Best record in the league. Home cookin’. Mediocre opponent, orchestrated by a familiar face. Shocking upset. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Except Saturday night it wasn’t your Dallas Mavericks choking away a red-carpet post-season, but instead the Dallas Desperados. Led by the greatest quarterback in the history of…
Craig Flournoy and Tracy Everbach’s highly critical Dallas Morning News review in the Columbia Journalism Review, first mentioned here Thursday, has prompted a response from the paper’s Big Bosses, editor Bob Mong and publisher and chief executive officer Jim Moroney. Unfair Park was forwarded a memo M&M sent to staffers…
Here’s the latest St. Vincent video, another solo trip recorded at the Atlantic Sound and Union Hall in Brooklyn — this time, she melts through her “Paris is Burning.” (Here’s an earlier clip from the same studio session, where she performs “Your Lips Are Red.”) I love her — oh,…
I just got off the phone with Tom Polston, who sells medical equipment in Plano. The reason for the call: I (like every film critic in town) was forwarded by the local Weinstein Company representative a letter Polston sent to Michael Moore after he saw his health-care doc Sicko at…
For Pastor Sherman Allen, things just got a little bit worse. A Christian credit union has filed a motion in bankruptcy court asking permission to foreclose on the building that houses Pastor Sherman Allen’s Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Christ, at 1270 Woodhaven Blvd. in Fort Worth. The Evangelical…
Photo by John Hibey Mark Birnbaum and Manny Mendoza interviewed Walter Cronkite for their doc-in-progress. Yesterday we mentioned Craig Flournoy and Tracy Everbach’s bad-News piece in the latest Columbia Journalism Review, for which they claim to have interviewed about 100 former newsroomies. But one former Dallas Morning News’er with whom…
OK, if you haven’t seen the spillway at White Rock Lake recently, pull on your galoshes and head over there. Not only would it classify as Class Four rapids on the Selway or the Taos Box, it’s become a tropical aviary. The steady rains have apparently swept up copious numbers…
If you’re into artsy nudes, a compendium of “pictures that changed the world” and a list (complete with photos) of the “top 15 skylines in the world” and three honorable mentions — yes, Dallas is indeed on there somewhere — have I got the Web site for you. And, yeah,…
Folks in California always seemed to like their Daily Grill — a chain of eateries known, it says here, for “big portions of traditional grill recipes at affordable prices.” Certainly been around long enough — 23 years, growing from a single Beverly Hills restaurant into a 26-location chain that extends…
“Here, Mrs. Bush, would you like to hold my ball?” The Dallas Mavericks may not be better next season. But it won’t be because they’re not tougher. Dallas checked off No. 1 on their off-season to-do list, agreeing to a three-year deal with free agent Jerry Stackhouse. The deal won’t…
Mike Gallagher, the Salem Radio Network-syndicated right-winger who occasionally shows up on Fox News Channel to pimp his book Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America, took time out of his busy schedule to address at TownHall.com Monday’s carjacking of Jesse Diaz, head of the local League of United…
Good God, is there anyone out there not trying to keep Sandra Bridewell in prison the rest of her life? C’mon, you know who Bridewell is, right? Course you do — she’s the former Black Widow of the Park Cities about whom we’ve written quite a bit, especially since her…
We spent a lot of time earlier this year memorializing the original Bill’s Records and Tapes on Spring Valley Road, which closed up shop in February after 26 years at that location. But we’ve not written a single word about Bill Wisener’s new digs on South Lamar Street, right next…
The Scar of David’s author, Susan Abulhawa, will be in Frisco this weekend, probably not for a RoughRiders game, though. If you’re interested in the state of Muslim-non-Muslim relations, you have a jam-packed weekend ahead of you. On Sunday, as we’ve noted before, the Washington-based nonprofit Council on American-Islamic Relations…
David Hollenbach Silly you. You just think there’s a stalled low-pressure system situated over North Texas that’s feeding off Gulf moisture and bringing us all this rain. Turns out, the super soaking is being brought about by “the Jezebel spirit,” in the weather-forecasting words of Plano’s nuttiest TV apostle, Doyle…
The fine folks at Liberal Revolt! picked up on a Boing Boing item today concerning an “impromptu town hall meeting” that took place at a local screening of Michael Moore’s health-care documentary Sicko, which opened on Friday. Reports one attendee at an unnamed local cineplex: When the credits rolled the…
Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Bud Kennedy noticed our item about National Public Radio’s story concerning Dallas’ mosquito problem. And he takes issue with the story’s theory that the giant salt-water-bred pests we’re seeing about town stem from the salt-water lakes created by Barnett Shale drilling: Why wouldn’t reporters ask Fort…
As of this week, there are two Dallas-based artists signed to TVT Records: Joining the Polyphonic Spree is rapper Countri Boi, who, says here, expects to release his major-label debut some time in 2007. TVT’s site says Countri Boi will release I’m a Boy on August 6 — though that…
National Public Radio this morning ran a story about Dallas’ mosquito problem — specifically, the proliferation of aedes sollicitan, a large, aggressive salt-water mosquito that shouldn’t be found ’round these here parts. WFAA-Channel 8 ran a piece about this bothersome breed a month ago, but NPR offers something new: a…
A couple of weeks back, Rolling Stone published a lengthy, thoughtful music-biz obit that resonated with industry insiders, with its bad news (album sales down 200 million units since 2000) and inside-baseball history lessons (the collapsed talks between Napster and label heads seven years ago) and the larger and still-unanswered…
Yesterday morning, I found in my in-box this Columbia Journalism Review story about The Dallas Morning News — specifically, about the state o’ Dallas’ Only Daily in the wake of the 2004 and ’06 layoffs that reduced the newsroom staff by 30 percent. The piece — penned by former News-ers…
God told Moses to free the Hebrews from slavery. He wants Larry to free people from traffic. Larry Neal, a middle-aged man with a healthy crop of boyish red hair, says that by listening to the spirit of God, he’s on the verge of making history, giving us the flying…
