Articles for May, 2009
Female Texas Rangers Fan Asked To Take Off Her Shirt
Sadly, it’s more ridiculous than salacious. According to this Dallas Morning News story, a Carrollton couple attended the Yankees/Rangers game on Tuesday. The lovely lady was psyched about wearing her 19th wedding anniversary present: a “Yankees Suck” t-shirt. Too bad security asked her to change because “The Texas Rangers organization considers that shirt to be profane.” “Two things here: 1) Is “sucks” really that offensive? and 2) A t-shirt after 19 years of marital bliss? That kind of, well, sucks.
You Should Follow Mark Cuban on Twitter
Or so says Advertising Age. He made the list of 25 media people worth following on Twitter. Perhaps Laura Kostelny will make the next one.
D Art Slam Preview Party: A Photo Gallery
According to Tim, the VIP party last night for D Art Slam at f.i.g. was good times. Our sometime staff photographer Matthew Shelley snapped these shots at the soiree; our queen staff photographer, Elizabeth Lavin, was among the artists-in-mingling. To see more, stay with me after the jump. (more…)
D Art Slam and the New Dallas Nine
Last night’s VIP party at f.i.g. for the D Art Slam was good times. Alan Peppard was there. So, you know. That’s pretty much all that needs to be said, right? Nonetheless, I’m going to say more. Many thanks to John Sughrue and Lyle Burgin. And also to the f.i.g. staff and Lauren Christensen (who is funny even if her husband doesn’t think so). If you don’t know who these people are, Peppard will explain everything in his column. Also thanks to the folks who juried the show: Chris Byrne, Richard Davis, Eddy Rawlinson, Dan Rizzie, and Gail Sachson. The judges also picked the New Dallas Nine.
What’s the New Dallas Nine, you ask? Surely you know about the original Dallas Nine. Right, that. Well, ours is new. And they are, in really no particular order (really): Shane Pennington, William Young, Sunny Jacquet, Joshua Stone, David Leonard, Pamela Chance, Rich Morgan, Kathleen Wilke, and Jennifer Jones. Their work will be published in an upcoming issue of D Magazine.
Let’s see. Did I leave anything out? Oh, yeah. Thanks to my date last night, Laura Kostelny. You left your dress at my house.
The Slam goes through the weekend. If you’re in the market, you’ll find works from 150 artists. If you just want to look, you’ll also find work from 150 artists. Have fun.
DISD Saga, Ctd.
A hoops-lovin’ FBvian makes some points for reading with your eyes:
I agree the TEA might deserve some heat. But again, I think the DISD messed up the initial funding issue.
1. When the TEA informed DISD in Feb about the inequitable funding, did someone at DISD HQ (like the supe?) not know enough to red flag it and say, “Whoa, hey, this has always been OK. It’s court ordered. We have no choice in this matter. Are you sure we’re talking about the same funding?” Those questions/issues should have been resolved in a few days.
2. The school board is taking a page from the city council’s playbook: divide, don’t unite. With single-member districts, the only way to get anything done is the “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” approach. Which means board/council members have to go around and make deals. I know, I know. That’s politics. But it pits one against the other. And it has gotten this city and this school district in a bottomless pit of sewage.
DISD Saga: Clarifying Some Points
In fairness, I should say exactly why I think this was such a debacle for the district, and spread some blame around, because it needs to be spread.
Mockingbirds to Dallas Cops: DUCK!
I lifted that headline from this story on the Channel 5 worldwide website about two mockingbirds who have been dive-bombing officers for about a month.
(Also, just want to say that those folks running the NBC5 website know how to have fun. They have a headline or story or do something that shows a good sense of humor every few days.)
Leading Off (5/29/09)
1. After 1 a.m. this morning, the DISD board finally called clock on itself and voted 5-4 to make the controversial staff cuts to the learning centers and magnet schools, with the exceptions of Townview (TAG) and Travis. I’ve been busy with the print product and couldn’t really comment on this issue like I would have liked. Suffice to say that, even though I understand it’s more complicated behind the scenes, and there are some people at the schools affected telling the public one thing and district officials another, I still think this was handled poorly, was unnecessary, and showed a lack of leadership by the board and Michael Hinojosa.
