Before we get back to the state’s report on Hurricane Katrina evacuees still living in Texas, this just came across from Texas Insider: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson announced today that Texas will received $428.6…
Today, the state’s Health and Human Services Commission will be releasing a report titled Hurricane Katrina Evacuees in Texas–“a comprehensive effort to collect data on the number of Katrina evacuees still in Texas, their plans to remain or not remain in the state, and their need for services as they…
Tony Romo seems to think the starting QB position is still open. Uh, dude? Now, don’t go getting all flustered and drop your new Madden NFL 07. Though that damned media won’t seem to let it die, the only job Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is winning this pre-season is…
The second issue of National Lampoon, which Robert Hoffman co-founded before heading back to Dallas When Josh Karp first began e-mailing Robert Hoffman for a book Karp was working on, Hoffman, the local “civics leader and arts patron” who died Sunday at the age of 59 from leukemia, had little…
The reason the Bama Pie isn’t a museum yet? Red tape. That’s what Dallas’ Only Daily says. OK. Cool. I hoped–no, prayed–our August 2 posting on the Bama Pie building would be our last; we’ve spilled a lot of virtual ink on the $364,000 project that’s got zero to show…
As you no doubt know, Chicago Sun-Times film critic and thumbs-upper Rogert Ebert is recovering from June surgery to tend to salivary cancer in his jaw, which necessitated the removal of part of his jaw bone. He’s expected to be out several more weeks, at least, and posted last week…
“We want to be the P.F. Chang’s of steakhouses,” Texas de Brazil founder and COO Salim Asrawi said when the first Texas de Brazil churrascaria opened in Addison in 1998. Churrascarias are those Brazilian grills where skewered meats are roasted over open pits and continuously cycled through the dining and…
Getting your toes done at the W is Bliss. Getting your car after your pedicure, not so much. In a vacuum, the W Hotel’s in-house pampering locale, Bliss Spa, is a fantastic place to get a pedicure. But Bliss is not in a vacuum; it is in the W. And…
As the sun sets over the rolling waves of Ventura County, the Cowboys say adios before moving on to…San Antonio. Not the same. Not even close. No one’s particularly happy that the Dallas Cowboys have broken training camp in Oxnard, California, for the last time. Not the media, which drools…
The Dallas-Fort Worth Business Group on Health–“a coalition of Dallas and Fort Worth area employers committed to working with our partners in the community to promote and maintain a health care delivery system that provides quality, accountability and affordability for our employees,” says its Web site–issued a report today dealing…
Belo Corp. issued a press release this morning announcing that while its television group’s making money–revenue increased 8.6 percent in July 2006 versus last year–its newspaper group revenue is down. Says here, “Newspaper Group total revenue decreased 4.2 percent for the month of July versus the prior year, with a…
In the September 4 issue of Fortune–see, Unfair Park is so far ahead of the curve that we’re into the future now–there’s a lengthy piece about the so-called “Lunatic Fringe” at Texas Instruments. (We’d link you to the story, but it’s not even on Fortune’s Web site yet.) Leading the…
Without Robert Hoffman (and Doug Kenney and Henry Beard), there would have been no National Lampoon. That would have sucked. If you’ve read The Dallas Morning News this morning, you know Robert Hoffman died yesterday at 59 of acute myelogenous leukemia. His death received mention on the front page of…
It was a fairly simply instruction. Last July, Governor Rick Perry’s office wrote a letter to Dallas County Judge Margaret Keliher recommending that the Commissioners Court spend its Homeland Security dollars on–wait for it–homeland security. “The County should re-evaluate the priority of Homeland Security funding to focus on the ability…
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Or evil snakes. Whatever. Some things in life just don’t live up to the hype. Take the 2006 NBA Finals, for example. Or the “Awesome” Blossom. Or…
E! wants some video of the late “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott for an upcoming special titled 25 Most Chilling Hollywood Murders. His brother’s management wishes E! lots of luck, with a capital “F.” Wish this were a more surprising or harrowing story, but we are talking about the genius and standards…
Tonight you can watch Evander Holyfield fight Jeremy Bates. Or you can ask your father to start a bar fight with some random dude at a truck stop. Same difference. Ever applauded a grown man wearing only his undies? Me neither. Until yesterday, that is. Of course, I’d never been…
Jerry Jones Jr. is gonna get hitched in September. So who’s gonna wear the Rowdy costume during the honeymoon? Cross one of the metroplex’s most desirable bachelors off your list. Unless you’re Bedford-bred Lori Lemon, Jerry Jones Jr. is now officially unavailable. According to extremely reliable sources, the 36-year-old heir…
To the laundry list of problems facing The Dallas Morning News, add another: A judge in El Paso ruled yesterday that a libel suit filed by a Mexican newspaper can proceed and will, in fact, likely go to trial in February. Says here–and not in Dallas’ Only Daily, far as…
These two people were at the Gypsy Tea Room. Apparently, just being around them makes people very, very horny. No idea why. Anybody who thinks this music gig is loaded with perks wouldn’t necessarily be mistaken, but one of those wasn’t a ticket to the Justin Timberlake concert at the…
On Wednesday night, Kelly Clarkson was at a club on the Sunset Strip. And, from the looks of it, she was very, very drunk–on Chivas out of the bottle, which only proves my point that she is indeed ready to become the future second Mrs. Wilonsky. Till then, here she…
Really, I think we can all do without a little Terrell Owens these days; it’s 104 out, last thing I wanna think about’s football. Wake me in November. Till then, you can read this Sports Illustrated Web site story about precisely why Owens finally got his ass back to practice…
