Brad Hawkins: Why isn’t he the biggest star in local TV news? Seriously. He’s a genius. Sad to say I was watching local TV news at 11:30 p.m. Saturday night; used to be I didn’t remember Saturday nights. (Actually, not so much.) Anyway, after USC beat Arizona 20-3, or whatever,…
It’s no secret that Irving-based ExxonMobil pays scientists to say that humans aren’t causing global warming. Last week, the Guardian (a U.K. paper) reported that the British Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific academy, has “found that ExxonMobil last year distributed $2.9m to 39 groups that the society says misrepresent the…
The Rangers will probaby finish the season below .500. For that, you have these two men to thank, among many. And, no, that’s Jon Daniels at left, not Tom Hicks’ bat boy. Alas, another fall without baseball has arrived in the metroplex. I took a masochistic field trip to the…
Ever watch HBO’s The Wire? No need now; just read this, a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office about nine alleged South Dallas gang members arrested on conspiracy, drug and firearms charges; 16 of their, ah, colleagues remain at large. Among the gangsters arrested by Dallas police and federal…
A guy who thinks we’re ridiculous is somewhere in this picture. Jake Palenske runs NCompass Media, LLC out of Sachse; it’s a “multimedia production company [specializing] in rich-media projects for delivery on CD or DVD, DVD interface design,” and if you don’t know what that means, I can’t help ya…
Tiger Woods is not only a great golfer, but also a foot rest. Looking for some good ol’ American athletic domination. Hmm, where to start. Soccer? Nope, didn’t win a single game in last summer’s World Cup. Baseball? Failed to even qualify for the last Olympics. How ’bout basketball, a…
Lord knows we love our MP3 blogs; how else would we, ah, try before we buy? And we dig our local music providers most of all; the eight of you who were around the day Unfair Park popped its cherry might recall Chris Cantalini, the brains behind Gorilla vs. Bear,…
There’s a Web site out of California called TurnHere, which, says here, is all about capturing the “authentic experiences of places and leisure activities in cities and neighborhoods around the world.” What’s that mean? In short, they get would-be filmmakers to make shorts about the cities in which they live;…
The Lone Star Emmy Award nominations came out this morning, and at least three of the local network affiliates did pretty well–especially WFAA-Channel 8, which got some 53 nods in pretty much every category (including two for a piece called “Inspirational Songs For the Entire Family To Sing,” which sounds…
In case you missed it yesterday, Richie Whitt wrote about how KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) management yanked a replaying of an on-air exchange between the “Dunham and Miller” morning show and Norm Hitzges, who hosts the 10 a.m. to noon slot. It had to do with Hitzges’ dismal showing in…
Robert Rowling is the richest Dallasite. He looks like it. Forbes’ list of “The 400 Richest Americans” is out, and 13 of ’em are from Dallas. To save you some time (because time is money), we’re including only the locals here–chief among them the man who owns the company that…
The Doyle Davidson saga gets stranger and stranger. The TV preacher in Plano has taken down most of his “messages to Lisa,” dozens of letters he’s written over the last few years to Lisa Staton, a former member and employee of the church. She’s married to Harold “JR” Staton, but…
DMN Sunday editor Thomas Huang says working at Dallas’ Only Daily feels like this picture looks. Very deep stuff here, people. I can’t make heads or tails of this thing myself; sounds like Thomas T. Huang, the former Texas Living editor over at The Dallas Morning News, needs a good…
Her name was Stephanie. This much I’ve figured out: She had everything I didn’t. She was cute, with long, dark hair and store-bought clothes. She was athletic—at least more so than a skinny, awkward kid like me. Most of all she was popular. I was not. We were only 7…
George Dunham doesn’t call Gordon Keith, pictured here, “The Arsonist” for nothing. Ask Norm Hitzges about it. Just don’t say anything to The Ticket’s new owners. Nuhn-unh. No. So Gordo’s giving it to Norm pretty good, and Frito’s all riled up, and you can tell there’s no script and, man,…
For a few weeks, American Airlines has been waging a campaign to land nonstop daily service from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Beijing, China, that would begin March 25, 2007. They’re serious about this–even got the Web site to prove it. Problem is, the U.S. Department of Transportation is only…
Yes, when you think intimate theater-sized venues, certainly the American Airlines Center is the first venue that comes to mind. When the Dallas Stars play in the American Airlines Center, the joint holds 18,000 people; when the Mavs are there, the capacity jumps to 19,200. But the AAC is just…
Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling keeps a place in Dallas, presumably so he can drink and drive in a major Texas city where he’s less likely to run into someone whose life he’s already ruined. Our old pal and former colleague Tom Korosec’s reporting in the Houston Chronicle this morning…
Suckers: Not long after Dallas city council member Mitchell Rasansky started talking about the need for a vote of the people on the Calatrava “signature bridges,” Buzz began seeing signs of pressure by the mayor and city manager to head that off. For one thing, Rasansky himself appears to have…
Vanderjoke The greatest ever: How do you like being called an “idiot”? (“Our Idiot Kicker,” by Richie Whitt, September 7.) What if every time you wrote an article or said something–anything–people started calling you an “idiot writer”? Give Mike Vanderjagt a chance–he holds the NFL record, for Pete’s sake. He…
Each weekend night the Mesquite Championship Rodeo is interrupted by a short drama, the script of which reads something like this: Act I: Bull. Act II: Shiiiiit!!! “Those guys have a screw loose,” says Darren Robertson, taking a sip of Monster energy drink while taking a shot at kamikaze cowboys…
Agape Christian Fellowship’s worship leader shouted into the microphone as he played the keyboards: “Somebody needs to turn cartwheels for Jesus–act crazy stupid for the Lord!” Nearly all of the roughly 400 people present when Andrea Grimes and I visited Agape in November 2005 were engaged in what, from the…
