My favorite sports book of all time is Mike Shropshire’s Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and The Worst Baseball Team in History — The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers. We excerpted the book in 1996, and Michael Hogue’s original artwork accompanying the piece still hangs in my office –…
The New York Times just posted a piece on designer Billy Reid, who peddles his “dressy-casual whiskey-soaked style” in NorthPark Center, one of only six outlets in the U.S. Which reminds dressy-casual, whiskey-soaked me: Over the weekend I received via postcard a reminder that tomorrow through Saturday is Billy Reid’s…
Guess Jerry Jones didn’t sell off every last scrap of Texas Stadium during his everything-must-go auction, as today the Dallas Cowboys send word that this weekend, the broken-down hole-in-the-roof will host yet another fire sale. This one goes by the moniker “Farewell Fan Fest and Memorabilia Sale.” Parking and admission’s…
As we mentioned in March 2007, two days before Michael Cain’s Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary TV Junkie made its debut on HBO, Tammie Kirkham filed a temporary restraining order to keep the doc off the network. The documentary, as you may recall, was compiled from nearly 3,000 hours of…
Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd’s big-league career ended, where else, in Arlington. About halfway through 1991 season, the Texas Rangers acquired the pitcher from the Montreal Expos — only to see the righty go 2-7 in 12 starts and toss out a 6.68 ERA, highest in his career. After that, he…
This recently shot mid-week palate-cleanser comes courtesy Trey Ratcliff at Stuck in Customs, who also offers a poster-sized version of Your Downtown Dallas skyline. Pardon me while I stare at it for an hour…
Dallas is now home of the Twinkie. Interstate Bakeries Corporation, the Wonder Bread and Hostess host that had been in Chapter 11 since September 2004, is no longer in bankruptcy — or, for that matter, its longtime home of Kansas City, where IBC started baking in 1930. It’s moving its…
We’ve been hearing for some time that the Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel would be seeking a temporary restraining order sooner than later to keep the city from proceeding with the convention center hotel without a proper vote. Turns out, sooner was yesterday: Citizens Against the Taxpayer Owned Hotel, et…
Few weeks back, we directed you to an online survey Dallas City Council candidate Ann Margolin was taking as she vies for Mitchell Rasansky’s District 13 seat at the horseshoe. Well, the results are in, and Margolin writes in a mass e-mail sent to her would-be constituency today that the…
Comes this 11-minute film courtesy the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the North Texas Grease Abatement Council (band name alert!) concerning the proper disposal of fats, oils and grease. Highly recommended. Poor, poor Chad…
Various news accounts in recent days have portrayed fifth-generation Texan Robert Allen Stanford, whose Stanford Financial Group is based in Houston, as the second coming of Bernie Madoff. Which is why the Securities and Exchange Commission today filed this complaint against Stanford in Dallas federal court, alleging “massive, ongoing fraud.”…
Merten, my favorite Hobbit, is spending his morning at the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting just under way — lucky! And among the topics of conversation we haven’t already covered is the 450-foot-long Belleview Pedestrian Connector, which is supposed to connect the Cedars DART Station “with a…
In January 2008, Matt Pulle profiled Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller, the former Dallas County prosecutor and hamburger heiress who attracted national attention in September 2007 when she closed up shop and went home promptly at 5 p.m. even as condemned inmate Michael Richard’s attorneys were on…
Dallas school board trustee Ron Price made it official at 3:44 p.m. on January 30, when he turned into the City Secretary’s Office paperwork announcing that he’s running for Carolyn Davis’s District 7 seat on the Dallas City Council. (Ex-City Manager Richard Knight Jr., now in the waste disposal business,…
There has been no shortage of stories about John Bramblitt in recent years, as evidenced by the “news” page on the Denton artist’s Web site. Four years ago, Mika Ferris even made a documentary titled, simply, Bramblitt. After all, his is an extraordinary tale: The 37-year-old El Paso native and…
In the wake of A.H. Belo’s recent announcement that it’s laying off yet another 500 employees — no later than March 28 — the question is: How much money did The Dallas Morning News’s parent company make in 2008, the first year it operated as a spin-off of Belo Corp.?…
Out of nowhere today, Stephanie Hastings, spokesperson for Silver City Cabaret on Stemmons Freeway, called to talk about the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s decision to strip the strip club of its liquor license over the weekend. No doubt, she had but one goal in mind: to remind folks that despite…
At Wednesday’s Dallas City Council briefing, there will be yet another Budget Workshop — the fourth of many in advance of the September 23 due date for next fiscal year’s budget. In the doc prepared for the council, City Manager Mary Suhm describes the process of “Setting the ‘Price’ of…
ELVIS COSTELLO / RADIO, RADIOby Sunnychopper82A Friend of Unfair Park points our attention to Rochester Institute of Technology new-media professor Michael Saffran’s newly published study in which he reveals that Dallas residents are “largely dissatisfied” with the local radio. The study’s got a Fiona Apple-worthy title: Effects of Local-Market Radio…
This Associated Press reports this morning that hospitals throughout the country are having trouble finding and keeping nurses. Part of the problem has to do with the difficulty hospitals are having in transitioning nurses from the training to the actual doing. Let’s begin in a Dallas ER, shall we?Newly minted…
AFI Dallas International Film Festival sends word this morning of further additions to its schedule as the fest prepares for its third year, which gets to commencing March 26. Also included in the release is the recipient of this year’s AFI Dallas Star Award: the great Robert Towne, whose credits…
Larry James, president and CEO of Central Dallas Ministries, posted this announcement to his blog this a.m.: Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins will deliver the keynote address at this year’s 14th Annual Urban Ministries Prayer Breakfast, set for April 21 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel. As James notes, his…
