It’s Friday. I know, let’s implement a new feature. And let’s call it: Video of the Week. To get the party started, how about 10:36 of a Cowboys-Bengals preview featuring “King Solomon”, “concubines” and “the Emperor”? Oh, and “really abrupt editing.” In picking Cowboys 31, Bengals 17, this guy –…
Dallas Observer contributor Brandon Thibodeaux shot this yesterday outside of Dallas Independent School District HQ, where, inside, the DISD school board was voting to lay off 1,100 employees, including 550 teachers. –Robert Wilonsky…
Maybe you’re planning a trip over to Canton this weekend — it is, after all, October market at First Monday Trade Days through Sunday. No doubt, the vendors there would most certainly appreciate the business, which has gotten so bad in recent months that, this morning, Reuters took notice. And,…
Why do people want to protest Tina Fey? She’s so talented! Twelve hours after wrapping up her debate with Sen. Joe “He Totally Won” Biden, Gov. Sarah “She Didn’t Lose” Palin is coming to Dallas to collect some coin for the GOP at the Fairmont Hotel — where she’ll be…
Courtney Clenney Candace Bushnell, second from left, in what appears to be a touring company production of Sex and the City On Wednesday evening, the Garden Room at the Crescent Court Hotel was brimming with Grey Goose and twinkling with candles, Christmas lights and the setting sun as the crowd…
Mark Graham Haseeb Chishty Earlier this year, we told the story of Haseeb Chishty, a 34-year-old mentally retarded man who was beaten into a coma by a caregiver at Denton State School six years ago. The story chronicled the efforts of Haseeb’s mother to bring attention to what she describes…
The Dallas Independent School District board of trustees is meeting, yet again, to discuss laying off some 675 teachers courtesy the $148-million budget shortfall. The link to the live feed’s here, as the “budget workshop” began promptly at 3:14 p.m. Feel free to watch along and pipe in with comments…
Going … going … buh-bye. The Texas Rangers are one of only seven Major League Baseball teams to not make the playoffs this millennium. The Texas Rangers are standing pat. Fresh off another losing season, the Rangers are going to keep the owner, president, general manager, manager and most of…
Jeb Hensarling casting his vote against the $700 billion bailout bill. If you thought last night’s blowout victory in the Senate meant the bailout bill was going to pass the House without a fight … well, you probably didn’t, actually. Which is why this USA Today piece on Dallas’s Jeb…
Till I read this story, about London’s National Portrait Gallery and its attempt to secure one of Marc Quinn’s Self sculptures, I had no idea that the Dallas Museum of Art currently has a Quinn in storage. But, yes, turns out that the DMA, courtesy owners Cindy and Howard Rachofsky,…
Because nothing says golf like, um, a printer? This just in: Next year’s Byron Nelson golf tournament will be sponsored by HP. Which begs the question, who was last year’s title sponsor? If you’re like me – and I went to the dang thing – you had to think a…
The so-called Dallas Medical District — which includes, like you didn’t know, Parkland Hospital, Children’s Medical Center and UT Southwestern Medical Center — is on its way to securing its very own live-work-shop. A Mockingbird Properties property, it’ll be called Butler Manor and consist of “460 luxury apartment homes, retail…
Never been to the Havana Social Club in Victory Plaza, recently tapped by D as the “Best Place to Roll ‘Em If You Got ‘Em.” But the Austin outpost of Washington-based Americans for Prosperity recently made a trip to the joint, and today posted a video about how Dallas’s proposed…
Merrie Spaeth This morning, Salon, like every one else, is offering Joe Biden and Sarah Palin advice about how to conduct themselves during tonight’s vice-presidential candidate debate. Only, Salon’s quoting a local with substantial experience: longtime Republican operative Merrie Spaeth. As Salon notes today, the Dallas-based GOP strategist helped prep…
Every once in a while we’re reminded how slimy it is to be forced to root for this guy. This week, for example. Couple observations after a wacky Wednesday at Valley Ranch: *T.O. is a self-absorbed, petulant punk. *Dallas’ Only Daily’s “scoop” about him, however, appears flat out wrong. *Keyshawn…
A study released today by Austin-based Sheshunoff and Co. Investment Banking reveals that the state of the banking industry in Texas is strong — except in Dallas-Fort Worth, where the assets-to-loans ratio is on par with the woeful national average. Notes a managing partner in the banking industry advisory firm,…
The Portable People Meter is listening to everything you listen to. So, like, beware? For years, this is how Arbitron measured radio ratings rather crudely, but also quite simply: Participants, selected at random, would fill out diaries in which they listed what they were listening to and when for a…
Never, ever volunteer: If there’s a lawyer or, say, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives out there reading this, could you lend Nicholas Zimmerman a hand before the electric company turns out his lights? Zimmerman is a local guy who joined the Army in 2004. In April 2005…
“Checkout Time,” by Sam Merten, September 25 Room Service I’m all for this. I just moved downtown and see little life, but a brother who lives in Houston has seen Houston jump to life since the convention center hotel was built. Dallas is following the same plan with a larger…
September 26, 2007. Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington: “We made it real tough on ourselves with our start. But we weathered the storm. We never gave up. We played hard every game, and we’ll be better next year for having gone through this adversity.” The Rangers, en route to a…
As mourners trickled out of Lubbock’s Resthaven Memorial Park in the gray chill, Andrew Velez stayed behind. He stood among the gravestones and watched his brother’s coffin laid low in the winter ground. Cutting a sharp figure in his Army uniform, his dark eyes and soft-featured baby face set hard…
Because it’s brilliant. Not that No. 81’s whining. Because he never whines, especially not after losses to NFC East rivals during which his number was called a little too often. Never ever. And Keyshawn Johnson will never get tired of being called “Sheshawn” after today. A smackdown in two parts…
