Articles for June 30th, 2009

TV With Laura: The Bachelorette Recap Episode VII

Have you ever tried to break the news to a friend that her special someone is cheating on her? Doesn’t go so well, does it? Unfortunately, our friend Jake has to board a plane from Dallas to Austin, book a room at what appears to be a Holidome or Hyatt (what happened with The Bachelorette discount at the Fairmount?), and learns that lesson the hard way–in a chambray shirt, no less. But we’ll get to all that and more from last night’s dramatic painful episode after the jump.

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posted by Laura Kostelny | June 30th, 2009 5:14pm | filed under Television |

Dispatch From an Intern

Loyal FrontBurnervians will remember my new favorite intern, Bonathan. Remember? The guy who described his financial situation as “comfortable”? Yeah, that’s him.

Anyway, Nancy sent him on an errand, and Bonathan filed a report on it. If you have a few minutes, you should read it:

Nancy Update: If you’d like to respond to Bonathon’s review, we offer all-the-comments-you- can-type here.

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posted by Tim Rogers | June 30th, 2009 4:46pm | filed under Dining |

D CEO Contributor John Browning Wins Big at Houston Press Club’s Lone Star Awards

dceo_05_08_coverA big congratulations to D CEO columnist and contributing editor John G. Browning for cleaning up at the Houston Press Club’s statewide Lone Star Awards on Friday. Browning, who holds a day job as attorney/partner in Gordon & Rees’ Dallas office, won best magazine article for his May 2008 D CEO cover story (pictured at left).

He also won print journalist of the year in the newspapers under 100,000 circulation category for  “Legally Speaking,” his syndicated column. (”Legally Speaking” won first place in the newspaper commentary/criticism category, and his D CEO “Legalities” column won third in its category.)

A full list of the winning entries—which came from Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston—is available on the Houston Press Club site.

posted by Kristiana Heap | June 30th, 2009 4:21pm | filed under Business, Law, Local News, Media |

Wick Allison Turns to Sock Puppetry on Unfair Park

I can only assume that Wick has too much time on his hands and has taken to praising himself in the comments section of Unfair Park. Right now, Jim Schutze is live-blogging the City Hall corruption trial. He’s using the comments section of a single post to accomplish this task. In the comments, he uses the handle JimS. But at 11:43 today, JimS wrote the following:

Wick Allison is a very smart man who has devoted a lot of his life to this city. Disagreements about public works projects are not moral. I have made mistakes in writing about the Trinity project. Dallas is lucky to have people like Allison who give a damn about he city instead of decamping to some Hamptons-like refuge and writing about rare lettuces.

So that’s a sock puppet, right? That’s Wick. Either that, or the sheer insanity of the trial (defense lawyer: “The FBI is racist!”) has seeped into Schutze’s brain and driven him crazy. Either way, Schutze’s live blog is a must-read.

posted by Tim Rogers | June 30th, 2009 1:59pm | filed under Media |

Leading Off (Trinity Tollroad), Ctd.

Having followed Jim Schutze’s live-blogging from the corruption trial yesterday (and I hope, today), I’m sure he is employing all ten fingers and can’t spare two right now to express his opinion of me.

posted by Wick Allison | June 30th, 2009 10:39am | filed under Media, Transportation |

Can The Hispanic Chamber Clean Up Its Act?

Look for some hoopla today from Mayor Tom and others about Dallas landing next September’s annual convention of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. It is a pretty big deal; the group’s ‘09 meeting in Denver this September could attract up to 5,000 visitors and pump $10 million into the economy there. One caveat: It sure would be nice if, before the big group arrives in Big D, the Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce resolves the issues that have split it into (at least ) two warring factions. Definitely not the sort of image you want as a host chamber.

posted by Glenn Hunter | June 30th, 2009 10:38am | filed under Business, Local News |

Mario Tarradell, Ctd.

A few follow-ups on yesterday’s Mario Tarradell item from FB Nation, after the jump.

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posted by Zac Crain | June 30th, 2009 9:42am | filed under Entertainment, Media, Music |

Leading Off (6/30/09)

1. The Federal Highway Administration may not build the Trinity toll road inside the levees because of concerns that they won’t, you know, do what levees are supposed to do. That cackling sound is coming from Jim Schutze, who is sitting in a chair next to me, wearing nothing but a “Told Ya So” placard and a smile, waving two middle fingers in the general direction of Wick’s office.

2. Dallas County commish-types will vote today on whether to “take part in a regional planning effort” for the proposed inland port. Any time you got a chance to be part of something that special — I mean, good grief, this planning effort is regional — well, yeah, you’ve gotta lock that down.

3. After yesterday’s high-speed chase, there was another one this morning about 4 a.m. that lasted almost two hours, ending with a woman’s capture near White Rock Lake. Now, I’m not saying there’s a trend here, but if you see two priests driving a Ferrari doing 150-plus, I think I know what’s going on.

posted by Eric Celeste | June 30th, 2009 8:16am | filed under Local News |