Now I remember why I stopped listening to National Public Radio in the morning — stories like this one this morning, about how Texas is all plugged into the national conversation about energy consumption and climate control. I mean, really? Texas is the nation’s largest energy hog because it has…
For several weeks, the car-lovin’ Web site Jalopnik has been obsessing over the story of Farmers Branch-based Unique Performance, which had a deal with racing great Carroll Shelby to manufacture “official” knock-offs of the legendary 1967 Shelby GT500E. It began earlier this month, when KTVT-Channel 11 ran a story about…
Back in June, Firehouse.com wrote a lengthy profile of Parkland Memorial Hospital’s Alex Eastman — “the first physician who’s every day job is to be on a major metropolitan SWAT team,” as the good doctor explained at the time. More than a year earlier, Eastman was among the doctors who…
The Ice Bowl, about which you might hear one or two things over the next week Go ahead, be thankful. The Dallas Cowboys ripped the New York Jets to improve to 10-1 for the first time in the franchise history. Even better, they jumped to a 21-0 lead to prevent…
This note tonight, from Camp Taji in Iraq — where it’s just like home (complete with fast-food eateries and workout facilities) and so not at all like home. While the atmosphere at the dining facility was festive, it just wasn’t the same as being home for many Soldiers who said…
Ole’s at it again. Ole Anthony and his cohort at the Trinity Foundation are behind Senator Charles Grassley’s current investigation of six prominent televangelists. As a ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Grassley has sent letters to Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Bishop Eddie Long and…
Dear Very Important Person: On behalf of UT Southwestern Medical Center’s staff, I wish to offer our sincere apologies for The Dallas Morning News’ recent publication of our list of 6,400 people guaranteed special treatment in the event they become patients at any of our facilities. We want to assure…
Cry Me a River Don’t listen to the 47 percent who say they are going to move to Seattle or wherever (“Cool Dallas,” by Jim Schutze, November 15). I have said the same thing on about 647 different occasions. Actually I am in school in San Antonio right now, and…
The Hardline has never been sane. After this, it may never be the same. On Friday, October 12, the most popular sports talk radio show in the history of Dallas prepared for a routine remote broadcast at Addison’s Blackfin Pub. KTCK-1310 AM The Ticket afternoon co-host Mike Rhyner arrived on…
Some years ago, I was fortunate enough to be an integral part of important research being done at a site in Tarrant County. It was an ongoing excavation project, already in progress for several years before my team arrived. While much data had already been collected, I recall well the…
Dirk Nowitzki was lost. And he was starting to stink. He had come this far, deep into the Australian Outback, and now that it was dark, he didn’t know where he was. Not exactly, anyway. He’d ended up on a patch of wind-swept dirt, surrounded by sagebrush and stiff yellow…
UT-Arlington UT-Arlington guard Cardell Hunter, a sophomore playing, well, like a junior, at least Though it would make total sense, this isn’t a writers-strike retread posting from the days of Snake LeGrand, Bill Blakely and peach baskets. Believe it or not, it’s true: UT-Arlington will host North Texas tonight at…
There, Jack E. Jett — this better? ”The only thing that will make a soufflé fall is if it knows you are afraid of it.” Thus spoke James Beard. Restaurateur Mark Maguire admits he had a fear of soufflés. When amateur gourmet Hedda Gioia Dowd — founder of the French…
Far as I know, there’s no ESPN the Magazine cover curse. Hell, far as I knew till a couple of minutes ago, there was no ESPN the Magazine — gave it up a while back, after my five-year free subscription finally ran out. But in a few days, three of…
ABC News/Good Morning America Rev. Rickie Rush and Isaac Booker appeared on ABC this morning. The things you miss by not watching morning shows. Good Morning America today hosted Rev. Rickie Rush of the Inspiring Body of Christ Church on South Westmoreland Road. And he was joined by a congregant,…
Dallas resident Brandon Friedman, vice chairman of VoteVets.org A couple of times in recent months, I’ve mentioned Brandon Friedman, a Dallasite who served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan and Iraq. He’s currently vice chairman of VoteVets.org and the author of the awfully…
This Peanuts strip fetched a small fortune at auction last week; you can print this version for nothing. Called it. After selling one of Charles Schulz’s original Peanuts strips earlier this year for $77,675, Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auction Galleries obliterated that figure by nearly 40 thou with the iconic…
Charles Hatley, world champ Oak Cliff’s Charlie Hatley may not be headed to the Olympics, but he now has another title to add to his resume: world champion. Over the weekend, Hatley won the Golden Gloves World Championship, and he couldn’t have done it in more impressive fashion. He knocked…
It was nothing short of a Major Event when Minyard Food Store opened a 50,000-square foot grocery at Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert B. Cullum boulevards in the Fair Park area in the September 1995. “I can’t believe we finally have what most people have in their communities,” a…
On September 4, we posted to Unfair Park an item about the smoking cessation drug Chantix, which Carter Albrecht’s girlfriend, parents and bandmates blamed on his erratic, violent behavior the night he was killed. Every other day since then, someone has posted a comment to that item. Only last week…
I won’t pretend to know whether this is The Real Deal, but an eBay’er with much positive feedback is selling — for the low, low price of $2,000, so far — what he says is a football signed by the entirety of the 1967 Dallas Cowboys roster. Which means, yes,…
A 9-year-old from Richardson came up with this invention. Oh, like you could do better. Most of the time, when I tell people what I do — which is, make fun of myself and my peers for a living — people respond with a hearty, “That’s so cool! You must…
