So, Mark Cuban’s made peace with NBA commish David Stern…not. (Really, I should not have seen Borat four times already…not. Damn it.) You know why Cuban’s mad now, don’t you: Stern’s new league-wide rule that prohibits team owners from going on the floor during the game or joining in team…
Since you don’t read Mental Health Business Week and we do–we’re core readers, y’all–we thought we’d pass this along this: Dr. Kristy Hager, a child psychologist at Children’s Medical Center Dallas, tells MHBW that, “Parents who possess an understanding of important principles, ideas and actions contribute to the formation of…
Jonah Johnson is the star of an online reality series thanks to his gig waiting tables at Chili’s. Ain’t America amazing? “Chili’s” and “hip.” Yeah, not since, like, the early 1980s. Which isn’t stopping the Dallas-based Brinker Inc. chain from trying. Oh, Christ, how it’s trying. Says in the latest…
Illustration by Craig LaRotonda The keep-’em-out and send-’em-back movement has been thwarted by a judge in Pennsylvania. The much-discussed law passed by the town of Hazelton last summer and seen as a template for dozens of cities nationwide–including Farmers Branch–was blocked yesterday by a judge just hours before it was…
It’s easy to pick on The Dallas Morning News–and, ya know, it’s kind of our job. Has been ever since BeloWatch way back in the late, oh, 1960s, was it? I had no intention of logging in early this a.m. and taking potshots at its new Web site. Who are…
Peter Paul Rubens, The Three Graces Last week, Bible Girl guest writer Laura Conaway wrote about her Southern Baptist upbringing and her journey from a “born-again congregation” to a “less rigid” Episcopal church where an outsider, “a woman married to a woman,” found a spiritual home. Her faith, she wrote,…
Sheriff Lupe Valdez says she’s no friend of the man arrested for threatening to kill her. Well, yeah. We have a few more bizarre details about Norman Russell, the Dallas man arrested last week for threatening to kill Sheriff Lupe Valdez. Turns out the 53-year-old, who Garland police say later…
This is an anti-Bush rally in Salt Lake City–or about three more people than we expect to see this afternoon and Tuesday in downtown Dallas. Beleaguered by approval ratings still mired below 40 percent and a likely-probable-maybe-dunno routing by Congressional democrats, President Bush is seeking safe haven in Texas a…
All you gotta do around here is listen and, just through osmosis, you’ll learn how to win Cy Young Awards, re-write recent history and, come Monday, be absolutely perfect. Roger Clemens stopped in Dallas today to speak at the SMU Athletic Forum. Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells is now chirping…
The bod couple: Al Goldstein and Josh Alan Friedman were feted at The Lodge last night. That, my friends, is how you know you’ve made it. Wanna know how to keep from winding up homeless and sleeping on the floor of a deli? “Pay attention to the Internet.” That was…
Tonight the Dallas Mavericks take the first step of what they hope is an eight-month journey to the NBA Championship. Dirk Nowitzki will resume his climb to MVP. Avery Johnson will continue to preach “basket-BAWL.” Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs will again provide the major obstacle. And, of…
In May we “discovered” (well, not so much) Gary M. Kornman, a Dallas attorney awaiting trial in federal court here after pleading not guilty to criminal charges of securities fraud and lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Far as we can tell there’s been no mention of Korny in…
This is either a pic of Beck of Police guitarist Andy Summers. One of them was in town last night. If the last-minute, sold-out “Beck Jam” at Gypsy Tea Room last night proved anything, it’s that Scientologists know how to party. (But only within reason: A female roadie pulled double…
On the hot August morning when it all began, Elizabeth Villafranca was sitting in her spacious North Dallas kitchen reading the newspaper when a headline pulled her to the edge of her seat. “Farmers Branch proposal would target illegal immigrants,” it read. “Illegal immigrants are responsible for much of what…
Sima Cheregosha came to Texas from Iran 14 years ago. She knows what it’s like to leave her country behind and make a new home in a strange place. But she has little sympathy for people who come to the United States illegally, and she was one of several immigrants…
Every night in Dallas County, about 2,800 abused or neglected children are sleeping in protective care. Each month, 100 to 150 children are removed from their homes. Woe to the Child Protective Services caseworker who leaves a child in a marginal home only to have him killed by a parent…
On October 16, the Dallas Cowboys and NFL Properties filed a federal suit in the Northern District of Texas against a Lakeville, Minnesota-based company calling itself America’s Team Properties. C’mon, take one guess what the suit’s about. Just one. Yup: trademark infringement. But it’s more than just your regular infringement…
So, you wanna piece of Marty Turco? Have a seat. Down the hall, hang a left into the Dallas Stars players’ lounge. Back there, past the P.F. Chang’s spread and the Super Chexx bubble hockey game. Go ahead, plop down in one of those plush black leather chairs. Kick back…
Gezellig is the classy new import beer joint on Lowest Greenville, the strip of the avenue below Belmont. Outside the bar, a girl is standing on the sidewalk in her underwear: a white corset, black panties and thigh-high stockings. While other ladies on the strip are appropriating childhood characters such…
Sinking Ships Great writer, editor, proofreader: That was a brilliant piece of writing (“Tony Oh-No,” by Richie Whitt, October 26). Kudos mostly to the first line: “two shits passing in the night.” Great writer. Give him whatever he wants including but not limited to Jerry Jones’ job. Joseph Zvejnieks Brooklyn,…
Rose Renfro: She wants to be a Dallas county commissioner. Or a Tarrant County jail prisoner. If you’re a candidate for office, there is one place you don’t want to appear four days before election: in court. But on Friday, the eternally bumbling Rose Renfroe, who is hoping to unseat…
Who needs an excuse to get hammered? Not the ladies of the Dallas Observer, that’s for sure. But Rock Star Karaoke is a good reason to knock a few back nonetheless. Rivaled only in excellence by Wednesday nights at the Goat, RSK at the Barley House is tip-tops in local…
