Articles for April, 2010
60 Minutes to Look at Gas Drilling Here?
An insider says 60 Minutes producers have descended on North Texas and are “prowling around” for a possible story on natural-gas drilling. Anybody heard anything?
American Airlines Passengers Having Unplanned Stay in Iceland
So a flight from Paris to Dallas was diverted to Iceland today, after passengers complained of fumes. AA spokesman Tim Wagner (Tim, where are you? You never call, you never write) says a plane is on its way from London now, and the passengers should be in Dallas later tonight.
Since some of the passengers are undoubtedly well-read and therefore Frontburnervians, I thought I’d suggest some touristy things to try for their unexpected stay in Iceland.
You can tell me thank you later.
Sneak Peek of Jerry Jones on Entourage
Via @jeremypiven by way of @bobanddan
Oh, Boy! Another New Magazine for Dallas
Following the model of let’s-create-a-national-network-for-rich-people magazines Modern Luxury and Luxe, we now have 944, which “focuses on lifestyle news and features, as well as celebrity interviews and editorials.” As far as I can tell, it is either named for an area code or an IRS form.
Founder Marc Lotenberg says:
“As we work to highlight the brightest names and places in the city, the Dallas edition will afford the invaluable opportunity to explore new avenues, fresh partnerships and creative visions for our brand.”
New! Fresh! Creative! Hey, we need that here! Thanks, Marc!
Texas Auto Insurance Rates Not All That Bad
Hey, here’s something else Rick Perry can take credit for. Texas is not the most expensive state for auto insurance. Louisiana is. Maine is the cheapest. Texas is #24 — right in the middle of the pack – with an average cost of $1,462.65
Leading Off (4/13/10)
1. Runoff! Can you feel the excitement?
2. I can no longer think of a single scenario in which the city says, “You know what? We’re probably not going to be able to build that road.”
3. The Mavericks are streaking into the playoffs. No, not that way. Well, except J.J. Barea.
Dallas Morning News Wins Pulitzer
Those are champagne corks you here hear, not aftershocks from the implosion of Texas Stadium. Congrats to the three at the News who won a Pulitzer for, as the jury put it:
Awarded to Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson and William McKenzie of the Dallas Morning News for their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city’s better-off northern half and distressed southern half.
Dan Branch Presses for Western Civ Curriculum
Despite opposition from academics and administrators, the Dallas state rep and chair of the House Higher Education Committee will be holding hearings on April 20 to consider requiring Texas colleges and universities to offer a broad survey of Western civilization. The charge from Speaker Joe Strauss:
Study the feasibility of offering an optional curriculum that emphasizes ethics, Western civilization, and American traditions to satisfy portions of the Texas Core Curriculum.
University courses have become little more than a hodgepodge of professors’ particular scholarly interests. A true education is a broad education.
I love a good fight, and there’s no fight like an academic fight. Strauss and Branch have the intellect to match the academics head-to-head. When’s the last time you could say that about the Texas Legislature?
Voting Has Begun for the Best of Big D Readers’ Choice Poll: Nightlife
You know what to do. So do it.
Katie Fairbank Settles Truck Nutz Question with Aplomb
Fact: The Dallas Morning News has about 103 million blogs. I can’t keep up with all of them. So it took Wonkette to alert me to this bon mot from Katie Fairbank and the Problem Solver blog.
The Dallas Police Department, Fairbank writes, could probably write a citation based on laws against sexually explicit material and displays. Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther of the Dallas Police Department said she thought they were animal parts. ”The average person would not suspect it would be human genitalia,” Crowther told Fairbank.
So far, nobody’s been ticketed, and it doesn’t sound like they will be.
Leading Off (4/13/10) – YouTube Edition
1. Busy weekend in Oak Cliff – from the art crawl, to the Urban Street Bazaar on Bishop, to Sunday’s party in the parking lot of Kavala, I mean, Crave, bringing bands outside on Davis Street for the first time since that Tejano group rehearsed in that open garage across the street from Taqueria El Si Hay. And lest we forget, for a few fleeting hours, the idiocy that is one-way Tyler St. was transformed into Dallas’ first “complete street.”
2. Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm was in Austin last week to check out her main squeeze, Police Chief Art Acevedo. But Dallas is not the only city courting Acevedo.
3. Will you ever really get tired of watching this?
Erin Wasson Hangs Her Own Shelves
No, that’s not a euphemism. The Wall Street Journal brings us a behind-the-scenes look at a former D Magazine cover girl.
‘Emotion, Passion’ Mark Stadium Tribute
Standing in the lobby outside today’s “A Stadium Farewell” luncheon at the Dallas Marriott Las Colinas in Irving, Maura Allen Gast of Irving’s convention and visitors bureau was having mixed feelings about Sunday morning’s scheduled implosion of Texas Stadium.
On the one hand the implosion means great PR for the city, Gast said, with 300 media types expected and exposure on CNN, Inside Edition, Good Morning America. On the other, Sunday will mark the end of a place–and an era–that touched many: “We’ve been surprised at the depth of emotion and passion for the history that happened at that stadium–by the fans, the players, really all of us,” said Gast (pictured; photos by Jeanne Prejean).
That was also a theme heard throughout the luncheon, where long-retired Cowboys stars like Drew Pearson, Chad Hennings, Billy Joe Dupree, Cliff Harris, Rayfield Wright, Preston Pearson and Walt Garrison tried to explain to a crowd of 200 why Texas Stadium–and the Cowboys teams they played for–were so special.
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