Art Conspiracy’s annual SEED fund-raiser is still on the schedule for this Friday at the Sons of Hermann Hall. No need to remind you what the what this is, right? (OK, then: This is when ArtCon’s organizers raise money for The Big Event, that annual artists’ slambang during which original…
Now it’s the Texas Rangers owner’s turn to appear on HBO’s Entourage. Who do they call to line that up? Mavericks owner Mark Cuban taped an appearance on the hip hit two weeks ago. Last Sunday night, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made his slightly-more-than-a-cameo appearance after having taped his work…
This morning, the Associated Press tells the tale of Stephen Brodie, a deaf inmate serving time in the TDCJ’s Estelle Unit till 2012 — and, quite possibly, yet another innocent man imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. In 1991, Richardson police detained a 19-year-old Brodie for “stealing quarters from…
Not together, mind you — this isn’t a joint project between Ewing Oil and the Hilltop. But both Larry Hagman, now positioning himself as the Anti-Palin, and Southern Methodist are making a singular push for solar power — the former Dallas star in a highly publicized ad for a German…
The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!! Over at the AAC, that carryover hanging from the ceiling, the archaic Disco Ball, it’s falling, too!! Everyone else is getting better and the Mavs are getting worse and GM Donnie Nelson should go back and coach tie-dyed Team Lithuania and…
… turns out, it was already out-of-date.Council member Angela Hunt just sent us the latest iteration of the proposed ordinance that would turn Lower Greenville into a Planned Development District. And though much of it’s the same as Avi’s copy, which dates back to April, the new version (so new…
At this very moment, Sam is sitting in the parking lot outside the federal courthouse in Fort Worth, where, moments ago, details concerning the auction of Your Texas Rangers were announced. Sam reports that the auction will take place at 9 a.m. on August 4 in Judge Michael Lynn’s courtroom…
The more surprising news: There’s still a CNBC. I kid. Anyway. One year after Texas was knocked off as America’s Top State for Business by Virginia, we’re back on top. How so? Well, CNBC added up 10 “key categories of competitiveness” (among them, the cost of doing business, quality of…
The football field’s already given way to a Pepsi-sponsored urban farm at Paul Quinn College, and today the school began clearing room for a few new additions to the South Dallas campus: lacrosse and soccer fields, new student dorms and a botanical garden.To clear up the space, the school’s tearing…
We should probably be concerned for our NBA when Jesse Jackson can insert himself into the summer’s biggest sports story by insisting that LeBron James is being seen as “a runaway slave” … and yet Reverend Jackson is only slightly more out of touch with the situation than is NBA…
A major tip o’ the yarmulke to Avi Adelman, who, in advance of a July 29 meeting called by council member Angela Hunt, just posted a draft of the proposed ordinance that would turn Lower Greenville into a Planned Development District. Avi got the doc today via an open-records request…
Yesterday, Rudy Bush mentioned that Doug’s Gym on Commerce Street downtown is getting a new neighbor: a 7-Eleven, oh thank heavens. Should be open in late August or early September.But before that, that former 7-Eleven in Preston Royal — shuttered because, among other reasons, “it wasn’t facing the street” –…
Dallas filmmaker and journalist Kirby Warnock’s doc Return to Giant, about the making of George Stevens’s Texas-sized ’56 epic with Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, is available on the double-disc DVD collection issued in 2005. Only: Not really. Because, you see, when Warner Bros. issued the disc,…
Tomorrow Keep the Dollars in Dallas, the Kroger-led group hoping to get Dallas wet, will hold a press conference and lunch, during which it’ll announce some endorsements and hand out Ray Perryman’s study insisting, among myriad other things, that allowing off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide will add some…
At 1:30 this afternoon all those involved in the sale of the Texas Rangers will meet in U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn’s Fort Worth courtroom for an expedited hearing concerning Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s lawsuit filed yesterday against Tom Hicks’ Texas Rangers Baseball Partners. But before that: Just this…
New Campus Groundbreaking from First Dallas on Vimeo.Perhaps you saw in Sunday’s paper the great-gosh-a-mighty spread First Baptist Dallas took out to commemorate last weekend’s groundbreaking on its $130-million plans to remake that end of downtown in its own image. Turns out, the ceremony was as spectacular-spectacular as the advertisement…
Most American men watched the lads in the World Cup and had the same three-pronged reaction to the lads participating in “The Bachelorette”: For everyone involved, it goes on too damn long. – These fellows are about to plummet from planet-wide stardom to back-to-Podunk obscurity. – At least everybody gets to…
Note from Richie: Like Tony Romo, I’ve taken every blog snap for The Sportatorium the last two years. As I go on vacation this week, it’s great to finally have a backup. Especially an award-winning, in-the-know backup like Mike Fisher. Trust me, he’s no Kitna. You’ve read his scoops over at www.DallasBasketball.com (and can follow…
I don’t know if Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is a smart man. I don’t know if he’s an honest man. But I know Dwaine Caraway loves to hear Dwaine Caraway talk, and for some reason, people love to watch Dwaine Caraway loving to hear himself talk. Which maybe explains…
Two months ago to the day, we told you about Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman’s public information request for the calendar of Democratic Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins dating back to his first day in office — January 1, 2007. Seemed like a reasonable request — after…
I spent way too much time this afternoon on this Web site devoted to the 1973 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car — which, if you haven’t figured it out by now, was a Cadillac Eldorado. But that’s only because I spent way too much time inside a 1973 Indianapolis 500 Pace…
It’s a complaint that’s been made repeatedly since the AT&T Performing Arts Center made its October bow: The buildings are beautiful, but the spaces in between — “a Cobb salad of unrelated elements,” in the words of the late, great David Dillon — leave something to be desired. To that…
