Articles for December 8th, 2011

50 Reasons Why Fort Worth Is Better Than Dallas

FWMagI like those guys at Fort Worth, Texas magazine. They’ve got moxie. Here are their reasons why Cowtown is better than Big D. My favorite: “The name of our city magazine is Fort Worth, Texas. So what’s the deal, D? Was it just too hard to print your entire city name? Maybe you originally had another city in mind. Like Decatur. Or Denton. Or maybe you were having problems with spellcheck. In which case, you should be called Dumas.” Snap!

posted by Tim Rogers | December 8th, 2011 3:42pm | filed under Media | 15 Comments »

Dallas Is Awesome

Watch this new video produced for the Dallas Citizens Council, and tell me if it doesn’t make you want to strap it on and go put a hat on somebody. Wooo! One hundred and ten percent, baby! We are! Dallas! We are! Dallas! (In all seriousness, I hope 10 percent of the optimism displayed in this video is justified. If so, we’ll do just fine.)

Dallas Citizens Council – 2011 Video Advantage: Dallas from The Wolf Group on Vimeo.

posted by Tim Rogers | December 8th, 2011 2:50pm | filed under Local News | 9 Comments »

Relive the 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas 2011 Celebration with These Photos

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The 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas 2011 (photography by Matthew Shelley)

You might have missed the 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas 2011 party at The Gallery at The Joule last night (or perhaps you were, ahem, not invited), but it’s okay. You can live vicariously through these photos and pretend you were there, mingling with some of the loveliest ladies in town.

If photos don’t deliver an intense enough experience, check out Ron Corning’s recap of the event that aired on WFAA this morning:

posted by Raya Ramsey | December 8th, 2011 2:34pm | filed under 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas | 1 Comment »

Things To Do In Dallas Tonight: Dec. 8

I was a pretty horrendous artist as a kid. The only thing recognizable from my oeuvre were trees and the occasional flower, which is possibly why I find the Monster Engine so fascinating. It’s old, but I just stumbled across it last night. A comic book artist realizes the fantastic work of kids. Clicking through the monsters was such a nice way to start the day.

The NasherSALON with Olive on Pushing Daisies Glinda the Good Witch Kristin Chenoweth is very, very sold out. Sad. No matter. You can listen to “Taylor, The Latte Boy” on your way to the Texas Theatre to see a 35 mm print of Run Lola Run in advance of director Tom Tykwer’s latest feature, 3, released tomorrow. This movie is just awesome. Three scenarios; three ways life could be different if you were faster or slower or somehow changed. Highly recommended, but if you can’t make it tonight, they’ll show Lola all weekend.

Also kicking off tonight is the Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s Winter Series performance, the company’s 35th season opener. It’s very battle of the sexes, with a program that includes Camouflage, an all-male ballet choreographed by Ben Stevenson, artistic director of the Texas Ballet Theater, the DBDT premiere of Vespers, an intense all-female piece choreographed by Ulysses Dove, and Elisa Monte’s Pigs and Fishes. Might I suggest finishing your evening with a season cocktail? Raya rounds up the best over on SideDish. Drinking has never looked so pretty.

For more to do this evening, go here.

posted by Liz Johnstone | December 8th, 2011 11:27am | filed under Things to Do in Dallas | (0) Comments »

Texas Drought Has Led to Record Decline in Cattle

Texas cattle owners lost somewhere around 600,000 animals this year, says this report at Unfair Park. That’s 12 percent of the overall herd, the worst loss since the 1930s. The bad news: the price of beef is going way up, meaning the price of burgers and steaks will also increase significantly. (I guess that’s only bad if you eat meat, which most of us do, and do not stand to profit from such a price increase, which most of us don’t.) The good news: Texas is still America’s leader in beef production.

posted by Michael J. Mooney | December 8th, 2011 11:01am | filed under Business, Local News | (0) Comments »

Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson Both Go to Angels

Albert Pujols will be torturing Rangers fans regularly for 10 years to come, it appears. I’m not going to mention what happened between the Cardinals and the Rangers at the end of last season. It’s still too painful. But that thing Pujols, probably the best baseball player alive, helped the Cardinals do, well it looks like he will be helping the Anaheim Angels do that for the length of his 10-year, $250 million contract (which also has a no-trade clause).

Also, it looks like the Angels signed C.J. Wilson. So that whole having-the-Winter-Meetings-in-Dallas-might-give-the-Rangers-a-hometown-advantage thing, that’s not happening.

posted by Michael J. Mooney | December 8th, 2011 10:42am | filed under Business, Sports | 5 Comments »

How PricewaterhouseCoopers Can Help the Arts District


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Every morning when I walk down Flora Street, headed from my parking garage in the Arts District to our building, I pass the site you see above. It’s part of the Trammell Crow Center, right across a breezeway from the Crow Collection of Asian Art. The prime street-level space is leased by PricewaterhouseCoopers. They use it as a classroom. Most mornings, I see eager young accountants lined up at tables with laptops open in front of them. At the front of the room, someone is walking them through a PowerPoint presentation or scribbling on a white board. Same thing at lunch if I head back over to Flora to grab something from one of the food trucks. There they are, in their classroom, learning about EBITDA or whatever.
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posted by Tim Rogers | December 8th, 2011 10:09am | filed under Business | 7 Comments »

Leading Off (12/8/11)

C.J. Wilson to Make Decision Thursday. Or so reports say. But after all that June Jones craziness yesterday, who knows when it comes to reports anymore? Anyway, whenever Wilson decides where he’s going to go, it’s looking like the erstwhile Rangers pitcher will take his two iPads, entertaining Ben & Skin Show theme song, brah-dude cadence, extensive collection of Oakleys, and Mountain Dew ad lifestyle somewhere else. My son, a budding awful and generic sports talk host, will be thrilled.

Organized Retail Criminals Are On the Prowl at Grocery Stores. According to Police Chief David Brown, these rings of thieves are as sophisticated as drug cartels and they go after smaller high-end products like razor blades and baby formula (they scoop it from cans into sacks). “So the organized retail criminals can come in, steal that product from us, then have an ease of reselling it either at flea markets or electronic mechanisms,” said Kroger’s Gary Huddleston, who was clearly not prepared to make a statement (”electronic mechanisms”??) and also has the exact name you’d expect from someone representing Kroger. “Kroger’s Gary Huddleston” — it just feels … right, no?

Essentially Everything You See Could Be A Hidden Camera. Says this story. Can of air freshener? Camera, just like the the one they found in the changing area at a Plano recreation center. Cup of coffee? Cup of camera. Your co-worker’s sack lunch? Camera. That desk over there? Camera. My iPhone? Ca-muh-ra. The Wilco song that just came up on Pandora? “Kamera.” That cute girl in HR you’re working up the courage to talk to? Camera. ROBOT CAMERA. Keep your head on a swivel, gang. It’s like a Rockwell song out there.

“Man Accused of DWI in Forklift Chase Found Incompetent to Stand Trial.” “I can’t believe that,” said no one ever. Also, that forklift? CAMERA.

posted by Zac Crain | December 8th, 2011 6:58am | filed under Local News | 3 Comments »