Dying Hard Rock Cafe Donates Organs to Feargal McKinney

Remember Tecole? It’s now called the BlackFriar Pub, and it is furnished with some of the innards from the Hard Rock. I don’t know how Feargal does it. Just down the street from the Old Monk, he has opened the Capitol Pub. Does the new place cannibalize the old? Not to my eye. Both seems busy. And now he opens a bar directly across the street from his other bar, the Idle Rich. You can’t stop him. And it doesn’t even look like you can contain him. The full release about the BlackFriar:

Update: Shame on me. The Capitol Pub ain’t a Feargal joint. To my misinformation giver: you will pay.

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Lakewood Whole Foods Beginning to Take Shape

Jeff Siegel over at the Advocate’s Back Talk blog has been all over the Lakewood Whole Foods story the past couple of months. Today, he’s got a good post for everyone (myself included) wondering what the store is going to look like. Don’t sweat me, Lemmon Ave. Whole Foods. Looking is not cheating.

A Mark Cuban Post About a Mark Cuban Post

Below I mentioned a GQ interview with Cubes, wherein he related the brief anecdote about someone accusing him of getting the Mavs to take a dive against the Warriors. The interview was conducted by Will Leitch, who edits Deadspin, a sports blog we’ve linked to on occasion and a site Cuban is no fan of. (For good reason.) Leitch ultimately used the interview as the basis for a post on Valleywag, a Deadspin sister site dedicated to tech gossip. Since GQ paid for Leitch’s trip to Dallas (and didn’t approve the Valleywag post), Cuban wonders: Is that ethical behavior for a blogger/journalist?

UPDATE: Leitch responds to Cuban here. Cuban responds to the response (more or less) here. I stop caring … here.

The Stupidest Mark Cuban Rumor in the History of Stupid Mark Cuban Rumors

Saw this on Tim MacMahon’s Mavs blog (and he saw it on Yahoo! Sports, and they saw it in GQ): some government employee accused Cuban of “throwing the playoff series with Golden State last year.” Makes no sense, but I can see why someone might be confused. After working out for Dancing With the Stars, Cubes’ guns are huge. He could throw just about anything.

“2-4-6-8. Who Do We Depreciate?”

You know what this frowny-face economy needs? The Perfect Cheer. At least, that’s the impression the peeps at Fox Business left with their brief video yesterday featuring the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. The girls were in NYC to announce some Roto-Rooter Sweepstakes of some sort (”Pimped Out Powder Room”; at last count, there were 14 jokes to be made about all of that). But they ended up talking about, um, sorry. I’m trying to watch the thing for the fourth time. I can’t focus. I think irritainment has a new name: It’s Cody Willard.

Lovie Gets Some Love

KERA’s blogger David Okamoto passes along word that local all-girl band (and sometime FrontBurnervians) Lovie has taken up residency at White Rock Coffee House for a month-full of Sundays. Seems (and sounds) like a perfect fit.

Moneybags Meet, Eye Film Business

Everybody may be talking about the “softening” economy. But that hasn’t stopped nearly 50 high-rollers from around the country from gathering at Rosewood’s Mansion on Turtle Creek today to consider pumping millions of dollars into an innovative new movie venture. The closed-door meeting arranged by Infusion Capital was set to feature a pitch by L.A.-based IndieVest, an independent studio that hopes to produce feature films–each of which would be bankrolled by a network of wealthy individuals, or IndieVest “members.” CEO Wade Bradley is seeking $3 million from the high-rollers here today, a figure that would give the company a total of $10 million to get its indy-film financing scheme off the ground.

Rick Perry’s Gift To Bank Of America

The Texas Enterprise Fund gave Countrywide $20 million to create 7,500 jobs. Now that Bank of America has bought the defunct home lender, it will be happy when it reads the fine print of the deal, as reported today on BurntOrangeReport.com. Governments make poor investors, and corporate welfare is just that, welfare. If this is what Republicans do, why not elect Democrats? What’s the difference?

Late Breaking Valentine’s Day News

Here. Other good stuff here.

Brett Shipp Laughs Maniacally, Raises Arms in Air, Points Two Rigid Middle Fingers in Our General Direction

Back on November 21, we posted an email from a loyal FBvian questioning Brett Shipp’s report about a South Oak Cliff player and the possibility he was ineligible to compete in the state tourney, which SOC won. Today, DISD indeed found the player ineligible and SOC will forfeit its title. In related news, crow is not, repeat not, on the Turbulence Training diet. But I’m a man, I’m 40, and I’ll eat it when necessary.

See Paris Hilton Ghostbar Pics with Your Own Eyes

Some pics for those who like pics. And Kyle says she’ll have video soon.

Is the Air About to Improve in North Texas?

If Downwinders at Risk has anything to do with it, it just might. The little environmental group that could has teamed up with Holcim, one of the largest cement producers in Midlothian (and one of the largest polluters in the area) to create a charity to fight for clean air. As the release says, “it’s probably the most unique piece of environmental philanthropy in Texas history.” Speaking of that release:

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Leading Off

1. Farmers Branch, which has spent three-quarters of a million taxpayer dollars so far on legal fees in failing to pass rental bans on illegal immigrants, sets itself up to hit the million-dollar mark by passing one more such ordinance yesterday.

2. The UIL has hired a firm to randomly test high school athletes for steroids and says it will start doing so within the coming weeks.

3. Paris Hilton was in town yesterday, and I think we’ll have a post about it later. BTW, not a big fan, certainly don’t think she’s interesting, or attractive, or talented. But I do agree with her when she says, “I’m basically a drag queen.”