Just an hour remains before the polls close on Election Day, but Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman seems remarkably calm. Maybe exhaustion has finally set in after working 13 hours straight, then making last-minute preparations for the Republican Election Night Watch Party at the Radisson Hotel on Central…
This just in from Sean Avery, via his L.A.-based publicist, concerning the comments that got him indefinitely banned, at least till his meeting with National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman tomorrow:”I would like to sincerely apologize for my off-color remarks to the press yesterday from Calgary. I should not have…
Local Realtors Jerold and Terry Smith today provide this worth-a-look listing of some of Dallas’ tonier foreclosures, which are going for cheap, cheap, cheap — if, that is, your idea of cheap is a Beverly Drive address for the low, low price of $1,199,000, which is about $50,000 more than…
While we wait for Sam to post from the city council briefing — where, for the first time, the entire council will discuss the smoking ordinance — a few random notes. First, a Friend of Unfair Park points us toward the latest earnings report from Irving-based arts-and-craft emporium Michaels Stores,…
A Friend of Unfair Park points us toward the perfect Christmas present for the kid who has everything: his or her own skating rink! Better than a pony. Not as good as a flight simulator, though.Ten years after former Black Panther Fahim Minkah fought like hell to open Southern Skates…
Back in June, Mayor Tom Leppert tried to slip some changes into the city council’s rules of procedure without asking input from his colleagues, but his plan was derailed when Angela Hunt took issue with one of the changes that would have eliminated the morning open-microphone session. Most recently, the…
Tom Schieffer — you remember him, right? Former president of Your Texas Rangers. Co-owner of the team too, with some dudes named Rusty Rose and George W. Bush. Oversaw construction of the Ballpark in Arlington. Served three terms in the Texas House of Representatives. Brother of CBS’ Bob. Right, that…
One more follow-up to the red-light camera ruling: Moments ago, Kevin Lightfoot, vice president of corporate communications for Affiliated Computer Services, shot us his company’s statement concerning 192nd Civil District Court Judge Craig Smith’s order of November 19. Lightfoot also provides an update concerning further legal doings in Smith’s courtroom…
So confusing. Didn’t we already know George and Laura Bush were moving to Dallas once he the president left the White House in January? Haven’t they said this a thousand times — most recently, like, Sunday? Well, apparently we need further confirmation, which came today at the White House as…
I’ve been rough on the Mavs’ J.J. Barea.For being no taller than me. For looking like the runner-up in the Minyard ball boy contest.And for being the miniature version of Shawn Bradley. As in, you can’t take any team seriously that gives him quality minutes.But lookie here, the little fella…
First thing yesterday we noted 192nd Civil District Court Judge Craig Smith’s ruling in the red-light camera case in which a plaintiff claimed Affiliated Computer Services doesn’t have the legal right to act as a law-enforcement agency. This morning, we received a statement from Frank Librio, spokesperson for the City…
Below, as you can see, we’ve added the video containing the, um, sloppy remarks for which Dallas Star Sean Avery received his indefinite suspension last night from National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman. Meanwhile, back in New York, Newsday’s Arthur Staples is among those calling out the commish and Stars…
Over in Marshall, a Fort Worth woman named Donna West has taken cross-dressing franchise Tyler Perry to federal court, claiming that Perry used her 1991 play Fantasy of a Black Woman as the basis for his 2005 movie Diary of a Mad Black Woman. West actually filed the suit in…
The Las Vegas media this morning is touting the arrest of a man wanted in connection with an October 24 shooting in South Dallas: Kevin Jermaine Davis, who was picked up by law enforcement officials only last night. Davis had a whole posse after him: the U.S. Marshals Service’s Nevada…
Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment is under siege, and Dallas-Fort Worth looks to be the battleground at the moment. A local’s looking to stage a hostile takeover: Robert Rowling, the six-billionaire whose Irving-based TRT Holdings holds amongst its holdings the Omni hotel chain, recently the beneficiary of City Hall’s good tidings as…
“Sloppy seconds”? That’s all he said? You’re shitting me, right?I could’ve sworn Sean Avery played professional hockey, not pre-school hopscotch.Avery, signed by the Dallas Stars to be a well-dressed, sharp-tongued agitator, was suspended indefinitely by the NHL last night for daring to utter a phrase you can hear on Jon…
Sean Avery, for a long while we thought your boorishwacky antics were adorable! Alas, turns out that the National Hockey League isn’t so enamored — because, moments ago, the league indefinitely suspended the Dallas Star for referring to a former flame, Old School co-star Elisha Cuthbert, as his “sloppy seconds.”…
Looks like the meeting at the Nasher Sculpture Center was last week, but the Friends of the Katy Trail only today posted the sneak peek at the proposed Katy Trail Arts Loop, which is just what it sounds like:This connection improves the bicycle and pedestrian facilities between the Katy Trail…
There’s a small but interesting item of note on the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Facility Improvement Corporation Board’s meeting agenda today — and, right, whatever that is. Seems American Airlines is looking to unload one of its flight simulators. It’s not for one of the big planes, though. Old Friend…
Patrick Michels Harlan Crow plans on having an open-door policy with employees at his new office at Old Parkland Hospital since, well, there is no door leading into his office, which is really in a hallway. Much to our delight, Harlan Crow this morning invited local media over to the…
On Friday, we mentioned how Axl Rose had sicced his attorney on Dr Pepper, claiming that the Plano-based beverage maker had broken its promise to the American peoples when it failed to dispense a soda to every man, woman and child in the U.S. following the release of Guns N’…
Dallas County’s FY2009 budget was passed by the commissioners on September 9 and went into effect October 1 — and chief among the Commissioners Court’s objectives was balancing the budget without raising taxes, as you’ll see on Page 2 of the 371-page document. But just two months into the new…
