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Suspicious Minds

Despite being timelessly cool, Rube Goldberg machines can be a giant pain in the ass. Anyone who's ever played Mouse Trap can attest to this, I'm sure—I never got all those damn pieces working together, and once you lost one or two of them the game was about as useless...
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Something’s Broken at Bryan’s House

The timing couldn't have been worse. Just days before Bryan's House—a Dallas care center for kids affected by HIV/AIDS—was set to celebrate its 20th anniversary, state authorities removed 18 foster children from the facility. The children were removed over a two-week period after an X-ray revealed that a 5-month-old boy,...
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The Friday Night Lights Stay on for Dallas Actress Liz Mikel

Liz Mikel, a familiar face (and voice) on Dallas stages, will continue her run on NBC, thanks to last week's good-news announcement. The news late last week that Friday Night Lights will be back for a sophomore season on NBC was no surprise to Dallas-based actress Liz Mikel. She had...
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TWA Flight Attendants’ Fury at American Airlines Takes Flight

Early last week we posted a short item on the ongoing tiff between former TWA flight attendants and American Airlines. It has since generated 61 comments and counting, one of which came from an American Airlines spokesperson defending his company's position. Who knew that Unfair Park is the place where...
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Vietnam in Dallas, Something to Crow About

Courtesy Crow Collection of Asian Art Phuong M. Do, Self in Street, 1998 Vietnam, it seems, is in the midst of a cultural and artistic awakening, and a piece of it is right here in Dallas, at the Crow Collection of Asian Art. "Changing Identity: Recent works by Women Artists...
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Mong and Moroney to Staff: Yer Doin’ a DMN Good Job

Craig Flournoy and Tracy Everbach's highly critical Dallas Morning News review in the Columbia Journalism Review, first mentioned here Thursday, has prompted a response from the paper's Big Bosses, editor Bob Mong and publisher and chief executive officer Jim Moroney. Unfair Park was forwarded a memo M&M sent to staffers...
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May Day! May Day!

This is a distress alert from the North Texas Sports Disaster Service. Trained spotters in Dallas have pinpointed ominous circulation and the possibility of an unprecedented and fatal occurrence of destruction in and around the American Airlines Center. A severe warning has been issued until, oh, say, midnightish. If you...
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Romo Holiday

SAN ANTONIO—Yesterday a backup quarterback. Tonight the lead singer. Don Meredith serenaded a nation with "Turn Out the Lights," Troy Aikman recorded the forgettable "Oklahoma Nights" and we can only assume Roger Staubach hummed some Pat Boone tune while saving babies from burning buildings. But Tony Romo? Never has a...
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TXI: Guilty. Now, Hand Over $20 Million.

Since there have been rumblings about mayoral candidate Sam Coats sitting on the board of Texas Industries, the infamous Midlothian cement-manufacturing plant that's been condemned by environmentalists for burning hazardous waste, we thought we'd let you know that today, TXI lost a court battle with a former contractor's family --...
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Lemmings and Toll Roads| An Acquired Taste

Lemmings and Toll Roads Don't need no stinking road: I agree wholeheartedly with Jim Schutze ("Steve Blows," March 29) when it comes to the back-door politics behind the Trinity River project. The Dallas Morning News editorial staff has made council member Angela Hunt out to be a person who single-handedly...
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To The Wall

Paul Wall is a snuggly, goofy shortstack who's probably really into pizza and playing that airplane game with his son. He has a squinty pug face and is ugly-sexy in a teddy bear/goblin way, which he wouldn't be if he were a Home Depot cashier instead of the unlikely king...
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Pure Evil

I will never forget the first major crime story I covered. The images never go away, and maybe they aren’t supposed to. They snap me back to realities about my world. A Seattle-area man had murdered his wife and kids, then traveled south to Tacoma, where he gunned down his...
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This morning The Dallas Morning News publishes its big front page-editorial page diatribe against having a referendum on the Trinity River toll road. It’s an exercise in truly classic Morning News Pravda Sovietski journalism. Makes me feel like I’m back at the Dallas Times Herald. So, for your edumification and...
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Oh and 162?

You know who we blame for the Rangers' 0-3 start. No, not this guy. Why would we do that? C'mon. Three games. Three losses. One reminder: Your Dallas Mavericks started 0-4. But after watching the Texas Rangers get absolutely bludgeoned in Anaheim, my dollar -- on second thought, my million...
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Jerry Jones Builds Giant Shell for TV Set

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has come under fire -- from, of all places, Congress, which clearly has nothing else to worry about -- for Major League Baseball's $700-mil deal with DirecTV, which airs the league's "Extra Innings" package that lets viewers get about 60 outta-town games every week for $160,...
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There’s Something in the Water…Algae

The water here in Austin isn't helping the delicious nappyness. It's simultaneously sticky and slippery, can leave a film, and leaves conditioner obsolete. And no matter how hard you try, that shampoo ain't coming out of your hair. Once the sweat sinks in, you're facing sticky fingers and an afternoon...
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The Dallas Maverick vs. The New York Prick

Maybe you saw the Mavs blow out the Knicks last night; if not, it was a typical Dallas 'dozer, 92-77 over a catastrophucked NY team somehow still in the playoff hunt at 30-37. Which puts Your Dallas Mavericks at 55 wins for the season thus far; most NBA franchises won't...
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Hot Dog Bun Justice

A long-awaited ruling from the Court of Criminal Appeals in Oklahoma was released last week, crushing the hopes of Nancy and Charlie Jackson that their daughter Emily Dowdy would receive a new trial. Dowdy was convicted of first-degree manslaughter resulting from a 1999 auto accident that killed Ryan Brewer, the...