An Irving-based company called Falcon Physician Reviews has filed a lawsuit in Dallas County District Court claiming that a local hotel’s not being very careful with folks’ personal information. Falcon, which helps med-school students pass the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination, alleges in its suit that Younan Hospitality Group LBJ Dallas…
Michael Dell swore he’d never open a Dell store. So what’s that thing doing in NorthPark? Today, Dell Inc. will do the previously unthinkable: It will open a, gasp, retail outlet in NorthPark Center. Michael Dell always said that was never gonna happen; as Time puts it in the current…
On Saturday, Raymond Hammell was mentioned in The Dallas Morning News, just not by name. He was not dead even a day, but already he was a statistic: a 56-year-old man “stabbed multiple times Friday evening in a skywalk in the 2000 block of Bryan Street. He later died at…
Al Maysles, at right with his late brother David, will teach a class in Dallas August 12. Guaranteed, it’ll be the best $200 a young filmmaker could ever spend. One of the greatest living filmmakers and one of the nicest men you will ever meet, Albert Maysles, is coming to…
It’s been a brutal couple of weeks for Dallas chef Marc Haines. Haines, current sales manager for Sysco Food Services of Dallas, former chef for Larry North’s North-South, Sipango, and Cuba Libre, and avid comic book creator, just returned from Arizona this weekend where he delivered a eulogy before more…
Could the coach on the right wind up with the coach on the left–which is to say, left out? We shall see. In the month since our Dallas Mavericks broke our hearts with a dramatic come-from-ahead loss in the NBA Finals, owner Mark Cuban has been dissed by Dirk Nowitzki…
Just looking at a screenshot of Luxor makes us want to play it. If games like Grand Theft Auto are the gansta rap of videogame genres and Quake the death metal, then Luxor would fit, ahem, squarely in the niche for adult contemporary music–polite, nonviolent, familiar and comforting. Sorta like…
Wanna know why three of your city council members–Ed Oakley, Bill Blaydes and Ron Natinsky–are in China at this very moment? (To beat the heat? For the food? To spend a small fortune of taxpayers’ money on a summer vacation?) Well, Sarah Dodd of KTVT-Channel 11 will probably provide the…
The Man Who Would Be Guv will be on The Ticket Wednesday. So will I. That’s a lotta Jews for sports talk radio. If you listen to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket)–and if you don’t, you must, you must–you know that Greg Williams, one half of the 3 p.m. to 7…
This is the mouth that will be selling Dallas-based Earth Biofuels Inc. to the world. Don’t know how I missed this, but on Tuesday, the local alternative-fuel company Earth Biofuels Inc. announced that Julia Roberts will act as the company’s spokesperson–and, get outta here, chair its brand-new advisory board. In…
Seems the folks at Operation Save America, a local anti-abortion group that insists “Jesus Christ is the only answer to the abortion holocaust,” have been busy these last few days. The so-called “Gentle Revolution” has been in Jackson, Mississippi, since July 15 “storming the gates of hell in the strong…
George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh will no longer produce as Section Eight. But Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban will still work with both filmmakers at their respective production companies. Yesterday came word that George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh have decided to shutter their production company, Section Eight, which they began…
Tiger Woods is leading the British Open. He couldn’t have done it without Dallas’ Hank Haney, who got Tiger into the swing of things. Rock me. It’s not so bad to be an American overseas today–well, unless you’re trapped in Lebanon or something. But if you’re a Yankee Doodle Sports…
This is the Bama Pie Co. building. Doesn’t look like a museum. Money pit’s more like it. At the risk of falling into the echo chamber, let me bring up, one more time, the case of the Bama Pie Co. building on Pennsylvania Avenue across the street from Fair Park…
We just received a memo sent to Dallas Morning News staffers yesterday regarding the upcoming shake-up in the newsroom. As we noted here last week, the paper’s about to lose some 50-60 employees in the coming days, some likely from GuideLive, not two years after Belo Corp. axed 250 workers…
Woodrow grad George Hale was on Larry King last night. Like this high-tech photo of their meeting? Very fancy. George Hale, my son’s fellow Woodrow Wilson High School alum who was evacuated from Beirut yesterday, was on Larry King Live last night, just as I said he would be. And…
Nic Cage and Oliver Stone on the set of World Trade Center, which Stone was in Dallas yesterday to promote As I wrote yesterday, Oliver Stone was in town Wednesday to promote World Trade Center, which is essentially a feel-good story about September 11, 2001; it tells of the rescue…
When the Cowboys host their coaching clinic tomorrow, the Tuna will not be there. But the guy who coaches the arena team’ll be there. Same thing, innit? In what has become a really cool gesture by your Dallas Cowboys, the team will host its annual coaching clinic Friday at Texas…
Here’s some good news for Dallas Area Rapid Transit: Late yesterday, the American Public Transportation Association released a report in which it showed that public transportation ridership in the United States grew by 4.25 percent in the first quarter of 2006. According to the study, Americans hopped a ride on…
Owen and Luke Wilson: They may make some mediocre movies, but you would trade places with ’em. Admit it. It’s been a Wilson Bros.-heavy month, with Owen opening last week’s critically drubbed You, Me and Dupree and Luke pimping My Super Ex-Girlfriend, which opens tomorrow after not screening for critics…
No steroids? No ego? No national ad campaigns? No paparazzi pics wearing only eye black and a jock strap in the back seat with a Bachman Lake stripper? No obscenity-laced insults hurled at Mike Doocy? No 3 a.m. alcohol-related arrests after taking in Ted Nugent at Billy Bob’s? What? Texas…
Imagine applying for the top job at a company that has taken you to court. Well, in a variation of the saying “if you can’t beat them, join them,” Craig Watkins, the Democratic candidate for Dallas County district attorney, once had a legal run-in with the office he now hopes…
