When your dad starts yapping about “back in the day”, this is what he’s talking about. Wanna see something cool? I know where you can jump in a time machine. Back to the days of 57-cent gas. Back to the days of Kern Tipps. Back to the good ol’ Southwest…
Jared Padelecki’s back on the market. Or something. Till this morning, I’m not sure I knew the name Jared Padalecki — maybe some guy with whom I went to Hebrew school? Guess I shoulda paid closer attention to Patrick “Buzz” Williams’ beloved Gilmore Girls. Or, more to the point, The…
Dora the Explorer makes French toast on a train. Backpack, of course, acted as sous-chef de cuisine. OK, so a few folks from the neighborhood gathered last night to watch the second installment of The Next Food Network Star, since, well, Suze’s Lisa Garza actually lives in our neighborhood. And,…
We get our entry in the now-regular Ask American Airlines Spokesbot Tim Wagner series early this week, as news arrives this morning of AA’s fare increase on all domestic flights. Due to rising fuel costs, Tim tells the Associated Press, the Fort Worth-based carrier is hiking its U.S. ticket prices…
Plenty going on at City Hall today — tomorrow too, for those interested in the fate of Reunion Arena or what in the hell they’re going to call Industrial Boulevard. Today’s council committees’ agendas cover everything from street-lamp repairs to an update on DART’s Green Line construction and that downtown…
George P. Bush, throwing McCain a BBQ fund-raiser in Dallas next week John McCain hasn’t allowed media into his fund-raisers, insisting he wants to protect his donors’ privacy — though, more likely, he also wants to protect John McCain’s privacy. Barack Obama has also raised dough in private, but earlier…
Yep, him again. This item pinged to me from Sportatorium superfan Clay Swartz (hey, us former UTA Shorthorn sports editors gotta stick together), who kept tabs on Tony Romo’s attempt to break 100 on the U.S. Open golf course in Torrey Pines, San Diego over the weekend. Romo and his…
The Texas Governor’s Mansion, at it looked till an early-morning fire today The construction of the Texas Governor’s Mansion in downtown Austin was completed on June 14, 1856. Almost 152 years later to the day, the structure at the corner of 10th and Lavaca Streets is a smoldering shell of…
Tommy Urbanski Fund Tommy Urbanski There are at least two Sunday New York Times pieces worth a look, far as locals are concerned. One’s a story about Tommy Urbanski, the Las Vegas strip-club manager on duty February 19, 2007, when then-Tennessee Titan Adam “Pacman” Jones made it rain at Minxx…
Daniel Rodrigue Robert Smith, who’s been known to give The Dark Knight the occasional hard time. Pete’s just rolled out of bed, well before the heat index reached 103, and posted over on DC9 at Night Daniel Rodrigue’s aces review (annotated setlist too!) of last night’s Cure show at American…
You could always go to this “blog for the Park Cities,” but we might have to charge you first. Park Cities peeps like to keep their distance from Dallasites. This much, we know. But who would have ever guessed that Highland Park would discuss tolling Mockingbird Lane in order to…
After the jump, a hint, perhaps, that Suze’s Lisa Garza is pretty sure she makes it past the second episode of The Next Food Network Star, which airs Sunday at 9 p.m. on, uh, the Food Network. Also forthcoming: two appearances at local Whole Foods Markets. She’ll be cooking and…
Mark Orvik Anyone who normally can’t enjoy Dallas improv comedy troupe Section 8’s weekly Tuesday-night show is in luck this week — even if it’s at the expense of one of the comedians. The troupe is having an extra show tonight to help out one of its founding members. Mark…
Ridgell McKinney, picking up his diploma last year. He gets another chance tomorrow, in front of kids who’ll just go, “Wow, his last name sounds so familiar.” On the Collin County Web site, it says Ridgell McKinney — whose great-great grandfather Collin McKinney is the man for whom Collin County…
At the bottom of this bad-news story concerning cutbacks, on staff and actual news, at Tribune Company-owned newspapers, among them The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune , it also mentions the Trib’s impending sale of the Chicago Cubs. It notes that the books will be sent to prospective…
Denny Doran From left: Some dude who’s now in the Toadies, some dude who’s now in Centro-matic, some dude who’s now in The New Year and, um, Mark Hedman Whilst cleaning out his closet, local photog Denny Doran stumbled across some never-before-developed snaps of the Dallas rock scene circa the…
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps sent out a news summary this week with a typically mild and rational heading: “Record High Crime from Illegal Aliens!” Interesting, I thought. Curious to know on what they’d based such Lou Dobbsian fear-mongering, I opened the first link. Behold: A Washington Post story bearing…
After paying only $5 to park near the Majestic Theatre last night, where Eddie Izzard was performing for the second time in three months, my sis and I strolled into a packed house of lines — lines for the bar, lines for the restrooms, lines for merch. And lines, of…
The guy on the right will be the Father’s Day guest on Doocy. The guy on the left doesn’t give a damn. Apparently, Greg Williams’ recent TV appearance wasn’t as bad as some of you/us thought. At least not according to Fox 4 sports anchorman Mike Doocy and his perfect…
A TSA researcher volunteered to show what the body scanners will do. They’re very slimming. So, yeah, don’t be surprised when, later this month, you’re traveling through Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, and you’ve gotta first walk through one of those “security devices that reveal intimate body parts.” For the past…
Hey, Schutze. Look who else is pissed off at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Rowlett. As in: “Rowlett residents believe that a change in DART’s plan to bring the transit system’s blue line to grade level will add to the city’s already miserable traffic woes.” I believe Rowlett’s a suburb? Just…
The sooner he gets here, the better. My in-depth analysis of Rangers’ first-round draft choice Justin Smoak goes something like this: Can he be here by 7:05 p.m.? By most accounts, the switch-hitting first baseman from South Carolina is the next Chipper Jones or Mark Texeira. For damn sure he’s…
