Word out of the U.K. has Tom Hicks refusing Rhone Group’s offer of a £100 million for a majority piece of Liverpool FC, the exact amount he and George Gillett owe the Royal Bank of Scotland come July. I’ve asked Hicks’s local spokesperson, Lisa LeMaster, wot the wot, but till…
This week we covered storm debris collection (more than once), council members using (or being) social media tools, the outgoing director of convention and event services and the Dallas International Film Festival (OK, so that was last week). And they’re all subjects included in the packet of memos sent to…
Look, I don’t do this for me. I do it for you. And some of you may like John Mayer. Maybe as much as Stephanie Daniels, who raved about his concert at the American Airlines Center earlier this month for DC9. (She referred to it as an “amazing two-hour set,…
Had a brief but interesting talk a little while ago with Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes, during which we touched on a couple of things, among them a counterclaim filed in a Dallas County court on Wednesday in which Cortes is suing the three deputies who filed court papers last…
As we told you at the end of Monday’s item about Mayor Tom Leppert’s new Web site, consultant Laura Reed Martin was supposed to get back with us about the decision to hire Washington, D.C.-based Stan Olshefski to handle the site’s upcoming redesign. Stuff like this normally wouldn’t be that…
MAPSCO, according to company lore, was conceived in Dallas in 1948 by a frustrated florist named Milton Boyd Keith who was tired of his delivery drivers getting lost. With the help of the city’s Building Inspection Division and a store manager, Keith “researched, designed and indexed hand-drawn maps that anyone…
Alerted you last week that changes at 105.3 The Fan were looming. As of this afternoon, they’re official. The good news is that ratings are up, now clearly No. 2 ahead of 103.3 ESPN in the market but still well behind 1310 AM The Ticket. The bad news is that it’s…
It was, for groovy old-timers still recovering from their Mai Tai Boat fog, a big deal when the announcement was made in June 2005: After years in mothballs, Trader Vic’s would be reopening as part of the Hotel Palomar, which still counts it among its two dining options on the…
Late last night word spread that Kim Dawson, the model-turned-modeling-agency brand name, died at the age of 85 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Dawson, of course, is credited with having discovered and cultivated many a household name, among them Angie Harmon, Janine Turner and Stella McCartney. (Though, as Texas…
Earlier this week, Dallas-based Center for Exhibition Industry Research released the latest bit of bad news for the exhibition biz: It was down 12.5 percent in 2009 — or, “four times larger than the largest previous drop, which was 3.1 percent in 2008.” Soon as I saw that, I called…
While Central Dallas Ministries CEO Larry James had our attention last week with news on his latest urban rebooting project — his “center of hope” at the southeast corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and I-30 — he drew attention back downtown Thursday afternoon to 511 N. Akard St. to toast…
Speaking of our pal Justin …Last year we enlisted him to shoot the city as it went dark for World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour. Only problem: Despite the lengthy list of buildings scheduled to join the 60-minute blackout, it didn’t look all that different — maybe a little dimmer.Which isn’t…
Note to Fair Park officials: Should you want a copy of this photo, taken during Wednesday night’s storm, for promotional purposes — just a suggestion — I am sure our friend Justin Terveen will be happy to cut you a deal. And, speaking of lightning (or “Lightning Blue Eyes”), this…
Surprising(ish?) news late today: Brinker International just announced that a year and a half after it unloaded its majority interest Romano’s Macaroni Grill to San Francisco-based Golden Gate Capital, it’s selling On the Border to the equity firm as well. For how much? The press release doesn’t say. But the…
When a reality show begins by focusing on a particular contestant, follows said contestant through show and pokes contestant with a big stick to see if said contestant will react, it’s usually a fair bet she’s leaving. She’s out. Auffed. Adiosed. Knives will be sheathed; bags will be packed; tears…
I teased Arts Magnet-graduating brother-and-sister duo Anthony & Sarah Garcia’s “Census 2010” anthem last week. Today, it made its formal bow. Oh, I see how this works: If you don’t fill out the Census, you’ll be forced to listen to this over and over and over again. So, hop to!…
I can tell you exactly where District 3 council member David A. Neumann is at this very moment: at his office at Ivy Jane. Picked right up when I called him not 15 minutes ago. Then he proceeded to do what he always does whenever I get him on the…
It took a while for Patrick “Buzz” Williams to get State Board of Education candidate George Clayton on the phone before the GOP primary earlier this month, but he finally did — long enough to ask the North Dallas High School teacher, then considered a long shot to beat incumbent…
As you may have read in this morning’s Dallas Morning News, Vice President Joe Biden has plans to drop by the home of lawyer Russell Budd tomorrow night to headline a fund-raiser for the Democrats’ U.S. Senate campaign committee. Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman seized on the visit…
I’m not austistic. Neither am I 17. Nor an, um, liar? My March Madness bracket is far from perfect, but I’m still leading the contest at 105.3 The Fan and it’s still worth tuning in to see if Kentucky can win it all for me. If you’re still in the…
It’s been said often in recent days: The city’s 311 service, on life support following budget cuts, is in need of 911. But we’ve found at least one City Hall employee willing to lend an ear, if not a helping hand: Danielle McClelland in Sanitation Services, to whom Daniel spoke…
Tiger Woods likely won’t play the Byron Nelson or the Colonial this year. But he is playing The Masters and – surprise – he will hold a true press conference. Not a staged, fake 13-minute reading or a controlled, 5-minute session in which the juicy questions are blown off with…
