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Thanks to Dave Letterman: Dallas in Arlington!

Your First-Place Texas Rangers take on the one-game-back Oakland Athletics tonight at the Ballpark in Arlington -- first pitch in, oh, 15 minutes. After the game, you can switch it on over to CBS for the Late Show with David Letterman, where perfect-gamer Dallas Braden's throwing out the Top 10 list ... More >>

Broadway, The Wright Way

Opening Day Ballpark Brouhaha

Alexander Flores​Nothing spells out Americana more than baseball, unless you are adding outdoor grilling, hotdogs and cold beer to the mix. Combine all these together with the opening day of baseball and you might very well have the makings of an arrestable offense.This is what made the late morni ... More >>

Dallas Cowboys' Pre-Season Schedule is All Over the Map

​Five games. Three time zones. Two training camps. Your Dallas Cowboys are certainly expanding their brand as America's Team. But is such nomadic pre-season good for them? The Cowboys will travel almost 5,000 miles this summer, compared to only 852 for the New York Giants. I think jet lag is ... More >>

Sometimes Off the Beaten Path Should Stay Off the Beaten Path

​This past weekend's Pacquiao-Clottey fight marked my first visit to Cowboys Stadium. Being the ever-so-dedicated blogger that I am, I took this opportunity of being in Arlington to try out a restaurant about which I'd been hearing good things. Whenever I am in Arlington, I usually visit my old st ... More >>

Easiest Slam Dunk in the History of Stadium Awards. Right?

You've come a long way, baby.​In its first year of existence, Cowboys Stadium in Arlington set records for largest attendance at an NFL regular season game and an NBA All-Star Game. Shoot, the pristine building even attracted 40,000 for bull riding. It's a no-brainer that on May 20 Spo ... More >>

Basketball in Cowboys Stadium Was a Huge Success, But Would You Go There For a Mavs Game?

​Still blown away by the surreal scene at Sunday's NBA All-Star Game. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says the NBA will come back some day and Mavs owner Mark Cuban says he's pondering holding a game - even a playoff game - out in Arlington. Hmm.

So, Tell Me Again, In Which Stadium Are They Playing Next Year's Super Bowl? Oh, Right.

​I just returned from an out-of-the-office interview to find in the in-box the logo for next year's Super Bowl in Arlington. I asked Super Bowl XLV communications director Tony Fay who designed this. He responded: the National Football League. Coulda sworn Jerry did it.

Cowboys-Eagles III Not Exactly a Hot Ticket

​Temperatures Saturday night in Arlington could dip into the teens. If local ticket brokers are any indication, the mood inside Cowboys Stadium might be a tad chilly as well. With tickets and party passes still available through the Cowboys and TicketMaster and almost 10,000 seats floating ar ... More >>

Tastes Like a Good Cause

Arlington PD Says It Doesn't Want to Be in the Business of Enforcing Immigration Laws

CopShop.com​While Irving makes the occasional headline with its use of the Criminal Alien Program -- which involves turning over to federal immigration officials people detained for any reason, even traffic violations --  top cops in Arlington have taken a stand against that approach. Instead ... More >>

Gig Alert: Arlington Info Shop Grand Opening Saturday

​The Arlington Info Shop's Grand Opening tomorrow proves that Dallas isn't the only North Texas city with music-loving bicycle activists. The community venue's opening fete includes performances from an eclectic array of experimental acts--all donating their time--all day Saturday from 2 p.m. to 1 ... More >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets To The Texas Guitar Show In Arlington This Weekend

As if a convention center full of instruments and gear weren't exciting enough, this weekend's Texas Guitar Show at the Arlington Convention Center also includes a chance to be part of a world record: At 2 p.m. sharp on Saturday, attendees and exhibitors alike will put their Buckethead-vs.-Zakk-Wyld ... More >>

Breakfast of Champions: Wednesday Morning Hot Wing Challenge

All photos by Danny FulgencioRudy "the Civilian" Almaguer, who trained for the event with a visit to Plucker's last weekend.​ When we got word that WFAA's Good Morning Texas was looking for suckers contestants to enter a televised wing eating contest, it sounded like the right time to reshuffle th ... More >>

Wax On...

