This man will crush you if you mess with the Barnett Shale. Dallas-based ICC Energy Corp. sued Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. in Dallas district court yesterday. Why come? Alleges today’s media release from the law firm repping ICC Enegy, “Chesapeake reneged on a commitment to partner with ICC Energy…
Milton Bradley and another emotional dust-up. Geez, whoda thunkit? At the risk of Milton Bradley catching a flight to Dallas this morning to come kick my ass, I’m going to re-affirm what we all already know: He’s a nut. (Quick timeout while I go double-bolt the door.) If you’re surprised…
When the Texas Rangers signed Milton Bradley this offseason, I was elated; Richie Whitt, not so much. At the time, I said Bradley could be an interesting trade chip, much like Eric Gagne and Kenny Lofton were last year. And now that Bradley’s having an all-star caliber season — and…
Always a good day when you can lead off with a Daily Show video mocking a local business — in this instance, Central Kia’s spot using a Barack Obama lookalike to move 2008 Sportages at low, low prices. Notes Stewart: “Un. Believable.” Because of the low, low prices. And because…
“Bushwhacked,” by Jim Schutze, June 5 The Gang’s All Here Hear, hear to Jim Schutze’s “Bushwhacked.” Finally, someone in the local news industry understands the way Dallas and all of Texas is a participant in national and international affairs. This is especially the case now that the Bush Library and…
As first impressions go, this one sucked. On a dreary Saturday in late January, a couple hundred baseball fans packed a theater at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington to listen to the team’s latest and potentially greatest center fielder. But the last thing Josh Hamilton wanted to talk was baseball. First…
Rethinking pink: Time again for a Buzz pop quiz. What’s the precise, quantitative difference between a liberal—or progressive, as we pinkos prefer to call ourselves these days—and a conservative? Impossible to answer, you say? Nonsense. Buzz knows exactly what the difference is, at least in our case. It’s 1 cent…
On a recent Tuesday night, community organizer Kevin Mondy stood before a group of parents and teenagers at the Thurgood Marshall Recreation Center in South Oak Cliff to deliver some sobering news. Black males were dropping out of the Dallas Independent School District at an alarming rate, he said, and…
On a Sunday morning not long ago, in a part of the city mostly ignored and forgotten, they gathered to honor him. The cars started streaming down Wheatland Road at daybreak, forming a long line of lights glowing in the early morning mist. The news trucks, rarely seen in this…
On Monday morning, American Airlines announced it had raised fares by $20, across the board. Then, later that day, very patient and helpful Friend of Unfair Park broke the good news right here that, nope, “The fare increase that we initiated Friday night did not stick.” Well, see, though, it…
Think he’s nervous yet? With the Rangers bobbling along around .500, manager Ron Washington’s job safe for at least another month and tonight’s game against the – vomit – Royals, there must be something sexy in our baseball world. Can I interest you in a 23-game hitting streak? Shortstop Michael…
Below, a video getting a lot of play on the YouTube today, in light of former NBA ref Tim Donaghy’s allegations that league officials had a hand in the outcome of certain games — including the Houston Rockets-Dallas Mavericks playoff series in 2005. “Go look at the tapes,” Mark Cuban…
Megan Feldman Ex-con Andres Latallade, also known as Capitol X, at the protest in front of the Crowley today Hours before Karl Eugene Chamberlain is scheduled to be executed for the rape and murder of Felecia Prechtl in Dallas in 1991, a small group of protesters gathered on the steps…
Keven McAlester, at right, with Roky Erickson, subject of Kev’s acclaimed documentary You’re Gonna Miss Me Surely, the Friends know the name: He’s an old pal, local boy, former met music editor, ex-Adventure Club co-host, my El Lay replacement and now an acclaimed filmmaker of both the short-form and long-form…
Photo by Terry Shuck/Mural by Frank Campagna As mentioned yesterday, the Deep Ellum Town Hall Meeting at the Sons of Hermann is two weeks away — but it’s very top-of-mind amongst the residents of the neighborhood that’s referred to as Dallas’s “wetlands for [the] creative class and entrepreneurs” in the…
Yesterday’s news that The News would be delivering a bare-bones version of its daily product to the front lawns of rich folks who really don’t want it has landed Dallas’ Only Daily on Gawker, with the headline: “Unwanted Free Papers Delivered To Uninterested Rich Readers.” Which, yes, more or less…
During the Trinity River toll road debate, I signed up for e-mail notifications from the Vote No! campaign so I could find out what Mayor Tom was up to. This landed me on Leppert’s e-mail list, and now I get regular e-mails from “Friends of Tom Leppert” and “Dallas Mayor…
After the jump, an invite to the W Hotel in Victory Park tonight. It arrives courtesy our Friend Justin Terveen, better known as the extraordinary photographer The Urban Fabric (who, from the looks of his Flickr page, is currently in the running for the cover of Mapsco’s 2009 Dallas Street…
Daron Tapscott The former Harwood K. Smith-designed office building on Turtle Creek, where Canadians want to build a hotel and sell alcohol At last, the city council today will consider GGH Development’s request to build a hotel, spa and restaurant at 2505 Turtle Creek Boulevard — you recall, site of…
On second thought, this wasn’t a foul. Wait, that was our first thought. With only a 1.7 percent chance of winning, the big-market Chicago Bulls stole the NBA Lottery. Pushing the NBA Finals back to relevancy, the league got lucky enough to have the Lakers and Celtics this summer. And…
As no one in America is watching the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, you probably missed last night’s piece on those truancy-curbing GPS devices currently in use at Bryan Adams. What I am saying — of course you missed it. Now, you didn’t. –Robert Wilonsky…
Reunion Arena isn’t on the gallows just yet, but the hangman has reached the cell door. Today, the city council’s Economic Development Committee unanimously passed a motion recommending City Manager Mary Suhm close the 28-year-old arena and generate a financing plan for the structure’s demolition. City attorneys could not answer…
