Schutze weighed in over the weekend when The News decided, look, there isn’t anyone worth endorsing in the Texas 30th District congressional race — not Eddie Bernice Johnson, not Stephen Broden, not anyone, so sorry. (A reminder: Jim’s profile of the pastor appears in tomorrow’s paper version of Unfair Park.)…
No doubt you’ve read this morning’s story about how the three defense attorneys supporting Danny Clancy for Dallas County District Attorney — including Toby Shook — have piled on Craig Watkins, claiming that Christopher Scott and Claude Simmons maybe shouldn’t have been DNA-exonerated after all. Well, Dallas County Democratic Party…
That quote, from Texas Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg, is the theme of this morning’s World Series round-up.It comes from an interview in USA Today concerning the prospects of keeping Cliff Lee, which doesn’t sound like the impossibility others have made it out to be; says Lee, beating the San Francisco…
In about two months, Dallas Area Rapid Transit hopes to open the Royal Lane station along the expanded Green Line. Not far from the site, on Rodney Lane, sits Central Hardwood, a massive lumber warehouse that sits on property owned by the Wilber Family Limited Partnership. And in legal docs…
Over on ESPNDallas.com, Richard Durrett tells the tale of how Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels came to hire Ron Washington instead of one of the four other contenders for the skipper’s gig following Buck Showalter’s ouster: Manny Acta, John Russell, Trey Hillman or Don Wakamatsu. Washington talks about what…
Friday morning we had that item about computer programmer Don Relyea’s run-in with that touch-screen voting machine at the Audelia Road Library, where a vote for Gov. Rick Perry appeared to morph into a straight-ticket Green Party vote. Now, see, Dallas County Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet told us he though…
In between his flag football game, during which we almost drowned, and his school’s fall carnival, I took the 7-year-old who lives in my house to the Trekkie confab at the Plano Centre Saturday — his idea, swear. And after strolling past tables full of action figures, board games and…
Yesterday we took a look at Mattie Stafford’s look at Art Conspiracy 6, which occupied many Friends’ Saturday night (and early Sunday morning). By way of companion pieces, I just stumbled across this on YouTube: a freshly minted mini-doc from Saturday night, scored to Sat-night-performing Ishi’s “Come Closer.”…
Way back in June, the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee took yet another look at yet another proposal aimed at regulating neighborhood farmers markets and said, in short: Fine, looks good, next! Operators of neighborhood markets ain’t thrilled with the final product, but they’re willing to live with it,…
From below, this pointed comment posted moments ago: “As a longtime fan, I am beginning to cautiously think that the Rangers have a chance of being in the World Series this year.” Not surprisingly, the Unfair Park in-box has been filling up World Series random notes this morning. Let’s review.Sabernomics…
In mid-December, 16 Dallas Water Utilities workers sued the city in federal court, claiming City Hall engages in a “pattern and practice of disproportionate enforcement of policies with regard to their minority employees.” They also alleged the city “has engaged in blatant segregation amongst its workforce whereby teams of employees…
Dallas City Hall sends word this morning: When you’re next at Love Field and don’t see Waldine Tauch’s The Texas Ranger of 1960 statue keeping watch over the terminal lobby, don’t fret. The Ranger, who took his place in 1961 courtesy Mr. and Mrs. Earle Wyatt and stands above the…
So writes George Vecsey this morning in The New York Times — referring, of course, to The Commerce Comet himself, Mickey Mantle. Insists the sports scribe, of the myriad comparisons made in recent days — Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. chief among them, per vanquished Yankees manager Joe Girardi…
Another Art Con, another conflict on this end — we had the boy’s elementary-school fall “county fair” last night, which got damp but was not drowned. But our Mattie Stafford was on hand for the fund-raising, noise-making winding on W. Commerce, where more than 100 artists donated pieces sold to…
Groans Erik Boland of Newsday: “All the elements that put the Yankees in a three-games-to-one series hole materialized Friday night, ensuring they wouldn’t be able to completely climb out of that hole. It was another night of ragged starting pitching, ineffective relief pitching and next to nothing on offense from…
Couldn’t sleep the other night and watched, for the second time, The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, which airs again on HBO over the weekend. That’s my favorite Springsteen record — beautifully overwrought Jersey pop-opera tinged with the exposed-nerve punk of which Springsteen had become…
Joe Nick Patoski’s a friend — a hero also. One of the sharpest, wisest, wittiest and warmest nonfiction writers Texas has ever produced; one could do worse than attempt to emulate the Fort Worth native and UTEP’er presently at work on that book about the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Texans…
I was looking for something entirely unrelated on Flickr yesterday when I stumbled across a cache of illustrations by the great Justin Claus Harder, who counts among his clients Disney, Cartoon Network, The Fray and, once upon a time, something called the Dallas Observer. As it turned out, the artwork’s…
No doubt you’ve read by now Melanie Mason’s wrap-up of Brad Watson’s interview with Stephen Broden, who’s vying for Eddie Bernice Johnson’s seat. Above is the piece itself, by request. (Well, not this guy’s request.) Incidentally, Schutze’s promised profile of the pastor pops in next week’s paper version of Unfair…
Friend of the show Amanda Warr forwards along this item from Gawker (which sprang to life on Reddit), in which a Dallas resident goes to the Audelia Road Library to early-vote for Rick Perry … only, the machine switches his votes to all-Green Party. Or does it? Another heated Reddit…
In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Noah provides all the details concerning the sixth installment of Art Conspiracy, which kicks off tomorrow night at 7 at 511 W. Commerce Street. The first auction’s at 7:30, Paul Slavens is MC’ing, and subsequent sell-offs will be broken up by sets…
They won’t break ground on the George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU till November 16, around the time his book’s released. But beginning tomorrow locals and road-trippers so interested can sneak peek some of the collectibles in Dubya’s prize closet at the Meadows Museum. The exhibit’s called “Breaking New…
