With their first practice in San Antonio’s Alamodome in about 48 hours, the Cowboys are scrambling to piece together a roster. The first step in that process is signing undrafted free agents, which can begin today per the post-lockout NFL rules. Who knows, maybe Cowboys director of scouting Tom Ciscowski and college scouting…
In hotels all across the country this morning, folks are rising and shining to that bit of advice courtesy this state of the state, which, like everyone else, is just waiting for Rick Perry to jump into the pool of GOP candidates and begin talking about how The Great State…
The record. Still intact.And you thought trying to figure out the new post-lockout NFL was tricky. Try getting a handle on your Rangers. Good news: In their last five games they’ve out-scored opponents a whopping 37-16. Bad news: In those games they’re only a mediocre 3-2. That’s what happens when one…
Well, I was looking for something else on the county’s website. But this’ll do: Moments ago, the City Attorney’s Office filed yet another lawsuit against Glenn Hudson — the same guy the city’s going after for operating that underage-sex-illegal-drugs-and-late-night-danceteria on Northwest Highway and Webb Chapel that Hudson and his acolytes…
The sprawling Casa Verde apartment complex doesn’t look like anything much. It’s a weathered collection of green buildings behind a long black fence that runs along a cracked street. Located on Fair Oaks, not far from Greenville and Park, it’s tucked behind Today’s Discount Food Mart, a taqueria and a…
KBR, Inc., the massive and controversial Houston-based wartime contractor that has landed billions in military contracts for erecting base camps and supplying fuel for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will have to convince a federal judge in Dallas that race and religion had nothing to do with the firing…
This morning, KDFW ran a piece on Dallas Police Officer Andrew Litz, a 30-year-old assigned to the Southeast Patrol Division who came this close recently to having his utilities cut off. The reason: Litz hasn’t been able to work for weeks, and, according to the department, he’s exhausted all of…
Back when Dallas was on the air, the series barely shot in Dallas — maybe two months out of the season, tops, which was “crazy-making,” as Linda Gray told Unfair Park back in April. That said, an old friend did have his folks’ house used in a few episodes –…
Three years back Realtor Jeff Duffy wondered how in the hell could the Dallas Country Club, more than 100 acres nestled within Highland Park, be worth a mere $10 million according to the Dallas Central Appraisal District: “Do country clubs fall under the church and school categories when it comes…
You like golf. But not for five hours in 100-degree heat while paying $50. Oh yeah, and you like Skeeball. And bowling, right? Then I’ve got your solution. TopGolf, which now has two locations, one in Dallas and the newest one in Allen. I beat the heat Saturday afternoon at TopGolf in…
View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com.Surely you didn’t think you’d heard the last about the homeless sleeping in Main Street Garden …A few weeks after council member Angela Hunt tweeted about the “bums” in the downtown park, KXAS-Channel 5 sent its cameras to see what was what during the pre-dawn hours…
So the Rangers exploded for 12 runs Friday night thanks to Nelson Cruz’ eight RBI. On Saturday they authored a dramatic 9th-innning comeback, powered by three consecutive bunts and a walk-off hit by Michael Young. So surely Sunday night would provide some thrills. Some entertainment. Some drama. At least some runs? Nope. A game…
Day 132 of the NFL lockout is going to be the last. When the NFL Players Association’s 11-man executive committee formally agrees to accept the owners’ labor proposal this morning — around 10 a.m. — it will effectively end a boring, maddening off-season. As the league’s approximate 1,900 players show…
This morning, stock talk revolved not only ’round the stalled-out D.C. debt-ceiling discussions, but what might the Dallas Fed say when it released its Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey, especially following last month’s not-such-good-news accounting. What analysts were particularly concerned about was the general business conditions piece of the fiscal puzzle:…
Prohibition, the latest doc from Ken Burns, doesn’t premiere on PBS till October 2. But if you’re hankerin’ for a sneak peek at the five-and-a-half-hour three-parter, which the The Civil Wars and Baseball maker directed with Lynn Novick, look no further than the Belo Mansion on August 17: The Dallas…
And speaking of redistricting …The Dallas Independent School District will begin holding hearings tonight during which the public will finally get a long, hard look at the draft maps on the table, courtesy San Antonio attorney Rolando Rios (who Carla Ranger initially didn’t want to hire) and the law firm…
Of all the books written about Dallas, it’s easily the one most often cited: Warren Leslie’s 1964 Dallas Public and Private, with a later edition underscoring its heretofore subtle subtitle “Aspects of an American City.” Subsequent histories-of — from Patricia Evridge Hill’s Dallas: The Making of a Modern City to…
In March we screened one of the greatest films made in or about Dallas, director Blaine Dunlap’s 1973 Sometimes I Run, about Stanley Maupin, who worked for the city’s Public Works Department flushing downtown’s streets in the wee small hours of the morning. Some Friends of Unfair Park said they’d…
So far on this apparently never-ending jaunt down Amnesia Lane we’ve visited the Bronco Bowl a handful of times, dropping in on the Clash, Squeeze, the Cure, the Replacements and Bruce Springsteen. But there are still myriad memories from the Fort Worth Ave. haunt I’d like to chase down, among…
A Friend of Unfair Park just gave me the heads-up: The three winners of that so-called “Power Art” competition, intended to create some kind of artistic cover-all for the Oncor substation at the western foot of the Calatrava, were quietly posted to the CityDesign Studio’s website this week. Mazel tovs…
The next meeting of the Redistricting Commission is Tuesday — I know, I know, settle down. At which point, the commission will discus yet another round of submissions, among them one from none other than council member Dwaine Caraway. Only, don’t expect the presentation — which will be made by…
We’ve known since June 30 — days after FBI agents raided the homes and offices of John Wiley Price and Kathy Nealy, among others — that the feds had also paid a visit to Ross Perot Jr.’s Hillwood HQ. As Haynes and Boone’s Barry McNeil told The News: “The FBI…
