What you see above is the second part of a Dallas Mavericks history-of posted on RetroMavs, the team’s official throwback site, only yesterday. Hunh. Don’t recall Reunion Arena ever being that empty … but I also don’t recall Ollie Mack possessing “NBA-class moves.” Anyway. That reminds me: In about an…
Anna’s out working on a piece about horrific animal cruelty involving dead livestock found just south of downtown; how … lucky? But back to yesterday’s piece about that mutilated kitty. Here’s what Dallas Police Department spokesman Sgt. Warren Mitchell has to say about those legs found in the yard of…
Not so long ago we looked at Noah Jeppson’s plan to map out the downtown tunnels — which he did get funded, with $30 to spare. But Jeppson, a designer and downtown denizen, has found yet another way to brighten up downtown — by turning 20 metered parking parking spaces…
A few weeks ago we looked into whether some Park and Rec workers got a little too chainsaw-happy in the Great Trinity Forest — specifically, near the soccer and baseball fields in the Gateway Park on the west side of Jim Miller Road. It was brought to our attention by,…
This morning, MediaBistro directs our attention to Uncle Barky’s item from yesterday about former KXAS’er Grant Stinchfield, who, after seven years on the job, left the NBC owned-and-operated in April so he could run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Stinchfield, whose wife Amy Vanderoef co-hosts WFAA’s Good Morning Texas,…
Moments ago, Thomas Muhammad — president of the Dallas chapter of the National Black United Front and organizer of Saturday’s rally for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price — sent word that a Very Special Guest has been added the list of speakers scheduled to attend Saturday. That would be…
I appreciate what the Rangers are trying to do with the announcement of a Shannon Stone statue at the Ballpark in Arlington. By all accounts he was a great guy and a good dad and loyal firefighter who simply made a questionable decision that turned fateful on July 7. I…
Speaking of Rick Perry video round-ups …On the other side you’ll find two clips. First up is last night’s Daily Show, in which Jon Stewart dissects the Texas governor’s entry into the presidential race over the weekend. Stewart, like Gawker, “confuses” Perry with Josh Brolin in W. But, look, says…
As you should be well aware by now, attorneys Andy Siegel and Leland de la Garza are trying to overturn the November 2010 referendum that made it legal to sell beer and wine citywide. That case is scheduled to go to trial next month. All that remains is a single…
10. Eerie. On July 19 the red-hot Rangers went into Anaheim with a 4-game lead and — with Alexi Ogando on the mound — got back-to-back homers (from Josh Hamilton and Adrian Beltre) in a series-opening rout. And on August 15 the red-hot Rangers went into Anaheim with a 4-game…
In July we told you about Dr. David Shorrman, author of The Exchange of Truth: Liberating the World From the Lie of Evolution and a member of the state biology panel making recommendations to the Texas Board of Education. Turns out, Shorrman (pictured to the left) was riding in the…
A disheartening report by the Dallas Police Department shows that crimes against senior citizens have increased in the past year, with rates for July 2011 15 percent higher than during the same time last year. Lieutenant Herbert Ashford presented the numbers at this morning’s Senior Affairs Commission Victimization Committee meeting,…
The July 7 death of Shannon Stone at the Ballpark in Arlington continues to impact the Texas Rangers, who moments ago announced that a statue will be commissioned by the ball club to pay homage to the 39-year-old Brownwood firefighter. According to the release from club spokesman John Blake, the…
If a man spends 26 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit, you can bet he’s going to want every cent he can get through the state’s statutory compensation plan for the wrongfully imprisoned. We spoke with Johnnie Lindsey for this week’s cover story about the ongoing legal…
Speaking of the LBJ Express …Andy Rittler, spokesman for LBJ Infrastructure Group LLC, the developer of the LBJ do-over that will involve sinking managed toll lanes beneath 635, sends word of a public meeting tomorrow at the Sheraton Dallas North during which reps will present “a proposed change for the…
The city warns, via its Hike & Bike Trail Facebook page, that it’s “preparing to collect data on cyclists’ speeds on Dallas trails.” And … that’s about that. So I called Park and Rec’s second-in-command, Willis Winters, for further information — such as, for starters, what does the city intend…
The New York Times just posted one in a series of national-press pieces since Saturday questioning Rick Perry’s role in the so-called Texas Miracle. Read it or don’t; your call. But the photo with the story — Perry watching himself play football for A&M courtesy Electronic Arts, which is expanding…
That there is the photo CBS News used to illustrate Dallas’s promiscuity, which made me think that it was all our our honky-tonkin’ that makes us America’s sixth-sluttiest city. But in the description alongside that photo, CBS notes our high concentration of Fortune 500 companies, which made me think that…
Last time I noted the Dallas Police Department’s concerns over cat killings ‘cross the city, the great Bud Kennedy of the Star-Telegram jumped in the comments and insisted, “Every ‘cat mutilation’ hoax nationwide has turned out to be the work of animal predators.” Far as Bud’s concerned, it’s all the…
We know one of these days in the next two weeks Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is going to call a press conference at which he’ll announce his intent to induct former receiver Drew Pearson into the team’s Ring of Honor. Good. Not a more deserving candidate. But … not so fast?…
Like a lot of Aggie traditions, how is their nonsensical, yet sacred War Hymn going to sound in the SEC? Good bye to Texas University; So long to the orange and white Imagine the curious looks in Florida’s Swamp when the Aggies, trailing 42-7 in the third quarter, start singing about about…
Back in February, the city auditor in Austin, Ken Mory, took a long, hard look at hotel occupancy taxes down there and noted that folks renting out their homes to vacationers weren’t paying what he believed to be their fair share. At which point, Mory called Dallas and said: Hey,…
