A couple of weeks back we learned that United League Baseball would be setting up shop on the shores of the Trinity River, in the very same 60-acre spot where Irving-based JPI abandoned its own ambitious plans. So happens that at 3:30 p.m. today, ULB co-founders John Bryant and Byron…
So you’re having a beer at your favorite watering hole. Next thing you know, zombies. Through the door. Crashing in the windows. Falling from the ceiling. Purgatory-confined, blood-thirsty zombies. Everywhere. This hasn’t happened to me in a while, but when it does I want an athlete to be my bodyguard…
Nine months ago it looked as though Mark and Patty Lovvorn were going to tear down Stanley Marcus’s house on Nonesuch Road, built 71 years ago by Dallas architect Roscoe DeWitt after Mister Stanley told Frank Lloyd Wright to take a flying leap — since, well, Wright had slammed the…
Sometimes I have hope for this big ol’ rock after all. With the Dallas Cowboys named as the construction company and the lead engineer denying hands-on involvement, the aftermath of the team’s practice facility collapse is eventually going to get ugly. And pricey. But out of the rubble emerges some sanity, in…
Better late…: After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its report on the city’s levees in April, we were baffled to learn that construction on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge would continue, especially since drilling a concrete pier for the bridge into the floodway resulted in the troubling discovery…
“Who Do You Trust?” by Sam Merten, April 30 A Water Park Would Be Nice I can’t even imagine the wonders we could accomplish in this city with half a billion dollars. How many community centers equipped with tutors, teachers and computers that will change the future of DISD students…
If this pisses off Dirk Nowitzki and Mark Cuban and the suddenly trendy bandwagon of MFFLers, so be it. After watching the nauseating Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference Semifinals, it has to be said: I’m sick and tired of watching the Dallas Mavwimps. I know it won’t ruffle…
David Simon, sitting to the left of Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney at today’s Senate subcommittee hearing on “The Future of Journalism,” edited his prepared testimony. The creator of The Wire left out the part about how, when a newspaper exec complains about how technology is the sole reason…
About an hour ago, I called the Senate Committee on Nominations to find out how Shanda Perkins’s Board of Pardons and Paroles confirmation hearing went this afternoon. Shortly after that, I received a call from Beth Shields, communications director for state Sen. Mike Jackson, the Republican from La Porte who…
At last night’s meeting of the Urban Forest Advisory Committee, held deep in the bowels of City Hall, the next chapter in Dallas’s tree saga started to unfold. The short version: Article X of the Dallas City Code, which contains the city’s landscape and tree ordinances, is under revision, and…
More than a year after an accident left improv comedian Mark Orvik with a nasty infection that has yet to fully heal, he and Section 8 are celebrating their 10th anniversary of “fast-paced, in your face, rock ‘n’ roll comedy” with shows at Ozona Grill and Bar. The first was…
Let me start off by stating that I only heard the opening minutes of 103.3 FM ESPN’s Choppy & Greggo last night. But just in that smidge, Greg Williams sounded, well, incoherent. First he said something about “ChoppyGreggo” and then some garble and then some mumbling and then something about “6…
After speeding across the desert, dodging wildlife and the highway patrol, drivers in the cross-country Gumball 3000 Rally showed off their sick parking skills for a crowd of racing fans gathered outside the W Hotel last night.Dozens of folks, mostly kids with cameras, milled around outside the roped-off parking lot,…
Oooooh, can’t wait: We’re about 15 minutes away from the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet “Future of Journalism” hearing, where, as we noted yesterday, Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney will testify alongside The Wire creator David Simon and Arianna Huffington. C-SPAN 3 will carry…
View Larger MapSome of you may have noticed that yesterday, in the item about Kidd Springs in Oak Cliff, Jeff Liles posted a link to a video you’ll find after the jump, along with the rather cryptic note: “Speakin’ of the OC, we have this to look forward to next…
Dear Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Chris Webber, And I mean this is the nicest way possible: Shut the fuck up! At the very least, actually listen before talking. Who knows, you might not make complete asshohles of yourselves next time. We all wish Mavs’ star Dirk Nowitzki was blessed with more…
Longtime friend of the show Scott Henson sends word: We need to be on the lookout for news out of the state Senate Nominating Committee confab today, as Burleson vibrator-hater Shanda Perkins has her Board of Pardons and Paroles confirmation hearing scheduled for 1 p.m.-ish. Surely you remember Perkins –…
When last we left the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees yesterday, they had come back from their closed-door meeting and presented two options to deal with the Texas Attorney General’s opinion concerning the extension of terms from three to four years: special elections or appointments to fill the…
Already being out-jumped, out-run, out-dunked and out-funked, the Dallas Mavericks last night became a desperate team suddenly out-manned. And after another thorough loss to the Denver Nuggets – this one 117-105 in Game 2 of the NBA’s Western Conference Semifinals – it’s inevitable the Mavs will soon be simply out…
Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander just called Unfair Park back to explain the figure on Page 14 of the summary of staffing formulas at DISD campuses for the 2009-’10 school year being discussed by trustees today. And while it looks as though the Booker T. Washington High School…
As I noted, earlier Jim’s at 3700 Ross Avenue, where, at this very moment, the board of trustees is behind closed doors, no doubt arguing over the ramifications of the Texas Attorney General’s opinion that the trustees should not have extended their terms from three years to four last November…
After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its report on the city’s levees, we were baffled to learn that construction on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge would continue, especially since drilling a concrete pier for the bridge into the floodway resulted in the troubling discovery of sand and the…
