Articles for June, 2009
Dallas Housing Prices To Hold Firm Amid National Decline
Steve Brown has the latest forecast from an outfit called Local Market Monitor.
This is the Remix: AutoTune the Press Conference
In the recent tradition of “AutoTune the News,” comes this Steve Porter creation. And thanks to T.O. Owens for giving me the flimsiest of reasons to post it here.
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Free Reign Signs Record Deal, Is Super Average
Free Reign, the metal band featuring Cowboys linemen Marc Colombo (vocals), Leonard Davis (bass), and Cory Procter (drums), has signed with an Australian record label that apparently specializes in novelty hard rock (it also has WWE wrestler Chris Jericho’s band Fozzy on the roster). Did they get the deal on their own merits? Extremely doubtful. In other words: Sack of Kittens TK.
A Texas Paradox, Ctd.
A South Texan-living-in-Dallas FrontBurnervian thinks the New Yorker didn’t do its homework:
PETA Protesters Slaughter Plush Toy Seals
A newly iPhone-equipped FBvian sends a pic taken in front of our new St. Paul Place building downtown. I can’t wait to move down there and get some of that big-city hustle and bustle!
The DMN Gives Our 100 Most Expensive Home List Some Love
You know what I like about our new “make your headline be direct and to the point” emphasis? All I have to do then is throw up a link. Or two.
A Texas Paradox And The Health Cost Explosion
Hidalgo County has the lowest household income in the United States. It is also one of the most expensive health-care markets in the country. Atul Gawande tries to figure out what this shows about our nation’s health-care system in this week’s New Yorker. One statistic:
In 2006, Medicare spent fifteen thousand dollars per enrollee here, almost twice the national average. The income per capita is twelve thousand dollars. In other words, Medicare spends three thousand dollars more per person here than the average person earns.
Park Cities People Best in Texas — Again
Our colleagues in the Texas Press Association awarded our little weekly top honors in its class for the fourth year in a row.
The Traveling Man Finds His Way to Deep Ellum
The new Deep Ellum DART stop will feature a three-part sculpture called The Traveling Man, a collaboration between Brandon Oldenburg of Reel FX and Brad Oldham. You can learn more about it here. But the other day, the “bones” of the tallest of the three sculptures went up. It’ll stand 38 feet when finished and weigh 35,000 pounds.
TV With Laura: The Bachelorette Recap Episode VI
The cast of Jillian and Wine Plus Nine boards the Orient Express. One by one, the sad little bachelors are murdered in bizarre and terrifying ways — foot enthusiast Tanner is suffocated with a bottle of Mango Mango nail polish; breakdancer Mike is strangled with his striped hoodie. It’s up to the great Belgian detective Hercules Poirot to identify the killer before it’s too late. Jump for the whole story.
What’s The Deal With Journalists And Police Chiefs?
Once again, Dallas leads the way. And where Dallas leads, Milwaukee follows.
Leading Off (6/23/09)
1. Not a good day for former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill and other defendants in the Dallas City Hall corruption trial that opened yesterday. That’s because it appears developers Brian and Cheryl Potashnik, who weren’t in court and couldn’t be found, had cut a plea deal with prosecutors. The case’s gag order means there could be no official confirmation of this, but the government’s wink and a smile told enough. Secret sources within the Hill camp were thought to have responded to this news by saying, “Murmur.”
2. Arlington officials are mad at American Idol, because the show is promoting Dallas, not A-Town, as it holds auditions at Cowboys Stadium. And that’s just wrong. Have you been to Arlington lately? It’s pretty awesome. It has, um, well, the stadium, and a ballpark, and a Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen, and … have I missed any advertisers?
3. In an interview with a German magazine, Dirk Nowitzki says he is moving on after his public break-up with Cristal Taylor, but that “it will not be easy to win my heart.” According to my Google translation of the interview itself, he also said, ”I have poor discernment of the day placed”; “nevertheless, I want to later times a few small Dirks rum rennen have”; and, of course, “I will not dirty laundry.”
Behind the Scenes of a D Magazine Photo Shoot
In the July issue of the “print product,” the great Nate Silver showed us how we could divide Texas into five states, thus saving North Texas from having to send so much money to Austin. To accompany Nate’s piece, we hired Doug Davis to build a model of the divided state and photograph it. You can see his finished work here. Below, you can see a little of what Doug did to make the magic happen.
Mayor Tom Says Dallas Is Almost Paradise
In his remarks today at the City Council inaugural ceremonies, Leppert proclaimed Dallas to be better than just about every other place your brain can think of:
“There is no better place to be today than Dallas, Texas.”
I’m not sure if that’s true. I think Vienna (and the 19 other cities on this list) might have something to say about that. But Dallas is pretty sweet. And, of course, so is this Mike Reno-Ann Wilson joint.
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