Flickr photo: BenYankee Before we let Josh Hamilton’s record-setting appearance at the Home Run Derby last night disappear from today’s topics of conversation, let me direct you to Peter Gammons’ column on the subject — the headline of which reads, “Hamilton an inspiration in so many ways.” A sampling of…
Sam Merten These are not members of the Lupe Valdez Fan Club. Approximately 25 labor union representatives gathered on the steps at the Frank Crowley Courts Building this morning to criticize Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez, citing her refusal to hire from within the Sheriff’s Department, along with concerns regarding…
And yet another local story goes national. S’up, Matt Lauer — but, really, Ann Curry, “honey”? Nonetheless, extra kudos to 17-year-old knock-out artist Rudy Sandoval for wearing the Pizza Patron T-shirt advertising the special XL Pizza Trio deal. I hope owner Antonio Swad gave you a big ol’ bonus for…
Courtesy Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance The Bridge It’s been two months since The Bridge, Dallas’s new homeless center, opened, and already there are noticeable results. As Central Dallas Ministries’ CEO Larry James points out on his blog this morning, The Bridge has effectively removed hundreds of people from the streets…
Roberto Cavalli If you’d like to hear Air’s “Playground Love” off The Virgin Suicides sound track, check out designer Roberto Cavalli’s Web site. I only discovered this after noticing that Cavalli will be among those scheduled to attend the latest Fashion at the Park extravaganza in the NorthPark Center parking…
Fredo Sunday’s Times of London story about Houston lobbyist Stephen Payne’s soliciting six-figure donations for the Bush library on the SMU campus by promising access to the likes of Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice sure is gathering steam. The White House is dismissing and denying and distancing; so too are…
Wow. Babe Ruth may have built the house, but Josh Hamilton brought it down. I’m not much into Home Run Derbys – or baseball, for that matter – but the Texas Rangers’ slugger last night provided one of those goose-bumpy moments that remind us why we watch sports. In one…
Surely, you recall this: March 31, 2006: Amid rumors of drama in their marriage, [Britney] Spears shows up at Dallas’ Club X to help [Kevin] Federline promote his upcoming CD. Federline yells to the crowd to “give it up for my wife for showing up at this event!” Turns out,…
Robert Wihite’s Fat Man Bomb, now on display at the Barry Whistler Gallery Most of artist Robert Wilhite’s work is beautiful but benign: a Tower of Babel made of tissue and wood; a Throne of Zeus that’s more or less a chair affixed to a wall; a Sputnik that’d look…
I guess the head honchos over at Live 105.3 read my post yesterday and agreed that it was odd to have me on to discuss the implosion of a popular radio show while in the midst of a sorta similar crisis themselves. Something to do with Pugs & Kelly’s depature…
After the jump, the official ESPN wrap-up of the Home Run Derby — during which, in the first round, Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton hit a record-setting 28 dingers, good God. And, sure, he didn’t win — Minnesota’s Justin Morneau did, feh — but, once again in the span of a…
Morrey Taylor He’s not the Snake, but, perhaps, Snake Plissken? So sorry, but I just can’t bring myself to write about Lisa Garza’s ascension to The Final Threeway on The Next Food Network Star; sorry, not that interested in Suze’s cassoulet queen, even if she does live a few blocks…
Forbes, second only to Craig “Junior” Miller and Santa Claus when it comes to making lists, moments ago provided us with this gem: Best And Worst Cities To Rent A Home. (And shouldn’t that be “Best and Worst Cities In Which to Rent a Home?” Because otherwise, it sounds …..
Ten of the 100 bestest cities in the whole country are in the DFW — though they’re not actually the D or the FW, as this is a list of “small cities.” Says Money, you’d do well to live in McKinney (which comes in at No. 14), followed by Carrollton,…
It’s official, I’m out of Greg Williams photos. Tune in tomorrow and rip me when I talk to the guy second from the right. We knew The Ticket wouldn’t invite me on, but seems my Greg Williams story is compelling enough for a competing station to discuss it. To that…
For those who’ve never seen footage from the deadly 1957 tornado that, as it notes here, “carved a sixteen mile path through Oak Cliff and West Dallas over a time span of about forty minutes,” someone’s just posted to the YouTubes footage from a doc made about the best-documented twisted…
After the jump, the view from Plano yesterday, where, as we mentioned a couple of weeks back, 15 collegiate teams revved their solar-powered engines for the 2,400-mile trek from North Texas to Calgary, Alberta as part of the North American Solar Challenge. Only, sweet baby Jeebus, from the looks of…
Tom Jenkins No assignment too small: Tom Jenkins could turn a nice meal into a work of beautiful art. The memorial service for Dallas Observer contributing photographer Tom Jenkins, who died a week ago of a heart attack, is set to begin at 1 p.m. at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary,…
Richardson Echo Crews have spent the morning dismantling Heights Park, where the old radar dish awaits its trip to storage. Andrew Laska, who tried valiantly to get the city of Richardson to preserve at least a piece of historic Heights Park, sends word that the city’s wasting no time this…
The guy on the left is my brother, Major Mike Wilonsky, USMC. The dude on the right, who doesn’t have the camera aiming his direction, also looks familiar. I know where CSI: NY star Gary Sinise was over the weekend: drinking my baby brother’s last Perrier, not an easy item…
Gloria and Kenneth Copeland Back in November, Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican and his party’s top man on the Senate Finance Committee, demanded the financial info from a handful of televangelists who the senator — and Trinity Foundation’s Ole Anthony — believes are abusing their tax-exempt status. Dunno why…
Maybe if Starbucks just sold Slurpees and Big Gulps, they wouldn’t be shuttering 600 locations throughout the U.S. and A. — including novelist Brendan McNally’s favorite Lower Greenville location. Because GlobeSt.com this morning brings news that Dallas-based 7-Eleven, Inc. is looking to expand the brand by hitting the 300-location milestone…
