So, apparently, the citizenry of Dallas had best get acquainted with United League Baseball, which, if I read my Dallas Morning News right this morning, will throw out the first pitch on the banks of the Trinity River this time next year. So, let’s see: Just last month in Dallas…
Simple: Do you trust Dirk Nowitzki? In the final seconds? In tonight’s Game 3? In the series against the San Antonio Spurs? To get him more room – more open looks – the Dallas Mavericks must push the pace at Amercian Airlines Center. One of the toughest things in the NBA…
See, here’s the problem: The Dallas Mavericks aren’t just playing the San Antonio Spurs; they’re also fighting the devil. Their internal devil. Who is he, you ask? It’s the little demented, destructive voice inside them. Inside us all. The one that urges you to hit the snooze button. The one…
Atlas shrugged: On Monday, 14th Civil District Judge Eric Moye put the planet Earth back where it belongs, much to the relief of people clinging to its surface in one East Dallas neighborhood. In the infamous “dirt skirts” case, a zoning dispute over building heights, Moye ruled that city of…
“Blown Away,” by Tom Korosec, April 16 Cats and Dogs Living Together So, Dallas is not ready for a flood or a tornado. Next week, a cover story on how we are not ready for an earthquake, and the week after the cover story will be that we are unprepared…
Can’t budge. My 22-year-old son, Will, is standing in the bow of the canoe breaking branches to allow us to go forward. I’m trying to paddle backward so we can turn, but the stern of the canoe is locked in a fist of vines and trunks, meaning we have managed…
As the University of North Texas Law College — or UNT at Dallas College of Law, whatever it’s going to be called — inches closer toward becoming a reality in the old Municipal Building downtown, its supporters are working overtime to get the entire state Legislature behind the idea. Which…
The most irresistible press event of the day had to be Burch Management’s Jobless to Topless Job Fair earlier today at Cabaret Royale. In the report we pointed out yesterday, KXAS-Channel 5’s Susy Solis said the fair was timed — you know, in this economy — for “North Texans who…
View Larger MapFellow Northwest Dallas resident Sharon Boyd directs our attention today to some heretofore unreported news involving a significant piece of the neighborhood: On Monday, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage will conduct hearings concerning several bars located at 2900 Walnut Hill Lane, otherwise known as the patch of land where…
On Monday, we noted that the Royal Lane-based Institute for Creation Research filed a mammoth lawsuit in Dallas federal court in which it alleges that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board violated its constitutional rights when denying its application to offer master’s degrees in science last year. Today, the ICR…
True story: Back in 2004 I was preparing to go to the Summer Olympics in Greece as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In preparation for what was potentially a hostile, dangerous, terroristy, post-9/11 environment, all Knight-Ridder newspaper chain employees headed overseas were required to undergo special security training. CPR…
Moments ago, Luis de la Garza — host of something called Televisión ConSentido and former auto auctioneer — posted to YouTube his interview with the mayor about the convention center hotel. And by interview, I mean “informercial” in which the mayor sells the hotel to the Hispanic community, “which will…
This morning, Dallas Independent School District board trustee Carla Ranger posted to her blog a letter from a district teacher who’s terrified that the DISD’s going to use the Classroom Effectiveness Index to clean house. This teacher must be among the some 700 who Tawnell Hobbs writes received letters from…
Now that the Germans have claimed Victory — Victory Park, that is — we’ve got a swell idea to help Ross Perot Jr. raise some quick cash: some kick-ass tees and stickers. Here, courtesy the Hardest Working Art Director in Alt-Weeklies, Alexander Flores, is our first offering — and it’s…
Sometimes you clean out your closet and find valuable sports memorabilia that makes you go “Oh yeah!” But some unearthed crap, I dunno, makes you wonder if George Carlin wasn’t right all along when he summed up life as just one big competition to see who could get the biggest…
The Deep Ellum duo that brought us the Obama Bar is expanding their soapy business to include a Web-based retail company to invest in microloans for impoverished women around the world. Soap Hope, Salah Boukadoum and Craig Tiritilli’s new venture, sells natural hand-crafted bath products and lotions by companies such…
By now, perhaps, you’re aware that the Dallas Independent School District is using Lone Star Auctions to dispose of about 72 items former district secretary Gloria Orapello bought with her DISD-issued credit card. She was sentenced to a year in the joint and was court-ordered to pay back $100,000, though…
Heard a little more from the R.I.P. Dallas folks last night — via a Richards Group press release, how awfully “grassroots” and so very “viral,” the buzzwords used in the pitch to Unfair Park. (As in: “We also have some great stats to share about the viral component of this…
The next Pro Football Hall of Famer chosen with the 51st overall pick in the NFL Draft will be the first. Meaning? That the Dallas Cowboys have quantity in this weekend’s draft, but not quality. Thanks to Roy Williams, the Cowboys don’t own a first-round pick but have 11 selections…
Just hours before word broke (in German first) that Ross Perot Jr. and Hillwood agreed to give up a majority stake in Victory Park, essentially turning it over to Hillwood’s German investors, the beleaguered ghost town belonged to a single man: 50-year-old David Genera of Mesquite. We spotted him last…
“Enough is Enough” probably won’t make the cut at the next Successories jam session, but so it goes. As noted earlier, that’s the name of the bold-faced group that announced its presence with authority at the Stoneleigh Hotel. Its intention, in case you missed it the first go-round, is to…
Morning-show hosts, beware: Lucy Rose does not take a prank call lying down. (Well, she might — I wasn’t there when she answered the phone … hi-yo!) But, seriously. Yesterday, Rose had her attorney go down to the federal courthouse in Fort Worth and file this 11-page suit against one…
