Hardball: First, one of their players threw a folding chair that hit Craig Bueno’s wife in the face and broke her nose at an Oakland A’s game two years ago. Now the Texas Rangers are throwing mud at A’s fan and heckler extraordinaire Bueno in a San Francisco Bay Area…
Lowest of the Low Safer on the South Side: It is hard for me to be objective about any article concerning Lower Greenville (“Sin City,” by Andrea Grimes, November 2) where Poor David’s Pub spent 21 of its almost 30 years. Still, your article nailed the majority of the reasons…
Toby Shook isn’t gonna be Dallas County District Attorney, but that doesn’t mean Craig Watkins is ready to get rid of his former opponent. Dallas County District Attorney-elect Craig Watkins didn’t exactly ease concerns that he wasn’t quite up for the job during the Dallas County Democratic Party victory press…
Mark Graham Craig Watkins is the new Dallas County District Attorney. You think you’re shocked, imagine how Toby Shook feels. People are walking around like zombies at Dallas County courthouses today as incumbent judges who looked invincible last week began contemplating the prospect of looking for new jobs in the…
A lawsuit stemming from this ugly incident in Oakland in 2004 is so nasty it makes this photo of the brawl look almost quaint. This almost unbelievable item comes to Unfair Park courtesy our sister paper in Oakland, the East Bay Express, which today breaks the news that a lawsuit…
Yeah, because when you think of soccer, you think of The Polyphonic Spree. They could field a couple of teams, at least. We’ll get back to election news in a moment, but we did want to mention a note we received from Major League Soccer last night. Looks like hometowners…
I see the city has OK’d a $30,000 study to “investigate options for covering the Cotton Bowl with a permanent roof or something semi-permanent, such as an inflatable, retractable or removable dome.” Lemme say it before Darrell Jordan does: Are you fucking kidding me? –Robert Wilonsky…
Here’s your new Secretary of Defense, Texas A&M president Robert Gates. Gig ’em. You might wanna turn on your TV right now: President George W. Bush is yelling at reporters, to whom he just said Donald Rumsfeld is out as Secretary of Defense. In is Robert Gates, former National Security…
The election results are a big smack upside the head to American evangelicals–a firm rebuke. Don’t explain them away or blame them on gays, the media and godless liberals. Yes, Ted Haggard had something to do with it. Maybe a lot to do with it. Most of all, he exposed…
So, it’s pretty much a consensus: We all hate to see Margaret Keliher go. But, seriously…Mayor Keliher? C’mon. Of all the elections in Dallas County last night, no race was as shocking as Jim Foster’s upset of Republican County Judge Margaret Keliher. Craig Watkins surprise defeat of Republican Toby Shook…
Never you mind the quality of this screen grab. But this is how The Daily Show last night broke the news that Chris Bell (and Kinky Friedman and Carole Straylander Keehorn Jingleheimer Schmidt) had lost to incumbent Governor Rick Perry. The GOP’s mascot trundled across the screen and took a…
Margaret Keliher didn’t lose. Her party did. Straight-ticket voters did the judge, and the county, no favors. Margaret Keliher loses? Craig Watkins wins? And Kinky’s on a book tour starting next week pimping his Christmas Pig booklet. One of those I coulda predicted. Guess that Lupe Valdez thing wasn’t a…
Doyle Davidson could just love a girl to death, judging by the postings on his Web site. And we mean that in a non-judgmental, totally not at all litigious way. In May we wrote about Doyle Davidson–you remember, don’t ya? Ever since then we’ve been documenting his online letter-writing campaign,…
We assume the kids’ll pay tribute to Blind Lemon Jefferson during their local-music trib. If not, at least throw in some Vanilla Ice, ice, baby. I’m pretty sure we thought of this first, but never mind that. We’re thrilled nonetheless by the e-mail we received a few moments ago from…
Yeah, Your Dallas Cowboys suffered a gut-wrenching loss to the Washington Redskins on Sunday. But look on the bright side: You could’ve drowned your sorrows in 11 pitchers of beer, hopped behind the wheel, sideswiped a guardrail and been issued a DUI prosecuted by none other than the kin of…
Criminal District Judge Manny Alvarez is a Republican. But he’d prefer it if you kept politics out it. Back in May, a non-partisan poll showed that two years after Bush won a historic 40 percent of the Hispanic vote, Republicans’ stance on immigration was alienating Latinos at a rapid clip…
If you thought things weren’t going well at Reunion Arena last night, check out how triple poorly they went at the American Airlines Center, where the Maverics unveiled the Western Conference Championship banner. Kind of. Sort of. This was just before Don Nelson’s Golden State Warriors took the Mavs’ lunch…
Seems a bad time for The Dallas Morning News’ Web site to be buggy, doesn’t it? (It’s up and down, like my mood this election day.) Surely it’ll be fixed momentarily, but I don’t recall this ever being a problem before the redesign. (Update: At 12:08 p.m., the site was…
If nothing else, this would get you to the polls, wouldn’t it? Promises, promises. A few observations from my polling place: 1) At 9:12 a.m., there was a handful of folks voting, but there was plenty of room, which wasn’t the case at 7 a.m. According to one poll-watcher, there…
The latest episode in Farmers Branch’s immigration drama involved the mayor’s home getting defaced by graffiti. Late Thursday or early Friday, someone spray-painted “Viva Mexico” on the side of Mayor Bob Phelps’s house, the vandalism occurring just one week before the city council is set to discuss measures that would…
Till, oh, two weeks ago folks living in Precinct 1117 had no idea they were supposed to vote at F.P. Caillet Elementary–where I went to school! Wee. Really, God bless the Democratic Party. Even when they do their best, it ends up shooting ’em right in the ass, then they…
The New York Times this a.m. has a handful of stories of interest to locals: a rather long piece recounting the suicide of former Kaufman County District Attorney Louis Conradt Jr., who killed himself Sunday when cops tried to arrest him for soliciting sex over the Internet from a person…
