This morning, The Wall Street Journal has a story about the stock-option scandal that's hounding technology-outsourcing Affiliated Computer Services Inc., a subject about which we've written a few times. ACS is mentioned at length as part of a larger pattern of conflict-of-interest issues arising as other companies across the country...
The Los Angeles Times this morning has a story that's actually old news to most Dallas Morning News subscribers: Dallas' Only Daily is among two major newspapers in the country to include with its Sunday editions IMedia International Inc.-created CD-ROMs full of "movie previews, music samples, video games, comics, celebrity...
Maple Terrace "is dead." Said so in The Dallas Morning News: "Trammell Crow Co. has halted efforts to construct condominiums in Dallas' historic Maple Terrace building and develop an adjoining high-rise because sales did not meet expectations." This will not come as a shock to, oh, Andrea Grimes, who was...
He brought down Robert Tilton, W.V. Grant and Larry Lea, three of Dallas' high-flying televangelists in the early 1990s. And when he wasn't diving in dumpsters to pick through preachers' trash, he was entertaining journalists from around the world at "The Block," Trinity Foundation's collection of homes in East Dallas...
On April 4, 2006, Netflix Inc. was granted U.S. Patent No. 7,024,381 B1 three years after "inventors" W. Reed Hastings, Marc B. Randolph and Neil Duncan Hunt filed their application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent, titled "Approach for Renting Item to Customers," is an elaborate and...
Copper theft's all the rage these days, especially among folks stealing the stuff for quick drug money. Ask the city council in Montgomery, Alabama, which last week adopted an ordinance that requires folks who buy scrap metal to electronically send a daily report to police. Or Dean Wallace and Angela...
Jason Lethcoe's book Amazing Adventures From Zoom's Academy doesn't particularly wow the reader with its prose, but the concept is solid--basically, Harry Potter with superheroes rather than wizards. The heroine, Summer Jones, is an awkward 13-year-old tomboy with a goofy father named Jasper who likes to tinker with home appliances...
Levi is a young preacher in the "army of God" depicted in the film Jesus Camp. Oh, I was ready for a fierce reaction to Jesus Camp. Something really extreme--like wanting to cast a demon out of my 27-inch TV. Or declaring that Oprah is the Antichrist. I'd seen the...
Why is this man smiling? Oh, right. Because he is kicking the Mavericks' collective ass. Did think briefly this morning about recapping the results of my swim team's meet last night; turns out we lost too, but at least the kids tried, which is more than I can say for...
Brick (Universal) Rian Johnson's feature debut as writer-director will wind up as one of the year's best films. A film noir set in a modern-day high school, it's Sam Spade roaming Ridgemont High; kids get doped up and knocked up and even rubbed out while speaking pulp-novel slang, but the...
While her eerie alt-country creations with the Geraldine Fibbers were moody to say the least, Carla Bozulich's second solo release, Evangelista, is another matter altogether. Largely improvisational, the nine lengthy compositions are dark and harrowing tales of religious and personal disintegration set to a pace only a snail could love...
You've never seen Shallow Grave? Shame on you. Danny Boyle's directorial debut is both hysterically funny and psychotically scary at the same time. So what better way to spend a hot summer night than relaxing poolside, drink in hand, at a classic mid-century motor hotel (a la Psycho) watching this...
If, as expected, the iron hand of the U.S. Justice Department forces the beleaguered Dallas County jail to revamp how it administers medical care to its most troubled inmates, it won't come a moment too soon. In just the last two weeks, three inmates have passed away while wards of...
It looks like a little snake head, two fangs exposed and poised to bite. It's bulky, elaborate and even intimidating. I'm an amateur in the field of turntable equipment, but by looks alone, this thing is already intriguing. Dallasites Michael Hossack (DJ alias: Ghost) and Randal Sandan Jr. (DJ Horn...
In 1997, Britain's The Full Monty came from nowhere and was nominated for Best Picture and a handful of other Oscars, winning Best Musical/Comedy Score. (It might have snagged more but for the confluence of excellent movies that shoved it out of Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director:...
There is vomit art. There is garage-sale art. And there is the work of Richard Tuttle. Neither one nor the other, Tuttle's art doesn't so much split the difference down the middle as it ignores the two extremes altogether. It is subtler than the wink-wink, nudge-nudge though critically important shark-in-tank...
So you know how Parker Posey nearly always plays sarcastic, uptight smokers? In The Oh in Ohio, she finally stretches a bit: Here, she's a sarcastic, uptight career woman...who doesn't smoke! Also, she wears her hair down, whereas it's usually pulled back into some kind of tightly wound style more...
We see that The Dallas Morning News tackled the ubiquitousness of corn today, showing how everything from sodas to bread to bacon is suffused with high fructose corn syrup. Arguable result: fatso nation. But this just scratches the surface of rampant corn perniciousness and the powerful political (Iowa Caucuses) forces...
Guess it's been a bad news-good news few days for Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services. At the end of business Friday, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced it was terminating its $171 million contract with ACS, which was scheduled to provide the state with a new Medicaid...
Robin Arcuri will be making a point, or a few, downtown at noon as does bares all (well, most) for PETA. I don't know what your lunch plans are, but you may wanna change 'em--if, that is, you wanna see a naked Playboy model gallivanting about Pegasus Plaza, at the...
Native American heroes are a rare commodity in videogames. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, released a decade ago, is the most prominent example. Now Turok finally has company. The best way to describe Prey is "Doom meets Cherokee mysticism." And while most critics are fawning over this first-person action/horror title, don't believe...
Spelling bees are for kids, and Scrabble is for family fun time. Crossword puzzles are where it's really at if you truly love words. As a person who attacks every puzzle I see with a pen, I have to admit that Will Shortz, puzzle editor of The New York Times...
