The city might have closed down the Penthouse Key Club for five big-friggin’-deal months, but, hey, lookie here: Says a press release sent out this a.m., the publicly traded (did I spell “publicly” right…yeah) Rick’s Cabaret International, Inc. has signed a letter of intent to buy “an adult nightclub” in…
Yay. David Beckham should be here July 31. For some kind of tourney. Better than nothing. Richie’s right: David Beckham won’t be in Dallas (or Frisco, whatever) for a regular-season Major League Soccer game. But he is supposed to be in Dallas on July 31 for the inaugural SuperLiga tourney,…
Guess who ain’t coming to Dallas. Yeah. This faux-hawked sumbitch. The 2007 Major League Soccer schedule is out, and I’ve got a two-word review: Rip. Off. All the hubbub over David Beckham coming to America, and just guess the only city that won’t see him playing for the Los Angeles…
This is the week — Mercedes-Benz Spring 2007 fashion week, to be more precise, currently under way in NYC — during which I temporarily suspend my hatred for women who can afford to shop at places other than Forever 21 and gaze longingly at thousands of runway photos. All kinds…
Jerry Jones is slow like honey. Wait. That doesn’t sound right. Refrigerated honey. The Wycliff toll plaza. Global warming. Yeah, the Dallas Cowboys’ coaching search is slow like that. But at least when owner Jerry Jones announces his hire later this week, we won’t be able to criticize him for…
Tristan Simon, the Czar of Henderson and soon to be the earl of everything you put in your mouth, has sold his successful nightclub Candle Room to his general manager Tommy “D” Dondlinger (formerly of the allegedly terminal Hard Rock) and Bar manager Shawn Egerton. No price was disclosed. “I…
You and I now have lunch plans tomorrow. Let’s meet at noon at Pegasus Plaza, at the corner of Akard and Main. You know you want to. C’mon — there’ll be naked women there, courtesy the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Seriously, no matter what you think of…
James Lewis, a subject of an Observer story 18 years back, got some face time in a recent copy of DeSoto Today. Eighteen years ago, then-Dallas Observer writer Read Martin did a story on an Oak Cliff man named James Lewis, who wanted to get into the demolition business. Lewis…
Terri Leo doesn’t like the gays. Or maybe she just doesn’t get them. Got a little time to kill this morning? Good, because the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund has just issued its latest report on the religious right’s influence on Texas government, God’s Lawgivers? Carrying the Water for the…
Pray this is the only time you see the Texas Syndicate’s rather intimidating insignia. The Texas Syndicate, says here, is the “oldest prison gang in Texas’ history,” dating back to its 1978 formation at Folsom Prison in California. As recently as seven years ago there were some 1,000 members scattered…
Ed Bark asks the same thing we’re all wondering: How does any newscast anchored by this woman stay on top? God bless Ed Bark. I dunno how much Uncle Barky’s making over at his Web site — gonna guess probably less than he did whilst toiling for Dallas’ Only Daily…
State Representative Rafael Anchi�a Don’t tell FrontBurner, because they’ll think he’s a racist, but Representative Rafael Anchia belongs to the Mexican American Legislative Caucus of the Texas House of Representatives. And last week, Anchia was named vice-chair of MALC’s newly formed task force on immigration. Says a press release just…
I got an e-mail from cult expert David Clark about last week’s item concerning his upcoming seminar on Ole Anthony and the Trinity Foundation. Clark says, ya know, thanks and all, but he also says I mischaracterized his explanation of his involvement with 60 Minutes and Diane Sawyer when I…
I haven’t listened to it yet — really, who has the time? — but yesterday on Air America’s Sunday-evening show “State of Belief,” Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy had as one of his guests Rev. Andrew J. Weaver. Who he? Weaver’s a United Methodist pastor, a 1978 graduate of SMU’s…
Heather Mussleman could not have sounded less thrilled to hear from Unfair Park this morning, though, we assume, it was nothing personal. The publicist just didn’t want to answer a question raised by the Houston Business Journal Friday, where it says, at the very end of a story you can’t…
Sara Taylor, the White House’s political director, will speak tonight to the Republican Jewish Coalition. And probably have a nosh too. Maybe you’ll never get to be in the same room as Bush’s Brain, Karl Rove. I’ve actually stood next to the man — he was in the lobby of…
Ron Rivera, your Chicago Bears just lost the Super Bowl? What are you gonna do now? Oh, yeah. Interview for the Cowboys’ head coaching gig. On second thought, should Jerry Jones even consider hiring Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Ron Rivera for the Dallas Cowboys’ head coaching gig? If you watched…
Brad Pitt’s been wanting to play Dallas electrician and Dallas Buyer’s Club founder Ron Woodroof for five years. In an October 18, 1992, Dallas Morning News story I cannot find online, Bill Minutaglio wrote a farewell to Ron Woodroof, who Minutaglio described as a “combative ex-electrician who had achieved some…
Either Don Hill really is No. 1, or he just shot you with his finger pistol. Here’s some sausage-making for your Monday morning. On Friday, WFAA-Channel 8 sent reporter Chris Heinbaugh to City Hall to ask mayor pro tem and mayoral candidate Don Hill about the segregation taking place at…
This may seem like we’re being petty here, but bear with us: Celso Martinez, the DISD flak who said I may have broken the law when I toured a public school with a parent, is himself in violation of school policy. Martinez, hired by the DISD in June, lives in…
After the jump, Jeff Liles explains precisely why and how Ben Harper and Bill Wisener became such good friends. If you’ve spent most of your life in Dallas, then you’ve grown accustomed to seeing most of your favorite signature city landmarks sacrificed for the alleged greater good of Change. Examples…
If the gummint won’t do it fer ’em, why, the Minutemens’ll build their own danged border fence. Y’all. Since President Bush pushed immigration policy changes in his State of the Union speech last week, outraged missives have been piling up in my in-box — from, of course, the Minuteman Civil…
