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Dallas oilman Jim Oberwetter, U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, has been keeping a low profile; a Lexis-Nexis search of U.S. newspapers and wire services for the last 90 days shows little mention of him. “That’s probably a good thing,” says Rachel Bronson, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations…

I fear this kind of news–because I know I’ll have to see it at some point–but this morning came word of a high-definition movie shot in Dallas called The Long Shot, touted as “the second time anyone has successfully created a feature-length movie in one continuous shot (no breaks, one…

According to the conservative talk radio station KLIF-AM (570), UTA professor and Texas native Jose Guitierrez wants to “kill the gringos.” Guitierrez reportedly said, “We have an aging white America…They are dying…We’ve got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that, if the worst comes to the worst,…

American Airlines execs, standing alongside Mark Cuban, gave away some 19,000 airline tix to everyone at last night’s Dallas Mavericks game at the American Airlines Center. The kicker: The vouchers are for American flights at Love Field, the same airport I am pretty sure American wants shuttered in the near…

Filmed in Dallas, the new movie Rain–starring Faye Dunaway, Robert Loggia and Khandi Alexander–will debut tonight as the opening movie of the Palm Beach International Film Festival. It was exec-produced by Dallasite John Valdene, who grew up in Palm Beach, and is based on the novel by V.C. Andrews. The…

Late in the first half of the April 8 game against Real Salt Lake, Dallas native Kenny Cooper uses every inch of his 6-foot-3 frame to get his head on a long ball and flick it up the field toward a sprinting Carlos Ruiz. The Guatemalan star known as El…

The attorney for Emily Dowdy, a former Oklahoma University student now serving 40 years in an Oklahoma prison, testified in court last month that he had failed to present an adequate defense because he had been “intimidated” by the hostile environment created by Oklahoma City prosecutors and District Judge Susan…

After being ticketed by state alcohol police for public intoxication, Chris Nash is worried about the strangest thing. He’s fretting that the charge against him will be dropped following public outcry over the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s undercover bar stings. So he’s working with a lawyer to make sure he…

Return to sender: You may remember this term from All the President’s Men: “rat fucking.” It’s the practice of little dirty political tricks designed to harass your opponent, such as whisper campaigns, telephone harassment or sending out fake memos written on stolen campaign letterhead. It’s politics at its pettiest and…

So proud: I came to the United States during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, and luckily I had the opportunity to get my citizenship back then. Many nights I cried alone hearing people refer to me as “the maid of so-and-so,” and at 16 years old, it did matter to me. Back…

On last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Bril, a band on Dallas’ Kirtland Records, got a semi-coveted spot on the show’s nightly band showcase (hey, at least it’s not Last Call with Carson Daly). The band’s from California, not Dallas, so I don’t feel compelled to review them again, but I…

Because everyone loves lists, here’s one from the Texas Department of Insurance listing the Top 10 insurance-fraud offenders in the state–and, golly, a whole bunch of ’em are from Dallas and Fort Worth. To give you a sneak peek, here’s the chart-topper: Plano’s very own Walter Neuls, former president of…

I received the following e-mail today from Edwin Lipscomb of Luckscum Records, a local label that books its events at the Denton club The Inferno. What I can’t figure out is if this place is closed or keeping its full calendar and just not serving any booze. You decide: “The…

AT&T says it can deliver cable TV via the Internet. Investors are thrilled. Cable companies are worried. One guy isn’t worried. At all. One guy says, “The Internet as a delivery mechanism for TV is a joke.” Guess who that one guy is. Did you say Mark Cuban? Smartypants. –Robert…

Apparently, Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson once promised to serve but two terms in office before calling it quits–and by “apparently,” I mean this is what The Dallas Morning News reported she said back in May 1993: “Senators should be restricted to two six-year terms.” Guess some folks ain’t happy…

It shouldn’t come as any surprise that when your police department stops responding to business burglary alarms, business burglaries will increase. But despite last week’s news that the city’s new verified response policy is merely emboldening thiefs to ply their trade with impunity, Chief David Kunkle believes it’s too early…

A local real estate investment fund (or a REIT) is looking to move some premium places, among them hotels in Orlando near Walt Disney World and on the water in San Francisco (on Fisherman’s Wharf) and San Diego (hotspot Harbor Island). Nearly 900 rooms are up for grabs in this…

Now it’s gonna be Lindsay Lohan playing Lucy Ewing in the big-screen Dallas. No, wait, Jessica Simpson. No, wait, Lindsay Lohan. No, wait, I DO NOT GIVE A DAMN. Though, clearly, I do. Especially when there’s (the rumor of) a let’s-take-it-outside catfight involved. –Robert Wilonsky…