Speaking of Mayor Tom, as we were below, turns out you can speak to the man himself in a couple of hours. He’ll be appearing on KERA-FM (90.1) at 1 p.m., as the guest on Krys Boyd’s Think. As for the subject: “What does the future hold for Dallas and…
Mayor Tom in China, pondering the global economy and the nice breeze. This morning’s China Daily, which is now being tossed on the front lawns of locals making more than 75,000 yuan, makes mention of Dallas’s efforts to do business with China. No surprise there; city officials, including several council…
Less than nine months after Charlie Palmer opened an outpost at The Joule downtown comes this exclusive announcement from GlobeSt.com: Downtown Dallas will, by summer 2009, have yet another steakhouse to gnaw on. It’ll be called Dallas Chop House, and it’ll go into the restaurant space currently sitting empty in…
From undrafted free agent to the cover of SI to the top of my rankings. Not bad, kid. Not bad at all. My first installment was such an, um, hit, that I decided, what the heck, let’s make this is a weekly staple. Everyone loves quarterbacks. Sports geeks love rankings…
In 2002, by way of public service, Patrick “Buzz” Williams and I taste-tested various flavors of legal highs, among them salvia divinorum, then a burgeoning novelty in your finer lifestyle accessory shops. The result: moving colors and fits of laughter, which lasted two minutes, and the hellacious headache that followed…
Kimberlee Hewitt The Washington Post said it would happen, and it did: Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued Dick Cheney, insisting that the vice president comply with the Presidential Records Act that demands he release his all records, including his rare collection of klezmer 78s, following the…
Probably should have mentioned this, like, oh, I dunno, Friday maybe? But, yes, I did host a late-night music show on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) on Saturday night that lasted till the wee small hours of Sunday morning. It’s called Till 2, as in: Nothing good ever happens after 2…
As we mentioned almost a month back, Carl Reiner and Martin Short will replace John Travolta tomorrow night at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, where Travolta was scheduled to show for a Q&A as part of the Brinker International Forum benefiting the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Of…
National Hurricane Center Up till an hour ago, Kenny Shaw, director of the City of Dallas’s Office of Emergency Management, didn’t know whether he’d even be able to use the Dallas Convention Center as temporary housing this weekend if, as expected right now, folks from the Gulf Coast flee north…
Surprise, I’m here. Cowboys’ head coach Wade Phillips, whose crisp, hard-edged hair line looked not unlike Jimmy Johnson’s (when Sunday’s game started at least), just finished his Day After press conference at Valley Ranch. At look at what he said. And, of course, what I think about what he said:…
It’s official: T. Boone Pickens — for whom the answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind — is a real author. Author enough, at least, to get invited to the Texas Book Festival down in Austin, which takes place November 1-2 down in Austin and today announced its lineup…
Jeff Pearlman, whose tremendous Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty is due in stores a week from today, appeared on ESPN’s Outside the Lines yesterday, discussing Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ penchant for taking troubled cast-offs. Joining Pearlman was The Dallas…
“Chemtrails” is one of the handful of tremendous tracks found on Beck’s recently released Modern Guilt — not at catchy as “Gammy Ray,” but still. Sings the Scientologist: “I can’t believe what we’ve seen outside/You and me watching the jets go by.” Perhaps the song provided the yesterday-morning inspiration for…
Hal Samples/Central Dallas Ministries At noon today, the city council’s Quality of Life Committee spend a bulk of its meeting talk about Dallas’s homeless population — and how to get those folks into homes or, at the very least, “Permanent Supportive Housing.” If nothing else, the 29-page document prepared by…
One more time, the city council’s Transportation & Environment Committee will discuss the landscaping along North Central Expressway, specifically between Woodall Rogers Freeway and Mockingbird Lane. Only, before the Texas Department of Transportation — and its various life partners — gets started on planting more freeway-friendly greenery that shouldn’t get…
1 down, 15 to go. I’ll expound on these during the week, but for now here’s my Top 10 knee-jerk reactions to the Cowboys’ season-opening victory in Cleveland: 10. After all those training-camp parlor tricks, Pacman Jones had the audacity to go out and bobble a friggin’ punt? 9. Gene…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked in recent days when and how the city will part with Reunion Arena’s seats — guess a few folks have media rooms and man caves to fill? Anyway, no word yet; an assistant in the office of Frank Poe, Convention & Event Services…
View Larger Map Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse, spokesman for the Dallas Police Department, was kind enough this afternoon to shoot us the narrative to what’s surely one of the odder 7-Eleven robberies in recent months. (Update: Good ol’ Avi, always with the actual police reports. L’chaim, brother.) Happened in the…
Should you happen to miss the first, oh, 10 plays Your Dallas Cowboys run Sunday against the Cleveland Browns in the Dawg Pound, the Browns forum on Scout.com has ’em for you. Here is but a taste: “Play action-fake handoff to Barber inside, Romo 13 yard pass to Witten in…
Note to anyone paying attention and/or still left over at 508 Young Street: Please, in the name of Sweet Baby Jesus, call Tom Maurstad and tell him he can stop Twittering from the Toronto International Film Festival. Hurry, before it’s too late. Oh … no … oh, God … too…
A giggle this afternoon, courtesy the Andover Townsman, which details Andover/North Andover YMCA’s 13th Annual Dallas Night held on August 27. Biggest turnout ever — “Texas-sized,” as the paper puts it, which adds up to some 475 folks in attendance, hot damn. And how, precisely, do the Massachusettsians do up…
On May 8, Jenny, a western lowland gorilla at the Dallas Zoo, celebrated her 55th birthday “by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats,” as the Associated Press noted. Jenny’s birthday was significant, as she was the world’s oldest gorilla in captivity. And, at the…
