Waylon Jennings died of complications from diabetes on February 12, 2002, at his Arizona home. He was only 64 and had not released an album since 1998’s prophetically titled Closing in on the Fire, which suggested he could be as viable a performer and songwriter as his outlaw pals Willie…
A front page story in the Wall Street Journal this morning explored how Prohibition-era state and local regulations– originally constructed to keep single brokers from controlling the booze trade much as mobsters did during Prohibition—are crumbing under the force of court challenges on constitutional grounds. These regulations kept consumers from…
A few weeks ago we touted the lecture Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the authors of Freakonomics, were scheduled to give September 9 at the Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie. Well, go ahead and take that off your schedule. It’s been axed due to a “scheduling conflict,” according…
I’ve been fairly–or is that Unfairly?–obsessed with the backdating scandal at Afflilated Computer Services Inc., which is being investigated by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission for giving stock options to its top execs and dating them just before those stocks experienced a sharp increase in…
Too late, but could I interest you in shaking a pinky with Winky? Evander Holyfield packed up his fossil and left town last week. But appearing live and in living color Monday afternoon in Dallas will be undisputed junior middleweight champ Winky Wright. Wright, in conjunction with Big Brothers Big…
It’s been a good long while since we’ve had any news about the big-screen version of Dallas; I know, sucks, doesn’t it? Well, the issue of Entertainment Weekly arriving at subscribers’ doorsteps tomorrow has a short item about the movie, which seems to be moving along at a dead snail’s…
Someone should write a book about Darrell Bock’s book about Dan Brown’s book. They’d be meta-rich. Dallas Theological Seminary professor Darrell L. Bock is back in Dallas just in time for the new semester, after spending most of the last year on the road promoting his best-selling book Breaking the…
A Dallas Morning News staffer who is taking the buyout offers the following concerning editor Bob Mong’s comments: “‘What I said in a memo to the staff when the press release [announcing the buyouts] came out was, if someone wants to get out of what is a very dynamic environment…
On Wednesday, Dallas Morning News staffers could begin accepting the newspaper’s buyout offers, and they did so in droves; some 80 staffers have taken the parting gift, among them some high-profile arts critics, reporters and editors. They’ve been named here and here, but those lists aren’t necessarily final: As Bob…
It seems like there’s been a lot of mention of The Aqua Rangers premiere tonight. You can find it in this issue’s Night and Day section, a primo pic and preview in last Friday’s Dallas Voice, and it’s all over TexasGigs.com (they’re a sponsor). Add to that a Myspace page…
This afternoon, DallasBlog and FrontBurner began publishing the names of those staffers who have accepted the buyouts being offered by Dallas Morning News management. They sound about right from what we’ve been told over the course of the last two weeks; we have even more high-profile names to add, but…
� Danny Moloshok / Blue Pixel for MBP 2006 Two Texans down–those would be, from left, former Dallasite Patrice Pike and current local Zayra Alvarez–and one to go. Tuesday night on Rock Star: Supernova, Patrice Pike jumped at the chance to perform an original song for the members of Supernova—a…
This isn’t Rose “Rosita” Renfro. It’s Betty White–ya know, a Golden Girl. But this is about what Rose Renfro looks like. Not very Hispanic. That’s the point we’re trying to make. Last March, Rose Renfro eked out a razor-close victory over attorney Scott Chase in the hotly contested Democratic primary…
Tom Hicks needs to fire Buck Showalter. Never gonna happen. Which is why the Rangers suck. OK, one reason. Being the Texas Rangers and all, they never really had a chance. But by losing three consecutive games to the gawdawful Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Arlington’s baseball team has officially given…
Whit Meyers is trying to make sure Green Room and Jeroboam and the Gyspy Tea Room don’t go the way of Trees. After reviewing the Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan put forth last month by the Entertainment Collaborative’s bankrupt Gypsy Tea Room, Green Room and Jeroboam, we can safely say…
This morning there’s a story in Newsday about a certain lawsuit brought against a certain South Side of Lamar coffee shop-performance space. Guess that now makes Pascale Hall a national news story and her Standard & Pours Coffee and Stocks a famous hang; no way McGraw-Hill’s gonna get her to…
Larry James is a good guy trying to do good things for the city. Which is why he will never, ever be mayor. This week on his blog, Central Dallas Ministries’ president and CEO Larry James ponders what he would do were he Dallas’ mayor. The Willie Nelson fan who…
Three weeks ago, this plot of land in Crawford was covered in trees and brush. Today, it looks like the circus grounds. A giant white tent draped with colorful banners has been erected. Four people in elaborate costumes parade in circles outside to a cheering crowd. They are dressed as…
They kicked his ass out of New York, muttering about “deteriorated skills.” So we red-carpeted his assets to Dallas, longing for a good fight. Evander Holyfield’s second-round technical knockout of Jeremy Bates last Friday at American Airlines Center will someday lead to his unprecedented fifth heavyweight boxing championship. More important,…
Pickup trucks haul yapping mutts in crowded trailers through the woods in a long, tedious procession, taking an hour to travel seven miles of cratered red-dirt road. Homemade signs posted on trees point the way to a large grassy field where a woman wearing high-waisted Wranglers, scuffed cowboy boots and…
Queso the cat, known to lap up cheese outside a Taco Cabana in Waco, was well known to students at Baylor University. The scrawny stray later went on to gain national attention when two students brutally killed it, then got off scot-free. Texas has some of the weakest animal protection…
Inside the gymnasium, a handful of kids play basketball–try to, anyway, their short arms tossing up bricks that carom like pinballs all over the hardwood. It is, as it always is these days, unrelentingly hot outside, and these boys, none older than 10, have taken shelter in the Juanita J…
