SMU would like to get more folks to come to football games. And since losing doesn’t appear to be working, the university today announced several in-game changes to begin this Saturday, when the Mustangs host Texas State. Among the add-ons: “extensive use of replay board; live scoring updates; use of…
All I know about Kenny Burns is that he’s a self-styled “lifestyle specialist,” a former vice president at Roc-A-Fella Records with a clothing line and a professional party-thrower with an Interwebs show. Oh, and he has a Neiman Marcus charge card, which he proudly whips out in front of the…
Tsk, tsk. NBA players – including, turns out, former South Oak Cliff star and 2006 Dallas High School Player of the Year Darrell Arthur – loves them some marijuana. But, like the Mavericks’ Josh Howard so infamously noted, in the off-season, man. The OFF-season. Not at rookie orientation. Dude?! –…
Harold Simmons Just returned to the office to find in my in-box the press release from the Dallas Zoo in which it proclaims the Harold Simmons Foundation’s gift of $5 million “the largest private gift in its 120-year history.” In other words, Harold Simmons like animals just slightly more than…
When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way. With a cast of 30 and a 32-member orchestra onstage, the production of West Side Story that opens Friday is one of the biggest shows Irving’s Lyric Stage has ever produced. It’s directed by Grover Dale, a veteran Broadway dancer…
Well, since this here blog’s namesake was the old tin-roofed rasslin’ joint down on Industrial I feel obliged every now and then to post vintage Von Erich footage. But my only review of Kevin Von Erich, um – how do I put this delicately? – horsing around with son, Ross,…
UT Dallas Tammy Leonard Late last month, Tammy Leonard, a Ph.D. student in the UT Dallas’s School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, went to Germany — not on vacation, but to speak to the 2008 Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences, very fancy. UTD’s initial media release…
View Larger Map What you see above, of course, is the Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers at 4501 Cole Avenue. Only, you won’t see it there for much longer: Late yesterday, Alison Lynn, who handles PR for the eatery, called with the news that the landlord is doubling rent and giving…
Shortly after the Dallas Observer launched in 1980, Marian Henley’s comic strip Maxine became a weekly feature, almost as popular as the personals. The Dallas native’s strip, featuring her alternately giddy and neurotic alter-ego, wound up becoming a national hit: In time it would spread to the LA Weekly and…
Missed this Sunday morning — really need to remember to turn around and Face the Nation more often. Anyway, from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Fort Worth native Bob Schieffer had plenty to say — and sing — about being from “the Fort Worth-Dallas area.” And for those…
No. 1 in Jessica’s heart. No. 3 on my list. Not playing fantasy football for the first time in 20 years this fall has its consequences: More free time. More disposable income. Less contact with the geekdom subculture. But it also has me woefully unprepared for the NFL season, which…
Love the concept (and the logo): free tickets to Dallas stage productions, no strings attached. It’s called Free Night of Theater, go figure, and it takes place not only in Dallas, but in dozens of cities across the country — a far cry from the three (Philadelphia, San Francisco and…
As mentioned earlier, I spent this afternoon at City Hall digesting PowerPoint presentations during the council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting in hopes of getting to the bottom of some possible delays in the Dallas Floodway Extension outlined here. But having been to enough of these get-togethers, I should’ve…
Finally, for those so inclined, the complete album version of “You’re My Sunday” by Mrs. FBD. That is all. Nothing else to see here. Move along now. –Robert Wilonsky…
Over the weekend, Jan Hubbard found plenty of Chicago Cubs praying Mark Cuban will become the team’s next owner — unless I misunderstood first baseman Derrek Lee’s pronouncement, “I hope he gets the team.” John Cusack was a little more skeptical: “I think what he has to do is convince…
The DASA awards make for the most, um, interesting pairings. Right, Scott? If you have $200 – or perhaps $5,000 – burning a hole in your jorts, make plans to be at the Fairmont Hotel tonight for the 43rd annual Dallas All-Sports Association Awards Banquet. It’s the one chance a…
Cal Jillson Cal Jillson, political science prof at SMU, must have a Batphone in his office — that, or a cell-phone implant. Man’s quoted more often than the Bible, Mark Twain and The Big Lebowski combined. Just this week you can find him talking about local law enforcement groups’ endorsement…
For those so interested, the agenda for today’s Dallas County Commissioners Court meeting includes the county’s contract with Touch Productions, which will produce a documentary series for the Discovery Channel about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and efforts to exonerate innocent prisoners using DNA evidence. The county’s all for…
We’ve invested in a solar-powered water taxi company, along with former city council member Al Lipscomb. Was that a wise move? At this very moment, Sam, that glutton for punishment, is at a meeting of the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Committee, whose agenda is chockablock with interesting items, chief…
Ike Pappas was working as a newsman for CBS’ radio operations on November 24, 1963, when he was sent to the basement of Dallas Police Department HQ to cover the transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald. The shooting of Oswald by Jack Ruby was captured on film, of course, but Pappas’…
Merritt Martin Pete Freedman spotted the freshly painted sign this a.m., and Merritt Martin photographed it — that’s teamwork. Only, there is no such Web site, only SaveRoss.com; whatever. After the jump another photo — and, turns out, there was already a blank spot on the wall at Ross Avenue…
In 1966 the City of Dallas acquired Elgin B. Robertson Park, which encompasses some 257 acres where Dalrock Road dead-ends into Lake Ray Hubbard. Only, the city’s never done much with the prime piece of property — too remote, for starters, and the fact it’s sliced in half by I-30…
