Once upon a time, ours was a three sports-page town. There were enough readers - enough advertisers - for the Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times Herald and Fort Worth Star-Telegram to not only survive, but thrive. Shoot, one of my first jobs at the FWS-T in the late '80s was to...
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Oh, so that's why he's stopped turning his frown upside down. Makes total sense. The good news: I think I got it figured out. The bad news: Tony Romo ain't real happy. Been sniffing around some Cowboys’ sources this week to find out just why Romo’s demeanor has taken such...
Mayor Tom Leppert paid a visit last night to Zubar on Lower Greenville to meet with the Dallas County Young Democrats to talk about crime, the Trinity River Project and the convention center hotel, but it didn't take long before the audience found themselves smack in the middle of a...
The novella-like media release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, which just landed in our in-box, explains the case of Matthew Weigman, also known as the "Li'l Hacker." He's a blind 18-year-old "phreak" from East Boston who became infamous last year for his "quick telephone con jobs," as Wired put it...
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Calling All Ghosts
You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern...
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Not a bad time to invest in an entertainment stimulus package. Two just-opened shows are pretty fair bets, paying off with a high percentage of laughs at the expense of a few morally bankrupt characters. At Uptown Players is the Southwest premiere of Del Shores' The Trials and Tribulations of...
Something tells me the inventor of basketball planned neither on 100-0 winners nor 100-point-loser celebrities. I just threw up in my Raisin Bran. Now, where'd I ... put ... my ... ah, there it is ... soap box. America has gone softer than Bob Dole without his Viagra and it makes...
(Helping Dallas secure a convention center hotel earned DCVB President and CEO Phillip Jones a bonus larger than most people's paychecks./Sam Merten) When Harlan Crow launched a petition drive to give Dallas voters a say in publicly financing a $525 million convention center hotel, proponents of the project cried foul,...
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Girl Drink Drunk: Taco Diner
There’s probably never been a worse time to build this sucker, which ain’t stopping Mayor Tom. The first sip: PKF Consulting of Atlanta revised its 2009 forecast of the hotel industry after the stock market crash and now expects a 4.4 percent nationwide drop in occupancy rate, which would result...
Yes, the weather outside is indeed frightful but, if you're done shopping, I can't think of anything better than heading to Denton and catching Sleeping in the Aviary tonight. The Madison band's core of Elliott Kozel (guitar/vocals), Michael Sienkowski (drums) and Phil Mahlstadt (bass), recently added a fourth member, Celeste...
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Haven't heard much from anyone who was at last Wednesday's My Brightest Diamond show at the Granada--and I couldn't make it myself, unfortunately. But, if that live set from one-time Dallas native Shara Worden (read Darryl Smyers' story on her here) sounded anything like her phenomenal Daytrotter Sessions (which can...
Editor's Note: Over the next 10 days, I'll be presenting my favorite local records of the year, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1, one album a day. Keep checking back to see how the list pans out, and, in the meantime, click after the jump to see albums...
The Dallas Women's Foundation today released a study that says, in short, "Women in the Dallas-Fort Worth region are more likely to live in poverty, less likely to own a home, more likely to earn less and less likely to get as far in their careers with equal education than...
Matt Pulle Although Allen Vaught is still locked in a tight contest with Republican challenger Bill Keffer -- it's Vaught by 51 percent to 46 percent with 43 of 55 precincts reporting -- the Democratic state representative doesn't seem too nervous as the results trickle in. I swear his campaign...
Dear Mexican: What is it with César Chávez? Recently in Dallas, we've gone through three attempts to name streets after Mr. Chávez. In one instance, the plan was to remove the name of two brothers who were city founders from a street named after them and rename the street César...
Brian Harkin Whilst searching city records, we stumbled upon council member Carolyn Davis's semiannual campaign finance report. She filed the document November 17, which was nearly two months ahead of the January 15 deadline. Since Davis is hardly the model of punctuality when it comes to filing reports and she's...
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DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger The day before Halloween, three Dallas Independent School District board members -- Ron Price, Lew Blackburn and Carla Ranger -- told board president Jack Lowe, in writing, that they were calling for a "no-confidence vote" against superintendent Michael Hinojosa. Lowe repeatedly ignored the request,...
For a look at how the economy's affecting the affluent -- or, at the very least, rich women who don't mind overspending on clothes and accessories -- look no further than Dallas-based Neiman Marcus, which yesterday turned in its FY 2009 first-quarter numbers and reported an 84-percent plunge in net...
Inspired by last night's election results (Barack Obama won, in case you hadn't heard), Stumptone singer Chris Plavidal posted his version of Roky Erickson's take on "Pledge of Allegiance," from the 1999 Emperor Jones collection Never Say Goodbye, to his band's MySpace page. As Plavidal writes about the song, "The...
Dallas County's FY2009 budget was passed by the commissioners on September 9 and went into effect October 1 -- and chief among the Commissioners Court's objectives was balancing the budget without raising taxes, as you'll see on Page 2 of the 371-page document. But just two months into the new...