Tonight, as we burn the final candle on the menorah, we return to that secret stash of oldies but goodies that knows no end. I’d heard a few minutes from this recording a couple of years back, when a clip made its bow on the great KZEW tribute site. But…
Way back in May we took a long, hard look at HALFF Associates designer Francois de Kock’s Belleview Connector, a proposed bridge — and “dramatic icon” — that might one day link Riverfront Boulevard to Jack Matthews’s South Side of Lamar. One day. Maybe. Last I looked, which was a…
Curious the things that land in the in-box. Like this, for instance: a statement from attorney Larry Friedman on behalf of Pilar Sanders, who, for now at least, is married to Deion Sanders. I say “for now” because not one hour ago TMZ noted that the former Dallas Cowboy has…
In 1989, two years after the attack that left her in a vegetative state, People described Peggy Railey’s existence as “death-in-life.” Our Mark Graham documented as much years later when he visited her in the Tyler nursing home where she has spent the last two decades; today, he told me,…
3700 Ross remains closed for another week, but I did just talk to Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores about something I mentioned last week: DISD’s decision to yank from the City Plan Commission’s docket a zoning request for the proposed Jose “Joe” May Elementary School on Webb Chapel…
This year began with the Dallas City Council passing that ordinance that requires all Lower Greenville businesses to get specific use permits if they want to keep their doors open past midnight. This year ends with the city entangled in two lawsuits over that ordinance: the one brought by Yucatan…
In a New York Times piece this morning, Penn State’s interim head coach Tom Bradley acknowledges: Many of the Lions wanted to skip their trip to Dallas on January 2, when Penn State’s scheduled to play Houston in the TicketCity Bowl at the Cotton Bowl in Fair Park. The reason,…
Yet again, I’ve been told the office is closed today, which explains why it’s dark and cold and empty; who knew. Anyway. I’m not big on year-in-reviews; you were there, right? That said: Whilst perusing that musical treasure chest of recent discovery, I came across one blindingly bright offering of…
Our Mike Mezeul was at the AAC for yesterday’s season opener, where not a highlight was to be found between the buzzers. His slide show from the interior decorating session can be found here; The Official Banner-Raising Video follows, as do a few other distractions from a Christmas Day blowout,…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have already requested one song for next year’s Christmas special on K-Ticket: Tiger Darrow and Paul Slavens’s “Santa Claus is Coming,” which, per the note affixed to the Soundcloud, was finished just in time for his arrival in the wee small hours of Christmas morning…
Yesterday, over breakfast, I lingered over the brief piece that appears on Page 44 of The New York Times Magazine: “A Day at the Ballpark.” My 8-year-old son, a baseball fan and aspiring catcher, saw the headline and the illustration — a photo of a well-worn baseball — and asked…
If I’m allowed on K-Ticket airwaves for a fourth annual Christmas dance party, I will ask management to carve space enough for a 17-hour set. The list of songs I wanted to play but didn’t is much longer than those that actually made the air. Then again, if you really…
I’ve just been informed the office is closed, which would explain why there’s nobody here — I just thought all the new kids got scared off by Hot Fudge Fridays.It’s just as well. I’ve spent the better part of the last two weeks collating and curating jingle-bell rock, funky Jesii…
This morning, the Dallas Police Department sent word: It’s looking for two men who, over the course of the past few weeks, have been hitting the 7-Eleven at Walnut Hill and Marsh. There are videos, of course; they follow. In both it’s hard to tell what’s happening, but per the…
Michael Cain says he’s this close to wrapping his long-in-the-works Starck Club documentary — by February, fingers crossed. Just last night, the founder of the Deep Ellum-turned-AFI-turned-Dallas International Film Festival dispatched this teasing look by way of a holiday greeting. But as I got to sniffing around the other M3…
Speaking of the company that operates the American Airlines Center …While going through some federal courthouse docs this morning, which is how everyone should spend the day before the day before Christmas, I discovered that lawsuit concerning the former Chili’s at the AAC lives on, with a trial date set…
That crazy website I stumbled across at the end of last week, the one that turned up those Zevon shows from ’93, is proving to be quite the treasure trove; and just when I was about to ditch this feature too. Don’t think I’m not this close to spending all…
Saw a piece in the Penn State paper this morning about how sales for the TicketCity Bowl in the Cotton Bowl are “struggling,” at least when it comes to dispensing with Penn State’s allotment of 6,000 ducats for the January 2 face-off against Houston. So I called over to the…
Not sure I knew there was going to be a “Northaven Trail” till I drove past the under-construction path beneath the power lines on St. Michaels a few weeks ago. Very nice. Need proof? The City of Dallas Hike & Bike Trails just posted a mini-photo album featuring 13 look-sees…
Way back in April 2009, you may recall, FBI agents raided Core IP Networks, an enormous Internet service provider HQ’d out of 2323 Bryan Street downtown. It made national news, in part because the feds’ raid temporarily disabled some 50 clients’ Web sites. At the time, the FBI would only…
Longtime Friends of Unfair Park will recall: In early 2009, United League Baseball co-founders John Bryant (yes, that John Bryant) and Byron Pierce said that come time for first pitch 2010, they would have a minor-league ballclub on the banks of the Trinity River. Why, they even rendered us a…
It’s become very clear in recent days that Ross Perot Jr. isn’t about to walk away from his feud with Mark Cuban. On December 2, his attorneys notified the Fifth Court of Appeals that he intends to fight Judge Craig Smith’s order tossing that suit in which Perot accuses Cuban…
