Who's counting: Got a head for numbers? Recently laid off from your job in financial services? Well, Buzz has a hot job tip for you: Become a Dallas cop. By the time you read this, the city council likely will have considered an amendment to the city code that will...
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To recap: Dallas's malls are going to hell, and our offices are empty. So, ah, how's the apartment-rental business in the DFW? Either awful or godawful, depends who you ask.Says here Dallas has slipped three spots, to the No. 26 position, on a major index that charts national markets' rentals...
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Where’s The Beef?
Larry Plake was just outside the control tower on his way to bed aboard the Cheyenne, an oil barge anchored six miles off the coast of Nigeria, when he heard the shots. A veteran rig worker for Houston-based oil and gas contractor Global Industries, Plake, a Texan through and through,...
Moments ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released its latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey -- a snapshot look at what folks are making, ordering and selling -- and it's not looking good, not surprisingly. As in:Texas factory activity deteriorated further in December, according to business executives responding to the...
My new hero is Eric. He plays for my new favorite sports team: The special education squad from Dallas' Conrad High School. Seemingly an odd choice, because this year Eric probably won't score many baskets and Conrad likely won't win many games. Utterly immaterial, because they've already completed a perfect...
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We've been privy to the Lil' Wayne concert for a while now, but only recently did I start hearing radio drops for it that announce who else would be sharing the stage with him: Keyshia Cole (OK), T-Pain (I can see that), and Gym Class Heroes (WTF)? Not taking anything...
Yup, says so right here on CQ Press' 2008 City Crime Rate Rankings: The fine, fair city of Allen's a Top 10'er when it comes to safety among 385 cities in the country -- and not far below, why, you'll find the likes of Frisco (at No. 16) and Plano...
If you can overcome the dreary weather, Black Friday shopping exhaustion and post-Thanksgiving hangover, there are a few noteworthy shows to choose from this weekend. First, a reminder of what we've already mentioned. Tonight, you can catch Gojira, 36 Crazyfists, In Flames and All That Remains at The Palladium Ballroom;...
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Say What?
It's another in a long line of sales pitches for Mayor Tom Leppert as he hawks his vision for a convention center hotel. Tonight the promoter-in-chief is going mano a mano against those who support a referendum for a city charter amendment that would put the kibosh on his proposed...
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Bust out the Excel for a peek at the May S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, out today; or just take away the takeaway, which is: Dallas's home prices are down 3.1 percent since May 2007, which is nothing compared to the national average of a 17 percent plunge spread amongst 10 major...
From today's Boston Globe, a suggestion: "Want to get rich? Move to Texas." And while that didn't work out for some of us -- alas, perhaps that's the problem with being born here -- the paper notes that, courtesy a Salary.com report, "Plano topped a list of the best American...
Daniel Rodrigue Robert Smith, who's been known to give The Dark Knight the occasional hard time. Pete's just rolled out of bed, well before the heat index reached 103, and posted over on DC9 at Night Daniel Rodrigue's aces review (annotated setlist too!) of last night's Cure show at American...
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Deep Freeze
Somebody forgot to tell Nintendo that "strenuous indoor exercise" does not top anyone's summer fun list. This, of course, does not explain why poor suckers everywhere are lining up for Wii Fit, an exhausting personal trainer disguised as a video game. Me? I'll be kicking back with Mario Kart Wii...
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Your Ozzfest 2008 poster. ...is that your fans get really uppity and ungrateful. The backlash has already begun on Ozzfest--or so it would appear in the comments section of the Ozzfest blog where the one-day Dallas show was announced. It ain't pretty, folks. There's a lot of "Fuck Dallas," "Fuck...
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