As promised yesterday, here are Danny Hurley’s photos snapped during his weekend ridealong with Rockers vs Mods. Which reminds me: I haven’t seen this in way too long. Soon as I finish watching all these danged AFI Dallas movies …..
Had totally intended to attend this weekend’s Christian Book Expo at the Dallas Convention Center, if only for the cameo appearance by the godless Christopher Hitchens. Alas, my weekend got away from me, and, sadly, no expo for me. Or for most folks, as it turns out: Publishers Weekly today…
Give the Dallas Stars credit for being spunky and resilient and stubbornly fun to watch. But the season’s over, right? To me it ended Saturday in San Jose. Not just with the 5-2 loss to the Sharks, but more so with another major injury. This one to Brad Richards, who…
Saturday morning, from the South by Southwest shindig down in Austin, Pete wondered over on DC9 whether Erykah Badu would be playing Auditorium Shores, as expected, or Malaysia, as pictured. Turns out, she was heading to Austin after all — but only after being delayed in Dallas, where police were…
The publishers of D Magazine and the Advocate this morning are extolling the greatness of Michael Lindenberger and The News for making a fraud out of Mayor Tom Leppert. Me? I knew about Leppert’s tall tales 18 months ago and am tickled by the headlines from Wick Allison on FrontBurner…
Shockingly, this one isn’t on No. 76. In fact, it’s a good thing. At least I think it is. You tell me. The Cowboys last week mailed letters to all 2009 season-ticket holders, informing them that their dues for tickets and parking is surprisingly being delayed. Originally due April 1, customers…
Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall was kind enough to pass along this a.m. the latest report from the Office of City Auditor, which has determined that the city’s been losing a small fortune in muni court revenue since 2006. Why come? A bunch of reasons, actually, all of which…
A bestest Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to Peter King’s Monday Morning QB column filed from the annual NFL meetings in Dana Point, California. A the bottom we discover that the Sports Business Journal may have had it wrong earlier this month — as in, AT&T isn’t buying…
A peek at Mayor Tom Leppert’s schedule this week reveals two intriguing appointments. Like tomorrow, for instance: The mayor’s getting together with one Santiago Calatrava, who’s in town for some kind of a dinner tomorrow night — though maybe he’s helping workers unload the steel for the Margaret Hunt Hill…
I see on John Mellencamp’s Web site that the ex Mr. Cougar is headed out on the road this summer, and during the tour he’s looking to get his bud and Fort Worth’s own T Bone Burnett to produce a new record “as American folk as I’ve ever been,” as…
As the Dallas City Council gets back to work today, two updates. First up, the Quality of Life Committee has decided to corral so-called “urban rodeos” — even though, at the moment, there’s just the one, Rio Rodeo, at 704 S. Walton Walker Blvd., about which there’s never been a…
What happened to the madness in March? Instead of dramatic buzzer-beaters and Cinderellas and Bryce Drew, the first weekend of the NCAA college basketball tournament brought us the Greg Gumbel Invitational – about as goose-bumpy as a piece of white bread laying on a chunk of cardboard. A year after all…
Yesterday, about 35 people marched from City Hall to the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse to protest the Iraq War, which began six year ago. They dressed in black shirts and pants and wore white masks over their faces to represent the dead. From their necks, they hung cardboard…
Friend of the show Danny Hurley spent last weekend snapping the dress-ups at the science-fiction convention, as you may recall. This weekend, he’s been hanging out with the Rockers vs Mods. Here’s a sneak peek in advance of a full-on slide show coming tomorrow. Also due tomorrow: a slide show…
As promised a couple of weeks back, here’s that Paul Rudd interview — only, it’s not the one we recorded in Dallas at the beginning of the month. Instead, this chat dates from last Saturday, the morning after I Love You, Man kicked off the South by Southwest Film Festival…
Once every spring, and only for two weeks, Texas buckeyes burst spectacularly into bloom. The tree is generally small and understated, with symmetrically grouped pale-green leaves and bunched blossoms; close up, the flowers are tiny and exquisite, with artful splashes of orange-red on the intricate, cream-colored petals. And just a…
Judy Schmidt at Dallas City Hall forwards along the following message from Mayor Tom Leppert: Till he hears otherwise, Santiago Calatrava’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is gettin’ built, so there. You will find after the jump the entirety of the city’s media release announcing that the feds have extended the…
Thursday morning, Cedar Vista neighborhood advocate Frank Bracken — the southwest Dallas farm owner profiled, in part, in this week’s cover story about the taking of the trees — finally got the city to lend an ear — or, rather, two guys willing to get their shoes muddy. Bracken led…
Word around my Northwest Dallas neighborhood is that home burglaries have become troublingly common in recent days, as police officers have ID’d men between 15 and 22 who’ve been known to knock on the front door before breaking down the back door. Just the other day, a neighbor reported two…
Shortly after Dallas-based Blockbuster reported a quarterly loss of $359.7 million yesterday, CEO Jim Keyes hopped on a conference call with analysts to reassure them that, look, all’s not lost. And while there are myriad reasons for the current state of hurt ar 1201 Elm Street that has led to…
Back in January, we told you the sordid story of Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputy Standric Choice, who, with two other men, was arrested for plotting to steal cocaine so they could deal cocaine — how HBO. Two months and one confidential informant later, the 36-year-old former law enforcement officer is…
In case you haven’t noticed, the Dallas Mavericks’ new head coach is Prick Carlisle. His weekly radio shows with The Ticket’s Norm Hitzges have gotten progressively less insightful and decreasingly courteous. And last night he turned down right surly with ESPN Radio’s Chuck Cooperstein. For no reason. On the Mavs’ pre-game…
