KERA-FM (90.1) this morning ponders the future of Reunion Arena, as B.J. Austin chats it up with real estate types and with the likes of current council member Angela Hunt, who’d like the city to hold onto the land for at least the next decade, and former council member William…
Dooney Da Priest’s anti-sagging-pants anthem — which, turns out, is just a, erm, homage to this similarly monikered track that came out in 2006 — gets special notice in the U.K. this morning, where the Guardian breaks down Dwaine Caraway’s favorite song with several mentions of the deputy mayor pro…
Better than ever? In this story, The Ticket didn’t seem to really miss their old colleague, Greg Williams. And in the radio ratings for Spring ’08, the station likewise seems as healthy as ever. The Ticket finished No. 1 in Dallas-Fort Worth for their target demographic – men 25-54 –…
Tonight’s the big night; get your pom-poms ready for 8 p.m.. Should be fab — or, at least, Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal — as Lifetime gets its hep on with a mean-girl makeover about those McKinney North High School cheerleaders. And, hey, Slate seems to think it’s a…
Daniel Rodrigue When we got up this morning, no way we imagined this photo is how we’d end the day. Wednesday, Unfair Park told you about Dr. Colin A. Ross — you remember, Cyclops? Based in Richardson, Ross applied to the James Randi Educational Foundation’s One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge…
The least Stephanie Lucero could have done last night, while busting wide open this swingers joint in McKinney, was toss off an obligatory Swingtown reference. C’mon, CBS’ hit series about swinging in the ’70s airs tonight at 9:03. (Sounds interesting: “Laurie and Doug interrupt her parents’ ‘after party’ with Brad…
Two wrongs give us a right — to wonder about his future. Sure enough, Josh Howard has learned from his off-court mistakes. Best way to rehab a pothead image and regain the trust of your teammates is by – wait, what? — getting arrested for driving 94 in a 55…
Jenny Seriously, I hadn’t intended on writing another Jenny the elephant item this week — not even to point out this freshly minted Associated Press story about the zoo vs. sanctuary debate or to direct your attention to this ever-growing petition calling for her to be moved to The Elephant…
Anyone remember where I live? Okay, let’s see what I missed here on the homefront while vacationing in Canada and “working” in California. Hmm … *Rough week for our beloved Mark Cuban. First, Ron Artest gets traded to the Rockets, dropping his Mavericks to fourth-best in their own damn division…
Sure, things can get a little slow in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, but, seriously, Josh Howard. Arrested? For drag racing? In a black Lexus? Yup: “The 28-year-old has been charged with drag racing, exceeding the posted speed limit, and reckless driving to endanger.” Guess it coulda been worse. Lesse — September…
Thin Sweaty Man, by John Bent One of our big bossmens around here is trying to get to Houston, and he sends word from Dallas Love Field that the air conditioning’s out — “has been all morning.” Turns out, he was told, workers were doing some electrical work out at…
Eric Dickerson, whose e-mail address still contains the word “ponyexpress,” no kidding. If nothing else, SMU’s trying awful hard to get the old ponies back into the stable after what’s felt like centuries of losing records. A month ago, the school announced that for the upcoming football season, June Jones’…
Amazing how we got any work done around here about 13 years ago. At this very moment, thousands of gamers are wandering the Hilton Anatole looking to get their annual QuakeCon on. Jason Ocampo of IGN.com live-blogged the warm-up press conference last night — and, wow, sounds like id Software…
If I may direct your attention to DC9 at Night for a moment, Pete’s posted quite the present: the title track to Dallas Observer Music Awards fave Sarah Jaffe’s forthcoming six-track EP Even Born Again, which the great Robert Jenkins dropped off yesterday. It’s your for the taking; don’t even…
Time to pull back the curtain on the most vital Cowboys. Get it? After a week in Oxnard – yes, I’m back here in our lovely triple-digit clime – I think I have a pretty good handle on the Cowboys’ flow chart. Somehow I missed you-know-who’s appearance, but I did…
Temoc Back in May, Merritt noted the University of Texas at Dallas’s search for a new mascot, one that would replace the rather lazily named Temoc — which, yes, is “Comet” backwards. News of the quest makes the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Edcucation’s subscription-only “Mascot Watch,” which…
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall is a popular venue for patent infringement lawsuits; as The New York Times pointed out in 2006, right after that famous Echostar-TiVo trial wrapped, “more patent lawsuits will be filed here this year than in federal district courts…
Alternate head: “She’s gonna get trashy sluts.” Which is but one among many priceless lines of dialogue from Lifetime’s can’t-miss Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, which premieres Saturday at 8 p.m. and, of course, is based on the tale of those McKinney North High School girls gone wild. We…
Lily Tomlin, way back when there was only one phone company, summed up its attitude toward customer service best: “We don’t care. We don’t have to. [snort] We’re the phone company!” Well, AT&T may have some competition these days — sorta, kinda — but Dallas lawyer Stephen W. Drinnon claims…
Joan Marcus Jersey Boys has been dubbed “the guy musical.” It’s packed with all those great tunes by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, and it’s got more F-words than Goodfellas. There are hookers. And mobsters. And a scene where Tommy DeVito, the Season who dragged the group a half-mil…
The University of Texas at Dallas today put on its Web site this notice referring to a computer security breach that “could have resulted in the exposure of personally identifiable information of 9,100 individuals” — including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers. Says Dr. Jim Gary,…
Prepared to be dazzled. Or disgusted. Depends on your perspective, I guess. Pacman Jones is full of … tricks. On Monday the dude caught six punts, storing each ball in a different part of his torso, without ever dropping one. Tuesday he was fielding kickoffs with one hand. And yesterday…
