From the Associated Press today: “During the spring protests that brought hundreds of thousands to the streets, Hispanic immigrants chanted a promise and a threat to politicians: ‘Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote.’ So far, however, there is no indication that such a potent political legacy is developing. An Associated…
Steve Martin is not Rick Warren, but he is the originator of The Special Purpose-Driven Life. C’mon. High five? No one? There’s a story on the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal about churches adopting Rick Warren’s best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life are their new Bible–well, kinda. These…
You know, I always thought spacesuits were terribly unflattering. Guess it all depends who’s in the thing. There’s a 30 percent chance the space shuttle Atlantis won’t be able to launch today from Cape Caneveral, which so doesn’t affect you. But should NASA have to delay its takeoff to Friday…
A DynCorp instructor teaches Afghan police how to do their jobs–which would be easier if they had things like guns and bullets, but, ya know, they’re working on that. On the front page of The New York Times this morning is a story about how the United States is losing…
Fort Worth’s Dewey Redman, who was so out he was as in as any jazzer in the 1960s, died on Saturday. In 1997, Dewey Redman–the Fort Worth-born tenor sax player who, as much as any horn player, defined the avant jazz sound of the late 1960s and early ’70s–was diagnosed…
A scene from Death of a President, in which George W. Bush is killed…in the future. That is such bad karma. …Death of a President, which screens next week at the Toronto International Film Festival. Can’t wait to see it then; sounds…uh…interesting? Let me explain: Channel 4 in the UK…
In case you needed to be reminded of this: “Dallas is the jewel in the crown of the Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth Metroplex.” Really. Says so right here. Not that it means much; hey, I don’t know what SustainLane is either, except it’s a Web site dealing with “sustainable living,” and I…
A Los Angeles-based real estate investment group bought the Four Seasons Resort in Las Colinas, apparently because the execs needed a good place to play golf. Guess this qualifies as breaking news. Looks like the Four Seasons Resort and Club at Las Colinas has a new owner as of today:…
I see two tracks from Polyphonic Spree’s upcoming Wait EP have made the downloadable rounds. Not that we’re gonna post them here, but I bet if you go here, you can find the band’s cover of Nirvana’s “Lithium.” And I am pretty sure that if you go here, you’ll find…
In the September 4 issue of Forbes is the story of Harry Kananian of Ohio, who died on June 24, 2000, of mesothelioma–“a cancer almost certainly caused by asbestos.” Precisely how he got the disease is question that will never be answered. Asks writer Daniel Fisher: “Was it as a…
Maybe some golf. Perhaps one last summer barbecue. Or, you could spend your Labor Day weekend scarfing down tamales–like, how about 100 of ’em? That’s what some carb-crazy contestants will attempt to do Saturday at 1 p.m. in Lewisville at the Dallas Tortilla and Tamale Factory World Tamale-Eating Championship. You’ve…
A return to glory: Jerry Jones has very, very special things in store for his Cowboys. I went to the Dallas Cowboys annual kick-off luncheon Thursday at the Hotel Intercontinental and treated my ears to a sound smorgasbord. There was rap music by Lil’ John, “Lights Out” by UFO and…
Really, how can a team that employed Chan Gailey be worth more than a billion dollars? Does not seem right. Jerry Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys for $150 million in 1989; today, his team’s worth $1.2 billion, despite the fact Chan Gailey, Dave Campo and Barry Switzer have been head…
Don’t tell vice you’re looking at this picture from Alan Moore’s (porno)graphic novel Lost Girls. Really. Not kidding. Got a call this morning from a friend who owns a comic book store. This friend’s a swell…well, let’s just say a swell person. So, anyway, this person calls and says that…
Margaret Keliher, a senior, takes the oath during the National High School Mock Trial Championship. Keliher, who hopes to one day be a judge or “something cool like that,” said that being in the courtroom was “totally not intimidating.” OMG, like, did you hear that Margaret Keliher and the other…
I saw the trailer for Borat, oh, half a dozen times and never noticed anything odd or vaguely familiar about it. Just thought it looked like a riot. Can’t wait to see the movie. (Hey, you know Borat, right? The “journalist” from Kazakhstan who’s really Sacha Baron Cohen? The guy…
Two weeks ago, The Dallas Morning News ran an Associated Press story in which it was announced that Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon Inc.–which is, oddly, enough, based out of Wichita, Kansas–was being sold to the Dallas-based private-equity firm Lone Star Funds. (“There is no affiliation between Lone Star Steakhouse…
Rose Renfroe didn’t exactly call her Democratic opponent Scott Chase a pedophile, but she came awfully close. Now he’s refusing to support her in her race against Republican incumbent Ken Mayfield, bucking the time-honored political convention of putting party ahead of principle. “I’m not supporting Rose Renfroe or Ken Mayfield…
Hard times: Thousands of words have been written on the Dallas Observer’s blog, Unfair Park, as well as D magazine’s The FrontBurner and elsewhere online about impending job cuts at The Dallas Morning News, but so far nothing has appeared in our print edition. The reason for that is that…
Hog Hell The whole hog: I can’t understand you guys, and I don’t have to, I guess; everyone has their own opinion (“High on the Hog,” by Todd Spivak, August 24). What I don’t understand is why you guys don’t tell the whole story. Maybe you just don’t know it…
What kind of boring, unromantic soul could fail to see the wonder of Dallas’ plan for new bridges across the Trinity River? Where now a row of dirty concrete slabs crosses a river that looks more like a drainage ditch, instead a majestic procession of fancifully modern suspension bridges would…
Seems the Standard & Poor’s v. Standard & Pours Coffee and Stocks battle, which we’ve been guzzling since June 27, is turning into big news–or, at least, it gives folks plenty to talk about over coffee. Here’s some video from Monday’s CNBC segment on the brew-ha-ha (can’t believe it took…
