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Everyone in the media business knows Chris Heinbaugh: former Channel 8 reporter, current chief of staff for Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. But did you know he has a celebrity twin? (more…)
Here’s the deal: the AT&T Performing Arts Center needs bodies — lots of them. For the opening week, they need 300 people. For the inaugural season of performances, they need 1,000 more. What’s in it for you? A free shirt. Oh, and you get to see the performance for which you volunteer, which means you might get to make out with Bruce Willis. Jump for the details.
I gave Joanna Cattanach her first job at the Morning News — with Neighbors. I had no idea that when she left the paper she’d be founding her own Web venture, in which “real women” have “real discussions,” with an awful lot of those discussions focused on empowering women to enjoy better sex and become cougars.
But when I read what she had to go through for an interview with a Frisco couple who operate a sex advice website, I felt like maybe I should have intervened sooner, to prevent her life from taking this unfortunate turn. As she describes the painful experience:
They have no formal training in therapy or sexual health, but they more than make up for it with enthusiasm. These two really seem to enjoy sex. “We’re completely nonjudgmental,” says Dan, over mojitos and margaritas at a local Mexican restaurant. He and Jennifer shared a smile and laugh, completely engrossed in each other — to the point where they seem to be on the verge of making out. In public no less!
Dan whispers to Jennifer, “You’re so hot.” I avert my gaze and focus on the chips and salsa.
Joanna, I’m cringing for you.
Sometime D Magazine contributor and CBS golf analyst David Feherty, he of the impressive nether zephyr, has joined Twitter. Right now he’s got 11 followers. Let’s help the poor guy out. Follow him at http://twitter.com/Fehertwit.
It comes courtesy of Sports Illustrated. The man is a genius:
He made his fortune finding oil where others thought there was none, has watched his investment in the Cowboys rise 856 percent and has now built an enormous, revenue-generating stadium in the middle of a recession. And despite all that, god bless him, he has yet to appear on Dancing with the Stars.
You know who ain’t real smart? Reza Saleh. That’s who. Saleh, an employee of Parkcentral Capital Management (a Perot joint) and Perot Systems, allegedly made nearly $9 million in illicit profits by trading on non-public information leading up to the Dell purchase of Perot Systems. I say he ain’t smart because most folks in Saleh’s position know that the SEC monitors suspicious trading in a window leading up to a deal like that.
Football isn’t usually my turf (unless we’re discussing my awesome Fantasy Football League or OU/TX weekend). However, this little nugget caught my attention. Apparently, T.O. did a little tweeting this weekend, saying, “Dallas just found out they had a T.R. problem not a T.O problem !!”
I can’t add analysis. I’ll leave that up to you sports fans.
Dallas’ Tincy Miller, a member of the State Board of Education, asked a perfectly reasonable question about some of Texas’s new social studies books. Why, she wanted to know, would they have deleted information about Christmas and Rosh Hashanah in favor of discussing other global holidays like “Diwali”? (Drawing a blank? It’s the Hindu Holiday of Lights.) When Miller called Diwali little-known and lacking much “substance” on KERA-FM, the arbiters of political correctness leaped quickly into action. The upshot: Miller has now apologized for her remarks. Even so, I doubt she’ll be on anybody’s Diwali-card list this year.
1. STOP. All of you who are driving the wrong way on the Tollway, just stop. It’s not like this is a new request. Those 30 new signs didn’t work. Logic didn’t work. So now sensors, which will alert officials when a vehicle is going the wrong way, are going to be installed. The thought is the sensors will give enough warning so officials can get to the vehicle to prevent an accident (hopefully).
2. YIELD. Well, not everyone has to yield, just the lawyer who was running to the nearest car dealership with the $1 million he received after his client was exonerated last year. His client, Steven Charles Phillips, said he didn’t provide any services. The lawyer said, “You’re free, aren’t you?” (At least, that’s what I’m assuming the lawyer would say.)
3.GO. And take Fido with you. But not without this nifty, new pet carrier designed specifically to fit underneath all the chairs on all the planes that American Airlines fly. The mesh sides let pets see what’s going on. Which is important, you know, so they can judge the shoes of those around them.