Dressed in full cowboy gear, complete with a Virgin America belt buckle, British business mogul Sir Richard Branson greeted representatives of what looked to be every media outlet within a hundred miles — and anyone else who could get their lunch hour off — at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport ’round…
As you’re most likely aware by now, Dallas County Constable Derick Evans, former constable Jaime Cortes and two of Evans’s deputies have been indicted on a total of nine counts. We’ve been working the phones since yesterday and haven’t heard back from several parties, although Judge Jim Foster’s supposed to…
Andrea — and, from the sound of it, every other DFW media member in need of a midweek field trip to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport — is out on the tarmac at this very moment awaiting a chitchat with Richard Branson upon Virgin America’s DFW debut today. The wingding at…
Via Gawker, this ghoulish gift suggestion (?): Lee Harvey Oswald’s Original Pine Coffin, currently up for grabs courtesy the Los Angeles auction house Nate D. Sanders, Inc. This is the pine box in which Oswald was buried on November 25, 1963, at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
Last night, a crowd of about 75 folks gathered with martinis and wine glasses in hand to watch, as advertised, a massive, high-tech advertisement for The Tourist, the new Jolie-and-Depp sexy suspense flick. A movie trailer and stills were projected in “4D” on the facade of the Praetorian Building at…
You have some four hours left to submit your proposal to run the Dallas Farmers Market. Might as well — there’s not a lot of competition. I spoke with Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm last night, and despite the fact the deadline’s been extended several times, there may be but…
Rafael Palmeiro. Juan Gonzalez. A combined 1,003 home runs. A combined 0% chance of getting inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame. The reason? Steroids, of course. Both former Texas Rangers’ sluggers are on this year’s list of candidates and – sans the drug thing – could make a great…
At least, that’s what the Brookings Institution says in its 52-page report Global Metro Monitor: The Path to Economic Recovery, which took a long, hard look at “data on economic output and employment in 150 of the world’s largest metropolitan economies, located in 53 countries, from 1993 to 2010.” The…
Right there, on the front page of Charley Pride’s website, is the old, old news that “Charley Pride Film Expected to Shoot in 2009/10.” But it’s almost 2011, and that piece dates back to October 4, 2006, when Craig Brewer — maker of Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan…
I’m with ya. Tired of seeing Marion Barber. Watching him hop up and strut 10 yards down field to celebrate a four-yard run. Watching him dive into a pile for a 1/2-yard loss on 3rd-and-1. Watching him bounce inside runs to the outside. The Barbarian long ago deteriorated into the…
Back in July, the London-based owner of The Metropolitan on Main Street auctioned off 35 condos in the one-time downtown office tower, rehabbed a few years back at the cost of $50 millionish. Fifty-five more went on the auction block only weeks ago. In two weeks, it’s time to sell…
The Department of Defense today released its 247-page Report of the Comprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which you can read in its entirety here should you have the spare time. But long story short, says the report, there’s a “widespread attitude…
Saturday’s the big day for this year’s Fair Park Holiday, and Mayor Tom Leppert joined assorted Friends of Fair Park this afternoon in unveiling some of the highlights you can expect this time ’round — among them, rooftop fireworks, the tree lighting ceremony, free admission to all eight of Fair…
The day after the local GOP lost its fourth-straight election cycle to Democrats, Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman told us “it’s very unlikely” that he’d run for a third term in 2012, citing the need for “fresh leadership.” But soon after the Hunton & Williams lawyer appeared to…
The good news: Mavs win again. Their sixth in a row, this one over the Houston Rockets comfortably, 101-91, last night at American Airlines Center. Dallas is 13-4 and on one of its trademark rolls that annually leads to 50-plus wins come April. The bad news: Rookie guard Dominique Jones has…
This morning we received this photo and the accompanying press release, which announced: “Godless Ads Go on Ft. Worth Buses December 1.” That’s per the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason, which says the campaign is “designed to raise awareness about people who don’t believe in a god.” Maybe you’ll recognize…
I’ve been listening to Mark Elfenbein longer than I care to remember, dating way back to his days as a Bottle Rocket on KERA-FM (90.1) with co-host Steve Shapiro. For the last 17 years, of course, he’s been a Sunday-morning staple on The Ticket and co-hosts the Dallas Mavericks post-game…
Because it’s never too early to get an Elf for Christmas, 105.3 The Fan is hiring long-time Ticket personality Mark Elfenbein. Elf, who hosted a Sunday morning show on 1310 AM since the birth of The Ticket back in 1994. He will begin his new gig alongside Josh Lewin weekdays 11 a.m.-2 p.m…
This just in from Parkland: Bank of America Charitable Foundation is contributing $1 million toward the $1.27-billion new Parkland Hospital, which held its groundbreaking, oh, about a month ago. Which is nice, but it reminds me: Yesterday the mailman delivered the Winter 2010 issue of Columns, AIA Dallas’s quarterly arts-and-architecture…
Two weeks ago today, state Rep. Leo Berman of Tyler filed H.B. 295, which says: “The secretary of state may not certify the name of a candidate for president or vice-president unless the candidate has presented the candidate’s original birth certificate indicating that the person is a natural-born United States…
Let’s see, he’s won a batting title, an American League MVP, multiple Ginger Ale showers, our hearts and – almost, sorta – a World Series. Today Texas Rangers’ outfielder Josh Hamilton goes for another coveted honor – Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year. Little debate that Hamilton was the best player in…
