C’mon, admit it — you missed Scott Sams just a little. No? Sorry, m’bad. In January, Scott Sams got WFAA-Channel 8 to pay him $660,000 in back pay, damages and attorneys’ fees after he sued the station for getting canned in 2004. Now, the Sherman-stuck anchor found a way to…
I do a lot of dirty things in this job — riding sweaty horses and rasslin’ sweaty women, among them — but nothing has ever compared to the pervasive sense of creepiness that overcame me while working on my first-ever Girl On Top column about an “exclusive” social club called…
Elizabeth Villafranca said yesterday’s rally in Dallas says a great deal about the brawl in Farmers Branch over that immigration ordinance. As far as those fighting to defeat Farmers Branch’s immigrant-related measure are concerned, the immigrant-rights rally at City Hall yesterday couldn’t have come at a better time. Late last…
The last time the Mavs won a division, the team looked a whole lot different. I know, the Mavericks played like April fools in Phoenix Sunday afternoon. But the day wasn’t a total loss. In fact, it was a major win. How’s that? After Dallas’ ugly loss, the San Antonio…
It had to be a helluva way to go out. On Saturday night, the Gypsy Tea Room said its farewell with a show from the band the Plain White T’s — and, turned out, the T’s didn’t leave the joint as they’d found it. But contrary to reports sent to…
Maybe you, like everyone else I know, want to own a restaurant, only you don’t have the long green needed to realize that life-long ambition. And if you do have the dough, well, it’s hard out there for a restaurateur; today’s celebrated hot spot is tomorrow’s Standard, after all. There…
If the old Hard Rock still looked like the McKinney Avenue Baptist Church, it’d be a landmark yesterday. But since it doesn’t, well, the fight’s on today. For those still filling their daily planners — and, more to the point, for those still concerned with the fate of the former…
Southwest Airlines, as always, had the lowest consumer complaint rate (0.18 per 100,000 passengers, neat) of all the major airlines in 2006. Yet it came in at only No. 5 on the Air Quality Rating 2007 report, issued today by Brent D. Bowen of the University of Nebraska at Omaha…
We have to say, The BAcksliders may be Dallas’ most relentless self-promoters (they’re also relentless proponents of awkward capitalization). Not only did they send us copies of their debut full-length and recently released pink vinyl 45; they sent them to every writer on staff — even Matt Pulle. We soon…
We’re not saying Matt Pulle has a man-crush on Sam Coats. We would never say it. Not outloud. Nope. Welcome to the second installment of Unfair Park’s weekly round-up of the top eight mayoral candidates. We shuffled part of the list around a little bit, not so much because anything…
El Greco, “Descent of the Holy Spirit” He called himself Apostle. And many a Sunday morning was punctuated with the skronk-skronk of a saxophone as he blew his rendition of “Amazing Grace.” He was a young man, and he’d recently gotten out of prison, where he had some kind of…
We imagine David Faustino looked a little like this Wednesday night when told he needed to fork over a thou just to get into Ghostbar. Hey, Grimes, looks like while you can get into Ghostbar, Treach from Naughty By Nature ain’t so fortunate — if that’s what you call it…
No, check that, the new PGA Superstore in Plano isn’t just a teasing appetizer, it’s downright orgasmic. If, that is, you get aroused milling around an old Home Depot warehouse filled with sports memorabilia, a gazillion Izods, two bajillion clubs, a tennis court, a putting green, a chipping area complete…
Somebody get me the number of Avi Adelman’s sleep therapist. I honestly don’t know how he gets any rest at all. The drunks pee too much. The cops tow too little. The noise is too loud … oh, cripes, we can’t cover all this ground at once. Better you just…
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has come under fire — from, of all places, Congress, which clearly has nothing else to worry about — for Major League Baseball’s $700-mil deal with DirecTV, which airs the league’s “Extra Innings” package that lets viewers get about 60 outta-town games every week for $160,…
In recent months, the Dallas-based father-and-son investment team of Craig and Don Hodges — better known as the $650-mil Hodges Fund — has gotten plenty o’ pub in such pubs as Kiplinger’s and USA Today. The former celebrated the duo as “a rare, old-fashioned fund” that’s making more on its…
Not even the appearance of former Jesuit star Kenny Cooper was enough to make yesterday’s soccer game in Frisco worth attending…or watching. Sounds like yesterday’s soccer game between the U.S. and Guatemalan national teams was a snoozer at Frisco’s Pizza Hut Park. The crowd got up when local star Kenny…
John McKee, one of the McKinney Avenue residents leading the charge to get the former Hard Rock Cafe building designated a city landmark, takes issue with at least one charge made by Hard Rock Cafe attorney Eric Moye in the story below. In the original piece, Moye, a former state…
Reverend J. Frank Norris raised the funds to build the McKinney Avenue Baptist Church, which would, decades later, become the Hard Rock Cafe. Norris was also a good friend of the Ku Klux Klan’s. On Monday, the city’s Landmark Commission is once more meeting to decide the fate of the…
Tony Blei Sammy Sosa was more than so-so this spring. Which doesn’t mean anything, we know. Less’n he can pitch. The Texas Rangers invite you to show up tonight as the team returns from spring training. Especially if you can pitch. I praise the Rangers’ pitching staff one day, and…
Here it goes again: Will Uptown upchuck another one? Lay odds now. Turns out the space that once hosted now-at-the-Mansion-on-Turtle-Creek chef Tim Byres’ Standard is now in the clutches of one Larry Lavine. You know him. He founded a little restaurant called Chili’s. Also Tia’s Tex-Mex. Now he operates this…
A couple of arts ‘n’ crafts notes with which to begin your day: Well, at last it’s official: I know you couldn’t sleep at night, but the great St. Vincent (which is to say, Polyphonic Spree’s Annie Clark) is indeed a rostermate of Badly Drawn Boy, Thom Yorke and Super…
