Tonight at 9, Dateline NBC airs an hour-long episode devoted entirely to … Sandra Camille Bridewell, better known ’round these parts as the Black Widow. “A lot of it is based on the Observer articles,” says producer Esther Zucker. “We basically report on what people are whispering about.” Correspondent Dennis…
Says here that on June 19 and again on July 24, someone “vandalized” Time Warner Cable’s fiber-optic lines that run along the Stemmons Freeway underpass near the Trinity River — and by vandalized, they mean someone stole the copper wiring out of the conduits. The first time it happened, some…
Adam Palazzo — otherwise known as local blogger This Boy Elroy — this morning posted to his site some pics he snapped whilst tooling around town over the weekend. They’re on his Flickr page as well, and the one posted here comes from the Dallas Design District — where, Palazzo…
Anybody still read the Sunday paper? OK, fine, then. Anyone clip coupons and read the circulars? (C’mon, IKEA’s catalog was shoved in many a Dallas Morning News yesterday — today too. That’s reason enough to pick up Your Daily Newspaper.) If you do and you did, you might have noticed…
This just in from the North Texas Tollway Authority: The tollway entrance and exit ramps to and from Stemmons Freeway will be closed this weekend. Why? The Texas Department of Transportation’s Bridge Division will be inspecting the Dallas North Tollway’s ramp bridges, thus prompting the closing of the ramps on…
No doubt the great George Gimarc has this interview somewhere amongst his Charles Foster Kane-like collection of all things Dallas radio. But yesterday someone posted to U2 Interview Archive a 1983 sitdown featuring Gimarc and U2 frontman Bono — and Mike Peters of The Alarm, who wisely bows out once…
A few weeks back we noted that id Software was likely going to debut Something Big at this year’s QuakeCon, which just wrapped at the Hilton Anatole. Turns out, it wasn’t just hype: id, the Mesquite-based makers of Quake and Doom and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, is looking to launch…
Dunno where Bill Ingram gets his info — aside, course, from “various reports cited by a Los Angeles radio station,” which is? — but the month-old rumor that has Chris Webber joining Your Dallas Mavericks is alive and well this morning. Writes KRLD-AM (1080) contributor Ingram, who’s tuned into his…
Last Friday, I told you about how the Backdoor Comedy Club had been forced to vacate its Ross Avenue location. This week, I’m telling you that the club has found temporary digs at the Radisson Hotel behind Mockingbird Station. The usual band of awesome local comics will be performing this…
So, Tré Wilcox wants to open an Italian restaurant; say, me too! (Sure, why not.) Or, like, maybe you’re interested? Because, turns out, it just ain’t that hard to own your own eatery — all you need are 395,000 dollar bills. Everything else is provided for you — if, that…
The Moore, the merrier: Linda, Katie and John Glantz, from left, are popping their activism cherry Sunday with a health-care protest at City Hall. Don’t get the Glantz family wrong: They are all about health care. Even though their Web site is called ProtestHealthCare.org, the last thing they want to…
Soul music legend Bobby Patterson will headline our Music Awards August 14 at the Granada. You miss this, you miss everything. Because, see, when Jim Schutze gets pissed off at Wick Allison or Tim Rogers over at FrontBurner, he posts to Unfair Park. But when our current music editor takes…
We’re not quite sure what all this is precisely, but there’s a dude out on the interstates and Interwebs posting videos taken from inside the cab of his 2006 Freightliner. And from what we can tell, all he does is drive and shoot, drive and shoot, then drive and shoot…
The US-China Business Council yesterday released what it calls a “full analysis of US exports to China from all 435 districts in the US House of Representatives,” which, of course, includes the good ol’ 32nd Congressional District — Pete Sessions country, natch. Overall, says the report, U.S. exports to China…
As we mentioned a couple days back, Hannah’s stormed AT&T Plaza for CBS’ The Early Show, and, man, does WFAA-Channel 8’s HQ ever look good on KTVT-Channel 11. (I can almost hear Justin Farmer now, shouting through the glass, “Kelly Rowland! Say my name!”) Among the guests this a.m. was…
Finally, something worth reading over at Bold Types: Harlan Crow’s pissy missive to Mayor Tom concerning revived talk of a taxpayer-subsidized hotel attached to the Dallas Convention Center. (And, yeah, we had to borrow it from Bold Types, as Steve Blow saved it as a “.pdg” file, which doesn’t exist…
For those keeping score, Abacus Chef de Cuisine Tré Wilcox has now won two out of six Elimination Challenges on Top Chef. No Top Chef wrap-up this morning; had an early-a.m. interview, alas, which surely bummed out Shinsei’s Casey Thompson, winner of last night’s Quickfire quiz and no fan of…
Earlier this week I spoke with Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle about his department’s investigation of three officers for writing fake tickets and making false arrests, largely of prostitutes and low-level street criminals. The officers — Timothy Stecker, Jeffrey Nelson and Albert Schoelen — have been suspended pending the completion…
We couldn’t help but giggle — or wince, maybe, hard to say — at this line in the Dallas Mavericks’ announcement this afternoon concerning the just-released 2007-’08 season schedule: “Dallas begins its 28th season on Wednesday, Oct. 31 in Cleveland as they take on the Eastern Conference Champions.” Really, the…
The tizzy over Rupert Murdoch’s buying The Wall Street Journal and the constant hand-wringing about the death of the newspaper business are doing one of those déjà vu things for me. It’s also doing one of those I-told-you-so things. I remember getting not just derisive laughter but outright hostility in…
Good grief — here I am trying to make it through Harry Hunsicker’s latest set-in-Dallas thriller Crosshairs, which is pretty damned good and gets its official release this week, when yet another locally penned novel crashes on the desk. Literally too: Mark Gimenez’s second book, The Abduction, weighs in at…
I see our old pal and esteemed colleague Ann Zimmerman has a front-page piece in Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal this morning about a particular piano we mentioned a few months back. Yup, it’s John Lennon’s instrument, the one upon which he wrote “Imagine” in 1971 whilst apparently smoking plenty…
