On May 8, Jenny, a western lowland gorilla at the Dallas Zoo, celebrated her 55th birthday "by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats," as the Associated Press noted. Jenny's birthday was significant, as she was the world's oldest gorilla in captivity. And, at the...
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Pescabar’s Identity Crisis
Lower your expectations a notch for Theatre Three's production of the 2005 hit Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza. That way you won't be too disappointed at the less-than-sumptuous staging of the romantic, near-operatic 16-song suite by composer-lyricist Adam Guettel (book by Craig Lucas). You might even be pleasantly...
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway Before last week’s pro-hotel shindig in the Flag Room at City Hall, I decided to attend Wednesday’s council meeting. No particular reason, although the Fairfield zoning case was on the afternoon agenda. Ironically, I ran into Kat Truitt on my way down the elevator...
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For such a self-deprecating city, Dallas still manages to surprise me from time to time. Take, for instance, the story of John Lefler. You may or may not know who he is. For those of you who don't, a primer: Lefler's biggest claim to fame is that he's the guitarist...
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Ask a Mexican
100 Damned Guns ain't playing tomorrow. Sorry. (Vishal Malhotra) Some bad news, gang: Due to a personal matter that just came up with one of 100 Damned Guns' members, the band will not be playing our showcase tomorrow. As a result, there will be no 7 p.m. set at Sugar...
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Keys to the Jail
Over the weekend, Don -- didn't catch his last name -- was at Dallas Farmers Market collecting petitions for the no-hotel folks. Amazing how many farmers market shoppers claim they are not registered to vote in Dallas County ... Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel, which has already changed its name,...
Dallas-based Blockbuster has its problems; so noted. But Grapevine-based GameStop's doing all right, all right, all right for itself: Today, the seller of video game stuffs posted ginormous second-quarter income figures -- $57.2 million, or damned near three times what it brought in this time last year. Did amazingly well;...
Two weeks ago I was on vacation, sitting in an airport diddling around with my "smart" phone (yeah, right), when I came across an online story about the Dallas Independent School District: DISD had suddenly "discovered" that its annual operating budget this year will be $64 million in the red...
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People in office jobs find ways to make cubicle dwelling tolerable. Humble three-wall enclosures often feature weird toys, movie/music posters and photos of good times had elsewhere. Lulls in activity often result in the sending of YouTube videos, cute photos of animals that are photoshopped and links…like this one I...
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...
Brian Harkin Luis Yanez On Saturday night in Beijing, the dreams of Olympic gold fizzled for Duncanville boxer Luis Yanez. Today there was an interesting piece on Yanez in The New York Times that suggests the tension between Yanez and his Olympic coaches is emblematic of the problems on Team...
Jonathan Neerman At the end of the day yesterday, Jonathan Neerman, the recently installed chair of the Dallas County Republican Party, called Unfair Park to talk about that Lupe Valdez-is-a-chicken video. Neerman said, sure, Dallas County GOP absolutely made it -- because, see, they were pretty sure the Dallas County...
So if you read Pete’s post on Friday, you know it was going to be a pretty interesting weekend. Was it? Well, dude, if you can remember it, you weren’t really there. Sure, Houston was putting on a hell of a show but it’s safe to say Dallas gave Ike...
The Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will meet twice today: at their 3 p.m. "financial workshop," then again for their regularly scheduled 5:30 p.m. meeting. It is the former, of course, that's of most concern today, as on the agenda is Item No. 3, which reads, "Consideration and...
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On Tuesday morning, we received a rather unremarkable e-mail from Gary Underwood, spokesman for Time Warner Cable North Texas, in which he noted that the company's main customer care telephone number (972-PICK-TWC, and how adorable is that?) was kaputs. Few hours later came another missive: Service has been restored. Only,...
Greenville Ave. residents, you are officially fuel-efficient! Says so in the latest of Forbes magazine's never-ending litany of lists, this one headlined "America's Most Fuel-Efficient Neighborhoods," which appeared at the end of last week. And just how did the mag arrive at this result? Very tricky math, along with an...
What has yellow skin and writes? A ballpoint banana, of course. Stole that one from the classic 1966 version of Batman, the one where Penguin purchases a surplus nuclear submarine under the alias P. N. Guin to fool Navy officials, and the Riddler fires skywriting surface-to-air missiles. Usually Frank Gorshin's...
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