It’s the last thing a parent wants to admit–taking the kid to the Chuck E. Cheese’s. But sometimes the library won’t do. Sometimes they don’t wanna hang at the library. Sometimes they jes don’t wanna do no learnin’, maw. Sometimes it just boils down to pushing buttons, collecting tickets, running…
Turns out WFAA-Channel 8’s Erin Hawksworth’s reporting is also beautiful. On last night’s 10 o’clock newscast, Erin provided the first interview with former Dallas Cowboys kicker Mike Vanderjagt since his unceremonious release last week. The bubbly, buxom reporter bumped into Vandershank while he was playing golf with cornerback Terence Newman…
You can age your meat at Whole Foods. Trust me, my dad’s already made that joke. Thirty minutes from now, the doors will open to the new Whole Foods in Preston Forest Shopping Center. There will be the attendant ceremony, with a mayoral proclamation read before the sliding of the…
You have to register for it, but there’s a story in Education Week this morning in which Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund leaders are questioning precisely why the Dallas Independent School District hasn’t removed Teresa Parker as principal of Preston Hollow Elementary School. As you certainly know by now,…
It is official: Your Dallas Cowboys are once more America’s Team. And Jerry Jones has the TV ratings to prove it. If the Cowboys are on TV, millions are watching. No one else even comes close. And they haven’t in a decade. Seriously, when you consider the fact there are…
If the Southern Baptists forbid speaking in tongues in order to talk to God, we did find this handy book. More than 100 Southern Baptist leaders gathered today at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington to talk about their denomination’s sharpening opposition to speaking in tongues–specifically, whether members should be allowed…
The Dallas Morning News is reporting that more than 300 people showed up to a Dallas Housing Authority meeting today to protest the firing of agency president and CEO Ann Lott. The story says they were stunned to discover that housing commission chairman Guy Brignon and the board had already…
This morning, there appeared in The Dallas Morning News a story about how the some folks at City Hall — including several council members — are working on an ordinance that would “ban distribution boxes not conforming to rigid standards for size, color and material.” Also included in that ordinance:…
On Thursday, Keven McAlester will finally find out who’s gonna get his Roky Erickson doc into a theater near you. Hard to believe that a year and a half — and now a Spirit Award nomination — after its debut our good pal Keven McAlester still doesn’t have distribution for…
I just got back from a tour of the new Whole Foods in Preston Forest — yeah, I know, I am so friggin’ special — and we’ll have plenty to say about the joint tomorrow morning, before its 10 a.m. debut to the general public. But a few things, in…
Still hurts, doesn’t it? Now, D-Wade is the magazine’s Sportsman of the Year. Go ahead. Let it out. Unless you’ve been too mesmerized by Britney going commando to notice, the Dallas Mavericks — as predicted right here — rebounded quite nicely from their 0-4 start. If you’re reading this second…
We’re accepting nominations for Bob Mong nicknames. Anything with “Bong” would be cool, man. Real cool. This morning at Time.com, a few newspaper execs were asked to comment on the sorry state of the biz. Among those queried were Scott Bosley, executive director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors;…
Brilliant idea? Hustle? Yes? Looks like Southwest Airlines is selling gift cards this holiday season. Yup, just like Target, Starbucks, you name it — a little plastic gift card with a relatively large price tag, which you can pick up on your way out of Kmart and Wal-Mart. (It’s also…
Jessica Simpson performed at the Kennedy Center Honors. She will never actually get a Kennedy Center honor, course. Frankly, the video of Jessica Simpson flubbing Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” during Sunday night’s Kennedy Center Honors performance reveals the whole affair much ado about not much. While it’s absolutely odd…
Kim Pendleton and Shibboleth did the Five Americans proud — and then some — Saturday night at the Sons of Hermann Hall. I intended to post today about Saturday night’s Reunion Tower Revue, but Allen Gwinn’s city employee credit-card database kinda stepped all over that. I’ll have plenty to say…
Here are two more interesting tidbits from the Allen Gwinn database: two $500-plus charges at Walt Disney Resorts. One dates from April 5 of this year: $531.87, purchased by Terry Freeman, a senior office assistant in the City Auditor’s Office. The info is pretty incomplete: It doesn’t say for whom…
Former Observer music editor Zac Crain has leaked the tentative tracklisting for his double-CD Zac Crain for Mayor campaign fundraiser, and it’s somewhat of a doozy. Though the set contains the requisite contributions from Sorta-obvious Barley House drinking buddies such as Olospo, I Love Math and Salim Nourallah (plus everyone’s…
I wish somebody would give me $2,000 to stay at the Atlantis Casino Resort in Reno. Guess I’ll have to go to work for the city. OK, so we’re browsing Allen Gwinn’s city of Dallas credit-card database, right? (You probably are too.) And, so, like, we’re looking for what Allen…
Ya know, every time we look at City Hall, we can’t help but think how much it does look like a giant cash machine. Just got off the phone with Allen Gwinn, who’s doing God’s work (or at least ours) by digging deep into the city’s wallet with his just-posted…
Remember back when the New York Giants were all cocky and all celebratin’ like rappers-turned-hoopsters-turned-footballers? Remember even further back, when we were just so sure that if the Dallas Cowboys were gonna be worth a crap they’d have to get great seasons from Drew Bledsoe, Greg Ellis and Mike Vanderjagt?…
You really should read The New York Times’ account of yesterday’s Cowboys win over the New York Giants, if only for the picture accompanying the recap. I’ve already sent it to Mike Vanderjagt. Maybe he wants to use it on his Web site or, at the very least, as his…
She’s not Dolly Parton, but Jessica Simpson is trying her damnedest. I don’t think this is going to make the December 26 broadcast of the Kennedy Center Honors on CBS. Just a guess. But last night, during the show at which Dolly Parton, Steven Spielberg, Smokey Robinson, Andrew Lloyd Webber…
