Yesterday, in the comments to our latest Good Guys item, Friend of Unfair Park LaceyB inquired about the fate of Chase, long rumored to be on NBC’s must-cut list following weeks’ worth of low ratings. Turns out, reports of its inevitable demise were greatly exaggerated: NBC just sent word that…
It was late on September 24, 2009, that the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word that FBI agents had arrested then-19-year-old Hosam Maher Husein Smadi for plotting to blow up Fountain Place on Ross Avenue — a plot intercepted by federal agents, who ultimately provided the Jordanian-born Smadi with an inert…
The view from Museum Tower in, give or take, three yearsBack in June, you no doubt recall, Brook Partners announced that the long-in-the-works Museum Tower would finally sprout in the Arts District, courtesy the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System’s $200 million investment in the 42-floor condolith. Just one week…
Homeland Security AffairsAttorney Lew Lefko, a partner in Renaissance Tower-based Winstead PC, has worked in some aspect of the health-care profession for most of his career. Hence his appearance on GlobeSt.com this morning, where he tells Jennifer Duell Popovec that Texas stands to gain plenty from President Obama’s Affordable Care…
Yesterday, downtown-working attorney Brad Nitschke sent this parking-meter picture to Angela Hunt, via the Twitter, with the note: “This is not what a commitment to downtown looks like.” To which she responded: “You’re absolutely right. Part of the update to Dallas’ Downtown plan is a parking study which will address…
Writes Mike Lupica in this morning’s New York Daily News: “So now, after all the winning during the regular season that Joe Girardi talked about in a testy postgame interview session, after starting the postseason with four straight wins and maybe thinking the Rangers were going to be the kind…
Mark Cuban has taken the $5 million he intended to invest in Turtle and tequila and put his dough-re-mi elsewhere: in something called BlueCava, which tracks every single device you’ve got hooked up to the Internet, which doesn’t sound too Minority Report at all. From the how-it-works: “No two devices…
Courtesy Dallas StarsTo recap: Tom Hicks no longer owns Liverpool FC (though there’s another $1.6-billion-in-damages lawsuit a-comin’, guaranteed). Tom Hicks no longer owns the Texas Rangers (and Cliff Lee or no, still very sports nervous about tonight). But Tom Hicks, who paid around $84 mil for Norm Green’s hockey team…
Last week, Jim and Sam wrote all about how City Hall’s done fed up to here with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and their demands that Dallas repair the hell out the Trinity River levees before they get re-certified. As you’re no doubt well aware by now, much of…
Speaking of the need for Complete Streets …On Sunday morning, Angela Hunt wrote on her website:Last week, I met with city staff and Friends of the Katy Trail board members to discuss ways to make the trail safer in response to Lauren Huddleston’s tragic death. We will have a plan…
Now, apparently, it’s time for our semi-regular Good Guys update. I haven’t yet watched Friday night’s episode (I was here, Section 314, the only guy in a tie), but the wife watched — big Gary Cole and Elbow Room fan. She was among the few: The numbers are in, and…
Jason Roberts/Go Oak CliffA look at Davis during the second round of Better Block-building in Oak CliffSpeaking of the city’s Strategic Plan Update …It’s been exactly one year since City Hall hopped aboard the Complete Streets Initiative, first rolled out at the initial Ride to City Hall and then formally…
Tomorrow morning the city council schleps all the way to the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre for its latest retreat, at which point they’ll pore over the results of the latest Strategic Plan Update. In short, it’s a look back at what the council wanted to get done in the…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along this Center for Public Integrity round-up of Republicans and conservative Democrats who railed against the the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act … then asked for stimulus dough anyhow. For our purposes, the piece begins with none other than Rep. Pete Sessions, who,…
There’s a stack of City Hall docs to review, but, instead, let’s begin the work week with two sports videos. The first speaks for itself. But, really, who didn’t watch the end of yesterday’s game and think: Benny Hill. Bonus video: And on the other side, Your Dallas Mavericks throw…
Photos by Danny FulgencioAt Kimball Friday afternoon, a pep rally with Common, at right, turned into a improved dance, dance revolution.On Friday, our own Danny Fulgencio was at Justin Kimball High School for what he reports was: Best. Pep. Rally. Ever. The reason: The Knights received a surprise visit from…
Black-Sabbath.comCompared to some of our more recent offerings, the sound quality on this hard-to-find, recently unearthed recording leaves something to be desired — perhaps someone can use their 21st-century tech to scrub some of the mud off this back-pocket recording passed down like a well-worn family heirloom sold at one…
For seven innings, the guy wearing the Alex Rodriguez Texas Rangers jersey in Section 314 taunted the young man in the Alex Rodriguez New York Yankees jersey sitting but one row back. A lot of: “Yankees suck! Yankees suck!” And: “You’re on steroids! You’re on steroids!” Then came the eighth,…
Technically, it’s three of my favorite things, since Robert Duvall’s November 19 appearance at the Hall of State in Fair Park will be a chitchat moderated by one of my dearest friends, Elvis Mitchell, former Star-Telegram and New York Times film critic-turned-At the Movies co-critic. That’s neither here nor there…
One need not go far to find kind words for Dallas County Judge Merrill Hartman, formerly of the 192nd. From our very own pages in 2000, when Hartman was named Best District Judge: “In these highly litigious times when frivolous lawsuits are filed by too many lawyers clogging up too…
By now, no doubt, you’ve seen Fort Worth council member Joel Burns’s speech to the council on Tuesday, in which he told the victims of bullying that, yes, life may seem “unbearable” at times, but that “it gets better.” At which point Burns, born and raised in Crowley, recounted the…
Fascinating case over on Courthouse News involving a Waco woman named Dorothy Isabel who used to live in Dallas and says she can’t return here to visit her relatives because, well, an old episode of A&E’s true-crime series The First 48 ID’d her as a prostitute known as “Lady” who…
