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Well, if you wanna drink with the early-voting winners, they’re here — drinking wine with council members, save for, ya know, Angela Hunt. Well, there’s a pattern here. Every time I call Carol Reed on election night, she quickly pounces on the phone and sounds jubilant. Reed, who managed Tom…

The early numbers are in, and so far on this chilly November eve, things aren’t looking good for the Angela Hunt TrinityVote gang. Dallas County elections officials report that 21,911 cast their lot in early voting, with 12,341 of them voting against Proposition 1 — or, in other words, for…

Katherine Seale is the new exec director in charge of trying to keep historic buildings from becoming parking lots and condos Well, so much for this. About three months back, we announced — rather prematurely, turns out — that Preservation Dallas had appointed a new executive director to replace Dwayne…

Recently, I got a call from a public call center in Mexico. I could tell because the second after I answered, I heard a voice say in Spanish, “They will speak to you now,” the formal call center etiquette used anywhere from Laredo to Tierra del Fuego. “Who is it?”…

David Matula, another smart guy against the Trinity River toll road. And he has six SMU profs to back him up. And those dudes are tough. David W. Matula seems like a pretty smart dude. For the past, oh, 33 years he’s been a professor of computer science and engineering…

Ole Anthony still doesn’t like televangelists. And they probably don’t like him. CBS News has quite the revelation this a.m. (revelation — heh): Sen. Charles Grassley an Iowa Republican and the party’s top man on the Senate Finance Committee, is looking into half a dozen televangelists to see if they’re…

I voted at 7:12 this morning at Leonides Cigarroa Elementary School in northwest Dallas, where the “Vote Yes!” signs appear to be in bloom this fine, warm fall. The voting booths were filling up; I was No. 12 on the sign-in sheet, and folks were lining up behind me. “Impressive,”…

If you haven’t read the rather even-handed coverage of tomorrow’s Trinity River toll road vote in The New York Times today, here ’tis. Dig the headline: “Dallas to Vote on Remaking City.” Wow, sounds important. But further down comes the money quote courtesy Harris Steinberg, executive director of the University…

Is Church of God in Christ Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake soft on homosexuality and too cozy with loose-living celebrities? Is he taking his denomination — the biggest Pentecostal body in the United States — far away from its roots as a “holiness” church? Or is he ushering in much-needed…

Really, you would have thought this was a no-brainer. But, no, only took 35 years before Mattel decided to release Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Barbies, expected in a Wal-Mart near you before Christmas. They’ll come in three flavors, none of them lead: “Caucasian (blonde), African-American and Hispanic (brunette) versions,” says the…

You did see how Dick and Lynne Cheney dressed their dogs for Halloween, right? Seriously. Any more questions? A Friend of Unfair Park makes an interesting point this morning, concerning Dick and Lynne Cheney’s Friday-afternoon pit stop. Following the veep’s speech at the World Affairs Council luncheon at the Hyatt…

Jesper Juul of the University of Copenhagen recently published the comprehensive history of the “match-three” game — a la Bejeweled, Luxor and Chuzzle. Which is apropos of nothing, except this morning Dr Pepper and Dallas-based Imaginuity New Media — which is actually an online ad agency that handles everything from…

“No, you’re not Mayor Tom. Excuse me. Sorry. Thought you were the mayor. Hello …?” Well, it’s time to admit the obvious. The Tom Leppert I thought I knew was a fake. Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake. As Elaine might say. No matter how hard I picked on Leppert during…