Motorsports

Yes, You Can Get Thrown in Jail For Drunk Driving a Golf Cart at Texas Motor Speedway

Officer Jennifer Bell and Corporal D.J. Lusty remember the night of April 9, 2011 quite clearly. The Fort Worth cops were working off-duty traffic jobs at Texas Motor Speedway following the Samsung Mobile 500 when Bell spotted a golf cart driving on the grass. She watched as the cart laden with thre ... More >>

Jackalopes Spotted at the Texas Motor Speedway

On the off chance that you're one of those NASCAR types, you should know there's some interesting new menu items that will be available at the Texas Motor Speedway this weekend. Joel Pena, the executive chef at the race track is planning on doling out some serious bacon abuse. Cotton candy will be ... More >>

It’s Mother Effin’ Décor, Yo.

EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing

Dance music is fighting for its soul. The charts are filled with tracks (Rihanna, Flo Rida) that borrow from the ecstatic trance and pulsing grooves of electronic dance music. The last time pop was so infatuated with the dance floor was 1979, the year disco died. This time around fans are more sa ... More >>

Men in Drag

The Big Texas Beer Fest's Food Problem

Chad Montgomery got a lesson in event promotion over the weekend. The operations manager by day, beer guzzler by night had never organized a large public event before, and he learned a few lessons with his inaugural Big Texas Beer Fest. One lesson is to take food truck commitments with a grain of s ... More >>

Meet the Race Car-Driving Conservative After Rep. Ralph Hall's Seat

America is in a pissy, irascible, throw-the-bums-out, anti-incumbent kinda mood. Even, apparently, if it means unseating a longtime congressman with some serious seniority and a choice committee chair. According to Charlie Cook over at the National Journal, there are some 22 House Republican primar ... More >>

They May Not Have Formula One Racing in Austin After All, But Dallas Did Back in 1984

​Speaking of the Dallas Grand Prix at Fair Park ...I see that someone has just posted 30 minutes' worth of highlights from that brutally hot July 1984 to the YouTube. And it's exceptionally classy footage too: It comes to us via the BBC with commentary by Murray Walker and James Hunt. As the poste ... More >>

If You've Always Thought Downtown Needs More Live Music, Here's Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

The great Alan Melson, director of interactive for KERA and KXT, just passed along this lovely video shot at Main Street Garden last week: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. performing "Simple Girl." Smallest audience ever.

At Long Last, Texas International Pop Festival In Lewisville to Receive a State Historical Marker

The scene in Lewisville during Labor Day weekend 1969​Longtime Friends of Unfair Park are by now well aware of my lifetime obsession with the Texas International Pop Festival, held during Labor Day weekend in 1969 in a Lewisville field. The roster, put together by, among others, Angus Wynne, was l ... More >>

A Second Death Related to the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival in Dallas?

​More news this afternoon about the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival that took place this past weekend at Fair Park in Dallas: The Dallas Morning News and sister paper LA Weekly report that a 22-year-old named Kyle Raymond Haigis died late on Sunday morning after being struck by a tractor-trailer. Hai ... More >>

Whitt's End: 4.8.11

​Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *So Nuggets coach George Karl wants some of the Mavs, huh? "If we had to pick and choose, we would probably say 55 percent Dallas and 45 percent Oklahoma City," he says of his preferred ... More >>

Whitt's End: 2.25.11

Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I still don't fully understand Michael Young leaving Rangers spring training for two days. The team announced it was a "family matter." Manager Ron Washington said Young "has a family thin ... More >>

Tonight Only at the AAC: Mark Cuban, Chuck Greenberg, Eddie Gossage, Tom Leppert ...

Sam MertenChuck Greenberg​You'll note there's an empty space on the American Airlines Center's calendar tonight, which doesn't meant it'll be dark. Far from it: The National Sports Marketing Network, a sports-biz trade organization with some 10,000 members, is holding its first North Texas Chapter ... More >>

MyPlates Probably Picked the Wrong Day (Or Season) To Debut Two New Cowboys Plates

​A year ago the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles bowed the do-it-yourself personalized-plates-maker known as MyPlates, and only a few weeks it rolled out some proposed plates that include one for Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. Well, just this morning MyPlates sent word that it's in ... More >>

Cool Aid Pickles a Refreshing Alternative
To Fried Food at State Fair

​As Dallas Observer's Cheap Bastard, Alice Laussade, so eloquently put it in this week's cover story, fried food at the State Fair of Texas might have jumped the shark, thanks to Mark Zable's fried beer. Zable's creation won this year's Big Tex Choice Awards' Most Creative prize. The annual fried- ... More >>

Like The Cannonball Run. Only It's High School Students in Handmade Solar-Powered Cars.

