Reunion Arena

Dallas and Dwaine Caraway Both Have Big Plans for the Reunion Arena Area, but Only One Involves Prince's "Purple Rain."

Downtown Dallas 360, the city's long-range master plan for the area, has high hopes for southwestern downtown. Where Reunion Arena once stood, it envisions a cluster of mid-rise mixed-use developments. These would be clustered around a promenade and central park and would be accessible by stops on t ... More >>

NBA TV to Fill Time With '80s Mavs Roundtable

What you see above is the second part of a Dallas Mavericks history-of posted on RetroMavs, the team's official throwback site, only yesterday. Hunh. Don't recall Reunion Arena ever being that empty ... but I also don't recall Ollie Mack possessing "NBA-class moves." Anyway. That reminds me: In abou ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Jason Kidd.

Can't believe the 22-year-old I covered as a rookie in 1995 is now a 38-year-old man with 107 career triple-doubles. Seems like only yesterday we were watching his first - in a 130-11 win over the Lakers at Reunion Arena.

Finally, an Announcement Worthy of the Super Bowl: Prince to Play on Old Reunion Arena Site

​Two months back we revisited that magical New Year's Eve in 1984 when Prince played Reunion Arena, a high number in my all-time concert-going Top 10. And, sure, there's no more Reunion, but there's still a Prince Rogers Nelson, and per the announcement that landed in the Unfair Park in-box mere m ... More >>

Bedding Down on the Houston Street Viaduct

Gray Kinney​Gray Kinney tells Unfair Park he was out shooting the debris formerly known as Reunion Arena a few days ago when he stumbled across this scene, which is obscured to drivers by the small retaining wall where S. Houston Street becomes the Houston Street Viaduct over the railroad tracks b ... More >>

R.I.P, Reunion Arena: My Eulogy (Extended Remix Version).

I officially grew old yesterday afternoon. Once you've seen the rise and fall of a sports stadium, you've officially, um, been around the block. I remember a kinder, gentler era in Dallas when as a little punk I'd peer out the family Fury along I-35 and gaze in wonderment at The Sportatorium, ... More >>

How Reunion Arena Fall Down, Go Boom

Patrick spent the better part of the morning watching A&R Demolition crews claw at the "legs" of Reunion Arena's roof in the anticipation that the sucker would lean into a controlled drop rather than just, ya know, collapse. But, as evidenced by KXAS-Channel 5's video below, that's not exactly w ... More >>

Reunion Arena, You're Tripping. Or: Tomorrow, The End of the Long Goodbye.

​Speaking of local landmarks getting adiosed ...Reunion Arena!Finally!After the jump, the release from Dallas City Hall regarding the beginning of the end of the beginning of the end for the arena, which has cost a little more and taken a little longer than A&R Demolition and the city expected ... More >>

At Reunion, No Boom Goes the Dynamite

Don JohnsonReunion Arena, as it looked but one month agoEstela Hernandez in the city's Public Information Office broke our hearts with the following e-mail that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box. Read it for yourself.Re: Reunion Arena Demolition Scheduled implosion of upper concrete seating deck ... More >>

Smashing Good Times At Reunion Arena

Patrick MichelsReunion Arena as it was getting prepped for demolition.Maybe you caught the story in yesterday's DMN about the demolition of Reunion Arena that starts up this week? Looks like that old warhorse of an entertainment venue should be completely gone by the end of September. I still have a ... More >>

Reunion Arena, Priced to Sell

R.I.P. Reunion

Good riddance to a bad arena that provided only mediocre moments

The Fire This Time: Now What's on Fire? "The Church Without Walls," Turns Out.

Classy Reunion

Sure, They'll Raze Reunion. Only, the City Can't Afford the Wrecking Ball?

Reunion Arena: C'mon, It's Already a Megachurch, More or Less

Reunion Arena: Should It Stay or Should It Go? Go, Probably.

Monster Jam at Reunion Arena, Followed by Barack Obama

Fish On Ice

See Nemo skate at Reunion

Neil Diamond

12 Songs (Columbia)

Getting Retarded

Why two of the catchiest acts in America should die slow, painful deaths

WWJD?

Plus: Dalbie and Tex, A List

Ain't that a kick?

Tatu has been a Dallas Sidekick for 15 years -- in case you hadn't noticed

Net gain

Things are looking up for the Mavs -- of course, everything's up from the bottom

Night & Day

January 21 - 27, 1999

The bull market

Peter Lowe explains how to succeed in business without really trying: First, find 20,000 suckers Photographs by Mark Graham

Night & Day

August 27 - September 2, 1998

Pennywise and clown foolish

Who's the boss?

Ross Perot Jr. owns the Dallas Mavericks, but--for better or worse--it's Don Nelson's team

Buzz

That giant sucking sound

No, not The Dallas Morning News' arena coverage--but tax dollars being siphoned away for millionaires' pet projects

Fire at will

Getting Don Nelson to coach the Mavericks is good for basketball--and business

Foul trouble

The Mavericks are losing games--and faith in head coach Jim Cleamons

Pucking great

Mike Modano has finally become the hockey player he always wanted to be

Flying blind

With the mayor and city manager leading the charge, the city council moves full speed on an arena deal that doesn't even exist yet

One-on-one

With Mavericks Coach Jim Cleamons and GM Don Nelson, life's a constant battle for position

Net Loss

After 13 years of survival and success, Dallas Sidekicks coach Gordon Jago leaves behind the team he kept alive

See Yvonne. See Yvonne run. See Yvonne run from the truth.

She's the toughest superintendent DISD has ever had. But Yvonne Gonzalez's administration has already developed a dangerous tendency for bulldozing the facts.

Neither fish nor fowl

Shakespeare Festival of Dallas gets the wrong parts of Macbeth right

Hello, Dallas! DART Light Rail is here

Private dealing

How Ron Kirk killed the public arena briefing

The Dr. is out

Dre and Snoop Dogg, the boys who cried wolf, cancel yet another Dallas show

Arenas in the sky

A Fort Worth businessman wants to give Dallas a sports arena--for free

Behind closed doors

What the council says in secret.

Roadshows

None of your business?

Closed council sessions scorn open-meetings law

Desperate dealing

City scrambles to finance arena privately--and steal racetrack back from Fort Worth

Let them cast ballots

Why can't citizens vote on new arena?

How to renovate Reunion

Architect details low-cost plan to save arena--and poll shows public wants it done

The Arena Papers

Inside the secret City Hall files: A tale of dupes and deception