What some Morning News readers are apparently discovering for the very first time today — T. Boone Pickens is really, really into money! — Los Angeles Times readers figured out, like, nine days ago in this opinion piece about who, precisely, will fund Pickens’ Plan: Well, Californians can clarify exactly…
On his blog last week, Carl Ichan noted that it was his idea to install Jim Keyes as chairman and CEO of Blockbuster and that Keyes “has saved approximately $100 million in operating costs over the past year, a laudable result.” Keyes has also managed to increase the Dallas-based company’s…
Cool. Just wish he’d carve a Mavs’ logo in his scalp once in a while. Got into a teensy tiny debate last night/this morning over the Olympics. My friend – like NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol – says there’s nothing like wrapping yourself in the flag and rooting for try-hard…
Wall Street Journal “Cheapskate” Neal Templin writes today about trying to ditch his Dallas house in a down market, in advance of his family’s relocation to the East Coast. In short, a house that went on the market in February for nearly half a mil didn’t get a single nibble…
Oxnard, California: This season will be Texas Stadium’s last hurrah. The same fate shouldn’t be reserved for Wade Phillips. It’s all—well, mostly—caviar dreams and champagne wishes at Dallas Cowboys training camp this summer. The team’s headquarters at the Marriott Residence Inn River Ridge complex is saturated with testosterone, yet somehow…
Shocking: Like many of you, Buzz recently received our electricity bill for July. Don’t ask us how much it was; just picture a middle-aged man doing the bulging-eyes thing you see in old Warner Bros. cartoons, accompanied by the sound of a horn blaring, “Aaahoogaa!” Not a pretty sight. So,…
“The Caretaker,” by Jesse Hyde, July 31 Accentuate the Positive I read with interest the story of Haseeb Chishty by Jesse Hyde. As the previous superintendent of the Denton State School, I did not appreciate the implication that I resigned from my position because of the abuse of clients at…
It was a hot morning in July at the Lake Park Golf Course in Lewisville, and the teenager known as Tank had a choice to make. It was an 8-foot putt, breaking right to left. The 16-year-old conferred with his caddy, argued briefly about the proper line and then stepped…
Twenty bands on three stages? That adds up to a lot of metal. How much? Well, this field guide should help. Below you’ll find the set times for every band on Ozzfest’s bill—along with a 0-10 rating on the band’s metal cred and a brief explanation of why that number…
Our old pal Sarah Hepola points us to Jody Rosen’s story in Slate today about “the weekly alternative for Montgomery County” that likes to steal other folks’ stories and credit them to some dude named Mark Williams. Rosen was tipped to The Bulletin by a Slate reader who noticed that…
How about we rename Ross Geller? He seems to like the idea. Issues like the renaming of streets tend to give me tired head, and, honestly, I never saw a need to start “branding” swaths of cement in the first place. But the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s suggestion yesterday…
On this slow news day, just a little Patriots-proud heads-up for, oh, I dunno, Meat Loaf, Olympic silver-medalist Michael Carter, former State District Judge Ron Chapman, Tupinamba main man Eddie Dominguez, former city manager Jan Hart-Black, Monkee Mike Nesmith, smoky-throated actress Brenda Vaccaro, WFAA-Channel 8 morning-show anchor Cynthia Izaguirre and…
Shelved with bone spurs, maybe C.J. can contort himself into a career with Circque Du Soleil. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not coming in here to take up for C.J. Wilson. The dude has long been a clown who this year in spring training pissed off his teammates with his…
In case you missed yesterday’s All Things Considered, the National Public Radio show ran a lengthy segment about the Barnett Shale and, more specifically, Chesapeake Energy’s efforts to sell urban gas drilling to the folks getting drilled. And, yes, among the subjects discussed is ShaleTV, which hired Tracy Rowlett away…
Here’s something else guaranteed to drive Schutze crazy: Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s love letter to Dallas Area Rapid Transit, produced to commemorate its 25th anniversary on August 13. Odd thing is, the production values of the video actually make it look and sound as though it was actually made in…
About three months back we noted the Department of Justice’s revelation that three hackers had managed to sneak into Dallas-based Dave & Buster’s credit-card system and sneak out with customers’ credit card numbers, expiration dates and security codes. Which was bad enough. Turns out, the international operation was much, much,…
Someone dipped their cinematic chocolate in my sportsy peanut butter this morning. Hurrah! –Robert Wilonsky…
Kevin Moriarty, installed as Dallas Theater Center artistic director in June ’07, makes his debut as DTC director later this month with, of all things, The Who’s Tommy. Moriarty also makes his debut as DTC spokesman (not counting his video chitchat with Elaine in April) with this just-posted pitch for…
Dunno how much that petition had to do with it, but Your Favorite Dallas Maverick Dirk Nowitzki was indeed named Germany’s Olympic opener flag-bearer this morning during a media whassup. The main Mav will hoist the colors during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, which takes place…
Jesse Garcia Back in March, there was concern amongst some local Stonewall Democrats that the rift between its Hillary Clinton supporters and Barack Obama backers had become way too “intense.” In Clinton’s corner was Jesse Garcia, the organization’s president; in Obama’s, you had Stonewall Democrats of Dallas co-founder Gary Fitzsimmons,…
The Cowboys don’t open the preseason until Saturday night, but tonight arrives what most of you have been squirming for. At 9 on HBO: Hard Knocks. I was at camp in Oxnard last week and, trust me, there’s a camera everywhere everyone turns. Expect owner Jerry Jones to be a…
Daniel Rodrigue Daniel came back with plenty of photos from Tom Leppert’s haircut appointment this afternoon, which, as you’ll notice from the gaggle of cameramen crowded around the mayor, will go on record as the best-documented haircut in Dallas mayoral history. (Slide show, maybe?) Best part of the photo, though,…
