Articles for October, 2010
Mark Cuban Offers to Pay for SEC Lawyers
You gotta love Mark Cuban. Don’t you? An energetic FrontBurnervian points us to this story, which came out right before the weekend. That Mama.com insider trading case is still dragging on, so Cuban offered to pay for additional SEC lawyers to review the documents in the case. Bloomberg reports that the SEC says “the Cuban file is so voluminous that an attorney assigned to review it would have to spend more than eight months, assuming a pace of four pages a minute and eight-hour days without breaks.” You have to figure Cuban made the offer knowing that the SEC would refuse it, making them look weak and silly. Right?
Things to Do in Dallas Tonight: Oct. 25
Hello, FrontBurner readers. I trust the taste of Friday’s victory is still sweet on your lips? Good. Now, jump with me, and learn how to make today excellent, too.
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Leading Off (10/25/10)
1. The Houston Viaduct celebrates its hundredth birthday, and remarkably, despite some needed repairs that were identified recently, the bridge has no significant structural flaws.
“It’s the best bridge built in Dallas,” [Willis Winters, an architecture historian] said, adding that honor, to his thinking, will go to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, scheduled to open next year.
2. In the Dallas Morning News, transportation reporter Michael Lindenberger compares and contrasts Rick Perry and Bill White’s stands on transportation, which mainly diverge over issues of taxes, local control, the use of private toll companies. Towards the middle of the piece, the real issue rears its head: road construction debt “has grown so high that even TxDOT warns that by 2012 it will run out of money for new projects and have to reduce maintenance – thanks in part to rising debt payments, though officials there say the real culprit is the lack of new funding.”
3. My hat goes off to Navarro County Emergency Management Coordinator, Eric Meyers, who had the guts to keep his iPhone running while this twister bore down on his car yesterday.
4. And a little more video, because no one will tire of watching this or this anytime soon.
Cliff Lee To Get Arkansas Honor in February
University of Arkansas alum and current Texas Ranger Cliff Lee will be among those inducted in the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in February, the University of Arkansas announced Sunday.
I just hope he’s still a Texas Ranger then.
‘They paid him $252 million once to put the Rangers in the World Series. Now he had’
Up early relishing the reactions in the New York papers. So far, ol’ Mike Lupica’s dour, softly chiding piece in which he describes the series as a “six game sweep” is my favorite. Here’s the goose bump graph:
By the time the kid came in to get the last three outs for the Rangers on the night when they won the pennant, the home crowd had been standing for an hour, since the Rangers had made it 5-1 and the Yankees had given up. Robinson Cano grounded to first, Feliz covering. One out away. A-Rod. Of course. Of course it had to be him. Took a called third strike. They paid him $252 million once to put the Rangers in the World Series. Now he had.
Hi. Did You Hear About the Rangers? They’re Kind of Awesome.
Just stop for a minute, and take this in: A team who was mired in bankruptcy, with a payroll of $55 million, just beat a team that basically expects to go to the World Series every year because it’s what they do. And now the Rangers will go to the World Series. The Rangers, not the Yankees. Some fans have waited patiently since the team came here for this. Some just noticed that there’s a baseball club in Arlington, and the debit card charge at Wal-Mart for their Rangers shirt hasn’t even cleared the bank yet.
But I think Ron Washington has summed up the feeling best. Here, and here. Wash’s heart and gut beat (as someone aptly pointed out to me as we all watched the game) Joe Girardi’s binder. It sounds like a story book ending, because it is. These are your Texas Rangers, y’all, and they’re going to the World Series.
‘Yankees [Are Not Good]! Yankees [Are Not Good]!
Between Cruz’s homer and Kinsler’s double, an immature chant broke out.
Travel and Adventure Show at Dallas Convention Center: The D Magazine Intern Preview
Two of our talented D Magazine interns, Taylor Walker and Meredith Stein, visited the Travel and Adventure Show at the Dallas Convention Center this morning. Below is their report (and a lovely little video presentation due to some technical difficulties, this won’t happen) to show the fun they had (and the fun that you could have there this weekend).
Alright, we get it. The Rangers own your Friday night. But assuming there’s no game 7 (which is the option we’re supporting), we’ve got an adventurous alternative to couch surfing to fill the remainder of your weekend.
Dallasites can head over to the Dallas Convention Center for the Travel & Adventure Show. In addition to speeches and travel tips from the likes of Arthur and Pauline Frommer (Frommer’s Travel Guides), guests can enjoy the sights and sounds of more than 30 cultural performances, which range from Bollywood to belly dancing, as they weave their way through a maze of more than 100 exhibitors, each representing a different travel destination. From Egypt to Alaska, these destination booths will be ready (and able) to offer you exclusive “show only” discounts on the vacations of a lifetime.
