Articles for October 20th, 2009

Ellen DeGeneres Is Pulling a Caper at Sewell GMC

Check out her Twitter feed. She’s at Sewell on Lemmon Ave., and it sounds like she’s about to give away a free car. Looks like you’ve got to be there by 5:30. Go! Report back!

Update: Upon further review, it does not appear that Ellen herself is there. One of her minions is.

posted by Tim Rogers | October 20th, 2009 4:07pm | filed under Automotive, Celebrity | 2 Comments »

Will Print Media Survive? My Take: Um, Sure.

By this evening, I’ll have a much more informed, trenchant analysis of the future of print media in America. That’s because KERA has asked me to sit on a panel with real journalists (DMN managing editor George Rodrigue, SMU prof and writer Mark Vamos, Fingers of Fury) and discuss this subject tonight at their studios with other media navel-gazers in attendance. (Tune in to @ericceleste for some sweeeeeeet tweeeeeeets.) Also because I’m doing a lot of Internet research, and that always leads to a greater understanding of the problems facing print.

I tell you this because I want to pimp the event sparking this discussion: the local television debut of the documentary Stop the Presses: the American Newspaper in Peril, by Mark Birnbaum and Manny Mendoza (the later a longtime writer for the Dallas Morning News). It airs Monday the 26th at 9 p.m. on KERA. Watch it hard with your eyes because it’s good and scary and better than CSI: Miami.

I’m going to go ahead and turn on comments and see if FBvians have any suggestions for me.

posted by Eric Celeste | October 20th, 2009 2:27pm | filed under Local News | 10 Comments »

Glenn Hunter Digs Downtown Dallas

1717 On this beautiful afternoon, the D CEO crew ventured out to eat at Seventeen Seventeen at the Dallas Museum of Art. The cost was about three times greater than our meal at Harwood 609, but the quality was oh, let’s say seventeen times as good.

As Glenn is demonstrating in this photo, we’re loving life downtown.

One note to the management of Seventeen Seventeen: I don’t know who this “Stephen Pyles” is that you list as a consulting chef on your menu, but folks might get him confused with the guy down the street.

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posted by Jason Heid | October 20th, 2009 1:44pm | filed under Food, Local News, Media | 8 Comments »

Incompetence Reigns in Rick Perry’s Texas

As the unemployment rate hits a 22-year high, local food banks are sending out word to anyone who will listen (including me) that they are at the breaking point. Not only did the recently laid-off have a hard time getting benefits — thanks to Perry’s initial refusal of stimulus funding (he quietly reneged later) – now they are having a hard time even getting food. The Texas food-stamp program is in disarray.

Really, I’m telling you, he’s been there too long. At some point Texas needs a governor who is capable of more than looking good on TV.

posted by Wick Allison | October 20th, 2009 12:03pm | filed under Business, Food, Politics | 25 Comments »

Giant Pac-Man to Eat Downtown Dallas on Sunday

This Sunday, a flash mob art happening will produce the image you see here. That’s the plan, anyway. It’s a caper planned by the Professional Artist Coalition to show support for healthcare reform. Jump for more details.

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posted by Tim Rogers | October 20th, 2009 10:01am | filed under Arts, Politics | 32 Comments »

Leading Off (10/20/09)

1. Deshannon Lewis was arrested while running to a DART station after robbing a woman at a drive-thru Chase ATM. Now police think he might be the guy responsible for dozens of similar stick-ups. “If we could have funneled him to the Green Line, we might have caught him sooner,” a DPD spokesman may or may not have said.

2. Dallas County was expecting 10,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine. It received 700. “This one’s on me,” says Clem Jenkins, Dallas County’s longtime head of guesstimation.

3. Illegal alien costumes have been pulled from local stores. Prompting this actual, totally not made-up quote: “Sexy nun costumes, or dressing up as Jesus is okay, but an illegal alien isn’t?”

posted by Zac Crain | October 20th, 2009 8:24am | filed under Local News | 9 Comments »