Articles for January 23rd, 2009
Jerry Jones Digs John Legend
Guess who was at the official John Legend after party last night? Besides John Legend. Oh. Right. I gave it away in the title of the post. And the picture. There’s Cowboys owner and GM Jerry Jones, posing with three members of D’s online staff and a couple of their friends. Here’s John Legend.
Dallas Couple Of The Day: Glamma And Papa Doc
Ann Zimmerman at the Wall Street Journal has a nice front-pager today about how Boomer grandparents want cooler names than Grandma and Grandpa. (My father is a perfect example: He wanted to be called grand-pere, even though he’s of Italian descent. My daughter calls him Grandpa Mark, which I’m sure drives him nuts.) The couple featured in the article hails from Dallas. Susan Kandell Wilkofsky goes by “Glamma” (for “glamorous grandmother”), and her husband Steven, a doctor, goes by “Papa Doc.” My favorite was Saturday Night Live writer Alan Zweibel, who gave his grandson the option between “Lefty” or “Sheriff.”
Friday Afternoon Random Question: High-Five Edition
Can you find a local connection in this, the latest in the series of Funny or Die’s High Five videos? If not, I may be in trouble.
HIGH-FIVE INAUGURATION! – watch more funny videos
(My answer, for now: didn’t the inauguration affect us all?)
Cuban Officially Not Owner of the Cubs
Lots of Chicago-based, Dallas-related news today, apparently. Though Cubes held out hope that the Cubs would come crawling back given the volatile economic climate, it’s not going to happen. The Tribune Co. has decided to sell the long-suffering team to the Ricketts family from Omaha, who made their fortune from brokerage firm TD Ameritrade, though I’d be lying if I acted like I had any idea who they were before Wick sent me that link.
TheaterJones.com Aims To Fill Theater Coverage Void
As has been discussed before, the area dailies are joining forces in arts coverage, which leads to less—not more—arts coverage. So two theater critics are doing something about it. PegasusNews has the goods on TheaterJones.com, a venture by Elainer Liner and Mark Lowry. Break a leg.
Major Thumbs Up To Parkland ER
Yesterday Allisonette #3 had a seizure at school (she’s fine now). Paramedics rushed her to Parkland ER, where she was met by a team ready to go to work. Within three hours every conceivable test had been done, she had been examined several times by sets of doctors and interns, and visited by a neurologist, pampered throughout the process by nurses and volunteers. None of this was special status: they could not have cared less who I am or who she is. It is a level of trauma care that is simply outstanding. I’m telling you, if you’re ever in a car wreck or in a life-threatening situation and the EMTs ask you where you want to go, say “Parkland.”
Catchy, Tara Conner, But Not A Hit Country Single Yet
Dallas native and former Miss USA Tara Conner is a contestant on the new season of CMT’s Gone Country, which premieres Saturday night. She and other celebrity contestants will compete to write a country song for the show’s host, John Rich. She tells Access Hollywood about the lows she hit during her drug-use scandal and before her stint in rehab. She’s better now:
“I feel so much [now],” she said. “When it hurts, it hurts really bad but when it feels good, it feels good!”
Add a half-empty bottle of Beam, a beat-down pick-up truck, and a dog that don’t know its name no more and you’re on your way, Tara.
Listen to Charity Beaver on FrontBurner For Your Ears
In Episode 6 of FrontBurner For Your Ears, Eric Celeste interviews Charity Beaver, who’s a trainer at the Dallas Country Club. Also, Adam debuts a new segment called “This Day in Dallas History.” Click, playa.
Jeremy Halbreich Named To Chicago Sun-Times Board
Dissident shareholders won their battle last weekend to take over the newspaper and will promptly install their own board, which includes Halbreich, the former DMN executive who founded and sold his own newspaper group, departing last year. The new board will have its work cut out for it: the struggling paper’s shares are now worth about $.09 each. For those who care, Newsosaur reflects on the paper’s sad history.
Did T.O. Keep Jason Garrett From Getting the Rams Job?
That’s what longtime NFL writer John Czarnecki says here. Good read because it gives some insight into why Owens is more well-respected than Romo in the locker room, why the players regard Jason Witten as a snitch (even though he wasn’t the source for the story for which they blame him, according to Czarnecki), and why Garrett should have been more like Cardinals offensive coordinator Todd Haley, who took no guff from T.O. when Haley was the Cowboys receivers coach. (H/T: Profootballtalk.com)
Who Exactly Is to Blame for Officer Norman Smith’s Death?
The Morning News today recently published an editorial titled “Drug Users Share the Blame in Officer’s Death.” It begins:
This is for anyone who even occasionally uses drugs and for the people in their lives who –- even if they disapprove –- ultimately do nothing to stop the drug use: you have blood on your hands.
D Magazine contributing editor Trey Garrison had something to say about that on his blog. Go ahead. Guess whether he agreed with the editorial.
Friday Fun: Frantic
Brain off. Time-waster on. Today’s Friday Fun is called Frantic. Use the awsd keys to move your ship left-up-down-right. Collect power-ups. Have fun.
Should This Flag Fly?
Mike Tettleton’s firm, Lone Star Banners and Flags, has designed this banner, which seems to combine the notions of a certain local team and a certain Lone Star state. Mike tells me his Fort Worth firm designed the flag (he calls it the “Silver and Blue Texas Flag”), then intended to take it to the Dallas Cowboys to negotiate a deal with them. He also posted an image of it on his company Web site to gauge public interest. That’s where the Cowboys saw it as well (oops). Not long after, Tettleton got a call from the Cowboys, asking him to take it down, because they hadn’t given him permission to market the flag. The Silver and Blue Texas Flag has since been pulled from the Web. What do you think, FrontBurnervians? Should this flag be allowed to fly?
UPDATE: For a right-side-up version of the flag, jump here. (more…)
If You’ve Lost Your Job, Rick Perry Has Something He Needs To Tell You
The governor’s tax-cutting-at-any-cost ideology has once again come back to bite us. He suspended the replenishment tax last year for the Texas unemployment trust fund, which today suddenly faces a $447 million deficit. Good timing there, Guv.
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