Sorry, but why are there “plenty” of tickets left for Spike Lee’s lecture Saturday on the University of Texas at Arlington campus? I mean, Martin Sheen’s great and all — really, heart-attack stories from the making of Apocalypse Now are worth the price of admission, and word is Josiah Bartlet’s…
Alphonso Jackson has many friends — including, apparently, legendary songwriter and producer Kenny Gamble More Alphonso Jackson news — and this time, it involves allegations that the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary retaliated against the Philadelphia Housing Authority for failing to give a buddy of Jackson’s a $2-million…
A. H. Belo Corporation, the newspaper-biz spin-off of Belo Corp., is expected to make its bow as a publicly traded company at week’s end — and while Robert Decherd’s thrilled with The Dallas Morning News’ “new” parent company, others ain’t as convinced. Comes word today that Standard & Poor’s Rating…
New York Giants Two things come to mind after watching one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history: It’s satisfying that Bill Belicheat and the Patriots can put a sock in their undefeated, best-ever bravado. And didja catch the head coach’s chicken shit escape with two seconds remaining? What…
KPHO-TV The scene from this morning’s shooting in Arizona involving two Dallas firefighters. Phoenix media outlets are reporting that two Dallas firefighters — 28-year-old Charles Whittaker and 34-year-old Reggie Cueington — were shot early this morning, as they walked from a bar in Peoria, Arizona, to their nearby hotel. Says…
Doctors this morning are receiving, courtesy the American Medical Association’s Morning Rounds news wrap-up, an extensive briefing about the smoking cessation drug Chantix — known around here, of course, as the drug Carter Albrecht’s friends and family blame, in part, for his violent behavior the night he was killed last…
The anti-Rove: Before you go callin’ the Reverend Andrew Weaver a hippie, well, he kinda ain’t. Wednesday’s New York Times piece about the last-ditch effort to stop President Bush from putting his think tank on the SMU campus prompted plenty of follow-ups — from The Dallas Morning News to the…
Gordon Bellamy Among the paid obituaries in The Dallas Morning News today was the notice that Gordon Bellamy died Tuesday in New York. The 70-year-old Bellamy, a Dallas native and graduate of Crozier Tech, was a respected animator in the motion picture business; among his credits were such films as…
Editor’s note: At 5:23 p.m., Chris Heinbaugh shot us the following e-mail: “The Mayor is returning Sunday and will not be attending the Super Bowl game.” But he’s still in Arizona for the festivities. Carry on. In late December, Mayor Tom Leppert created friction between himself and the Dallas city…
At around 11 a.m. yesterday, Dallas police were called to the 2100 block of Hickory Street. Why? Funny I should ask. From the Daily Crime Report, quickly becoming the day’s must-read missive, this assault: “SUSP HIT COMPL IN THE BACK WITH CHICKEN LEG, COMPL FELT OFFENDED.” Or, as we call…
Maybe we should just use this season to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this storied Rangers team. Maybe it’s just me, but shouldn’t Your Texas Rangers at least be faking like they give a damn about the upcoming season? Using last year’s “You Could Use Some Baseball” slogan again this…
It’s probably a safe bet that former president and CEO of the Dallas Housing Authority, Alphonso Jackson, wishes he’d never given that April 2006 speech in Dallas, during which he said, “If you have a problem with the president,” you won’t get a contract with the U.S. Housing and Urban…
Lone Star Funds’ chairman John Grayken ain’t happy today. It doesn’t appear Dallas-based Lone Star Funds will ever forget its trip to South Korea. Today a court there ruled that the Harwood Street-based investment firm, once the largest foreign investor in South Korea, owes $27 million in that case involving…
Josh Howard’s Cribs segment was on MTV last night — the Mav showed off his Cantoni, his Vitamin Water, his “lazy river” pool, his tricked-up ’73 Chevy Impala and what appears to be the world’s largest collection of caps. And his degree from Wake Forest, because “I’m an educated black…
Last night on KTVT-Channel 11, Jay Gormley broke the news that SMU’s drug-and-drink task force, formed last in the wake of three students’ deaths, has finally come up with its recommendations for dealing with abuse issues on campus. Turns out, the task force that the Daily Campus’ editorial board considered…
Raul Rodriguez The very definition of “shock probation”: Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins was shocked to find out that Raul Rodriguez — who provided the Texas Seven with a getaway vehicle upon their escape from the John B. Connally Unit, shortly before they gunned down Irving police officer Aubrey…
Speaking of ExxonMobil, as we were earlier this week, looks like the Irving-based petrochemical Goliath is just a li’l bit bigger today: Says here the company set the world’s record by claiming a $40.6 billion profit in 2007, shattering its ’05 record by a good $1.1 billion. Says the AP,…
Redbeard’s no longer shining at Lone Star 92.5. Big change over at Lone Star 92.5: J.D. Freeman, Dallas-Fort Worth’s market manager for Clear Channel Radio, says that as of today, local radio legend Redbeard is no longer the station’s 2-7 p.m. host. Which comes as something of a shock, as…
You’d be mad. Pounding your fist into an open palm. Mumbling under your breath about a lack of respect, unfair popularity contests and skewed reputations. You’d do all that. That is, if you’d only been paying attention to the Mavericks’ suddenly successful season. But to most Dallas sports fans still…
When there’s a transportation crisis in this region, it’s a given that Michael Morris will make an appearance. And sure enough, with six projects scheduled for delay because of the Texas Department of Transportation’s funding crisis, Morris, Director of Transportation for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, was there…
Here’s a sneak peek at a Pepsi ad scheduled to run during the Super Bowl — starring Justin Timberlake, his “Dick in a Box” bud Andy Samberg and, in a teensy cameo, Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo. Watch now, before it’s adiosed off the YouTubes. –Robert Wilonsky Update: Thanks, Sam,…
Frank Campagna’s The Eagle, circa 1975 Speaking of the Rolling Stones — and bootlegs — the great Frank Campagna shoots us the note that, ’bout a year ago, someone lifted his 1975 inspired-by-the-Stones painting as the cover art for a pretty terrific Stones boot. The recording comes from the soundboard…
