“American Girls,” by Glenna Whitley, June 19 Daddy Dearest As a now-adult daughter of an Egyptian father and American mother (along with having one sister as well), I was more than horrified to read “American Girls.” Thankfully, my experience with my father has been different. My father has given to…
Caro’s 205 N. Garcia St. Rio Grande City 956-487-2255 Since 1937 and Caro’s 3505 Blue Bonnet Circle Fort Worth 817-924-9977 Since 1954 What to get: Tostadas and puffed tacosBoth locations are run by the third-generation of Modesta Caro’s family, and both offer hot, pillowy tostadas and puffed tacos in a…
It’s been a hard-knock life for Jenny the elephant. She was captured in Africa in 1976 and came to the Dallas Zoo in 1986. Her time there has been marred by self-inflicted abscesses on her right rear foot and “aggressive-dominance behaviors” toward a fellow elephant named Vasha, leading to three…
Organic brick: The cry went up almost immediately after the story broke in The Dallas Morning News last week that investment firm Beck Ventures was looking into buying 10 acres in Deep Ellum, presumably for redevelopment. “We don’t want West Village II!” the clamor went. “Save our beloved history!” The…
Editor’s note: This story was published in print on July 10, 2008. The Hammer is half-cocked. The hammer is cocked. His resolve eroded, ego fed to the furnace and suicide notes written, Greg Williams is a trigger pull from eternal mute. He is besieged by pain, haunted by guilt…
Just got this from a Peruna-proud Friend of Unfair Park, concerning the football team’s uniforms for the upcoming season: The SMU football team will don new uniforms in 2008, it was announced today. SMU will return to white helmets and white pants and will have three jerseys to choose from:…
Right now, there are some dudes over at the Crescent going, “What the hell did we just invest in again?” Crescent Court-based Maverick Capital — which, says here, is “a $10 billion hedge fund” — has gotten into the online video business. It’s done sunk some $30 million into Youku,…
Thomas Urquidez and his wife, with some of the T.J. Patriots who’ve achieved Academic Success Sure, fine — you can “T.J. Who?” me all you want. Won’t make a difference. Not today, as Friend of Unfair Park and Dallas Independent School District yeasayer Louisa Meyer sends word that 21 kids…
Later this summer, Zenescope Entertainment will debut a comic book titled Beyond Wonderland, featuring cover art by J. Scott Campbell, a fave among the fanboys who dig his drawings of the rather busty danger girls. This morning, Zenoscope sent us a completed cover, and it looked a tad like one…
Welcome to Dallas, Sean Avery. You’re so awesome. –Robert Wilonsky…
Director Barak Epstein, a local boy who got his start being Troma-tized by Lloyd Kaufman, sends word that he’s spilling his made-around-town Blood on the Highway July 11 at the Lakewood Theater. Also on the bill with the tongue-in-neck vampire film, notes Epstein: “a few other local short films and…
Motor Trend weighs in on Texas’ Drive a Clean Machine program — by, more or less, encouraging folks from outside the state to drive their exhaust-spewing beater to the Dallas, Houston or Austin areas so they can cash in on the $3,000 exchange program. Looking to upgrade to a shiny…
Last time local scrivener Will Clark published a short story in a tome edited by John McNally, he was blessed with the caterwauling of a Rhode Island mother who called for his shiny pate on a platter. She didn’t take kindly to her kiddo being taught Clarke’s autobiographical tale “How…
Over on the Web site for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents American Airlines’ flight attendants, comes word today that the airlines is furloughing 900 flight attendants. Not surprisingly, American says the furloughs are necessary “due to the reduction in our fleet” and the recent axing of flights…
ABC News reminds us this morning of the North American Solar Challenge that revs up on July 13 — a sort of 10-day solar-powered Cannonball Run that will find 25 collegiate teams racing from Plano to Calgary, which measures some 2,400 miles. Notes the story: What began as a modest…
Don’t mince words, Sam, how do you really feel about Mayor Tom? –Robert Wilonsky…
A curious note in the in-box this a.m. from Tanna Gilder, wife of the legendary Charlie — man behind Circle A Ranch, the Twilite Room and, of course, Bar of Soap. Has to do with some kind of “misunderstanding” between the owner of the Exposition Park building — Lou Reese,…
Could you take this dude? Do you even care? At the risk of getting my ass kicked by a 106-pound 19-year-old, Luis Yanez should shut his pie-hole and follow the rules. That is, if like he says, his dream is to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. Duncanville’s Yanez,…
Hetal Jannu, left, and Anuja Balasubramanian Courtesy USA Today, word of a local cooking show — on the YouTubes and out of Frisco. Stay-at-home moms Hetal Jannu and Anuja Balasubramanian are the hosts of the Web-only Show Me the Curry, for which they’ve made some 100 how-to videos for everything…
Sam Merten Sheriff Lupe Valdez and District Attorney Craig Watkins, trying to put the commissioners’ threat of a lawsuit out of commission. As you may know by now, the Dallas County commissioners voted unanimously this morning to seek a court order stopping the Discovery Channel from filming a documentary inside…
So much for there being a Starbucks on every corner. Because today the company announced it’s shuttering “approximately 600 underperforming company-operated stores” in the U.S. — only, it hasn’t announced where, not yet. That may come in a few minutes: At 4:30, Pete Bocian, the coffee seller’s chief financial officer,…
Trademark Property Company Oddly, we have this same painting hanging over the bed. For those bored by today’s news, how about something from tomorrow’s New York Times. Like, oh, this business story about how Fort Worth-based Trademark Property Company developed the 52-acres Watters Creek Shopping Center up in Allen –…
