Sam Merten Sheriff Lupe Valdez and District Attorney Craig Watkins, trying to put the commissioners’ threat of a lawsuit out of commission. As you may know by now, the Dallas County commissioners voted unanimously this morning to seek a court order stopping the Discovery Channel from filming a documentary inside…
So much for there being a Starbucks on every corner. Because today the company announced it’s shuttering “approximately 600 underperforming company-operated stores” in the U.S. — only, it hasn’t announced where, not yet. That may come in a few minutes: At 4:30, Pete Bocian, the coffee seller’s chief financial officer,…
Trademark Property Company Oddly, we have this same painting hanging over the bed. For those bored by today’s news, how about something from tomorrow’s New York Times. Like, oh, this business story about how Fort Worth-based Trademark Property Company developed the 52-acres Watters Creek Shopping Center up in Allen –…
KTYS program director Vic Thomas Vic Thomas, midday host and program director at the relaunched KTYS-FM (96.7), which went from new country to old pop yesterday, called Unfair Park with further details concerning the change — which, turns out, stems from Citadel Broadcasting Corp. bossman Farid Suleman’s love affair with…
Deja Diop? DeSagana Diop? Matt Barnes? Shan Foster? Be still my bouncy basketball heart. Because the Dallas Mavericks are apparently going to next year look a lot like they did last year. Or, come to think of it, a lot like they did in 2006. NBA free agency started with…
From Australian public television, host Richard Snashall rides the Dallas Area Rapid Transit rail. Looks like he had a g’day, mate! –Robert Wilonsky…
Josh Venable, still a member of The Edge’s Adventure Club Josh Venable, who called yesterday with some news he wanted to share, needs to put down his cellphone for a second. He’s out in Los Angeles and on the air, working the day shift at KYSR-FM (98.7) — among Southern…
Sean Greene, the Dallas Zoo’s director of community relations, read yesterday’s item about folks protesting the zoo’s moving Jenny the elephant to the Africam Safari Park in Puebla, Mexico. Then he read the comments, which keep piling up from people who’d rather see Jenny sent to an elephant sanctuary in…
As you’re no doubt aware, the Institute for Creation Research wanted the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to let the joint hand out master’s degrees in science — and failed at the end of April. Which doesn’t mean the Royal Lane-based institute’s giving up: Today, Henry Morris, the institute’s CEO,…
Two games over .500! Where’s Laura Miller when we need her?! When Ian Kinsler snagged a pop-up for last night’s final out, Texas Rangers’ TV voice Josh Lewin screamed “Got it! Got it! Got it! The Rangers beat the Yankees!” This morning on The Ticket, co-host Craig Miller made a…
Mark Graham Sam Coats In Friday’s recap of Angela Hunt’s fund-raiser, we mentioned how it felt a little bit like a reunion of the anti-Trinity River toll road gang. Sam Coats, a key part of the TrinityVote team, wasn’t able to make it, but he doesn’t want people thinking he’s…
Peter Calvin Lou Reese Lou Reese, a major Deep Ellum property owner, died over the weekend while fly-fishing in Montana — a passion of his, according to his biography on the Madison Partners Web site. Theresa Martin, Reese’s assistant, says he suffered a heart attack Saturday and died Sunday; Reese…
From next week’s episode, when Lisa Garza asks a Girl Scout, “Do you like steak?” No more avoiding the — yawn — inevitable: Your Weekly Next Food Network Star update, starring Suze’s Lisa Garza. Though what’s to say about last night’s episode, when Garza was nearly done in by the…
Anyone who knows me knows how much I covet my Yums. I possess all the freshest graffiti-streaked flavors, from Lemonade to S’mores, with my Tum Tums kept in the closet vault till only those most special of occasions. (Because, frankly, they aren’t cheap — $125 a pair, goddamn.) So good…
Jeff Koons Well, looks like Howard and Cindy Rachofsky done got ’em a little extra spending cash, as they finally parted with their beloved Jeff Koons sculpture, “Balloon Flower (Magenta),” for $25,648,698 — or, about $1.5 million more than experts initially guesstimated. No wonder, then, that Christie’s is heralding the…
If this ball went foul, we’d be waiting another three minutes for a pitch. I see your Texas Rangers continued to hover around .500 in my absence. Which is a good, amazing, frustrating thing. Tonight they try (again) to get two games above .500 for the first time in the…
Ron Chapman Well, today was the big day that KTYS-FM (96.7) — the so-called “Texas Twister” in Citadel Broadcasting Corp.’s inventory — switched formats, ditching its new-country format for … music my mom will love, love, love. (At least, she loved this stuff back when it was known as KVIL’s…
Brian Harkin Matt Kadane, left, and brother Bubba Saturday night at the Granada I see over on DC9 that Pete’s posted quite the rave for Saturday night’s triple-header at the Granada: The Theater Fire, Matt and Bubba Kadane and Centro-matic. To which I’d only add that it was a bit…
Sam Merten Willa you sign these? Mike Modano and the missus in Frisco Saturday, during that celeb charity baseball thing. Temperatures hovering around 100 degrees and the slight chance of rain were likely causes for the lackluster attendance at Saturday night’s Reebok Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game. But it didn’t stop…
Among the myriad chuckles from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times piece on the making of W, Oliver Stone’s biopic concerning once and future Dallas resident George W. Bush, was this note: Major League Baseball refused to cooperate with the production. Don’t know how that will effect references to the Texas Rangers,…
Back to the grindstone. Ok, so where were we? First, a review of my week-long sabbatical: Dad’s house: Painted. Guadalupe River: Cold. Hootie & The Blowfish: Eh. As for sports, I’m playing catch-up today. The thing that has first struck me is that the Mavs nabbed a nice player with…
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…
