On Monday, Tim Rogers posted a lawsuit that several, um, massage parlors — among them, The Passion, Cleopatra Day Spa and 333 Body Works — brought against the city of Dallas in which they claim they had their certificates of occupancy yanked without due process. Tim also posted a piece…
He’s always been Captain America. These days Roger Staubach has evolved into a different kind of hero: Super Man. As in, he’s the face of Super Bowl XLV, coming to North Texas in 2011. Sat down with the former Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback a couple times recently to find answers to these…
Slowly but surely, videos from the TEDxSMU event, held back in October, are finding their way to the conference’s site. After a slow rollout — and I highly recommend Lewis Warren’s performance, posted last month — two went up yesterday: a talk from Dr. William Abraham, the school’s Albert Cook…
Exactly 30 years ago last January, Dallas voters passed a measure that gave a 15 percent pay raise to police officers, fire fighters and rescue workers; included in the ordinance was a caveat that there would remain in place a “pay differential between the grades in the sworn ranks.” Which…
Lots of positives on the sale of your Texas Rangers from Tom Hicks to Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg. *First and foremost, Hicks will be a minority voice, but one with zero say on trading, hiring, firing or signing players, coaches or employees. *Nolan Ryan remains the face of the…
Strange bedfellows: Buzz is thinking about some of the response that came in from readers last week after our own Jim Schutze threatened to beat up Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. All Buzz can say is: What did Schutze expect? The Pulitzer? One reader, Ron Walenta of Quitman, Texas,…
Captain America is up to no good. While waiting for his mocha frappuccino at a Starbucks near DFW Airport, the man with one of the metroplex’s all-time squeakiest, cleanest reputations gets noticed. Gets approached. Gets mischievous. “Hey, you look soooo familiar,” the woman working the counter says. “Well, yeah actually,…
“Buzz” by Patrick Williams, December 10 Good Book, Bad Readers Oh, gee, guys, how many times do we have to say it? It’s not what’s in the Bible, it’s how the doofuses interpret it. In fact, the word “rapture” isn’t even mentioned! It’s crazy people like your caller who give…
Those astounding Storybook Playhouses out at the Dallas Arboretum are getting adiosed at year’s end; they’ll be good and gone by January 16. But that doesn’t mean they’re disappearing forever: Bruce Rose, a senior designer at FKP Architects on Travis Street, wants to give away his firm’s playhouse, the estimable…
A couple of hours ago, Rudy Bush posted a lawsuit 13 Dallas Water Utilities employees have filed against the city, in which they allege all manner of racial discrimination. According to the docs, the litigants — who are either African-American, Asian or Hispanic — had, in 2008, taken their complaints…
I heard Gordon Keith on The Ticket this morning referencing this “story” concerning Tony Romo’s alleged engagement to CW33’s Candice Crawford. Apparently, the tale has made the rounds far beyond 1310: “News outlets from across the country and throughout DFW are calling us looking for an answer,” says this just-posted…
One month ago we introduced you to the NCR-manufactured Blockbuster kiosk that allows users to download movies to SD cards. The response was, to put it mildly, mixed. I finally saw one a couple of days ago while reporting a piece for next week’s paper version of Unfair Park; there’s…
Back to that story about John Reed, the first-class passenger on that Sacramento-to-Dallas American Airlines flight earlier this month who asked a flight attendant for a glass of orange juice and wound up with a federal warning for bad behavior instead. A Friend of Unfair Park sends along Reed’s appearance…
I’m starting to think Dallas Cowboys’ receiver Roy Williams is just kind of kooky. The Hook ’em Horns sign after rare touchdowns. The game-day Michael Jackson outfits. The, um, contradictory quotes. Williams was at his nonsensical best yesterday at Valley Ranch, telling reporters in the same breath that the Cowboys had no…
Speaking of the O.C. …We were in Bishop Arts over the weekend when my 6-year-old espied this “sad sign,” as he called it, affixed to a telephone poll at the N. Bishop Avenue-W. 8th Street intersection. ‘Tis the season. My son, blog editor in training (poor kid), thought I should…
Good Lord. Here we go again: Project Runway, which just ended its lifeless run on Lifetime, returns January 14 and brings with its two homegrowns. One’s 40-year-old Mila Hermanovski, who boasts what’s clearly become the favorite hairstyle among locally grown reality-TV show contestants (cf. Louise Black, Lisa Garza). She writes…
Those following along Monday read Jim’s account of the council committee meeting during which members debated regulating neighborhood farmers markets, in part to protect the city’s investment in the downtown Dallas Farmers Market. Over on the Bike Friendly Oak Cliff blog there’s this response:As Oak Cliff slowly shakes off the…
With our alternative to the BCS offered up, nothing else to do than to let it play out. Food expert/football junkie Dave Faries, take it away … Given its record in other matters, it’s unlikely Congress can solve the BCS mess and put in place a viable playoff system. And…
It’s been more than a year since Microsoft shuttered Dallas-based Ensemble Studios, which was responsible for, among others, such top-selling titles as Age of Empires, Age of Mythology and Halo Wars for Xbox 360. From that wreckage emerged two offshoots, both locally HQ’d: Robot Entertainment and Bonfire Studios, neither of…
Last night, Texas Rangers exec VP of communications John Blake sent the word since heard ’round the sports world: Tom Hicks has 30 days to get a deal done with Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan before asking MLB (and his myriad creditors) if it’s OK, pretty please,…
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association just released its tops-o’-2009 list; it follows in full after the jump. But, first, this teaser: Dodging critical conventional wisdom that has put Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker at the top of most critics’ polls, the DFWCA instead opted to follow the National Board…
With his decision to sell the Texas Rangers to Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg, long-time owner Tom Hicks will willingly, yet grudgingly step into the shadows of Metroplex baseball. But how will he be perceived? While Greenberg, 48, and his group seek approval from Major League Baseball, Hicks might actually…
