Don’t know if you’re aware of this, as it hasn’t made the local news yet, but on Wednesday, State Rep. Myra Crownover, a Republican from Denton, filed House Bill 5 — yet another attempt to create a statewide smoking ban similar to the ordinance passed by the Dallas City Council…
A.H. Belo hopes you think so, because The Dallas Morning News just posted the following notice: Starting Feb. 9, The Dallas Morning News will increase the newsstand price of its Monday-through-Saturday newspapers to one dollar from the current level of 75 cents. The News attributed the price hike to continued…
That’s the word from Newsarama.com, which says that come November, the Arlington Convention Center will no longer be cram-packed with action figures, comic books and other fanboys favorites brought to the DFW courtesy the annual WizardWorld comic convention. Which comes as little surprise: Attendees of this year’s event say attendance…
Oxford University Press has just published Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic, written by UT Southwestern Medical Center professor of cell biology Frederick Grinnell, pictured here. In the tome, Grinnell writes on his Web site, “I will suggest that science and religion represent distinct…
After the jump, meet Eclipse, the City of Dallas’s “Pet of the Week” — a chihuahua discovered while digging in the garbage who’s been “vaccinated, micro-chipped and sterilized” and is ready to roll if you’re looking to adopt a stray. Dallas Animal Services has turned to YouTube in an effort…
T. Boone Pickens, out peddling his plan to ween the U.S. off the foreign-oil teat since July, has long maintained that natural gas is the future. FedEx CEO Fred Smith says: Nope, sorry hybrids are the future. Notes this morning’s Wall Street Journal, the disagreement’s getting awful big and growing…
View Larger MapI was at City Hall this afternoon, where I ran into City Plan Commission Neil Emmons, who reminded me, yet again, that there is no such thing as a slam dunk at City Hall. As it happens, that small street name-change I mentioned this morning — turning Shepherd…
First off, Unfair Park calls dibs on the movie adaptation of the story of Jorge Gomez Pinto Sr. Just so we’re clear. Because what follows, again courtesy the U.S. Attorney’s Office, is a crisply written tragicomic short story about a restaurant owner who’s due in Fort Worth federal court at…
Not every day you get a press release about an law firm being sentenced in federal court. But such a missive just arrived in the Unfair Park in-box courtesy the U.S. Attorney’s Office concerning yesterday’s sentencing of Trey Allen, P.C., the Firm Formerly Known as The Law Office of John…
If you’re a “tactical knife enthusiast,” then you’ll take particular interest in a federal class-action lawsuit filed yesterday against Wal-Mart, Cabela’s, Academy Sports & Outdoors, Dicks Sporting Goods and others retailers. Four folks, including one from Mesquite, are represented by Dallas attorney Allen Stewart, and in court documents they claim…
Jon Collins, the director responsible for the great Doug Burr’s new “Should’ve Known” video, today posted this promo for the Dallas Derby Devils. And, bless him, he’s used Joan Jett and the Blackhearts’ “Bad Reputation,” which always reminds me of Freaks and Geeks’ title credits — and, now, roller girls…
First, you pick something short and out of the way — like, oh, I dunno, Shepherd Road, near Forest Lane and Greenville Avenue. Then you name it for a pastor who, in 2007, got a post office named for him, courtesy Pete Sessions’ bill two years earlier. (It’s for either…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends a heads-up for those with an hour to kill this morning: Dallas Independent Superintendent Michael Hinojosa will sit for a chitchat beginning at 9 a.m. with Fernando Romano of Dallas iMedia Network. If you’ve got any questions for the super, you can send ’em…
Flickr photo: Wednesday181 It was but a month ago that Neiman Marcus president and CEO Burt Tansky insisted that sooner than later, the “aspirational shopper” and “loyal customer” would once again stroll through the store’s doors with money to burn. At the time, the Dallas-based high-end retailer was reporting an…
A good Friend of Unfair Park says I missed something while perusing this week’s issue of Sports Illustrated: the magazine’s poll of 190 NBA players. In it, the question was, “Which is the most overrated team in the NBA?” I think you can see where this is headed. Answers after…
During this morning’s White House press briefing, press secretary Dana Perino laid out George Bush’s plans for January 20, which don’t involve heading directly to Dallas:President Bush will depart from Andrews Air Force Base and head to Midland, Texas, where he will participate in a welcome home event in Centennial…
Two years ago, Antonio Swad was all but considered a traitor to the red, white and blue when the Dallas-based pizza man started accepting pesos at Pizza Patrón locations in the DFW. Man got death threats, for God’s sakes, even as former Dallas Observer writer Rob Walker was detailing the…
Over on DC9, some required reading in advance of the Loco Gringos reunion Saturday night at the Lakewood Bar & Grill. Jeff Liles, whose weekly “Echoes & Reverberations” pieces are my favorite items on any Observer blog, has assembled quite the local all-star cast (Jim Heath, Mike Dillon, Tex Edwards,…
In our editorial meeting this morning, Schutze offered a book report concerning his holiday reading: Paddling the Wild Neches by Richard Donovan, which was published by the Texas A&M University Press in May 2006. Says Jim about the book documenting one man’s canoe trip through East Texas, it’s engaging and…
The 2011 Super Bowl will be played at Jerryworld, of course, but the AFC and NFC champs won’t be staying in Arlington or Dallas. Nope — come February 2011, the AFC champs will stay at the Omni Fort Worth, which is pictured at right and scheduled to open this month,…
In this morning’s Guardian, SMU distinguished professor of history Edward Countryman — an author of several books, many having to do with the American Revolution — writes about how corporations in England are using a harassment law there to “stifle legitimate protest.” Which wasn’t the point of the Protection from…
In the Sports Illustrated hitting stands today, Michael Farber dissects “The Trouble with Sean Avery.” In short: He’s a terrible teammate — so bad that the Dallas Stars can’t even find a minor-league team willing to take the former Vogue intern off their hands, much less an NHL team interested…
