I didn’t sleep a wink last night — kept replaying over and over the myriad mistakes made by Ron Washington and the Texas Rangers last night, twice one strike away from Winning It All. They’re recounted below, blow by painful blow; how Sam gets it up for tonight’s Do-or-Die preview…
Those following along with our World Series open threads — and, programming note, Sam’s Game Six’er opens at around 6 — know by now that my 8-year-old’s favorite present-day Texas Ranger is Ian Kinsler, who he stuck with even during that awful 1-fer mid-summer slump. But after the jump, courtesy…
Speaking of issues with redistricting …There’s an online petition being virtually circulated concerning the new council districts map sent to the Department of Justice earlier this week; so far it’s been signed by 105 who also want Justice to slap down the city’s official submission. Among the reasons:With community assets…
I had to call Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, about something that turned out to be nothing this morning. (Well, if you must know, I wondered if “The Collective” referred to here is just “The Orleans at La Reunion” by a new name, and it…
Moments ago, Ed Pensock, the interim director of the Texas Turnpike Authority, explained to the Texas Transportation Commission down in Austin why Dallas so desperately needs the so-called Horseshoe Project — otherwise known as the redo of IH-30 and IH-35E over the Trinity River, once part of Project Pegasus. Long…
Just in time for the holiday season: your opportunity to give a loved one, or yourself, something from the Dallas County Collection of Seized and Forfeited Jewelry. And it’s quite the collection at that, with lots filled with multiple rings, watches, necklaces, bracelets and even collectable coins — including this…
Overnight, several Friends of Unfair Park sent different versions of the same story, which says: The state quite deliberately submitted to the Department of Justice new election maps that discriminate against the Hispanic voter — especially in Dallas-Fort Worth. As in: “There is direct and circumstantial evidence that the development…
When Lisa Chambers was hired in June 2010 to become Dallas County’s new Director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, John Wiley Price had nothing but the nicest things to say about the former intelligence officer: “She’s got the kind of background that says she can handle the job,” he…
They’ve been shooting Dallas at Saint Ann Court all day; and first-day-of-filming footage has been making the rounds today courtesy TNT, which will air the next-gen reboot in the summer of 2012. But let’s turn our attention instead to a different Dallas-set series set to air sooner than that: ABC’s…
Spent the better part of last night re-re-re-re-re-reading Mike Shropshire’s Seasons in Hell, about the ’73 to ’75 Texas Rangers, which wasn’t really the worst team in baseball, though it makes a great story. (The ’74 Rangers finished second in the AL West, behind Oakland, which went on to win…
Meant to mention this the last time I took Lemmon to work a few weeks back: Avoid it at all costs. But not for the usual reasons; not because it’s “the road to Fallujah,” as one Friend of Unfair Park called it a few months back. Well, OK, maybe it…
Clear Channel owns and operates six radio stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth market: KDGE-FM, KDGE-FM, KEGL-FM, KFXR-AM, KHKS-FM and KZPS-FM. But several times this morning, Friends of Unfair Park have sent this piece from Time Out Chicago that says at any moment, any or all of them could lose their…
Well, we had planned on following up this afternoon on two items of interest: Developer Craig Hall’s plans to fill the Arts District with giant signs attached to his Hall Arts Center, which we told you about Monday, and that much-debated, and that proposed Lower Greenville bowling alley next to…
Speaking of fashion statements printed on tees …Last year, round this time, Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington’s face graced many an unlicensed T-shirt, most of which also featured his then-inescapable catchphrase. But for whatever reason — the threat of cease-and-desists from the ball club and Major League Baseball, the ol’…
Woke up this morning to find the in-box filled with missives from friends and fans of a man named Nathan Winograd — “the de-facto face of the ‘No Kill’ movement,” as Huffington Post called him last year, referring to efforts to stop animal shelters from euthanizing strays. Winograd, an attorney…
Maybe you remember: Back in June of last year, Vince Young — former Longhorn great, current Eagles not-great — got into it with a gentleman named Creiton Kinchen at the strip club Onyx off of Northwest Highway. At the time, story was Young didn’t take kindly to Kinchen’s flashing him…
A couple of weeks back we noted: The Deep Ellum Community Association is in desperate need of seed money to plant a long-in-the-works urban garden at Canton and Good-Latimer — $25,000, to be precise, for such things as benches, fences, tools and, ya know, plants. Hence their fund-raising efforts via…
Livin’ The Dream: Derek Holland from MLB Players on Vimeo.Found these on Vimeo this morning: behind-the-scenes glimpses into the lives of Mike Na-po-li! and Derek Holland. They were produced by the Major League Baseball Players Association, part of a post-season web series titled “Livin’ the Dream,” but appear to have…
In the early days of the mayoral race, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle quietly proclaimed on his website that he wanted Dallas to become “No-Kill City,” meaning: With significant tweaks to its policies and procedures, Dallas Animal Services should be able to stop euthanizing strays. Six months later, the…
City Hall just sent word: At long last the city has submitted to the Department of Justice the new council districts map approved by the council on October 5. But that is hardly the entirety of the package sent to the DoJ yesterday: If you click here you’ll find the…
This morning’s New York Times looks at the NBA lockout and wonders whether all the owners — those from small markets, those with big payrolls, those losing money, those winning titles — are on the same page when it comes to demanding givebacks from their players. Long story short: Yes…
In February, you may recall, 34-year-old Henry Clay Glaspell walked into federal court in Fort Worth and admitted: He was the man who, on July 25, 2010, set fire to the playground equipment and spray-painted “explicit images” and “obscene anti-Muslim graffiti” in the parking lot at the Dar El-Eman Islamic…