W.T. White Longhorn Solar CorpsQuetzalcoatl, both the sun god and the car three W.T. White students hope gets them 866 miles to Colorado​Beginning at 9 Sunday morning, three students from W.T. White High School will drive to Colorado in that very ride you see above: a $30,000, corporate-sponsor pa ... More >>

It's Not Every Day Some Guy's Selling a '73 Indy 500 Pace Car Replica On My Drive to Work

​I spent way too much time this afternoon on this Web site devoted to the 1973 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car -- which, if you haven't figured it out by now, was a Cadillac Eldorado. But that's only because I spent way too much time inside a 1973 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car yesterday -- or, at the very l ... More >>

Amazing But True: City's Not Giving Up On, Um, "Problematic" Bama Pie Project

This is what the Bama Pie building looked like when I drove by it on New Year's Day of this year.​Longtime Friends of Unfair Park probably don't need a recap concerning the tragicomic goings-on at the former Bama Pie Co. building across the street from Fair Park. This blog is littered with stories ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

​A hell of a lot to wade through this week, mostly thanks to the state fair.Two things before we get to the non-winners. First, I think I found a way to rid my desk of some of the accumulated junk...uh, I mean, of the highly sought after prizes, which this week would have included a handsome coffe ... More >>

Your Weekend Planner: Vacation Edition 6.5.09

Hey, if Dale Hansen thinks it's a good time to skeedaddle, who am I to quarrel? Let's see, last summer I went to a river and a waterfall. This year ... Seattle. Yeah, that sounds about right. Temperatures in the 70s. Fish to eat. Coffee to smell (but not drink). A mountain to climb hike. B ... More >>

The Top 10 Sportiest American Holidays

Had a buddy yesterday gloat to me that Memorial Day Sunday is "one of the greatest sporting days of the year!" To which I replied, "Huh?" I remember a time when the Indianapolis 500 was must-see TV along with the Harlem Globetrotters, heavyweight boxing matches, Oklahoma-Nebraska foot ... More >>

Sloppy Seconds: Double, Double Your Refreshment

Well, refreshment, maybe not. Double your fun, though, sure. Toil and trouble all you want. It's been a big week of twos here on City of Ate. A double dose of Veggie Girl, for instance. Two posts recapping the year's first quarter. We even had a couple items for the big race weekend at Texas Motor S ... More >>

What Remains of Federal Funds Intended for Motorsports Museum Will Now Go Toward MLK Boulevard "Revitalization Program"

View Larger MapBeen a loooong time since we've written about Derrick Mitchem and his proposed Motorsports Museum across from Fair Park, in the old Bama Pie building. Been no reason to: Last I looked, oh, three weeks ago, the place looked just as it has for years and as you see above -- more or less ... More >>

For $15,000, You Too Can Move Your RV Into TMS' Burnout Alley

Texas Motor Speedway announced today it's ditching some 21,022 seats on the backstretch, which'll put the track's total number of butts allowed at right around 138,000. ESPN says it's because of "the economic recession that has affected most tracks which play host to NASCAR events." But TMS presiden ... More >>

Big Bad Bob

Add a little Swagger to your day

Dumb and Dumber

Your Weekend Planner: Mystery, History and Get-Well Wishes

Dale Jr. Coming to Dallas Wednesday -- Can a Fig Newton Windshield Be Far Behind?

Cannonball Rocked

Mullet Over

Let's end this. Now.

Super Duper

Steak Wreck

Fire on the Mountain

Pie in the Sky

Famous People Love Dallas

NASCAR: A Yankee Pastime

Odds & Ends

Quon you dig it? If you're talking about Fort Worth's Danny Wright, then he certainly can.

Make a Dash

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Pink Ribbons

Plano runs breast cancer out of town

Royal Run

Elvis dons blue suede trainers

Fools

Denton's new zoo is right next to some ocean-front property in Arizona

Best Cajun Restaurant

Chez Willie's Cajun Hideaway

Leaf Blower

Bay Leaf gets a new chef

Medieval Empire

At Hawkwood, participants can escape the daily grind -- but not NASCAR

Pickin' Cotton

While Dallas fools around with the Olympics, the Cotton Bowl crumbles

Buzz

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