2. Mark Cuban sued the SEC, saying it is holding back documents needed in his insider trading trial. I believe these documents have to do with how much he hates referees. I maybe didn’t read this too closely.
3. Richardson’s The Living Opera has canceled its 2009 season three weeks before it was to begin to hold on to its effin’ hat. It hopes to perform in 2010, meaning, of course, the fat lady has not yet sung. (Sorry. So sorry.)
Business Throng Rocks The Stoneleigh
Some came for the vodka, others for the Scotch. Still others, for the live music or the “networking.” Whatever their motivation, more than 150 turned out last evening for D CEO magazine’s quarterly happy hour at the spiffed-up Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa. Among them were advertising guru Jim Krause; fashion plate Erin Mathews of the Mathews Nichols Real Estate Group at Allie Beth Allman & Associates; newlyweds Eric and Colleen Affeldt (he’s the head honcho at ClubCorp); and the happy shiny people in this photo by Marty Perlman.
Keeping Up With The Jerry Joneses
While Gene Jones looks like she was expecting an explosion in this photo, she and Jerry were much more serene a few hours later, enjoying dinner last night at a jam-packed Al Biernat’s. While the two were seated in the back against a wall, that didn’t stop an obnoxious reporter from stopping and asking Jerry how Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting at Cowboys Stadium had gone. Great, he told me; Gene noted that several thousand people had showed up. Jerry launched into a riff about how “sensitive” his Cowboys are to the current economy, and how the new stadium portends great things for the region once the recession ends. Then he added, laughing: “They shouldn’t allow somebody so passionate about the Cowboys to have so much credit …”
Exxon CEO, Shareholders Urged To Hail Gaea
A couple of sentences from today’s DMN story about the Exxon Mobil annual shareholder meeting deserve special mention. They include a quote from Ann Rockefeller Roberts (a descendant of oil zillionaire John D. Rockefeller), who instructed Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson at yesterday’s meeting: “The environment, ’she is known by some as Gaea. She is our mother, she is our home.’ ” What the …? I think I liked Rockefellers better when they threw dimes to urchins in the street.
Why the DMN Hates the Star-T Today
While everyone today is talking about Tom Hicks’ acknowledgment that he’s now looking to sell most of the Rangers (rather than just take on a minority investor), a curious detail about the story is being overlooked. Look who broke the story: the Star-Telegram’s Randy Galloway. Those following along at home know that the Star-T and the DMN recently divided up the local sports teams and entered into a content-sharing agreement. The Star-T covers the Rangers and the Texas Motor Speedway, and it shares that coverage with the DMN. The DMN does Mavericks and Stars, and it shares with the Star-T. They both tackle the Cowboys. (See what I did there?)
So where’s the big Rangers news today in the DMN? It’s not in there. My guess: the Star-T has Galloway do the big story because that’s a loophole. “Hey, we shared our story from Jeff Wilson about the Rangers’ loss to the Yankees. That was the agreement. This Galloway thing? That’s our columnist. He wrote a column. That’s ours.” Another guess: Bob Mong is less than super enthusiastic today about his working relationship with the paper from Fort Worth.
Tom Hicks Talks to InsideCorner About Selling Rangers
He told our Evan Grant that the deal could be done before year’s end. The full story.
Marty Van Kleeck Gets Ready for F.I.T. at the Bath House
The assignment was to get a photo of the Bath House Cultural Center out at White Rock. I casually suggested to Spider Monkey, “Why don’t you wait till sunset, then set up on the west shore of the lake with a long lens and shoot Marty Van Kleeck in a rowboat, with the sun setting on the Bath House behind her?” Marty manages the Bath House. I tried to imagine the most complicated shoot I could. Spider Monkey took the bait — only she upped the complication factor by including not one but two boats.
Here’s my picture of her taking the picture for our July story about the upcoming Festival of Independent Theatres. Check out the print product to see the fruits of her labors. Special thanks to Marty for being so patient during the shoot and to Clay Hosterman, our banjo-playing boat captain.
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