Subject: Duncanville

• Metroplex Monopoly

  March 12, 2007

• Romancing the Stone

  August 29, 2006

• Catchings a Rising Star

  July 7, 2006

• Blasts From The Past ... Er, Present ... Um, Future?

  June 25, 2007

• At 19 (Almost), Duncanville Fighter Is (Already) USA Boxing's Brightest Young Rising Star

  October 23, 2007

• Children of Dallas, Keep Your Bra Straps To Yourselves

  October 23, 2007

• Far As One Guy's Concerned, The Cherry Pit Will Come Out on Top

  December 17, 2007

• Hoops Du Jour, With a Side of Pigskin

  December 19, 2007

• Yule Love this News Round-Up

  December 24, 2007

• A Duncanville Soldier Died in Germany; Cause of Death Being Investigated

  January 30, 2008

• Tomorrow's Headlines Today

  February 6, 2008

• Bush for Obama! Bush for Obama!

  February 28, 2008

• Back to the Future With Bill Clinton

  March 4, 2008

• A Footnote in History, Duncanville's Bacsik Wants Back in the Bigs

  May 26, 2008

• Over The Weekend: Forever The Sickest Kids and Saturday Night Skate Jam

  May 27, 2008

• Dousing the Olympic Flame

  July 2, 2008

• An Item in Which the Phrase "Something Sticks" Has a Whole New Meaning

  September 18, 2008

• Cherry Pit Trial Is, Apparently, Not About Sex At All. Right. OK, Then.

  October 27, 2008

• BREAKING NEWS: Luis Yanez Making Pro Boxing Debut at AAC

  I do weird things while (only technically, it appears) on vacation. Like, for example, wonder if the sport of boxing is alive and wonder if Duncanville fighter Luis Yanez is well. The answer: Yes. And Yes. A lil' boxing birdie whispered to me this morning that Yanez - who flamed out amidst much controversy at last summer's Olympics - will make his professional boxing debut during a six-fight card February 20 at American Airlines Center. There will be a Jan. Dec. 30 press conferen

  December 22, 2008

• Power Houses

  June 13, 1996

• No Dough

  August 29, 1996

• Bonus MP3: Johnny Ringo feat. Bun B -- "Sweeping Up The Block"

  Hilariously gritty press photos of Duncanville rapper Johnny Ringo stuffing people into the trunk of his Cadillac (like the one to the left here) aside, the rapper actually manages to boast a pretty interesting flow and a decent following, somehow amassing well over 350,000 profile views on his Myspace page and thousands of listens to various tracks posted for streaming on that site as well. But numbers are just numbers, and Myspace number-boosting bots are of constant concern in this day a

  January 22, 2009

• It's the Year of the Ox! Is that Good for the Mavs?

  Don't know how I missed it - maybe it's because I'm from Duncanville - but Monday was the Chinese New Year. And 2009, as if you didn't know, is the Year of the Ox. In the name of Wang Zhi-Zhi, what could that possibly mean for our Dallas Mavericks? *So far it means this: The Mavs are undefeated this year. Until tonight, perhaps, when our ol' pal Don Nelson and the Golden State Warriors come a callin'. (Which reminds me, how awkward do you think the relationship is between Mark Cub

  January 28, 2009

• 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 night and, yep, even Farm & Ranch night.

  February 11, 2009

• Running The Rock

  In 1990 I finished the White Rock Marathon. And it almost finished me. This year, I get my revenge: Back then I was a 26-year-old flatbelly, just a couple years removed from competitive cross country and a full-speed dork who would precede Saturday morning flag football at The Village Country Club with a Friday night of partying at Starck Club. Running 26.2 miles? No biggie. Or so I thought. I trained by myself, running the streets of Duncanville with my ridiculously bulky Walkman

  March 10, 2009

• Letters

  July 24, 2003

• Best Ice Rink

  September 25, 2003

• Letters

  October 2, 2003

• Letters

  March 4, 2004

• Here to Serve

  September 25, 2008

• Swingtown

  September 18, 2008

• Family Shattered After Oscar Sanchez's Murder

  Sanchez's family thought they'd left the lawlessness of Mexico behind. But somehow it caught up with them.

  October 4, 2007

• Dude Food: Olive Garden

  Olive Garden639 N. Cockrell Hill Road, DuncanvilleDude Factor: 3, or Roseanne (waitress/proprieter of loose meat sandwich specialty diner The Lanford Lunch Box), on a scale of 1 (Zach Braff in Garden State) to 10 (Jonah Hill in Forgetting Sarah Marshall)Last Saturday my lady and I--with tired bones, no pressing social commitments and a burning desire to do as little as possible--were in the mood for some easy Italiano. At first we thought we'd make due with a frozen Bertolli Chicken Parmesan din

  May 19, 2009

• Blonde Jokes

  May 11, 2006

• Schadenfreude, Anyone?

  September 14, 2006

• Suspicious Minds

  March 29, 2007

• T.O. Talks About the Cowboys. Well, Sorta.

