So, How Illuminating Was Last Night’s White Rock Lake Light Chat?

A Chicago “traditional lighting” manufacturer offers one perspective on the proposed lights around White Rock Lake. Last night’s meeting concerning the installation of lights around White Rock Lake got “heated,” says KTVT-Channel 11’s Jay Gormley. (Didn’t really look it on WFAA-Channel 8, but, ya know.) Nonetheless, Chip Northrup — a…

Rangers’ Announcer Tom Grieve to Undergo Prostate Surgery

The Texas Rangers just announced that colorful color analyst Tom Grieve will undergo prostate surgery and miss 2-3 weeks of the team’s TV broadcasts. They say these things are pretty common these days — Mavs head coach Don Nelson and Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo come to mind — but…

Local 13-Year-Old Now Holds Guitar Hero World Record. Or Does He?

Turns out that last week’s 24-hour Guitar Hero III fund-raiser, during which Mayor Tom displayed the most awkward rock moves in this history of fake plastic guitars, was good for more than raising money. Word’s circulating this a.m. that a 13-year-old from Grapevine, Daniel Johnson, set a Guinness World Record…

Pacman Gobbles Up a Felony Arrest Warrant in Las Vegas

Breaking Adam “Pacman” Jones news this a.m., courtesy the Las Vegas Sun, which is reporting that the Clark County District Attorney’s Office has issued a felony arrest warrant for the Dallas Cowboys’ latest and greatest. The warrant was issued late last night, as Jones hasn’t paid $20,000 in gambling debts…

Josh Hamilton Starring in His Own Threesome

Rangers’ GM Jon Daniels may have traded for the AL MVP Gotta tell you, my first impression of Josh Hamilton wasn’t so swell. I was out at Rangers Ballpark last January for the team’s annual Fan Fest when Hamilton, the team’s new center fielder and born-again-and-again-and-again Christian, started talking to…

Angela Hunt Can Be Very Sarcastic

An aerial view of the Dallas Convention Center As expected, the city council voted 12-1 to rubber stamp two items on Wednesday’s briefing agenda, with Angela Hunt in opposition and Mitchell Rasansky and Dr. Elba Garcia recused because of a conflict. This authorized the issuance of $42 million in certificates…

Noriega Takes Fight for U.S. Senate to Steps of Dallas City Hall

Rick Noriega — beloved in his native Houston, yet all but unknown here — brought his mounting battle to unseat Republican U.S. Senator John Cornyn to Dallas this morning. Standing outside City Hall, the Democrat and National Guard Lieutenant Colonel criticized Cornyn for “consistently voting against veteran services and benefits”…

In Austin, a Judge Rules State Had No Right to Seize FLDS Kids

NEWSCOM Women from the FLDS sect troop into the courthouse in San Angelo earlier this week. When I was down in San Angelo this week covering this story, which appears in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, lawyers representing members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter…

Psst, Wanna “Implement” Some PR for the Stars and Mavs?

We’re not exactly known at UP for posting help-wanted ads, but we’ll make an exception for a notice we noticed this afternoon. Seems the American Airlines Center’s looking for a new director of event marketing, which sounds from the description like a very big gig: “Develops and implements public relations…

Two Good to Be True

In hockey, two heads are better than one. In news that should surprise no one, the Dallas Stars have inked co-general managers Brett Hull and Les Jackson to concurrent three-year contracts running through the 2011 season. It seemed a desperate move when owner Tom Hicks fired former GM Doug Armstrong…

Victory Park Continues Getting All Sporty

Look ma, no feet?! On a nightly basis you can head down to Victory Park’s plaza and watch Pete Delkus spar with Dale Hansen. And earlier this week it was the Mavericks’ Jason Terry trying to hit golf balls to the moon. Now? Would you believe motorcycle jumping? With a…

… And a Happy New Year

Maybe not, but certainly a … um … rockin’ New Year, as evidenced by the few seconds of new music previewed in the trailer below, for the band’s eponymous release due September 9 on Touch and Go. The label has just released the song titles and album cover (oooh, fall…

A Local Olympian Makes a Nice Landing: On Video Game Cover

Nastia Liukin was born in Moscow but lives in Parker, that Collin County hot spot; moved here when she was little, with her very famous and very decorated parents, both of whom were Soviet champion gymnasts. Fourteen years ago, her father, gold medalist Valeri Liukin, opened the World Olympic Gymnastics…

The American Way: Pissed. Off.

American Airlines’ decision to charge $15 per checked bag gets a rave review this morning from Claes G. Fornell, a professor of business administration at the University of Michigan: “Seems really, dare I say it, stupid.” Also noted in there: American does not plan to offer refunds if suitcases do…

Three Dots … and a Cloud of Dust …

More than likely, he will probably, possibly, potentially be a part of the Cowboys’ offense this seson. Maybe, that is. Ken Hamlin (unsigned), Roy Williams (family vacation) and Terry Glenn (gimpy knee) weren’t present at yesterday’s Dallas Cowboys’ OTA (back in my beat writing days we called them “quarterback school”)…