Lorlee Bartos was outta town last week when we posted our follow-up to our follow-up to our November story about the money pit that is the Bama Pie Co. building in Fair Park. But Bartos, a former board member of the city’s Community Development Commission, has something to add to…
Maple Terrace “is dead.” Said so in The Dallas Morning News: “Trammell Crow Co. has halted efforts to construct condominiums in Dallas’ historic Maple Terrace building and develop an adjoining high-rise because sales did not meet expectations.” This will not come as a shock to, oh, Andrea Grimes, who was…
Luke Wilson needs a stunt butt. Jessica Alba, probably not. Don’t get too excited–he’s just talking about his own tuchus and how outta-shape it’s gotten and why, for My Super Ex-Girlfriend, he needed a booty double. Fact is, he got to pick his own butt double (henh). No word on…
Tom Fleming will open his new restaurant in the Hotel Palomar, which, for the moment, doesn’t look anywhere as nice (or as small) as this drawing. Chef Tom Fleming (Lombardi Mare, Lobster Ranch, Pappas Bros., etc.) is in fit kitchen-whip trim. He’s ready to launch Central 214, the new regional…
Better late than never: Adam Eaton, acquired from San Diego in the offseason, finally pitches for Your Texas Rangers tonight against the Yanks. In between booing the New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez tonight at Ameriquest Field, take a gander at the pitcher on the mound for your Texas Rangers. It’ll…
If you’re staying at one of the six area Candlewood Suites extended-stay hotels in coming weeks and find yourself with time on your hands, here’s an intriguing option that doesn’t include asking for the nearest mall, restaurant or movie theater. Starting last weekend, some 100 Candlewood Suites employees and guests…
Life Science Weekly has a piece this morning about what sounds like the world’s biggest no-brainer: professors at UT Southwestern teaching “medical Spanish.” According to the piece, which is available in full only through a subscription, UT Southwestern’s Allied Health Sciences school has the only “required, multisemester, linguist-taught medical Spanish…
An Irving-based company called Falcon Physician Reviews has filed a lawsuit in Dallas County District Court claiming that a local hotel’s not being very careful with folks’ personal information. Falcon, which helps med-school students pass the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination, alleges in its suit that Younan Hospitality Group LBJ Dallas…
Michael Dell swore he’d never open a Dell store. So what’s that thing doing in NorthPark? Today, Dell Inc. will do the previously unthinkable: It will open a, gasp, retail outlet in NorthPark Center. Michael Dell always said that was never gonna happen; as Time puts it in the current…
On Saturday, Raymond Hammell was mentioned in The Dallas Morning News, just not by name. He was not dead even a day, but already he was a statistic: a 56-year-old man “stabbed multiple times Friday evening in a skywalk in the 2000 block of Bryan Street. He later died at…
Al Maysles, at right with his late brother David, will teach a class in Dallas August 12. Guaranteed, it’ll be the best $200 a young filmmaker could ever spend. One of the greatest living filmmakers and one of the nicest men you will ever meet, Albert Maysles, is coming to…
It’s been a brutal couple of weeks for Dallas chef Marc Haines. Haines, current sales manager for Sysco Food Services of Dallas, former chef for Larry North’s North-South, Sipango, and Cuba Libre, and avid comic book creator, just returned from Arizona this weekend where he delivered a eulogy before more…
Could the coach on the right wind up with the coach on the left–which is to say, left out? We shall see. In the month since our Dallas Mavericks broke our hearts with a dramatic come-from-ahead loss in the NBA Finals, owner Mark Cuban has been dissed by Dirk Nowitzki…
Just looking at a screenshot of Luxor makes us want to play it. If games like Grand Theft Auto are the gansta rap of videogame genres and Quake the death metal, then Luxor would fit, ahem, squarely in the niche for adult contemporary music–polite, nonviolent, familiar and comforting. Sorta like…
Wanna know why three of your city council members–Ed Oakley, Bill Blaydes and Ron Natinsky–are in China at this very moment? (To beat the heat? For the food? To spend a small fortune of taxpayers’ money on a summer vacation?) Well, Sarah Dodd of KTVT-Channel 11 will probably provide the…
The Man Who Would Be Guv will be on The Ticket Wednesday. So will I. That’s a lotta Jews for sports talk radio. If you listen to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket)–and if you don’t, you must, you must–you know that Greg Williams, one half of the 3 p.m. to 7…
This is the mouth that will be selling Dallas-based Earth Biofuels Inc. to the world. Don’t know how I missed this, but on Tuesday, the local alternative-fuel company Earth Biofuels Inc. announced that Julia Roberts will act as the company’s spokesperson–and, get outta here, chair its brand-new advisory board. In…
Seems the folks at Operation Save America, a local anti-abortion group that insists “Jesus Christ is the only answer to the abortion holocaust,” have been busy these last few days. The so-called “Gentle Revolution” has been in Jackson, Mississippi, since July 15 “storming the gates of hell in the strong…
George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh will no longer produce as Section Eight. But Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban will still work with both filmmakers at their respective production companies. Yesterday came word that George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh have decided to shutter their production company, Section Eight, which they began…
Tiger Woods is leading the British Open. He couldn’t have done it without Dallas’ Hank Haney, who got Tiger into the swing of things. Rock me. It’s not so bad to be an American overseas today–well, unless you’re trapped in Lebanon or something. But if you’re a Yankee Doodle Sports…
This is the Bama Pie Co. building. Doesn’t look like a museum. Money pit’s more like it. At the risk of falling into the echo chamber, let me bring up, one more time, the case of the Bama Pie Co. building on Pennsylvania Avenue across the street from Fair Park…
We just received a memo sent to Dallas Morning News staffers yesterday regarding the upcoming shake-up in the newsroom. As we noted here last week, the paper’s about to lose some 50-60 employees in the coming days, some likely from GuideLive, not two years after Belo Corp. axed 250 workers…
