Lorlee Bartos, well-regarded local political consultant (she managed Harriet Miers’ sole political campaign, for a Dallas city council seat), sends this response to this morning’s post about Pat Cotton’s comments regarding Darrell Jordan’s mayoral bid. Bartos and Cotton worked with Jordan when he ran for mayor against Ron Kirk in…
Oh, God, does this make me giggle. Avery Johnson stars in Raiders of the Lost Trophy, with guest star Charles Barkley. I. Cannot. Stop. Watching. –Robert Wilonsky…
Damn the man, UNT. Damn him. It seems The Man and his penchant for something called “decency” (I asked around the office what that means, and nobody seemed to know) have shut down one of the best local-indie radio shows in town: Sunday nights with Frequency Down, hosted by comic…
Pat Cotton called yesterday to correct yesterday’s look back at Darrell Jordan and his mothballed plan from way back in ’98 to dome the Cotton Bowl. Turns out I was right to call him a former mayoral candidate…and also wrong: Cotton, among the city’s best and best-known political consultants, wanted…
Avi Adelman, Lower Greenville’s party-pooper, shot us (and probably everybody else in town) an e-mail last night informing us (and you and you and you) that Dallas police Chief David Kunkle dismissed the ticket Adelman was given by a cop on Saturday night. Adelman got the ticket, oddly enough, when…
It was all slipping away. The seemingly insurmountable 3-1 series lead. The 20-point lead in Game 7. Both were gone. Happy was giving way to heartbreak. But on the brink of an embarrassing, debilitating loss to the San Antonio Spurs Monday night that would’ve stung for years, Dirk Nowitzki grew…
Darrell Jordan once wanted to dome the Cotton Bowl. Doesn’t seem so crazy anymore, really. Eight years ago, which is an eternity in a town where yesterday’s landmarks are tomorrow’s parking lots, attorney and one-time mayoral candidate Darrell Jordan had an idea. He wanted to dome the Cotton Bowl. People…
On Thursday, Jim Schutze broke the news that the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence and the General Investigating and Ethics Committee asked the State Bar of Texas to investigate Assistant Dallas City Attorney Jennifer Richie, who’s been going after, among others, car wash owner Dale Davenport in South Dallas…
Can’t spell “smart-ass” without “sss.” Last Monday, we mentioned how the daughter of a well-known local attorney lost her pet chicken, prompting her to post a crude-but-cute sign at the corner of Walnut Hill and Strait lanes. Well, this weekend somebody posted another sign just beneath the original, this one…
Seems Lower Greenville watchdog Avi Adelman had a run-in with the cops over the weekend: According to the story he tells, Adelman dialed 911 Saturday night to complain about loud noise coming from a nearby bar, but he was the one who got a ticket. In an e-mail Adelman sent…
As a player, Avery Johnson spurred the Mavs to win their Game 7 semifinal against the Kings in 2003. Can he do it as the team’s head coach tonight? On May 17, 2003, the Dallas Mavericks were about to host the Sacramento Kings in Game 7 of the NBA’s Western…
I like most animals more than I like most people. Animals, on the whole, are much kinder. Your cat will never leave you stranded at the bar after a night of drinking so she can go home with a hot guy from the band. Your dog will never take you…
Mazel tov to our pal Chris Cantalini: The blogmaster of Gorilla vs. Bear, one of the few must-visit MP3 blogs going and certainly among the few to pimp local acts, is getting himself a radio gig. He’s joining Howard Stern, Mark Cuban and Richard Simmons as part of the Sirius…
In today’s New York Times, there’s a profile of the guy who helped kill The Dallas Times Herald: Dean Singleton, or, as the Times calls him, “a bantam figure with flinty blue eyes.” (That was the title of my first album, matter of fact.) The story, which is essentially a…
For those who’ve been riveted by our serialized tales of federal lawsuits and busted-up friendships at the MADI Museum, here’s the last word on the subject–at least till Monday. And it comes from one of the central figures in the dispute over artist Volf Roitman’s installation outside the building, which…
Looks like Doyle Davidson read about himself in the Dallas Observer, according to the latest of his “Messages to Lisa,” which was posted yesterday. You might also note that he confuses God and himself in his quotation of Scripture–something that happens fairly frequently in his messages, at least in the…
Think SMU hasn’t produced a decent NBA player since, oh, Jon Koncak? Don’t sell that load of Peruna droppings to the league’s two-time MVP. That’s because Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash is getting his mane all tangled up in a former Mustang named Quinton Ross. In Thursday night’s Game 6…
At least a few members of Dallas Fire-Rescue should turn the hose on themselves. Last week, we wrote about the latest revelations in the bizarre sage of Roland Gamez, the former assistant fire chief terminated in March for, in effect, rubbing people the wrong way. Before that, we wrote about…
Jason Terry won’t be there, but the rest of Dallas should be. When the Dallas Mavericks host the San Antonio Spurs tonight at 8:30 in Game 6 of the NBA Western Conference Semifinals at the American Airlines Center, it will be this town’s most important sporting event since the Dallas…
One of the Friends of Unfair Park has this to say about Doyle Davidson’s bizarre theology and some stuff I’ve written in the past about Pentecostals: Funny, this is the opposite side of the Charismatic movement that you wrote about in one of your earlier blog entries. While I thought…
Turns out the Dallas-based sellers of Clyde Barrow’s birth home in Telico in Ellis County–about 30 miles south of Dallas–couldn’t move the place, not even for the low, low price of $2,999. That’s what Drop to Sell It, a storefront on Irving Boulevard, had the house listed for on eBay,…
Library of Congress The times, they were a-changin’ in 1945, when this pic was taken. The photo here, called Cowboy and skyline, Dallas, Texas, 1945, comes from the Library of Congress, and it’s the featured item here today. It’s downloadable in several sizes, and just perfect for that special someone…
