You know what needs $40 million worth of upgrades and renovations? The Dallas Convention Center, apparently. Back on February 13, the city council approved two key items, one of which — the $500,000 option on the Chavez parcel — green-lighted the convention center hotel project. The other vote, which spent…
Patrick Michels We’ve had dreams that begin like this, but they never seem to end up well. Last night, as the regular crowd of 30K millionaires queued up outside a W Hotel decked out in bouncers and velvet ropes, five Dallas Maverick dancers sported their game-day unis: hot pants, hooker…
Something tells me Jessica Simpson’s sand box looks a tad less tidy. Took the family to the State Fair o’ Texas last night. While my body makes all sorts of gurps and froozles and other unrecognizable noises trying to digest the toxic combo of jalapeno corn dogs, fried bacon, funnel…
Photos by Patrick Michels Reaching for the high notes. They’re out there somewhere. For those of you scoring at home, it took Jessica Simpson three songs into her Friday night set at the State Fair of Texas to drift into chatter about her BF and QB, Tony Romo. “Someone who…
Says Oliver Stone of his subject: “People grow up on excess in Texas.” Sitting in the back of the restaurant at New York’s überchic Royalton Hotel in an orange polo shirt and khakis, Oliver Stone looks out of place among the bed-headed hipsters otherwise casing the joint (unless, perhaps, he’s…
Josephine Davis used to work in the Dallas office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of General Counsel — used to. Now, she may very well end up in prison for the next decade. Lesson learned? Do not use a government-issued credit card to spend $10,000…
The Toy Industry Association, which rather shockingly last year moved its Fall Toy Preview to from New York City to Dallas Market Center, wraps the ’08 shindig today after a week-long sneak peek at the fanciest and funnest in playthings. And, from the sound of this lengthy wrap-up full of…
Charles Martin Smith in a scene from the fourth-greatest movie ever made locally, Ron Howard’s Cotton Candy. A few movie notes on this new-film Friday. First, try to retain this bit of information in your short-term memory: Tonight and tomorrow, the Inwood Theatre will screen for the first (and last?)…
I know Mavericks’ point guard Jason Kidd is older, slower and filled up to here with pressure this season. But, unlike Devin Harris, you think he’d get schooled by some British dork in a sweater? – Richie Whitt…
Because their identities are kept confidential, you rarely see the faces or hear the names of abused children entering foster care unless a tragic turn of events ends their lives and lands them in the news. That’s why Dallas CASA is kicking off the national court-appointed special advocate program’s Stand…
Couple of days ago, the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green site posted its “Green City Guide: Dallas,” wherein it offers suggestions for those travelers to town “looking for a rootin’-tootin’ green time.” In other words, places to eat, shop and stay and ways to get there, which is not what I…
A Friend of Unfair Park whose school lost one of the 375 teachers laid off yesterday by the Dallas Independent School District sends this blog entry from National Education Association-Dallas president Dale Kaiser, which was posted Thursday evening. The gist is below. –Robert Wilonsky Today, October 15, 2008 is one…
With Bill Lively and Roger Staubach in charge, we — er, Arlington — are going to put on quite a show. Some of us are old enough to remember when the Dallas Cowboys had a band. If you’re in that group, take pride and confidence today that Bill Lively has…
Late Monday, on The News’ Dallas City Hall Blog, Dave Levinthal wrote that Mayor Tom Lepert had a “hush-hush meeting” with T. Boone Pickens earlier in the day. About what? Levinthal didn’t know, as the mayor’s chief of staff Chris Heinbaugh stonewalled him with a “Not at liberty to discuss.”…
So much for this, because I was driving down Douglas Avenue yesterday when I noticed a certain local landmark (sure, why not) remains on the market: the former manse of Mary Kay Ash. But almost two years after we first noticed the for-sale sign, one thing’s changed: The $5.7 million…
For those who might not have caught last night’s John Cornyn-Rick Noriega Senate race showdown, live from the studios of KERA, it’s archived in its entirety on the public station’s site. No doubt the affair, moderated in part by the pictured Shelley Kofler, was riveting; have every intention of watching…
Someday soon his money and moxie may make an annual trek to our Cotton Bowl. Texas-OU has temporarily left the building. But – surprise! – another big-time college football game may be permanently on its way to the reupholstered Cotton Bowl. A month after Texas Tech chancellor Kent Hance visited…
Illustration by Brian Stauffer The Dallas Independent School District has plenty of other things to worry about, especially today, as the district begins laying off 450 teachers to make up for its $84 million budget shortfall this school year. (And for those who may have missed it, DISD Superintendent Michael…
Guess Pacman wasn’t Jesus after all. Hmm, imagine that. You may never forgive Pacman Jones. But, listening to the tone of the Cowboys yesterday, he may be easy to forget. Said head coach Wade Phillips, “He’s gone.” While Pacman considers checking into an alcohol treatment facility in town – conjuring…
Defamer’s already had some separated-at-birth giggles with the latest Entertainment Weekly cover, a Star Trek movie preview featuring J.J. Abrams’ 2.0 versions of Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Mr. Spock (Zachary Quinto). But, really, Katie Holmes? Seriously, we think we can do better. And you probably know where…
Frankly, the “today’s member” part of the sign had us laughing for, like, two minutes. A Friend of Unfair Park sends this from the Costco in Lewisville, where gas is well below the local average, which is $2.93 for a gallon of plain ol’ regular, says AAA. But the most…
To offset any potential sticker shock at shelling out another $4.6 million for the convention center hotel, the city unveiled development renderings, cloth samples and even a model of the proposed project at this morning’s Economic Development Committee meeting. This prompted committee chair Ron Natinsky to take a quick poll…