But the show isn’t all work and no play. Guests can also partake in rock climbing, ziplining, scuba diving, and our personal favorite, camel rides. And don’t worry about safety, we went ahead and tested them out for you! (Here’s where we’d show you their fantastic video. Perhaps the technical gods will take pity on us and let us show you the video Monday. Until then, happy weekend!)
Real Estate Maven Candy Evans Says Goodbye to the D Empire
Our own Mary Candace Evans, who has more enthusiasm for talking about the real estate game than anyone I’ve ever met, is departing her posts with DallasDirt and D Home.
Candy bids us farewell here.
DSO Prexy Eyes Raising $150M Over Five Years
Paul Stewart, who succeeded Doug Adams as president of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, wants the DSO to solve its multimillion-dollar budget-deficit problem by raising $150 million over five years. That would represent a huge increase in fundraising compared to the recent past, when scaring up $6 million-$8 million annually was a challenge for the symphony. It would also “resolve the orchestra’s funding issues for a generation,” Stewart says.
Is it a realistic target, though, given the sputtering economy? Stewart thinks it is, based on the early thinking of a big national fundraising consultant called CCS, which he says has been working with the symphony for about six months. Ideally the dough would bolster the DSO’s so-called Great Orchestra project plus add funds to the symphony’s endowment, Stewart says. The endowment stood at about $96 million recently, down from $120 million a few years ago.
Another Thing To Do This Weekend: Art Conspiracy 6 on Saturday
If you missed it on FrontRow, well, now you have no excuse. Get on it.
Yankees Coaches Ate at Del Frisco’s Last Night
A PR-being FrontBurnervian sends along word that Yankees first base coach Mike Kelleher, third base coach Rob Thomson, pitching coach Dave Eiland and batting coach Kevin Long ate steaks and lobster macaroni and cheese at Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House of Dallas.
Word is that they didn’t choke. May the reverse be true tonight.
Krys Boyd Totally Blues the Air of D Magazine HQ
Every so often we invite someone we’re curious about to come talk to us during the lunch hour in our capacious main conference room. Today, we played host to the lovely and talented Krys Boyd, she of KERA fame. Not long before she told us which local media person she’s not real fond of, she stipulated that everything she said had to be off the record. So I’m not going to tell you who that local media person is. But I will tell you the following: Krys told us that sometimes when she’s nervous and not on the air, when she’s trying to impress someone she thinks is cooler than she is, she’ll use salty language. Then she demonstrated how she uses this crutch, uttering a hypothetical cool-sounding sentence. WOW. You know what? That [redacted] woman can curse. So hot.
Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend: Oct. 22-24
Hallelujah, readers. Friday is here, the weather is tolerable, and the Rangers are one game shy of playoff victory. Life is good. My only wish is that we had more hours in the day, because this weekend is packed full of great things to do in Dallas.
Today
Raya, keeper of our Dallas shopping blog, points out that designer Derek Lam will be at Forty Five Ten today to meet fans and show off his spring 2011 line. And when Raya mentions an event, we should listen. That woman knows what she’s talking about.
For the guys out there: The Woodworking D.I.Y. Show gets under way at noon today. So gentlemen, I suggest you ask for a half day off, take some power tools for a test drive, belch once or twice (mood depending) and then go watch the Texas Rangers win.
If you simply can’t get excited about baseball and would sooner eat a roach than sit through a whole game (heretics), Dallas still has plenty to offer this evening: a cowboy gathering, Don Giovanni at the Winspear Opera House, and Mendelssohn at the Meyerson (with a little Shostakovich for dessert). For the rest of your weekend, click “more” and thank me later.
I Was Robbed By An Extremely Lazy Burglar, Ctd.
Yesterday, I essentially taunted a burglar to come back and take the stuff he missed the first time. Smart? Not really. Never been my strong suit.
ANYWAY, a couple of updates. First, when I got home yesterday, a police officer stopped by, just to check up. Nice, unexpected move. He mentioned that someone else down the street had been the victim of a similar burglary. Reports of maybe someone in a white car. I may or may not have implicated my recently RIF’d lawn guy.
Also — after a follow-up discussion via e-mail, where I mentioned some details I didn’t want to throw online — one of our sweet, sweet commenters left a copy of How To Train Your Dragon, one of my son’s DVDs that was taken, on my porch. Pretty much the nicest thing ever. Thank you thank you. I’ll forget how much I enjoy our regular commenters soon enough when we get into a pointless discussion about “Obamacare.”
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