Just looked up on TV to see the CBS trumpets proudly announcing that tonight on David Letterman the guests will be … Abby Wambach and Hope Solo. Wow, this is going to be tense. Because surely Letterman will ask the obvious question, right: “How did you girls choke away a…
Under the baking sky at the Texas Motor Speedway, a small, rotund man adjusted his straw hat and tightened his grip on a green flag nearly half as tall as he was. “Houston Lady Racers, you’ve got 30 seconds,” he said to the high-school aged girls surrounding him. They flanked…
I’ll never forget the image. It was 2009 and your Cowboys were holding their afternoon training camp practice at San Antonio’s Alamodome. In shorts. The pace and feel of coach Wade Phillips’ camp mimicked that of a leisurely picnic kicking off a weekend 10-year high school reunion. Lots of back-slapping. Lots of story-telling…
Tomorrow, the steady stream of stories about Rais Bhuiyan’s attempt to save Mark Stroman — the man who shot Bhuiyan in the face and killed two other men in the days following September 11, 2001 — will more than likely come to an end. Tomorrow the former stonecutter and white…
How often do federal appeals judges wade into the petty internecine struggles of high-school cheerleaders and their meddling mothers? We’re going to go out on a limb and say it’s rare. Rare and, when it does occur, deeply entertaining. In a recent decision, the stately jurists of the U.S. Court…
As you’re no doubt well aware by now, Mark Stroman is scheduled to die down in Huntsville on Wednesday for killing Waqar Hasan, a Pakistani father of four who was gunned down on September 15, 2001, while working in southeast Dallas local convenience store; and Vasudev Patel, an Indian Hindu…
The Dallas Independent School District, currently without a superintendent, is now without a chief academic officer — and only 13 months after Ivonne Durant was bumped up from Northwest Learning Community supervisor to that particular title under then-Superintendent Michael Hinojosa. DISD just posted to its Facebook page her adios, given…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked to read the entirety of the flier handed out yesterday at the “Justice for John” rally, so I’ve scanned it and put the whole thing after the jump — where you’ll also find the envelope given out shortly before Michael Eric Dyson began…
A few weeks ago, my old friend Paula Bosse posted to her Facebook page a collection of random photos taken over the years at the Preston Royal Borders, which, of course, is on its way to becoming a Central Market following February’s Chapter 11 filing. I was reminded of this…
Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy directs our attention to this University of California Berkeley look-see at the resiliency of the major metros in the U.S. And by “resiliency,” researchers are referring to a dozen indicators (among them: economic diversification, business environment, civic infrastructure, voter participation, the number of resident living in poverty)…
From the Rangers: Nolan Ryan was hospitalized in Houston after experiencing discomfort early Sunday morning at his home in Georgetown, Texas. Mr. Ryan will undergo tests on Monday for what is believed to be a recurrence of the heart condition which he has previously experienced. Mr. Ryan is resting comfortably and…
Nolan Ryan has been hospitalized for chest pains in the past: In 2000, he underwent emergency double-bypass surgery, then returned to the hospital in October of that year following another scare. This, say the Texas Rangers in a statement just sent to media, is what may have landed the team’s…
Woke up rooting for America Sunday morning. Phil Mickelson made a charge, Dustin Johnson was in the hunt and it looked like a U.S. golfer would steal the Claret Jug at the British Open. I was rooting for America after lunch, too. Abby Wambach scored late and it looked like…
Yesterday’s “Justice for John” event at the St. Luke “Community” United Methodist Church was all kinds of things: a rally in support of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who entered to chants of “John! John! John!” before taking his seat near the back; a fund-raiser for his legal defense…
Your Rangers have done what good, potentially great teams do: Beat shitty opponents. When the Rangers begin their series in Anaheim against the second-place Angels Tuesday night, it will be their first opponent with a winning record in a month. Amazing. Since playing the Braves in Atlanta on June 19, the Rangers’ last 23…
In Sunday’s Dallas Morning News, reporter Brendan Case took a stab at explaining what, besides the state’s generally business-friendly policies, has helped Texas produce such a relative bounty of jobs of late. The state has added a million jobs in the last decade, Case reports. The country lost a million…
Fans of the Dallas garage-rock scene of the 1960s speak with reverence of a few tracks, among them Mouse and the Traps’s “Maid of Sugar, Maid of Spice,” the Five Americans’ “I See the Light,” the The Esquires’ “Come On, Come On” (which had all but been forgotten when I…
Dallas City Council remains on vacation till August (well, not everyone), but City Manager Mary Suhm and her staff remain at work needing to trim $20 million more out of the FY2011-12 budget to balance that sucker. Hence the memos sent to the council and mayor last night: One deals…
Seeing as how C.J. Ramone’s in town tonight, I’d hoped this recording of the Ramones at the Fair Park Band Shell from July 26, 1990 (password’s “gle-gle.blogspot.com,” if you’re so inclined), would be at the very least listenable. Only, it sounds like it was recorded from someone standing in a…
Says here the the Forest Theater was built in ’47; my father, who grew up a few blocks over on Park Row, recalls how, in the mid-’50s, Shearith Israel used the movie theater for High Holiday services when they were finishing out the synagogue’s present-day location on Walnut Hill. But…
Shortly after the release of that Fort Worth air study, three reps from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality took a bit of a verbal beating last night from locals who told them, over and over and over again, that their agency is not sufficiently protecting the state’s air quality,…
Mohammed squatted atop a five-foot pile of mulch, his shovel jabbed into the chaff somewhere out in the snake-infested, cedar-scrubbed hill country southwest of Dallas. Sweat darkened his black Reebok shirt and soaked his ankle socks and his coal-black hair. He was taking a breather from a community service project…
