Articles for February 8th, 2011
Richard Fisher Opposes More QE from the Fed
With a nod to John Stemmons (he was speaking at the Stemmons Corridor Business Assocation), the Dallas Fed president says more easing will lead to Carter-era inflation. He also produced this chart to show how various regions of the country are doing, which we showed our D CEO readers back in December.
Star-Telegram Sheds 22 Staffers
Here’s the memo to staff from the president and publisher of the paper:
To: All Employees
From: Gary Wortel
Date: February 8, 2011Over the past six months we have seen encouraging financial improvements in several areas, including retail, employment, local automotive, online and targeted publications. We continue to outperform local competitors in total audience and our broad range of advertising solutions is producing results for customers.
Jim Schutze Doesn’t Know Squat About DART
The Phoenix-based Dallas Observer continues to operate as a parody of itself. Yesterday its franchise columnist, Jim Schutze, put up a snotty post saying that DART is incompetent. When the outfit couldn’t keep its trains running in the foul weather last week, Schutze said, it demonstrated its incompetence. His words:
Check me on this. Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the outfit that runs the trains, didn’t know how to keep their trains running in an ice storm. The same kind of trains operate in winter weather cities all over the world. There’s a way to keep them running in an ice storm. But DART didn’t know how.
I did as Schutze requested and checked him on this. (more…)
Things to Do in Dallas Tonight: Feb. 8
This morning I spent way too much time stuck behind a backhoe on the Woodall Rodgers access road, contemplating the radioactive yellow of the construction guy’s vest and the meaning of my existence. Kidding. But I actually was thinking about how I wasn’t nearly as irritated by this as I would have been a couple months ago (transportation delays make New Yorkers very, very angry). I can only conclude that Dallas is good for me.
However, a city is still a city. And if you’ve ever had the urge to throw your smartphone out the window and make for greener pastures, you’re not alone. Fragile Connection, a photography exhibit that opens today in UTD’s University Theatre Gallery, explores the love-hate relationship many of us have with our environment. There’s a reception this afternoon from 1:30-3:30 pm, and admission is free.
Speaking of free (and continuing what seems to be today’s urban theme), local architect Gary Cunningham hosts a panel discussion about sustainable design at the Dallas Center for Architecture. Apparently, buildings that look pretty do not necessarily have to destroy the planet. I’ll pass that along to my friend on the backhoe, if I ever see him again.
As always, you can find more things to do tonight right here.
Leather & Laces Super Bowl XLV Party Hosted by Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt
Holly Madison at Leather & Laces
America’s most famous girls next door hosted the Leather & Laces soiree Saturday night at Hotel ZaZa. Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt were all smiles at the swanky bash, saying hello and posing for pictures with a handful of adoring fans. Bridget arrived first, guarded by towering security guards. She didn’t stop smiling, and she is so much tinier than you’d expect. I’m pretty sure you could fit a bracelet around her thigh. She donned a Playboy-esque jumpsuit, low-cut enough to reveal a pink crystal-studded bra, paired with knee high socks and stilettos.
Holly channeled Marilyn Monroe in a classic black cocktail dress and blonde curls. I was about six inches away from her at one point, and it’s sickening how perfect she looked. (Sorry, girls. She’s definitely not one of those celebs who makes you feel better because she doesn’t look good in person.) You couldn’t convince me that her skin isn’t made of porcelain. (more…)
Super Bowl XLV Party Roundup: How the Celebrities, and “The Situation,” Do Dallas
John Paul DeJoria of Paul Mitchell took to the bumper cars at the Maxim party.
Super Bowl XLV wasn’t just about a football game. Hordes of celebrities made their way to Dallas to take part in the glitz and glamour of the parties leading up to the championship contest. In case you missed any of D Magazine’s coverage of these famous faces, here’s your recap.
Click through any of the links for a treasure trove of photos.
Sally Jenkins Didn’t Have Fun at the Super Bowl
An alert FrontBurnervian points to one last outsider’s perspective on the Super Bowl. Only this one’s not really an outsider. She’s from Fort Worth. Sally Jenkins, Uncle Nancy’s buddy and daughter of local legend Dan Jenkins, writes in the Washington Post today that the Super Bowl deeply disturbed her, from the $19 margaritas to the $450,000 spent by the Navy to conduct a flyover on a domed stadium. Further, she says:
[T]his Super Bowl taught me a lesson: Luxury can actually be debasing. The last great building binge in the NFL was from 1995 through 2003, when 21 stadiums were built or refurbished in order to create more luxury boxes, at cost of $6.4 billion. Know how much of that the public paid for? $4.4 billion. Why are we giving 32 rich guys that kind of money, just to prey on us at the box office and concessions? The Dallas deal should be the last of its kind.
(Side note: that Jenkins story ran 1,100 words. It was written in fully formed paragraphs, some of them comprising four and five sentences. By contrast, Kevin Sherrington’s column today runs 690 words, and nearly every paragraph is a single sentence. If the DMN is going to ask people to pay for its content online, it might consider hiring writers and letting them write. Put another way: they should stop treating their readers like children.)
Saints Coach Rumored To Be Looking at Westlake Pad
Westlake, which was recently named by Forbes as the most affluent neighborhood in the country, is already home to lots of famous and rich people, including Josh Hamilton, Chuck Greenberg, Mark Teixeira, potential Warren Buffett successor Matthew Rose and at least half a dozen (give or take) assorted Jonai.
Now comes speculation that New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton is also purchasing a second home there. This, of course, has fed speculation on that speculation that Payton is purposely moving himself into the orbit of Jerry Jones and a coaching position with the Cowboys, which seems a little premature given newly appointed head cheese Jason Garrett has barely moved his wheely chair into his office. More likely? He just wanted a home that was still a quick and easy plane ride to NOLA.
Leading Off (2/8/11)
The Nation Hates Arlington. The Morning News brings us a roundup of reaction from writers across the nation who were in town for the Super Bowl. Thank goodness everyone realizes the game was in Arlington. That’s where Cowboys Stadium was built. So they won’t have any negative feelings toward Dallas.
Michael Vick’s Key to City of Dallas Is a Gift to Columnists. Jacquielynn Floyd knows a good topic when she sees it. Seriously, Dwaine Caraway is the councilman who just keeps on giving.
Michael Young Is Not a Happy Camper. First we were told that the Rangers third-basemen-turned-DH wanted to be traded. Young says not so much. As in: “The suggestion that I’ve simply had a change of heart and asked for a trade is a manipulation of the truth. I want to be traded because I’ve been misled and manipulated, and I’m sick of it.” He’s not offering any specifics, though. (Side note: the new DMN site, oddly, doesn’t have bylines with some of its stories. No idea whom to credit for that scoop.)
DART Explains Its Failings. The president of the agency will today explain why it had such a hard time with the snow and ice last week. Perfect timing. Because we’re getting ready to do it all over again tomorrow.
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