lane; figured his being able to live and write about his smash-up was what the Sporting News was referring to today when it ran the piece headlined “A week when David…
Courtesy the mighty fine folks who contribute to the conversation on the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum comes this montage of Merc photos, some by familiar Friends. Also a bonus for fans of Daft Punk. –Robert WilonskyDallas | The Mercantile (Slideshow) from Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum on Vimeo…
*If you’ve noticed some quirky fonts or crooked pictures this week it’s because Sportatorium is taking a fancy schmancy new software program for a test drive. Cool thing for you customers is that if you see a pic you’d like to see even bigger – like, I dunno, maybe…
View image Danny Fine, left, and Bob Musgrave in an outtake from Bottle Rocket Spent the better part of last night watching every single second and scrap on the Criterion Collection Wes Anderson-approved Bottle Rocket two-fer, available today (ya think?), and there are copious revelations contained therein. Such as: The…
A little more than one year ago, Dr. James Shin was a Southlake resident and a family man and the Chair of the Internal Medicine Department at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. Then, on September 17, 2007, officials with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement cybercrime unit discovered “numerous…
Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston, author of the Veterans Day essay to which we linked earlier this month, was kind enough to forward our way this mini-doc about Sarah Jaffe, winner of multiple Dallas Observer Music Awards in July. As photographer Allison V. Smith notes on her blog, it…
This morning, Harper’s tallies up the lists of President Bush’s pardons past and present and comes up with the following conclusion: “Texas S&L Swindlers Need Apply.” Seems almost retro in retrospect — nostalgic, even, like new-wave hits of the ’80s, as the magazine even brings up the 2004 pardon of…
From the sound of this morning’s announcement, Dallas-based 7-Eleven has decided that sooner or later, everything in the joint will be branded with the brand name. Three months ago, word was the convenience store chain was expanding into the Jamaican beef patties business — which was fine with a handful…
Donovan McNabb benched? Matt Cassel with back-to-back 400-yard games? Just when you think the quarterback world has gone crazier than George Clooney, Tony Romo finally returns to being, well, Tony Romo. Moving around in the pocket to produce 341 yards and three touchdowns. Moving up in the rankings to produce…
On the Technological Breakthrough Tuesday Before Thanksgiving, this news: Dallas-based Blockbuster has a set-top box it’d like to sell you for $99, through which you can beam into your home the latest and greatest in what passes for big-screen entertainment these days. Buy the OnDemand now, just in time for…
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We’ve spent the last way too long looking for our DSpot; no luck, damndamndamn it. But we do know where John Crawford’s DSpot is, if nothing else: On Friday, via GlobeSt.com, we learned that Crawford and his DowntownDallas organization is moving out of its old digs — in Center City…
It took a few days — five, to be specific. But Texas Department of Public Safety, Dallas Police Department and Dallas North Tollway Authority authorities have issued a warning to folks driving along the Dallas North Tollway: Someone’s throwing rocks off the Cedar Springs overpass. Turns out, it’s been happening…
Courtesy Lynne Rostochil Rostochil is standing to the right of Private Pyle in this photo from 1991 that totally looks as though it was taken in 1963. Photographer Craig Hlavaty spent the 45th anniversary of John Kennedy’s assassination down at Dealey Plaza — so you didn’t have to. His slide…
Dallas Fed prez Richard Fisher This morning, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — those bloodsuckers! — released the latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. In a word: Oy. In two: “Plunged sharply.” Or, as the Associated Press puts it: “Texas manufacturers are painting a bleak picture of current and future…
