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05/09/2008
Newsman Bob Schieffer won't charge for UTA speech
Veteran CBS newsman Bob Schieffer has left the University of Texas at Arlington administration thunderstruck. Tonight, the broadcaster will give the keynote address at the graduation celebration in Maverick Stadium.
05/08/2008
Picasso's 'The Kiss' brings record price at Nasher
Two Picasso works and two Giacometti sculptures were sold to benefit the endowment of the Nasher Sculpture Center.
05/07/2008
Auction of Nasher art pieces to benefit sculpture center
Nearly 200 artworks collected by Patsy and Ray Nasher have taken over the entire sixth floor and part of the 10th floor at the Sotheby's headquarters in New York. They have been on display since Saturday. The works are considered not related to the core mission of the Nasher Sculpture Center and are being sold to build the Dallas museum's endowment.
05/05/2008
Roger Waters helps christen the Mansion's patio
One of the main goals of the $25 million remodel of the hotel and dining room at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek was to refocus much of the restaurant toward the window-filled Veranda and the Mansion's outdoor patio with its manicured lawn sloping toward the creek.
05/04/2008
Joke's on rocker Roger Waters - and so's the fine wine
Bassist Roger Waters , the mastermind behind Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album, was taken aback by the crush of people at the bar when he entered Al Biernat 's steakhouse Thursday night.
05/02/2008
Tom Hicks event pulls in bucks for charity
Owning the most valuable home in Dallas has advantages for Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks . Few people decline an invitation to dine at the estate valued on the tax rolls at $34,927,520.
04/30/2008
Tony Romo, Jessica Simpson high rollers in Vegas suite
It wasn't just football players in Las Vegas at the retirement party for former Dallas Cowboy Marco Rivera . Jessica Simpson made the scene, too, to be with her man Tony Romo . (Because of his back problems, the Cowboys released Marco last summer. The former Green Bay Packer is responsible for introducing Tony to Brett Favre three years ago at a golf tournament in Tunica, Miss.)
04/28/2008
Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin reunited at Del Frisco's
The Dallas Cowboys' 1990s "Triplets" were reunited last Thursday over steaks and poker at Del Frisco's steakhouse in North Dallas. The occasion was an event called "Prime Steaks and High Stakes," donated as an auction item at last year's Cattle Baron's Ball by Del Frisco's boss Dee Lincoln .
04/27/2008
Alan Peppard: David Lee Roth finds the bus just as suite
Best job in Dallas last week? David Lee Roth 's housekeeper. The lead singer of Van Halen was checked into one of the most expensive suites at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek. But Diamond Dave slept on his tour bus parked outside.
04/25/2008
Tony Romo to speak at prostate cancer benefit
With his birthday romp with Jessica Simpson over, Tony Romo will turn serious next week when he joins his father, Ramiro Romo, for the Baylor Health Care System Foundation's EveryMan Dinner benefiting prostate cancer research.
04/23/2008
Jessica Simpson still following Tony Romo around
Jessica Simpson was pretty hard to miss Saturday night at Tony Romo's 28th birthday party at the Travis Avenue nightclub Suite. The photos of them sharing blue birthday cake and saliva have traveled around the world on the Internet.
04/21/2008
Dallas caterer Tomas de la Mata to retire in July
Perhaps the most dependable face on the Dallas gala scene is retiring. Since 1970, Tomas de la Mata has been welcoming guests to the Fairmont Hotel. He's been catering director since 1983.
04/18/2008
Alan Peppard: Winston Churchill, grandson of the prime minister, visits Dallas
When restaurateurs Robert Colombo and Billy Solomon built The Club in the Centrum, they wanted a place that was – well – clubby. A place where Winston Churchill would feel at home.
04/16/2008
Latest news on first daughter Jenna Bush's upcoming wedding
In less than a month, first daughter Jenna Bush walks down the aisle – or whatever passes for an aisle at the president's 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford. The wedding is expected to be a small, private affair, but not so small that the president's contemporary, honey-colored limestone house with its many windows can accommodate all the guests. A tent will be erected for the May 10 nuptials.
04/14/2008
Peppard: Tim Rice drops by
Lyricist and librettist Sir Timothy Rice made a point of stopping in Dallas last week to visit a longtime friend while on his way to El Paso.
