Ever since they parted ways with ESPN Dallas, sports talk duo Ben Rogers and Skin Wade have hinted that they had something else lined up. They’ve just been vague about what exactly that might be. No longer. As Rogers announced a few minutes ago, he and Wade have officially found…
We were pretty sure that Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas Ricks’ recent suggestion in the Washington Post that America exile Texas in pursuit of a more perfect union was a joke. Blaming the state for the JFK assassination (without Texas, “John F. Kennedy might still be alive”) and the wars in Iraq…
On Sunday, The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams donned a novelty sombrero and festive pink dress and came to Dallas in search of an authentic Cinco de Mayo fiesta. What she found instead was a few thousand disappointingly sober people gathered downtown to march for immigration rights. Instead of drunken debauchery,…
You know the building, even if you don’t know its name. It’s a neon silhouette that juts from the downtown skyline like a radioactive thumb. My 3-year-old calls it The Pickle, because that’s kind of what it looks like, but its official name is the Bank of America Tower. Since…
Pretty much every serious national news organization has at least a skeletal presence in Dallas. The major networks, as well as CNN, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press, all have a Dallas bureau. Partly it’s that Dallas is a thriving commercial and cultural hub, partly…
Obama’s reelection last year prompted a lot of talk over whether Texas should once again secede from the Union. Except for a few die-hard secessionists, though, few considered it a serious proposal, more like an opportunity to make Texas jokes. So the debate just kind of fizzled out. But the…
Reunion Tower will finally be reopening “soon,” with a slew of renovations planned to make it bigger and glossier. Judy Pesek, a partner at the design firm responsible for the project, laid out the planned renovations to a crowd gathered on the tower’s observation deck. The renovations will include a…
The biggest tip-off that the above picture is a rendering of Victory Park and not a photo isn’t the color saturation or its overall sketchbook quality. It’s the presence of human beings, who have tended to steer clear of the rather forbidding development when there’s not a Mavs game or…
Mireya Villareal is the junior member of CBS 11’s crack squad of investigative reporters, the I-Team for short. She’s a tough, no-bullshit type, as is clear by the Serious Face she dons in her photo, and she’s dedicated her career to sniffing out government corruption and waste and protecting consumers…
The Dallas Morning News, you may have noticed but probably didn’t, is in the middle of a mammoth, months-long effort to pick the best neighborhoods. First came the safest neighborhoods, then the best schools, then those best suited for empty nesters. It’s all leading up to the June 16 reveal,…
You didn’t seriously expect Ron Paul to disappear into a quiet, uneventful retirement, did you? If you did, you probably weren’t watching as over a couple of decades in Congress and a pair of long-shot presidential runs, Paul became the outspoken face of unapologetic libertarianism, and you probably didn’t listen…
Hang on to your hats, everybody, because I’m about to give you a super-duper exciting glimpse into the inner workings of the Dallas Observer. We get a lot of email from our readers. Some of it comes directly to our various email addresses, but a lot of it goes to…
We somehow missed this in the chaotic aftermath of last week’s Boston Marathon bombing, partly because we don’t watch the news with closed captioning on, partly because we don’t follow Zooey Deschanel on Twitter. But local Fox affiliate KDFW seems to have labeled the 33-year-old actress/indie songstress/Apple pitchwoman as an…
Are you excited about the George W. Bush Presidential Center? We’re so excited. Not quite excited enough to fight our way through the throng of ex-presidents and “Bush-Cheney Alumni” attending the dedication tomorrow, but pretty goddamn enthused nonetheless. So, it appears, are a few SMU students and some random non-affiliated…
In the wake of Margaret Thatcher’s death last week, the Morning News took the opportunity to plumb its archives to remind us of the British prime minister’s surprisingly strong ties to Dallas. She was something of a regular here, making frequent trips to Highland Park to visit her son Mark…
This afternoon, Josh Hamilton and his luxuriant, flake-free hair will take the field in Arlington for the first time since dashing the Rangers’ playoff hopes by badly muffing routine fly ball then bolting for Anaheim. And no one really needs to be reminded of last season’s summer-long slump, his absurd…
When I read a story in The Dallas Morning News this morning about a contest for ideas to link the Trinity River to downtown and saw that the contestants were required to include the city’s stupid underwater proposed toll road on top of the river in their submissions, my first…
Locals and outsiders alike have been heaping praise upon the Perot Museum of Nature & Science since it opened in December, not just on the dizzying array of interactive exhibit halls but on the building itself. It was designed by architect Thom Mayne to be both a natural outgrowth of…
It was way back in December 2011, in the wake of a seemingly endless series of public hearings and community meetings, that the Dallas City Council gave its blessing to the Sylvan Thirty development in West Dallas and Mayor Mike Rawlings gave the command: “Let’s let the dirt fly.” Finally,…
Yes, true.After 34 years at WFAA I resigned today to accept job as Dir ofComm @luminantpower the largest elec power generator in TX.— Brad Watson (@watsonwfaa) March 18, 2013 Growing up, Brad Watson was a fixture on my parent’s TV set. WFAA was their news station and, therefore, my own,…
There is, if news reports are to be believed, a new frontier in helicopter parenting. Suspicious moms and dads are hiring trained drug detection dogs to sniff out their kids’ drug stash. The trend was first identified by the Today Show in December, which ran a story featuring a Houston…
Talk of Dallas serving as a potential host city for the Olympics has ramped up in recent weeks, in part because Dallas attorney Matt Wood has begun work to woo the 2024 Summer Games, and partly because Dallas, along with Tulsa, Oklahoma and Rochester, New York, was one of an…
