Sandra Crenshaw to Protest Tomorrow at Wick’s House

Just a few minutes ago, Sandra Crenshaw sent the following e-mail to officials at Henry S. Miller, the Highland Park Department of Public Safety, and Dallas City Hall:

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Say This Word: Onderdonk.

Now, go to the Dallas Museum of Art for the new exhibition, “Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American Impressionist.” Yesterday Christine Lieb from D Home and I went to the DMA for the press preview exhibition and a tour given by fabulous associate curator William Rudolph (that’s Christine’s favorite Onderdonk to the left, “Bluebonnets in Texas”). While bluebonnets might remind you of pictures in grandma’s living room, we assure these will blow you away. Onderdonk was a native son of Texas, and although he died at age 40, apparently he is one of our state’s most important artists. Don’t miss the periwinkle room, with over ten years worth of bluebonnet paintings. It’s breathtaking.

Death of An SMU Co-ED: Media Tangent

In this month’s print version of FrontBurner, our story about the life and tragic death of Meaghan Bosch has an aside that I wanted to develop. It comes near the end and it concerns the Texas Rangers, who think a leak from the Dallas Police Department tipped off the prime suspect in Meaghan’s death about the search warrant being served on his townhome. Rangers think because of this leak, the suspect, James McDaniel, had time to hide or destroy evidence. The Texas Rangers are notoriously tight-lipped, but in this case they’re so sure and so bothered by it that they were willing to talk to me on the record, directly pointing the finger at someone high up in the DPD command. I couldn’t go much into this issue in the story because it would have gone too far afield from the story we were telling. But if you’re interested, jump for more.

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Re: A Conversation With Sandra Crenshaw

Now word comes that Sandra Crenshaw aims to approach our advertisers about my unethical blogging. In fact, she went to Highland Park Village today, looking to meet with Vance Miller, apparently (though Crenshaw needs to get her Millers straight). And somehow Charlie Terrell, himself a former City Council member, got caught in the crossfire. Terrell was coming out of Larry North, having just finished his morning workout, when Crenshaw waylaid him for 30 minutes — about the Shaws, about FrontBurner, about Schutze, etc., etc.

Note to D Magazine advertisers: get your cactus juice ready.

Wilmer Wannabe Mayor Gets Order of Sex Scandal Wrong

Memo to James Brian Sliter: You get elected first, then you get exposed in a sex scandal. You don’t get yourself arrested for trying to meet up with a girl on the Internet whom you thought was 15 years old, get sentenced to 10 years probation, then run for mayor. That’s just not how it’s done anymore.

FrontBurner Madness Update

I’m a bit surprised that no one picked all 16 games yesterday. But we’ve got a 14-way tie for first place. The early leaders in our Big Shot Lodowick pool:

heelSpurs
Your Mom Goes To College
Proudness
Elixir19
Buca Love
Poor Heathens
Farmers Branch Se Puede
Avi’s M Streets Avengers
BU Roundballers
Old East Dallas
DTF
Hooahh
John Carter of Mars
cookies1635

Re: A Conversation With Sandra Crenshaw

As promised, here is the transcription of my conversation with Sandra Crenshaw. Thanks to intern Holly Bauman for her help.

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Owen Wilson Lying Low

He won’t be making the usual media rounds for his newest film, “Drillbit Taylor.” Understandable. But what got to me in this story is the fact that Owen is 39 years old. He grew up across the street from my parents. I’m feeling my age.

Schutze Goes Wild…Again

It’s a pattern. First, he does good, solid reporting, as on Lynn Shaw’s misuse of campaign funds. Then, his mind starts to spin. The faster it goes, the blurrier it gets. And up pops a conspiracy theory. Does it raise “serious questions“? Maybe. Maybe not. The part that Rod Dreher knows about, he easily refutes.

Friday Fun

Happy Good Friday Friday, everybody. Today’s a half day for us, but it doesn’t mean you can’t have a full day of fun. I present Cursor 10. The graphics are as lo-fi as you can get. The point of it is as simple as can be, too. Just click on the tiny pyramids for points and click on the staircases to get to the next level. Get as many points in the time allowed. Then repeat. (It’s cool how the next round shows you a shadow of the previous one.) Have fun.

Leading Off

1. This Frisco man, who made the very dangerous decision to not live in Dallas, where it’s safe, is lucky to have only suffered a flesh wound after exchanging gunfire with an afternoon intruder.

2. The retail strip at the northwest corner of Central and Mockingbird will be demolished to make way for the Bush library. I will miss you, sweet Roly Poly. Cue this.

3. Although they say there is no evidence of fraud, the Feds say the Dallas Housing Authority must account for or repay $32 million bucks it has mis-handled/managed/placed.