Google Maps does not know where Rendon is. Oh, it knows where the Rendon Burgers restaurant is, and it knows what the Rendon local business alliance is up to, but as far as Google is concerned, they float in a void between Mansfield and Burleson in southwest Tarrant County. To…
Chris Bosh would never say it himself, so let us scream it for him: Yo, bitches, how you like me now?! Like they did most summer Saturday mornings in 1992, Noel Bosh and his 8-year-old son, Chris, made the short drive from Lancaster up to the junction of Southeast Oak…
David Kunkle could have hung up the phone. Or bullied us into killing our story. He could have tried to guilt us by saying that he expected the Dallas Observer to be above writing gossip. Instead, the still-married Dallas police chief talked amiably about his fledgling relationship with television reporter…
Wilting Rose: Four days before the November 7 general election, candidate Rose Renfroe–sorry, we mean Rosita–won’t be able to campaign around the clock. That’s because the Democratic candidate for county commissioner will be appearing in a Tarrant County Court in an ongoing lawsuit related to a judgment she has yet…
Laura Miller Speaks Too big for our bridges: I don’t mind that Jim Schutze doesn’t like the Calatrava bridges (“Eye Candy for Suckers,” August 31). I mind that his facts are wrong. I didn’t always like the Trinity River Project either. I voted AGAINST the project in 1998 when it…
Really, does this look like a guy who wants to kill himself? As expected, Terrell Owens just addressed the media at Valley Ranch and claimed he didn’t attempt suicide. He never said he was depressed, never swallowed 35 pills, never got his stomach pumped and, furthermore, plans on playing Sunday…
Guess whose life is not really an open book. Go on. Guess. It’s one thing for Cowboys coach Bill Parcells to act like he didn’t know the name of Terrell Owens’ book last summer, but it’s almost criminal for him to show up today at Valley Ranch today and tell…
T.O.’s supposed to talk in about five minutes, which is good, since coach Bill Parcells just said at his press conference: “When I find out what the hell is going on, you will know.” There was quite the scene assembled at Owens’ Deep Ellum condo about an hour ago: agent…
Almost two weeks ago, Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. got the contract with the city of Dallas to provide some red-light cameras; the deal’s worth $13.29 million bucks over five years. On the same day the announcement was made, ACS also announced it would not be able to file on…
Now comes word that T.O. just left the Baylor Medical Center, giving a thumbs-up but no comment to waiting reporters before jumping into an SUV and being driven back to his downtown condo. The seemingly premature release seems to minimize the “attempted suicide” theory. Or does it? –Richie Whitt…
A weird story keeps getting weirder. KXAS-Channel 5 sports anchor Newy Scruggs, one of the few local media types to have a sit-down with T.O., is reporting, as is Dallas’ Only Daily, that T.O.’s publicist, Kim Etheridge, says Owens was not trying to kill himself. Newy, who talked to Etheridge…
Lone Star Funds Chairman John Grayken asks the question, “Why is everybody always pickin’ on me?” Or something like that. Since late March, we’ve been following the troubles of Dallas-based Lone Star Funds, which has been in hot water with the South Korean government over the sale of Korea Exchange…
Dallas Police Department spokesman Lt. Rick Watson just held a press conference in which he didn’t deny a police report indicating Owens attempted suicide. Watson would only say that the information shouldn’t have been leaked to the media. Citing federal privacy laws, Watson didn’t take questions and said, “After our…
Irving-based Tia’s Restaurants Inc., aka Tia’s Tex-Mex, filed for Chapter 7 liquidation yesterday, listing some $12.8 million in total assets and $22.6 million in liabilities in its filing. The 13-unit chain nurtured locations in Maryland, Florida and Little Rock, Arkansas, as well as Plano, Denton, Sherman and Killeen, Texas. The…
This morning comes word Terrell Owens might have been trying to kill himself with painkillers. We’ve all seen how Terrell Owens can destroy franchises. Now, sadly, we’re witnessing that he can also be destructive to himself. According to several reports like this one this morning, the Dallas Cowboys receiver attempted…
That Bill Parcells–what a friggin’ sweetheart. In the issue of Sports Illustrated subscribers will get today or tomorrow, Cowboys running back Julius Jones is the subject of the short “First Person” column, by Peter King. It’s mostly silly, pointless stuff–what Jones watches on TV, his hardest collision, meeting Emmitt Smith,…
Where was the mayor today? In Waco, d’uh, visiting with McLennan County Commissioners, who she wants to join her coalition of the willing to get rid of coal-fired plants that TXU and other energy companies want to build throughout the state. Mayor Laura and her Houston counterpart, Mayor Bill White,…
This is not director Paul Rachman, but a scene from his documentary American Hardcore. Cuz it’s so hardcore. Paul Rachman’s in Dallas today promoting his first documentary film, American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986, in which the filmmaker chronicles the rise of such bands as Black Flag,…
We have no doubt Avery Johnson can give one hell of a pep talk. But we’re also sure it sounds kinda funny. Couldn’t help but get goosebumps watching the Saints come home to New Orleans on Monday Night Football. The Saints beat the Falcons in their first game at the…
Read over the weekend that Sherry Jacobson, Metro columnist at The Dallas Morning News, had an explanation for why Dallas tops the FBI’s list of crime-ridden cities: We’re just too good at reporting our crimes. So, see, no reason to pay attention to the F.B.I.; no reason to even look…
For years, this photo of the 1913 Homestead Grays has been on Baseball Almanac’s Web site without anyone knowing that Silas Simmons, the second from right in the middle row, was still alive. There’s a fascinating story in The New York Times this morning about a man no one knew…
I seem to recall that a few years ago, we wrote something unflattering about Chris Burney, who’s second from right. Wonder what that was… Did you know Chris Burney, guitarist for Bowling for Soup, is in the new intro to Monday Night Football? (This assumes, of course, you know who…
