Apparently, Avery Johnson saw the cover of this week’s SI and decided to do the opposite. Mavs-Spurs was a classic last night. Avery Johnson coached it like a playoff game, using only an eight-man rotation. Dirk was good and Duncan was great and Bruce Bowen was sharpening his elbows for…
The president yesterday spoke for the first time about just how he’ll pay for the George W. Bush Presidential Center on the SMU campus — like, ya know, maybe with some foreign money or somethin’, if anyone outside of the U.S. and A. wants to give him some. Also: If…
Jonathan Finley For more photos from yesterday’s town hall meeting, there’s a slideshow right here. When I got back from Barack Obama’s town hall meeting at Duncanville High School last night, my friend Jeff called and said, “So, how was hanging out with the black Jesus?” Seems he’d had dinner…
Till a Friend of Unfair Park mentioned the astounding convergence of events on Saturday, I wasn’t sure I was going to attend Hillary Clinton’s rally at Fair Park, scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. with doors to the Fair Park Coliseum opening at 1 p.m. Might take the kid, who…
Former city council member James Fantroy has just been found guilty of stealing thousands in federal funds. Here’s the link to the September 2007 federal indictment in which former Dallas city council member James Fantroy was accused of stealing thousands of dollars from Paul Quinn College. And why do we…
SURPRISE, Arizona — Regardless of your sports pangs, you should be plenty satiated today. The Mavs and Jason Kidd play at San Antonio. The Stars and Brad Richards host Chicago. The Cowboys — who appear willing to let Julius Jones walk — begin free agency. And out here in Arizona…
Yesterday on DC9, music editor Pete Freedman mentioned Dave Chappelle’s surprise appearance at Erykah Badu’s House of Blues show on Tuesday night. Thankfully, someone captured it at least part of it — because, damn it, I miss Dave Chappelle. Actually, from the look of this video, everyone captured it. So,…
MySpace is sending Jessica Simpson to Kuwait — no, not for good (although …), but for a concert for the troops stationed in Kuwait. She’ll be on a bill with the likes of the Pussycat Dolls, Disturbed, Filter, DJ Z-Trip and, says the media release curled up in our in-box,…
This just in from Dallas Rep. Rafael Anchía, concerning yesterday’s post about comments he made — or didn’t make — on Spanish radio yesterday, where it was reported “he is satisfied with the idea of becoming Dallas Mayor.” Writes Anchía, “Yes, the synopsis and translation is way off. The allusion…
Adelfa Callejo Amazing how these stories come out of nowhere and are suddenly everywhere and mean everything when it’s all just a big bunch of nothing. Few days ago, Adelfa Callejo was Dallas’ well-regarded 84-year-old Latino-rights activist about whom Stanford Law students wrote glowing biographies. She was also a Bill…
Sophia, the one Bush we can get behind this election season As usual, a few election-related items of note this a.m. — these involving famous faces not running for office. A Friend of Unfair Park with impeccable taste points our attention back toward the University of Texas at Dallas –…
All I know about the Jonas Brothers is what the 4-year-old living in my house tells me about the Jonas Brothers, which goes a little something like this: Hey, Harry, why do you like the Jonas Brothers? Aren’t they a little, ya know, old for you? “I like their music…
Semi-Pro’s much better than Blades of Glory, which wasn’t nearly as good as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, which was a little better than Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which was almost as funny as Old School, which was better than everything else Will Ferrell had done…
Justice League: The New Frontier (Warner Bros.) Based on Darwyn Cooke’s comic-book miniseries — a masterpiece starring all of DC Comics’ major-leaguers at the dawn of their immortality during the Cold War — this animated adaptation plays stronger, faster, and further than any direct-to-DVD in recent memory. It’s a grown-up…
CharleyPride.com The Pride of North Texas: Charley Pride, that is, an annual fixture at Rangers spring training SURPRISE, Arizona — Eight months from now we’ll either remember this as the day your Texas Rangers commenced a stunning turnaround. Or, more likely, the day they unofficially officially began a ninth consecutive…
Perhaps the translation’s slightly off, but it seems Dallas Rep. Rafael Anchía has given us a sneak peek into his future political plans. Today Radio Euskadi — which is broadcast throughout Basque Country in Spain, where Anchía’s family comes from — ran an interview with the Haynes & Boone attorney…
Last week came news that the Dallas Independent School District would be repaying federal grant money is was using rather inappropriately — like, $316,000 worth of federal grant money. That dough, provided by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant, was supposed to go to HIV prevention education efforts…
I guess it makes sense, as the Dallas Cowboys great is an Arkansas native: Today Cliff Harris endorsed Mike Huckabee for president. As in, “Many told me I would never play in the NFL, let alone win a Super Bowl ring or two. Similar cynics may say the same thing…
Mark Graham In more Plano-based author news: Kerry Max Cook — the innocent man imprisoned for 16 years for a horrific crime he didn’t commit — has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America’s prestigious Edgar Award, for his book Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two…
Irving-based Zale Corporation, which moved from Wichita Falls to the Mercantile Bank Building in downtown Dallas in 1946, has hit a rough patch — again. Fourteen years after getting out from under Chapter 11, the company, which once boasted some 1,700 locations, announced today it’s shuttering 105 stores this year…
In early December, we mentioned the then-impending publication of Robert Rummel-Hudson’s book Schuyler’s Monster: A Father’s Journey with His Wordless Daughter. Since then, the University of Texas at Arlington architecture communication coordinator has been popping up in plenty of places — as has his daughter Schuyler, who’s finding the words,…
Dallas Stars/NHL Brad Richards, now a Dallas Star — the hockey team, I believe Out here in Surprise, Arizona, it’s sunny and 82 degrees and far, far removed from hockey season. But back there, I hear the team I said never makes any noise actually made some noise, eh? Not…
