Today is one of my favorite days of the year. Calendar and temperature be damned, today summer becomes fall becomes football. Welcome, Dallas Cowboys Kickoff Luncheon. I’ve been attending this shindig since it was held at the Grand Kempinski Hotel — later the Hotel Intercontinental — on the Tollway in Addison…
On June 6, 2006, this item appeared in the regional roundup found in the Metro section of The Dallas Morning News:Authorities have identified a woman fatally struck by a Dallas police car Saturday night as 51-year-old Patricia Ann Brooks. Police said Officers Juan Rangel and Susan Kreun were driving south…
Courthouse News brings word this morning of a suit involving Unfair Park’s ‘cross-the-freeway neighbor, the Hilton Anatole — specifically, its V Spa, which bills itself as “a sublime setting, a true spa experience, a multitude of treatments ready to revitalize and pamper, heal and refresh.” The suit, filed Friday in…
Wasn’t a full moon Tuesday night in Arlington, but it was an evening saturated with unique entertainment. Perhaps the most fun 2-0 Rangers win you ever did see.There were two guys in bear heads sitting behind home plate, likely trying to top Katy Perry’s VMA gaudy headgear and definitely pissing off analyst…
On Friday, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger posted a note to her blog saying that she was resigning. She didn’t say why. We speculated instead. But, no, she’s not leaving. Not now.”I’ve heard overwhelmingly from the community and constituents who have asked me to stay, and I am…
A couple of weeks back, the city acknowledged that a “renegade pruning operation” was responsible for hacking down trees in the Great Trinity Forest, kinda the last place you’d expect someone to go nuts with a chainsaw. Now, this: Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston sends along an item posted…
The case involving the citywide sale of beer and wine, which voters approved in November, is set for trial September 12. Could be a short trial, could be a long trial, could be no trial at all; a hearing’s set for this Friday in front of Judge Laurine Blake of…
Early this morning, a Friend of Unfair Park tipped us to this Dangerous Minds interview with Freya Bardell, one of the principals in Los Angeles-based eco-art collective Greenmeme. For the past six years, Bardell and Brian Howe have been dropping into the Los Angeles River art installations known as River…
Your Texas Rangers are a long way off from clinching the American League West — magic number’s still a whopping 25 after the Mariners’ 5-3 win over the Angels last night. That said, John Blake sends word this afternoon: If you’re interested in scoring ducats for “potential Rangers 2011 Postseason…
With an offensive line featuring two rookies and an undrafted free agent, not difficult to see the Cowboys in a transition — if not a rebuilding — season in 2011. Gone from last year’s underachieving team: Roy Williams, Marion Barber, Leonard Davis, Marc Colombo and now Andre Gurode. Next to go:…
Environmentalists will line up at the horseshoe at this afternoon’s meeting of the city’s gas drilling task force, scheduled, as always, for a 2 p.m. start time. This afternoon’s agenda includes seven presenters who will discuss the effects of drilling from perspectives ranging from hydroecological to financial, all with an…
First line of my Observer column from May 19: He’ll be here before you know it. Sooner than we all expected. He is Leonys Martin. And the future of Texas Rangers’ center field is now. Trying to remain calm. And I know Martin — though he’ll take the Rangers’ roster spot…
Over the last couple of days I’ve received a batch of unhappy missives from Jane Bryant, the owner of 600 Elsbeth near the Bishop Arts District — a property that’s been the subject of years’ worth of litigation. Bryant’s particularly unhappy with my characterization of the property on Friday –…
Dallas Complete Streets Competition from Andrew Goodwin Brown on Vimeo.Absolutely, says Dallas filmmaker Andrew Goodwin Brown in the short you see above. It’s his entry in the 2011 Dallas Great Streets Visual Essay Contest, which City Hall sponsored in order to find out “what people like about streets in Dallas…
The Aggies are a joke. After a 15-year marriage, they want a divorce. Greener pastures they say, failing to camouflage their hissy-fit jealousy of Texas. Their long-time spouse, the Big 12 Conference, shrugs and begins courting other attractive partners. And now, almost three weeks after we’d all deemed the Aggies…
Looks like this is the last we’ll write of Chad Lacerte and his Dallas Watersports Complex, once slated to become a West Dallas destination on Fish Trap Lake till the Dallas Housing Authority stepped in and drowned the deal last summer. Lacerte’s already said he’s taking his wakeboarding operation to…
Damn it. We got so caught up in the state Supremes’ pole tax ruling at the end of last week we missed the far bigger one staring at us from the top of Friday’s Opinions on Orders page: City of Dallas v. Keneth E. Albert et al., otherwise known as…
Ramona Trevino wiped her eyes as she stood at the microphone. She looked out at her audience, a crowd of 50 or so sweating on a narrow patch of grass up in Sherman. “For three years, I managed this Planned Parenthood,” she said. “There was a tugging in my heart,…
After this, I’ll let Pete handle whatever becomes of the Dallas Backyard Music Festival — since, ya know, it’s a music festival? But we begin on Unfair Park for a couple of reasons: It’s on the Park and Rec board’s agenda for its Thursday meeting, which is where I was…
Feed yards are glutted with the cattle of drought-stricken Texas ranchers forced to liquidate their herds, according to the most recent report from the USDA. Some 640,000 head were placed in feedlots in July, a staggering 56-percent increase from the same time last year. On a recent trip through counties…
Perhaps it’s been awhile since you’ve re-read Rick Perry’s book Fed Up, in which he chronicles, presumably choose-your-own-adventure style, the improbable rise of a D-student to the highest office in the only-land-that-matters. If it has, you may not recall Perry’s take on Social Security, which he called a “Ponzi Scheme”…
Best performance of the night, by far, was Chris Brown’s dancing melody which included him grooving to Nirvana and flipping and flying in the air on wires hooked to his back. Very cool. 9. Upon receiving a Moon Man trophy for Best New Artist, a dude named Tyler, The Creator’s…
