A couple of surprising things: One, that there’s a publication called Nightclub & Bar Magazine. Two, that it has yet to reproduce its Top 100 Nightclubs in the U.S. issue online. (Thankfully, someone did.) Three, that Dallas’ Purgatory made it in the top 25 (it’s no. 23). Four, that Billy Bob’s didn’t crack the top 10 (it’s no. 14). (h/t Preston Jones)
1. The Ontario-based company that operates Lone Star Park is not holding onto its effing hat tightly enough, casting a pall over opening day, April 9. If the ponies are gonna run, Lone Star might need another operator. I nominate Adam McGill.
2. Pete Sessions has received about $40,000 since 2000 from suspected fraudster Allen Stanford’s outfit. Sessions has so far returned 5 percent of that amount. Said Sessions: “I believe that the $2,000 I returned was the right thing to do, and I feel good about that.” In related news, I killed a drifter yesterday, but I snuck up on him from behind, and he never saw it coming. I feel good about that.
3. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated the Trinity levees unacceptable. But listen, that’s just a preliminary finding, okay? The final assessment won’t happen until March 31. And Mayor Leppert says the Trinity Project is moving forward. So no worries, right? RIGHT?