SIGNS OF INTELLIGENTLY DESIGNED LIFE AT SMU

Today’s editorial in The Daily Campus perfectly summarizes my thoughts on the silliness that is the “Intelligent Design” debate.

ATTENTION BIRD NERDS

Warning: this link contains too much information for anyone who is not a twitcher. I just love it.

RE: GAP DESIGN EDITIONS

I just received the following information from a fashion-savvy male FrontBurnervian:

I was in a GAP this last week for the first time in maybe two years and I was shocked to find a Dries Van Noten knock-off jacket (I recognized it as I wear a ton of Dries) for $88.  Impressive.  And you bet you a__ I snapped it up like a shrimp nacho at a beer bust.  I had never before found something that was tailored and constructed-finished on par with this ever at GAP.  Once at Target last year.  Someone’s doing something smart with the re-directing coming from GAP corporate.  Banana R. was already a destination, but GAP was floundering big time in the sweats and tee wilderness. Thanks for the heads up info.  Not sure if the white shirt campaign is both sexes, but I’m going to the website.

Sorry guys, it’s actually just for women (or if you are a man who wears women’s clothes). However, if the trend to bring designer names to the masses continues (with all the success they have had it is very likely), I am sure a male campaign is in the works for the Gap. I will let you know when I know something.

HO HO HOLY COW IT’S VICE

It’s not going to be a happy ending for a number of massage establishments in Dallas today. Dallas Vice, along with the FBI, ICE, IRS and the Dallas County DA have been serving up warrants all over town. Jump for the money shot.

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GAP DESIGN EDITIONS

Yesterday, the Gap released a limited edition collection of new American designer takes on the classic white shirt. The Gap partnered with the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund to introduce up-and-coming young design talent such as Doo.Ri, Rodarte, and Thakoon (all 2006 CFDA winners) to a broader audience (following in the footsteps of stores like Target and H&M). But, hurry, the pieces (which range in price from $68-$88 – far below designer prices) are selling fast, and they are only available online (already sold out of all of small sizes) or locally at the Gap locations at NorthPark and the Galleria.

DALLAS RANKS #3 FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS

We’re behind only Atlanta and Washington, D.C., according to this report from Black Enterprise. The write-up on our fair city after the break:

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RE: LEADING OFF (TXU ITEM)

I love one pit bull and only one pit bull: “Yes, I’m a Raging” Mitch Schnurman. In his latest column, he says we’re giving TXU a free pass on the buyout being offered them, and we shouldn’t.

RE: LEADING OFF (LARRY WRIGHT ITEM)

A Texas Monthly-editing FBvian reminds me that Lawrence “If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don’t Wanna Be” Wright penned the November 1988 cover story for D, “Did Dallas Kill Kennedy?” (It was an excerpt of his book, In the New World.) Says our friend, “It’s one of the best assessments of Dallas that I’ve read. Tremendous work.” So read it. Go.

RE: 2006 KATIES: A CALL FOR RESUBMISSION

A media-working FBvian sends in his vote:

2006 KATIES: A CALL FOR RESUBMISSION

Good for Glenn Hunter. The PR-heavy and possibly crony-laden Katies have needed a serious overhaul for many years, but the 2006 awards, well-chronicled by the Dallas Business Journal, clearly make the entire process bogus. The Press Club is trying to sort out the extent of the irregularities, but one thing is certain. The 2006 awards should be thrown out lock stock and statue.

Either scrap them completely–no awards for that year at all–or resubmit all entries to a new, and actual, judging committee from a respected journalism department. Not even an asterisk  by the 2006 awards can remove the taint unfairly and unfortunately now covering them.

Even that may not be the end of it: Wick says the club should be shuttered, if it is not already dead. Tim (who won a 2006 Katie) will follow with supporting evidence that your eyes should definitely read.