The Continuing Saga of Jerry Jones' Well-Hung TVs

​I headed out to Arlington this morning for a detailed tour of Cowboys Stadium, the guts of which I'll pour into a Dallas Observer cover story on Sept. 10. While I'm there, obviously, I'll get some answers and insights into the video boards. I heard owner Jerry Jones on 105.3 The Fan yesterda ... More >>

The First Time Paul McCartney Played Dallas

Pete's got the details concerning Paul McCartney's just-announced August 19 performance at Jerry Jones's EnormoDome in Arlington, I think it is? But, really, if you know anything about me, you had to know this was coming: the Beatles' interview with WFAA's Bert Shipp during the band's September '64 ... More >>

Arlington's Obsessed With Sports, Apparently

So says Men's Health in its July-August issue, in which the magazine ranks the top 100 major U.S. cities' "sports-obsessed citizenry" and puts Arlington at the very top o' the list with an "A " ranking. Says here that myriad factors went into the ranking -- everything from the number of folks who at ... More >>

Cold Hard Cash

Revolving Doors: March Not That Mad, Really

Yeah, expensive places like Sullivan's continue to cut prices or delve into the prix fixe menu idea, but there have been more comings than goings lately. So we wrap up March with a brief survey of what turned out to be a mild, mild month:EnteredLazare--in the Uptown space vacated by that failed Lomb ... More >>

Dwarfed by the Cowboys' New Stadium, the Rangers Spiffy Up Their Park

Peter King: AT&T's No Longer Interested in New Cowboys Stadium Naming Rights

A bestest Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to Peter King's Monday Morning QB column filed from the annual NFL meetings in Dana Point, California. A the bottom we discover that the Sports Business Journal may have had it wrong earlier this month -- as in, AT&T isn't buying the naming r ... More >>

A Shooting Zooey

See the stars of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Giddy Up, Scofflaws!

The press release showed up a tad late in the in-box for us to make a 10 a.m. press conference in Arlington. Nonetheless, this heads-up. Local law-enforcement agencies are announcing the kick-off to the Third Annual Great Texas Warrant Roundup, which is "designed to target thousands of defendants wi ... More >>

What's In My Closet? Steroid-Free Baseball Edition

Found these two old pics over the holidays. In the one above I'm 7 at some rinky dink field in Duncanville; after the jump I'm 37 at a home-run contest at The Ballpark in Arlington. In each I'm a Rangers' fan, consumed not with steroids and HGH but rather batting glove night, Minyard bat nigh ... More >>

Real American Heroes

Jonestown Coliseum Taking Prisoners, er, Applications

     The Dallas Cowboys have already sold 85 percent of the tickets to their new stadium in Arlington.   Go ahead, act surprised. But, deep down, did you really think Jerry Jones would have trouble selling out his new Jonestown Coliseum?   I didn't.   I ... More >>

From the Any—And I Mean Any—Excuse To Party Department

NBA All-Star Game Coming to Dallas! And of course by “Dallas” I Mean “Arlington”!

Levitt Pavilion Concert Series Kicks Off Tonight With Brave Combo

At JerryWorld, the Closest Most Of Us Will Get to Reality is "Perception"

Trampled Underfoot in Arlington

Man Factory Talks Street Fighter, Picks Fight With Steve Jobs

B-Flo In A-Town

Escape summer with a little live theater

Quebe Sisters Charm Our Socks Off, Invite Everyone To Come See Them Play

Volleyball in a Parking Lot or Bowling in a Bar? Pick 'Em.

Working for a Living

9 to 5'ers take the stage

Jerry, Your New Stadium's Just Super

Did Arlington Roll a Strike or Just Strike Out? Not Sure Yet.

Over The Weekend: F6 Gallery Party, Melodica, Frightmare

Last Night: F6 Gallery's Anniversary Party

Serpents For The Takin'

Frankly, My Dear

See the story behind the Wind

Dallas-Fort Worth Becoming Splitsville?

Attention Ripley, There’s A Meaningful Basketball Game Tonight at Texas Hall

Open Mind, Keep Eyeballs

In Terabithia, there's no Pan

Shoe-In

Donate your shoes, go to heaven

Do Not Taunt SPORM!

Jerryworld: SI's Favorite Place to Visit