  I'm sure he'll have more to say when he arrives in town later this month for his annual summer camps down in Duncanville, but former Dallas Cowboys' receiver Terrell Owens talked a little about his former team this week with 105.3 The Fan host Greg Hill. The raw, unedited audio is here, and it's priceless. Where else can you hear a radio host remind T.O.: "Me and you did an NFL's best body calendar down in Hedonism"? There's also, of course, Cowboys-related question, like what the heck

  June 3, 2009

• God Is Not Dead|Belo the Belt

  May 10, 2007

• One Guess

  Popular sandwich meat, rhymes with Moroney

  October 13, 2005

• Hot Air

  August 18, 2005

• Puff Tank

  New eatery Jaden's Restaurant & Bar coming in November

  October 21, 2004

• Best Place to Eat in the Southern Dallas Dining Wasteland

  Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen

  October 14, 2004

• Happy Nappy Girls

  Getting their hair straightened for the first time was a rite of passage. But a group of Dallas women has found freedom in reclaiming nappier days.

  July 5, 2001

• Last Night: Snoop Dogg at House of Blues

  Snoop Dogg with Johnny Ringo & the Hustle BoyzHouse of BluesMay 5, 2009Better than: Rollin' down the street smoking Indo, sippin' on gin and juice.Roger CaldwellFor more pictures from this show, visit Roger's slideshow here.Four words: This show was packed. Usually, you find scalpers trying to sell tickets outside of venues. Not here. Guys were zipping around trying to buy extras. As expected, the scene was thick with the K104 and 97.9 the Beat set. However, there was a light sprinkling of n

  May 6, 2009

• Pitcure Show: Last Night's Michael Jackson Candlelight Vigil in Duncanville

  Patrick MichelsFrom left, Blanca Martinez, Giles Prather and Marcus Smith with candles and Michael Jackson memorabilia last night in Duncanville.Last night in Duncanville, at the corner of Westmoreland and Wheatland, in the parking lot for a shuttered old Albertson's grocery store, K104 DJ Cat Daddy and a slew of the station's street team and promotions employees threw together a last-minute Michael Jackson memorial--or, more aptly, a candleight vigil--to commemorate the King of Pop.Next week's

  June 26, 2009

• Picture Show: Remembering MJ at Zubar

  Gloria LevarioWe already mentioned the candlelight vigil for Michael Jackson in Duncanville Thursday night here on DC9. Later that night, though, Dallas DJs did their part to keep the pop legend on everyone's mind, while plenty of folks turned up in their vintage MJ-wear.As Tyrone Smiley & DJ Niro spun old Michael Jackson favorites at Zubar and DJ A1 spun at Barcadia, photographer Gloria Levario out and about taking the shots you'll find here in our slideshow.

  June 29, 2009

• The Top 10 Most Notable Sports Deaths of Our Era

  Patrick Michels An old Michael Jackson poster at last week's candlelight vigil in Duncanville. I grew up with Michael Jackson. Had his Off the Wall album cover tacked - that's right, tacked - to my bedroom wall. As a senior member of the 1982 Duncanville Panthers' basketball team - district 9-5A champs, look it up - I picked "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" as our pre-game layup line music. I'll always remember where I was - Mavericks' draft, Old No. 7 Club - when I heard the news th

  July 1, 2009

• He'll Be There: Every Time You Hear That Song, Remember, Willie Hutch Wrote It

  Willie HutchIn the paper version of Unfair Park this week, I make mention of my interview with Willie Hutch, the Carrollton-born great who, during our 1998 chat at his Cedar Hill recording studio, recounted how he came to write the Jackson 5's immortal "I'll Be There." The story about The Mack, who died in Duncanville in 2005 at the age of 60, can be found here. But here are some links to versions of "I'll Be There" worth a spin during the holiday weekend.From 1986 comes this proudly sloppy cove

  July 3, 2009

• The Top 10 Reasons Austin is Better Than Dallas

  Different vibe in Austin, sayeth this T-shirt for sale on South Congress. Born in Oak Cliff. Raised in Duncanville. Citizen of Dallas.​ But every time I go to Austin - like this past weekend when I skeedaddled from Cowboys' Camp in San Antonio for a quick getaway - I feel like I belong there. Know what I mean? 10. The whole city is one big Deep Ellum. 9. Two words: Cable. Access. The people willing to pay for their 15 minutes are incredibly entertaining, if not so much talented. On Sat

  August 3, 2009

• Whitt's End: 11.13.09

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *OK, so let it be known that my buddy and Ticket founding father Mike Rhyner has been/is calling for a Cowboys' appearance in this year's Super Bowl. This, after 14-plus years as president of the anti-Cowboys' faction. "I saw this coming," Rhyner maintains. "It's not a bit." *Erick Dampier had 14 points and 20 rebounds against Houston. Erica Dampier had one point and four rebounds the next nigh

  November 13, 2009