The same. But different. Checked out the front page of SportsDay this morning – resplendent with its, hey, a clever photo of a half-empty/half-full glass! – and it got me to theorizing: a) Dallas’ Only Daily reads Sportatorium. b) Great minds think alike. c) Who am I kidding? Shit happens…
Richie discovered this photo over on the Dallas Stars’ Web site, and it irks him — something to do with Derian Hatcher, who wore No. 2 way back when. Richie’s also made the Mavericks jersey joke. Which just leaves me with this lousy headline. I’m totally fine with that. –Robert…
Spill it in your lap, and you could actually make money. We already told you about Dunkin’ Donuts’ big plans to spread franchises and apostrophes all across Texas (see Jesse Hyde’s “Time to Make the Doughnuts”), and noted that their expansion’s coming just as Starbucks is scaling back. Well, in…
Half-empty or half-full? Since NFL beauty is in the eye of the ticket holder, I was wondering where y’all fall on the Cowboys through five games. Happy? Satisfied? Concerned? Mad? Some seem generally pissy that Dallas had to squeak past the Bengals. Others are convinced the Super Bowl train remains…
Patrick Michels To Swerve and Protect Sarah Palin’s visit last Friday drew nearly about as many fans as protesters to the Fairmont downtown, and it was a charged atmosphere. Slogans were hurled across the barricades and signs were thrust high into the air — but thankfully, with the Dallas Police…
Scattered among the minutia related to the convention center hotel project lies the distinction between the political action committees started by the anti-hotel folks and the pro-hotel peeps. On August 27, hotel opponents backed by Crow Holdings started a specific-purpose committee called Citizens Against a Taxpayer-Owned Hotel, which was later…
View Larger Map A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: Is Muddy Waters on Greenville Avenue closed? Sure looks like it: The number’s disconnected; the Web site’s down; there’s a huge hole in the front of the place. All good hints. Because, yes, the longtime blues-and-booze haunt is gone; has been…
Is that lipstick? Nope, just Derian Hatcher’s sweater. In case you somehow missed it, John McCain’s running mate/Saturday Night Live punch line swooped into town last week. But instead of putting lipstick on a pig, Dallas Stars’ owner Tom Hicks gave the world’s most annoying hockey mom a hockey sweater…
Seems odd how that would happen — local businesses turning over their tax dough-re-mi to neighboring municipalities. But, sure enough, an audit released this morning reveals that 72 unnamed Dallas-based businesses are “incorrectly remitting sales tax” to neighboring burgs. But the city doesn’t know quite how that’s happening — or…
If nothing else, we can distract ourselves this week with Texas-OU, some kind of a football match set for Saturday at the Cotton Bowl, I think. The New York Times gets a jump on the pre-game festivities this morning. And, whilst on the sporting news, this clip from Terrell Owens’…
As the Dow Jones falls below 10,000 for the first time since 2004, this sign of the times courtesy the Associated Press: “In Dallas, sales assistant Yvonna Vaughan downgraded from Newport cigarettes to less expensive Kools and wonders whether she’ll be smoking generics before long.” –Robert Wilonsky…
The city council’s going on a retreat today and tomorrow — because, look, sometimes you just need to get away. But they’re not going too far: They’ll be at the Trinity River Audubon Center, which officially opens October 18. And, at this very moment, the subject at hand is “Updates…
After a week in maddening moth balls, his star is re-born. The web site says the sporty truckster is loaded with a “youthful, contemporary spirit.” This here blog says the running back comes fully equipped with “hole-eee-shiiiiiiiiiit.” Felix Jones = FJ Cruiser. In an ugly, 31-22 escape from the Cincinnati…
University of Texas at Dallas economics prof Stan Liebowitz, heretofore hailed for his music-biz research, has the cover story in the latest issue of the National Review; a rather timely one too, as it performs an autopsy on the “mortgage market meltdown” and points fingers in, well, everyone’s general direction…
Patrick Michels In case you missed it, our slide show from The Palin Protest at the Fairmont Hotel is up here, with some of the most impressive turns of phrase and slant rhymes we’re likely to see in a while. And, while you’re at it, the Dallas Peace Center has…
In case you missed it, Art Hoffman posted to Wednesday’s record-store flashback item an absolutely amazing, how’d-we-forget-that photo of Roger Daltrey causing a ruckus at Valley View Mall back in 1975. So happens that Hoffman was the manager at Sound Town at Valley View when Daltrey stopped by before a…
If I am not mistaken, Glenn Carano started a single game during his six-season tenure as a NFL career-long Dallas Cowboys back-up QB — and he won it too, 37-13 over the Baltimore Colts in December 1981. These days, though, he’s better known as the dad of Gina Carano, who,…
This is, alas, likely our last Rep. Jeb Hensarling item of the week, as, but an hour or so ago, the House of Representatives approved — and President Bush signed — the juiced-up bailout bill by a margin of 263 to 171. The Dallas Republican, who voted against the bill…
Patrick Michels New guy Patrick Michels went down to the Fairmont Hotel this morning, where, at 9:30 a.m., protesters began massing to cheer and jeer Gov. Sarah Palin, in Dallas today to raise money for the GOP. Three hours later, the pros and cons were still there, their shout-down separated…
Somehow, Channel 8 let Erin Hawksworth move to Boston. Damn you, Hansen! Since former Channel 8 sports reporter Erin Hawksworth up and moved to Boston, long-time Mavs’ sideline reporter Laura Green packed her bags for Portland and ESPN’s Suzy Kolber flew the Cowboys’ in-house production coop 15 years ago, it’s…
Dan Foote, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald Baylor University’s W. R. Poage Legislative Library is “celebrating the art of editorial cartooning” with the exhibition “Drawing Power: Original Editorial Cartoons,” which features such familiar locals as Bill DeOre, ex of The Dallas Morning News, and Dan Foote, with whom Schutze…
Photo courtesy Debra Jane Seltzer The old Pearl Beer billboard, in a 2006 photo Everything you need to know about the old Pearl Beer “waterfall billboard” on Stemmons Freeway, construction of which was completed in 1962, you’ll find here and here; the landmark’s past has been well documented. But what…