04/13/2008
Alan Peppard: Six degrees of Amy's kidney
Dallas photographer Amy Alford , daughter of billionaires Harold and Annette Simmons , may have lost a kidney this year, but she's gained a new friend at the White House.
04/11/2008
VIPs toast new nonalcoholic drink at Ghostbar
It was an oxymoronic scene at Ghostbar on Wednesday night: a packed house of VIPs who'd braved the rain and the velvet rope at a chic nightclub to celebrate the launch of a nonalcoholic drink.
04/09/2008
Texas journalists advise on Bush film script
Texas Monthly's Dallas-based executive editor Skip Hollandsworth and former Texas Monthly reporter Robert Draper were among the George W. Bush experts the The Hollywood Reporter consulted about an advance script of Oliver Stone's upcoming biopic, W.
04/07/2008
AFI Dallas leaders talk movies with Robert De Niro
Watching people line up for Friday's sold-out screening of What Just Happened? at the Inwood Theater begged the question: Doesn't anybody have a job?
04/06/2008
Crystal Charity Ball committee names best-dressed
Last week, the annual sartorial announcement was made during a luncheon at the downtown Neiman Marcus.
04/04/2008
Richard Fisher's son parodies Cruise, goes viral 
Inside his banking tower, Dallas Federal Reserve president Richard Fisher is just as likely to be watching outtakes of the new Superhero Movie on Defamer.com as he is to be watching the markets.
04/02/2008
Dallas' Ron Chapman fills in for Paul Harvey on radio
There's nothing quite so comforting as switching your radio to AM and hearing that familiar voice on Paul Harvey 's News and Comment . But for the last couple of weeks, that familiar voice hasn't belonged to the 89-year-old Mr. Harvey, but to Dallas radio legend Ron Chapman, who is subbing for him from an ABC satellite studio in North Dallas.
03/31/2008
Bill Paxton's big love at NorthPark
Fans of HBO's polygamy hit Big Love couldn't help but notice the seating of the show's star, Bill Paxton , at Saturday night's Fashion at the Park gala at NorthPark. The AFI Dallas International Film Festival was the beneficiary of the fashion fete, and a group of the film-fest biggies showed up for the runway fashion show and dinner in the big climate-controlled tent.
03/30/2008
Alan Peppard: Wives rule at AFI Dallas gala
Even with a heartthrob actor such as Josh Brolin in the house, AFI Dallas International Film Festival founder Liener Temerlin was the guy who made every woman swoon at Thursday's AFI opening night gala at the Majestic Theater.
03/28/2008
Clinton figure Gennifer Flowers will pop up in Dallas
What has this election cycle been missing? Exactly. Gennifer Flowers.
03/26/2008
Tony Romo, Jessica Simpson dazzle Easter brunchers
It was that Thanksgiving meal with her family that confirmed that singer Jessica Simpson and quarterback Tony Romo were serious about each other.
03/19/2008
Pilates studio opening attracts Stars' Turco
When fitness doyenne Kerri Nelson unlocked the doors of her new University Park pilates studio recently, there was a familiar face from her days hanging with the Dallas Stars hockey team.
03/17/2008
Liener Temerlin zooms off on a Segway
Segway inventor Dean Kamen needs to send a fleet of his gyroscopically stabilized transporters to Dallas advertising executive Liener Temerlin and make him the company's new spokesman.
03/16/2008
Alan Peppard: Art lovers finding their way to Museum Tower
The 42-story Museum Tower is being built in the heart of the Arts District, and it will have some residents with street cred in the Dallas arts scene.
03/14/2008
Ed Oakley's name on tip of Tom Leppert's tongue
When Mayor Tom Leppert spoke Wednesday at the venerable Oak Cliff Lion's Club, he was asked to pull out the winning name for the traditional prize drawing.
03/12/2008
Kay Bailey Hutchison is quip on the draw
At Saturday night's Gridiron Club dinner and yuckfest in Washington, D.C. — the last for George W. Bush as president — fellow Texan Kay Bailey Hutchison gave the evening's Republican address and explained to the prez what things are like back in their home state.
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