For a split second in the second quarter, SMU was this close to tying up A&M, 20-20. Backup QB J.J. McDermott, subbed in after Kyle Padron tossed two picks in four pass attempts, had a man open with nothing but open field in front of him. But the pass sailed…
One of the best things about being a sportswriter? Getting paid to go to games. One of the worst things about being a sportswriter? Working on holidays. Not that I’m complaining. I’ve got lots of media friends who are without full-time jobs, and there’s nothing more stressful than trying to…
Last month we broke the news that 1401 Elm Street was about to be snapped up by Turkish investor and developer Mukemmel “Mike” Sarimsakci — if, that is, the city OK’d $30 million in TIF funds for a redo now expected to run upwards of $136 million. (The George Dahl-designed…
At its August 11 board briefing, Michael Casserly, executive director of the D.C.-based Council of the Great City Schools, told the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees: It could be a good, long while till you find a suitable replacement for Michael Hinojosa. Casserly, invited by board president Lew…
Just what you wanted to kick off your Labor Day Weekend — 16 pages’ worth of budget Q’s and A’s prepared for the City Manager’s Office for the city council following the August 8 budget briefing. There are 49 questions, all told, ranging from Big Picture to footnotes that flesh…
The Legendary Show happened two years and two months earlier at Trees. That one’s been well-documented. There’s video — it never gets old. Then there’s Jeff Liles’s recap, which ran in the paper version of Unfair Park in ’05, shortly before a bankruptcy judge closed the club’s doors. What a…
Finally, a press release from Dallas City Hall that settles a long-simmering argument at my house: “Dallas becomes first major Texas city to add cartons to the list of acceptable recycling items.” Son. Of. A. Clearly, I was wrong. Sorry, honey. My apologies. Never shoulda been putting those rinsed-out milk…
Oh, right — Morsels is the name of the downstairs coffee shop at the city-owned Omni downtown, which opens on 11/11/11, in case you’ve forgotten. Anyway. They’re looking to hire someone willing to be “responsible for up-selling and suggestived selling of gift shop items and brewing gourmet coffee.” Suggestived? Hey,…
Hope you read this week’s piece on the indestructible KNON. Strange, though. Must be something in the air. I just got through re-re-re-re-reading David Seeley’s May ’85 piece about Nancy Moore — Shaggy, that is, my old friend who threw one hell of a midnight Pajama Party every Saturday. And…
Looks like we’ll need to find something else to do on September 12: Judge Laurine Blake of Bonham has dismissed the lawsuit hoping to overturn the November referendum allowing for the citywide sale of beer and wine. As we’ve noted in recent days, the city had filed a motion for…
The day before the Labor Department broke the dismal news that the unemployment rate’s unchanged and consumer confidence has “dropped sharply,” students, professors and local business leaders filed into the auditorium at Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business to hear from two panels of business and governmental leaders as…
Wednesday’s council briefing is shaping up to be action-packed, in the words of Ronnie Dawson: It’ll have redistricting, a look-see at Dallas Fire-Rescue’s budget (which includes that proposal to move and mothball engines) and … dunh dunh dunh … flow control, otherwise known as Marys Suhm and Nix’s controversial proposal…
Two weeks back we talked to Joey Zapata, the interim assistant city manager who deals with code compliance, about the city’s plan to “reorganize” the Dallas Animal Services staff by pink-slipping 53 employees and replacing them with what they’re calling “contract,” or temporary, workers. Yesterday, in a packed, narrow room at…
Been hearing in recent weeks that there’s a plan afoot for the beleaguered Valley View Center, at long last, prompted by the as-predicted sale of the old Macy’s to a group of local investors who had the plan commission break up the mall into more manageable puzzle pieces two months…
Today brought another round in the ongoing fight over whether Lower Greenville is a daylight retail district or an evening entertainment strip. This afternoon, the City Plan Commission denied specific-use permits to two longstanding venues: Service Bar and Yucatan. City council will have the final say when both appeal the…
Amidst all the other things going on with Parkland at the moment, there remains one other Very Big Thing you’ve probably forgotten all about: Dr. Larry Gentilello’s allegations that trauma residents at the county hospital were treating patients and performing surgeries without attending physicians looking over their shoulders — a…
Got a note a little while ago that said Tommy Stanco is having trouble keeping the doors of the Balcony Club open — so much so that come September 14, that might be that. Which is … unthinkable. But true, says Tommy, who bought the joint in ’91, three years…
In the midst of all this talk of muni pool closures and family aquatic centers we can’t afford and privatizing parks clean-up and renegade tree-trimmers (oh — and liberating Kidd Springs), I went to look for something about Dallas’s park system. A history-of, some old photos, a little more information…
At this late date there should be no need to explain why Texas Rangers broadcaster Eric Nadel is a local treasure; he’s as much a part of summer ’round these parts as 85-degree lows. I just went back and listened to his final-out call from October 12 — it still…
Got home from the airport last night just in time to see Channel 8’s piece on how Dallas PD and the FBI are prepping for the 10th anniversary of September 11. Would have been home a little sooner, but, ya know, I stopped by a Northwest Highway construction site. Oh…
Turns out, according to this chart just dispatched by the National Weather Service, it’s not the high temps that were awful — though there’s that. It was the low temperatures. If you can call ’em that. Incidentally, NOAA says 95 on Sunday, with “north northeast wind between 5 and 15…
Karen Blumenthal was once a Wall Street Journal bureau chief and continues to write about the money business for the newspaper; and that’s her name on the books Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Walmart and Became America’s Richest Man and Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition…
