Any doubts I may have had about the alleged incompetence of our beloved Federal Emergency Management Agency have been thoroughly eliminated. FEMA can’t even organize a coherent media conference call, let alone disseminate billions of dollars in taxpayer cash to hurricane victims–many of whom need the money for tattoos, massages…
Jerry Jones is in the Caribbean. Bill Parcells is in Florida. Terrell Owens is in limbo. And every Cowboys fan is in the dark. If you watched KLBK-Channel 13 in Lubbock this morning, you’re sure Owens signed a multi-year contract with the Cowboys late Thursday night and that a press…
Former city council person Veletta Forsythe Lill sends this missive regarding yesterday’s item about the myriad Web sites devoted to Forest City Enterprises, the developers getting $73 mil from the city to rehab the Mercantile Building downtown: “I find some irony in that the Forest City Web site details the…
As the NCAA men’s basketball tournament grips Dallas today at the American Airlines Center, its fun to ponder all of the money and cheating that will be following the bouncing ball. Cheating? According to economist Justin Wolfers assistant professor of business and public policy at the Wharton School of the…
ESPN.com columnist Pat Forde writes today about the paucity of Texas Longhorns fans at yesterday’s opening practice sessions at the American Airlines Center. To which I say, Dude, some of us gotta work. But I will be there tonight when the Horns play Penn in the first-round regional, which is…
Slow day for locals at SXSW on Thursday. After performing in front of Jeremy Lascelles on Wednesday (along with other unidentified white-haired men of varying importance), the Strange Boys didn’t seem as perky this afternoon, as bassist Philip Sambol was seen hanging around outside Emo’s asking passersby for change. Myself…
Hey, hipster, got eight grand or so lying around your pad unused? Heritage Auction Galleries has just the thing for you: “home” movies of the Rat Pack shot by a Canadian couple while Francis Albert, Dino, Sammy and those other two guys were filming the original Ocean’s 11 in Las…
Seems Lindsay Lohan, who’s pretty good in Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion, may wind up in Dallas. Which may wind up in Toronto, but still. –Robert Wilonsky…
Looks like Steven Spielberg, who apparently used to be a diretor of some note, is no fan of Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s releasing movies in theaters, on TV and DVD the same day, as they did with Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble in January. In the new issue of Time, the…
On Monday, Dallas is to be one of the sites for the holy sing-off between some 100 would-be Christian pop stars. (I placed 102 in the original competition and would have come in much higher had I not chosen to perform “Hava Nagilah.”) It’s for a show called Gifted, which…
Scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas have made a discovery every drunk has been aware of since the beginning of time. –Robert Wilonsky…
At 12:25 this morning, Midlake’s Eric Pulido grabbed the microphone at the Fox & Hound stage in Austin. “Cue smoke. Cue confetti.” He then threw a small explosion of paper dots and streamers into the crowd, mimicking the over-the-top theatrics the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne had pulled off half an…
While the music section is off gallivanting around Austin for South by Southwest (see item above), the rest of us are left to pick up the pieces. There are plenty of good national and regional acts filtering through Dallas this week on their way down to Austin, but eff those…
If you want to learn a bit more about Forest City Enterprises, the Cleveland-owned development company getting some $73 mil of city money to redo the Mercantile Building downtown, there are myriad blogs out there detailing its doings elsewhere. Norman Oder’s blog, which contains more reporting than a copy of…
The paperback edition of former Observer cover boy Will Clarke’s Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles is due in May, and if the cover is any indication , then I guess Anthony Michael Hall will be playing the lead in David Gordon Green’s forthcoming big-screen adaptation. (Scroll down, by the way, to…
Some call it March Madness; others, the Big Dance. Me, I joyfully refer to it as the one month a year when gambling on sports is not only legal but openly promoted. Pop the corks, and ransack your 401(k)–it’s time to bet on basketball! If you work in an office…
Amazing the stuff you find trolling the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Web site when you’ve got nothing else to do. For instance, take this little item from Belo Corp.’s Form 10-K annual report, filed with the SEC just last week: “On January 5, 2006, Infinity Radio, Inc., a subsidiary…
Don’t tug on Superman’s cape. Don’t spit into the wind. And, unless you have an hour and a backup notebook or two, don’t call Dale Hansen for a quick comment. In the wake of the Dallas Cowboys’ move to KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket), I got tons…fine, 12 e-mails from readers…
One girl was called Jane Marie Another little girl was called Felicity Another little girl was Sally Joy The other was me, and I’m a boy –The Who Everything was fine until George Jorgensen Jr. came along. In 1951, surgeons in Copenhagen turned the Bronx-born George into Christine, and a…
Mike Connor was a successful sales executive with Coca-Cola, pulling down a six-figure salary, when he realized something was missing from his life. So he quit his job and went on a spiritual quest. That was 11 years ago. Today, Connor calls himself a consciousness coach, and for $125 an…
Appearing now on the Dallas Cowboys’ new flagship radio station: A lunchtime host who fought the former head coach and constantly fillets the current one. A drive-time star who champions himself as leader of the “anti-Cowboys faction” and refers to Bill Parcells as “The New Jersey Con Man.” And a…
Just at the end of one of Love Field’s runways is an apartment complex that appears to have been shipped to Northwest Dallas from Fallujah, brick by broken brick. This complex, a gargantuan compound of broken bottles and rusty wrought-iron fences and shattered windows and overgrown weeds, sits almost directly…
