Here’s what Lisa Martin’s nymphomaniac dust bunnies look like. That one in the tie looks like a real perv. As someone whose job is to regularly write about embarrassing herself, I guess things like the American Standard Heating and Air Conditioning dust bunny contest shouldn’t surprise me. But I am,…
OK, if I had it to do over again, I might not have made that crack about Whiney McKnuck (my secret nickname for my Critics Camp nemesis). It’s just that she was fawning all over a certain Big Name Critic from a New York paper. “I just looooove your work,”…
Paul Slavens got the ol’ gang back together for last night’s Ten Hands reunion at Club Dada. Three songs into last night’s Ten Hands reunion at Club Dada, lead singer and pianist Paul Slavens (current host of 90.1 at Night on KERA-90.1 FM) launched into “East Coast Jones.” How convenient…
Preservation Dallas is in the middle of its Summer Preservation Institute, described on its Web site as “professional adult education classes that offer various introductions to local preservation issues and history.” Courses are $20 each, except for the two—day professional courses, which run $175 a pop. One course, which takes…
Straining camp: As goes Drew Bledsoe, so goes Dallas. Unless you think Tony Romo’s the QB of the future. Heh. Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells’ training camp T-shirt reads “Who’s All In?”, a poker reference to risking it all in a do-or-die hand. Terrell Owens is here in Oxnard, California,…
In the brand-new issue of Governing magazine, which is published by Congressional Quarterly, there’s a 3,000-word piece that asks, “Can Dallas Govern Itself?” Hard to imagine it takes 3,000 words to say “no,” but we read on anyway and found a few things to share–not the least of which is…
Santiago Calatrava finally has something to say about his overpriced bridges. And by something, I mean very, very little. Our old co-worker Tom Korosec finally got a response from the Invisible Man Santiago Calatrava, whose $54 million bridge turned into a $113 boondoggle last month. In a story about the…
It’s only the first day of Dallas Cowboys training camp here in Oxnard, California, but at least one major player is already in mid-season form. Long-time WFAA-Channel 8 sports anchor Dale Hansen got Day 1 off to a rousing start, purposely directing football-specific questions to owner Jerry Jones and away…
If you read The Dallas Morning News this morning, you maybe got the impression the state of Texas just gave Dallas County a big old pat on the back for the fine way it has been managing its Homeland Security money. But the actual state audit that just came out…
Admit it, Carl Monday is your new hero. Cutthroat investigative journalism at its finest, right? (You know, it’s really too bad we don’t have cameras on us as we’re reporting stories. We are so like that.) Well, Monday went back for more after Mike Cooper, famous for the “mono log”…
Earlier in the week, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker–collectively known as Steely Dan, duh–posted to their Web site a missive addressed to Luke Wilson but aimed at bro Owen accusing the latter of being an accessory to plagiarism. Specifically, the Dan’ers insisted Owen, by appearing as the title character in…
I’m not saying the prospect of being on a reality show isn’t a little bit tempting, but there are limits. Wanna be one of seven strangers picked to live in a house? Fine. You’ll probably get all kinds of ass courtesy of MTV for the rest of your life. Wanna…
Want to know what your daily newspaper will look like in the future? You’re looking at it, sort of. It’s your computer screen. Well, duh, you say. Haven’t we known that for at least 10 or 15 years? Yes, we have, smartypants, but Belo Corp.’s earnings report for the second…
Friday: College kids would be wise to haul ass to Denton tonight, where DJ extraordinaire Diplo and Brazilian electro-popsters Cansei de Ser Sexy touch down at Hailey’s, while jangly, out-of-town indie combo the Minders and the Kingdom play at Rubber Gloves just a few blocks away. Closer to home, this…
As we reported here, people made homeless by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita had faced looming deadlines to return paperwork necessary to keep getting rental assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. We say “had,” because FEMA has now extended the deadlines for tens of thousands of households counting on government…
I have such fond memories of Girl Scout Camp. S’mores, songs around the campfire, ghost stories told in creaky bunks. Good times. Now I am at Theater Critics Camp in Connecticut, a two-week indoctrination into a cult that worships the three S’s: Shaw, Shakespeare and Sondheim. Did you see that…
Steven Pearlstein, a business columnist at The Washington Post, has an outsiders’ take on the Wright Amendment compromise, which Mayor Laura touts as her legacy and some folks at the Justice Department insist is bad for business. Pearlstein writes that the compromise reached by mayors Laura Miller and Mike Moncrief…
If, as expected, the iron hand of the U.S. Justice Department forces the beleaguered Dallas County jail to revamp how it administers medical care to its most troubled inmates, it won’t come a moment too soon. In just the last two weeks, three inmates have passed away while wards of…
Remember back when Jim Schutze reported on Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh? No? Don’t recall the story of a man that not only dried, grated and sprinkled his own feces on pastries at Fiesta, but smeared the non-dried variety on book spines at the Dallas Library? I’ll wait for your “Oh, riiiight, that…
Dallas Cowboys training camp hasn’t officially begun, and starting free safety Keith Davis is already drawing flags. But these aren’t yellow for leaping offside but red for lying. The skepticism you had at initially hearing Davis’ tale of being shot on Interstate 635 in the early morning of July 16…
The Rangers couldn’t have picked a worse time for their worst flop of the year. Big series against the New York Yankees. Big attendance. Big media attention. Uh-oh. Climaxed by last night’s excruciating 8-7 loss to the Bronx Bombers, the Rangers were swept. And now, thanks to the Cowboys officially…
So, I see how this works. First we write about the money pit known as the Bama Pie Co. building in November of last year. Then we do it again in March. Then we do it again last week, after local blogtivist Michael Davis posted something on his site about…
